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Whites to Become Minority in US By 2050
Written by admin on February 15, 2008 under News | 0 comments
Washington – A recent survey indicates that, by the year 2050 the whites will turn out to be a minority in the US. This is mainly due to the population of US settled foreign inhabitants and their descendants who will account for 82 percent of US population. By 2050 the US population will become 438 million from 296 million in 2005. If the current trend continues, the White will become minority by 2050.
By 2050, the population of Non-Hispanic whites would reduce to 47 percent of the total US population. Of the total US population one in every five will be a foreign-born resident. It is estimated that “due to the effect of new immigration, 117 million people will be added to the current population in this period. Of that 117 million, 67 million will be the immigrants themselves and the remaining 50 million will be their US-born descendants,” says a study.
With in the mean time the white population with its lower fertility rate, declines where as the Latino population, the country’s largest minority will triple in size. Of the total population Latinos will account for 60 percent growth and Non-Hispanic whites will account for 29 percent of the population in 2050, up from 14 percent now, the study said.
“By 2050 the population of whites will increase only 4%,” said D’Vera Cohn, one of the authors of the report.
N-Gate: Nokia’s New Mobile Phone Game Creation Tool
Written by admin on February 15, 2008 under News, Technology | 0 comments
Nokia launched its all new mobile phone game tool “N-Gate” on Thursday. This unique and innovative game tool of Nokia will facilitate gamers to create their own games for the mobile phones exclusively.
“Yamake”, the game publisher fro Nokia is a facility provided for players across the world for adding the content according to their own choices on to their own created ‘mini-games’.
Nokia mobile phone users can now play these created games and share them with their friends and other mobile phone users who are members of the “Yamake community”.
Along with the content, other texts, captions, images, sound clippings, and movie clippings can also be added to these mobile ‘mini-games’ from other mobile devices and other desktop computers, according to Yamake.
General Motors Announces Buyback Offers
Written by admin on February 14, 2008 under Business, News | 0 comments
Detroit- General Motors has reported a loss of $38.7 billion for 2007, which is the largest annual loss for any automotive company. GM also said that it is presenting a fresh round of buyback offers to U.S. hourly workers in plans of substituting some of them with lower-paid workers.
GM CEO and Chairman Rick Wagoner said, “We have worked with our UAW partners to make sure our employees have a wide range of attractive alternatives to consider“. “The special attrition program is a key initiative, which will facilitate us to transform the workforce”, he added.
USA’s largest automaker reported better 4th quarter results in its overseas auto operations, which hugely helped GM to balance out continuous losses at its North American plants.
Bluetooth Technology’s Future with Wi-Fi Networks
Written by admin on February 14, 2008 under News, Technology | 0 comments
Bluetooth technology is about to enter in a new future zone of innovation. Transmission related innovations will be associated with this technology. Presence of “Wi-Fi” networks will further facilitate the Bluetooth technology and it will soon be possible to enhance the throughput for transmission. It will be much faster to push” videos, music and other high band applications”, says the Bluetooth Development group.
According to many technology experts and Ander Edlund, the European marketing director of the Bluetooth Special Interest group, this Bluetooth technology will enter in to a new phase in combination with the neighboring “Wi-Fi” networks very soon. It will not take more than a year to set all necessary requirements for this within this one year’s period. Bluetooth connections will be linked with the nearby “Wi-Fi” networks in all nearby areas.
Bluetooth technology is currently running with its “version 2.1”, “so it might be in version 3”, according to Edur Edlund.
Yahoo Launched “OneConnect”, New Mobile Platform
Written by admin on February 13, 2008 under News, Yahoo | 0 comments
Yahoo launched its new mobile platform service,”OneConnect” on Tuesday. This new mobile platform service will integrate multiple functions at one place including email, text messaging, instant messaging, and social networking.
