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Tunisia seeks Indian investment Tunisian Minister for Industry and Energy Moncef Ben Abdullah has invited Indian investment in the proposed six technological parks being set up in his country. The techno parks planned are for agri-business, textiles, computer sciences, mechanical and electronic industries, pharmaceuticals and environment. With 75 per cent of Tunisia’s trade being conducted with the European Union, which has given preferential market access to Tunisian products, Abdullah said there are tremendous opportunities for Indian investors. Protein strengthens hard disk Computer hard drive capacity can be increased a hundredfold by using the protein apoferritin to fabricate nano-scale magnetic particles, according to Nanomagnetics, a British firm. Apoferritin proteins are spherical and measure 12 nanometres in diameter, with an eight nanometre hollow core. When iron fills the core, the combination is called ferritin. A report in New Scientist says that the process developed by Nanomagnetics involves treatment with an acid solution to remove the iron core from ferritin. This is followed with a second solution that fills the cores with a magnetic cobalt-platinum alloy. The resulting solution, dubbed DataInk, is then sprayed onto the surface of a hard disk and treated with heat. This alters the crystalline structure of each particle, encouraging them to self-assemble into a tightly packed single layer. Al Jazeera SMS tie-up Qatar’s Al Jazeera satellite channel has entered into an agreement with Indian firm Lifetree to offer breaking news in India via the short messaging system (SMS). The Peninsula quoted Al Jazeera spokesman Jihad Ballout as announcing the tie-up. The channel has also called upon British authorities to lift the reporting ban imposed on their correspondent in Basra. Abdulaziz Al Mahmoud, chief editor at Al Jazeera Net, the Web portal of the channel, said the agreement was signed with Lifetree, which offers the 3636 type wireless platform to global system for mobile (GSM) networks in India. According to Ballout, some 10 million GSM subscribers all over India would be able to avail themselves of this service. 40 pc Americans not Net’ed’ A new survey has found that about a quarter of Americans are offline with no experience of the Internet. The Pew Internet and American Life Project studied the ever-shifting Internet population in one of the world’s most wired nations. It found that the digital divide is likely to remain in place as the number of people dropping offline equals the number of new users adopting net technology, according to a report in BBC. The share of the US population on the Internet has hovered around the 60 per cent mark since October 2001 and is likely to remain around that level. Although 42 per cent of Americans say they do not use the Internet, half of them have either been net users at some point or use the Web via other family members. And 17 per cent are now classified as Net dropouts, citing technical problems with computers or Internet providers as the reason for abandoning their net connection, the report said. Madonna’s site
hacked There was mayhem on
Madonna.com when a hacker took on Madonna’s strategy to trick fans who
download music from the Internet without paying. According to The Sun,
all 11 tracks from Madonna’s new album "American Life"
appeared to be posted on Madonna.com for downloading but when the files
were played back listeners heard Madonna saying: "What the f*** do
you think you’re doing?" Enraged by this outburst a computer buff
got revenge by hacking into the website and adding his own message. He
then left links to a site where the songs really could be downloaded for
free. Sceptical music industry insiders, however, reckon the whole thing
to be a huge publicity stunt by Madonna. |
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