“One Connect” is included in the Yahoo’s roll out plans as a part of “Yahoo Go 3.0” and new “Yahoo Home Page”. “Yahoo Go 3.0” is a unique offer from this company having an ‘all-in-one’ application facility. Yahoo is planning to make this unique facility available to its users and mobile phone users sometime during the second quarter of this year.”One Connect” was on display at the ‘Mobile World Congress’ in Barcelona this week.
An immensely useful feature of “One Connect” is its ‘socially connected address book’. This facilitates the users to transmit, transfer, and share various activities through the social networks, professional networks, and other community networks with the help of their own address books. This facility will keep them on top in case any person who is in their address book makes any change in their profiles or updates the status.
World’s Richest Nation Has Fallen into a Recession
Written by admin on February 13, 2008 under News | 0 comments
New York: “The U.S. economy has entered a recession that seems to be more severe and long-lasting than the usual downturn”, said the director of the Reuters for a consumer sentiment survey.
“This is not an ordinary recession,” said the Richard Curtin of Michigan University in a Conference Board. The aftereffects of the recession will be much longer than a usual recession. He added. As Americans are facing a lot of difficulties, ranging from a housing downturn to excess borrowing, things will get even worse before they take any alternative steps.
“Consumers must take effective measures to stabilize their finances in order to meet the low incomes, high fuel and food prices, and to meet the debt,” – said Curtin.
The new reports point out that an increasing gap between rich and poor will, even more than usual, lead to much difficulty for middle- and lower-income Americans. The report also indicates that a growing inequality of income has protected the higher income groups to a greater extent than ever before. Yet the rich will also get affected due to the recent fall of stock market.
Google’s Android Attracts More Mobile Applications
Written by admin on February 10, 2008 under News, Technology | 0 comments
ARM, the top mobile chip manufacturing company will be demonstrating its first ‘Android Operating System(AOS)’ with the help of a prototype mobile device during the ‘Mobile World Congress Conference’ which is scheduled this week at Barcelona.
This was also confirmed by the Google’s spokesperson last week. ARM will be displaying its technological compatibility with the ‘Android’ platform which is based on the typical ARM processors.
During this World mobile Congress at Barcelona, there will be many more companies who will also be demonstrating their several types of hardware devices in varying forms that are based on the ‘Android’ platform. Google’s spokesperson however, did not disclose any further details about these displays and their forms.
Who Will Own The Yahoo Inc.?
Written by admin on February 10, 2008 under Business, News | 0 comments
Today, the most anticipated deal in the business world is the proposal of Microsoft to get the second internet search competitor- Yahoo Inc. Yahoo has failed to crack Google’s dominance, at the same time plans to reject a $44.6 billion takeover bid from Microsoft Corp. – said a source about the situation.
New York (Reuters) – Yahoo Inc. The internet media giant is expected to reject Microsoft’s offer on Monday as undervaluing the business. Yahoo’s shares have fallen, but Yahoo’s websites will remain as the world’s most popular.
The board has spent about a week in reviewing the $31-per-share offer. The Yahoo directors are likely to reject it. Yahoo expects a minimum of $40 – reported by the Wall Street Journal.
Samsung Comes Up with ‘Soul’, A New Flagship Multimedia Mobile Phone
Written by admin on February 10, 2008 under News, Technology | 0 comments
“Soul”, the spirit of ultra, A new flagship mobile phone device from Samsung demonstrating the visionary conceptualizations of the company would be the next launch mobile phone during the ‘Mobile World Congress Conference’ which is scheduled to be held at Barcelona next week.
This ultra-thin, multifunctional, features-rich mobile phone device is just another new addition in the Samsung’s Ultra edition series of mobile phones. “Soul” is a unique balancing concept between design and features, Samsung says.
The Ultra-range of Samsung also includes mobile phones such as the “D900” and “U600” models other than the “soul”. Designing “Soul” has been a new experience for the company. Development of the designing concepts for this mobile phone device had a fundamentally different approach .Designers worked hard and was successful in minimizing all features and factors to make up a real simple but beautiful concept. Basic idea was to “keep the epitome of self-discipline”, says Minhyouk Lee, the Senior Mobile Device Designer at Samsung.
