iphone can be addictin,says new survey

Nearly 85 percent of the iPhone owners used the phone as their watch, and 89 percent used it as their alarm clock. In fact, 75 percent admitted to falling asleep with the iPhone in bed with them, and 69 percent said they were more likely to forget their wallet than their iPhone when leaving in the morning.
Many students readily acknowledge how much they rely on their iPhones. When asked to rank their dependence on the iPhone on a scale of one to five — five being addicted and one being not at all addicted – 10 percent of the students acknowledged full addiction to the device, 34 percent ranked themselves as a four on the scale, and only 6 percent said they weren't addicted at all.
And among those who didn't consider themselves completely addicted, 32 percent expressed worry that they would become addicted someday.
Furthermore, 15 percent of those surveyed said the iPhone was turning them into a media addict; 30 percent called it a "doorway into the world"; 25 percent found the phone "dangerously alluring" and 41 percent said losing their iPhone would be "a tragedy."
An extension of their bodiesProfessor Tanya Luhrmann, the Stanford anthropology professor who oversaw the survey, told the San Jose Mercury News, "One of the most striking things we saw in the interviews was just how identified people were with their iPhone. It was not so much with the object itself, but it had so much personal information that it became a kind of extension of the mind and a means to have a social life. It just kind of captured part of their identity."
Part of that identity isn't just being seen as an iPhone owner, but actually perceiving the iPhone as a part of their selves. Nearly a quarter of those surveyed reported that the iPhone felt like an extension of their brain or body.
There was also a tendency among the survey participants to anthropomorphize their iPhones and treat it differently than other electronics. For example, 3 percent of the students said they don't let anyone touch their iPhone; another 3 percent have named their iPhone; 9 percent have patted their iPhone and 8 percent admitted that they have at some time thought "My iPod is jealous of my iPhone."
The survey also suggests iPhones can affect their owners' relationships. Many iPhone owners reported complaints from friends and family about how much time they spent on their devices. In the survey, 7 percent of students said they had a roommate or partner who actually felt abandoned because of the student's involvement with the iPhone.
"Some people used the term iPhone widow," Luhrmann said.
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Not necessarily unhealthyExperts still can't agree whether or not addictions to technologies such as the Internet and personal electronics even qualifies as a medical disorder.
Despite the interesting results, Luhrmann hesitates to say the iPhone is an unhealthy addiction. "I don't think it is really unhealthy. I think they really like their iPhone," she told TechNewsDaily.
Also, the current survey didn't cover attitudes toward other smartphones. It's possible that other phones with similar features might be just as useful and endearing to their owners as the iPhone is to the Stanford students.
The survey also suggests there are benefits to having an iPhone fixation that may balance out the potential negatives. Over 70 percent of those surveyed said the iPhone made them more organized, and 54 percent said the iPhone made them more productive.
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Computer Education in Nepal

Nepal is under developed country among other countries of the world.About 60% nepealse people are uneducated.Government of nepal should allow good education system in nepal.Incompare to other conuntries eductation system is not good in nepal we only now theory studies.Dun have good progress in pracitical education.Computer is just like a machine among many people in nepal till now.They don't have good knowledge about computer.Only in some high school computer education is provided.In urban areas still we cannot find computer.Computer education is still lacking among many people.We new generation should try to develope more about computer education.So hope we also can do our best in computer field.

Cyber theft

A Texas manufacturing firm last week filed a counter lawsuit against PlainsCapital bank of Lubbock in connection with the cyber theft of some $800,000 from its online banking account.
In a complaint filed in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, Hillary Machinery Inc. of Plano, charged that PlainsCapital failed to adequately protect the stolen money from online thieves. Just as it would not be "commercially reasonable" for the bank to keep cash unguarded from thieves, it was unreasonable that the bank did not have adequate online protections, Hillary's complaint said.
Hillary Machinery is seeking to recover its losses from the theft along with court costs."When we put money into a bank there is a high expectation that the bank is going to protect that money," said Troy Owen, Hillary's vice president of marketing.
Hillary filed the lawsuit just a couple of months after PlainsCapital sued it, asking the same court to certify that its security procedures were "commercially reasonable." In its complaint, the bank noted that it had made every effort to recover the stolen money.
The bank's lawsuit was filed after Hillary demanded that it repay about $200,000, the amount of money not recovered since the theft.
The bank's somewhat unusual lawsuit did not seek anything from Hillary. In its complaint, the bank noted that it had made every effort to recover the stolen money and claimed that the unauthorized wire transfer orders had been placed by someone using valid Internet banking credentials belonging to Hillary Machinery.
The bank argued that it had accepted the wire transfer requests in good faith and was not at fault.
The dispute stems from a series of unauthorized money transfers made from Hillary's online banking account in 2009. The thieves, apparently using valid Hillary online banking credentials, accessed the company's account and wire-transferred a total of $801,495 to various overseas accounts. PlainsCapital recovered about $600,000 of the stolen money last year.
In last week's response to the bank's lawsuit, Hillary insisted that when it entrusted its "vital operating capital" to the bank, it assumed that PlainsCapital would adequately protect the money. The lawsuit comtended that the authentication measures used by PlainscCapital for wire transfer transactions could not protect the company from the kind of theft that hit Hillary.
"Hillary Machinery was not required to secure PlainsCapital's Internet banking system to ensure that its funds were not stolen and was not required to ensure that true multifactor identification was employed by PlainsCapital to counteract the known threat posed by malware, phishing and pharming," the complaint noted. Hillary insisted that if PlainsCapital had used "commercially reasonable" security measures, the unauthorized transfers would have been found to be outside the norm for Hillary.

About IT

Intel Capital and other venture capital firms will invest $3.5 billion in U.S. technology firms over the next two years, and Intel and 16 other large U.S. companies will step up their hiring of U.S. college graduates, especially those in computer science and engineering, Intel President and CEO Paul Otellini announced Tuesday.Intel, Google, Microsoft, eBay, Cisco Systems, and other companies will hire 10,500 additional graduates from U.S. colleges in 2010, with many companies doubling their hiring from 2009, Otellini said in a speech at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C.Stay ahead of the key tech business.
In some cases, the college graduates might not be U.S. citizens, but residents of other countries who attended college in the U.S., Otellini said. During his speech, he complained about current limits on the number of foreign workers U.S. tech companies can hire. "Our immigration policy seems deliberately designed to prevent us from attracting the best minds in the world," he said.The venture capital and student hiring commitments are part of a new Invest in America Alliance spearheaded by Intel. The venture capital effort will focus on clean technology, information technology and biotechnology, and in addition to Intel Capital, Intel's investment group, the 23 other venture capital groups participating include Menlo Ventures, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Canaan Partners. Intel Capital will invest $200 million in the venture capital effort.Asked if the $3.5 billion in venture capital investments was on top of money venture capital firms would have already invested, Otellini said he wasn't sure about other venture capital. The $200 billion from Intel Capital is money it hadn't planned on investing, he said.The new announcements come a year after Intel announced it would invest $7 billion in U.S. microprocessor manufacturing facilities. Intel is on track to spend that money as planned, with two factories in Oregon producing chips, and two more in Arizona and New Mexico scheduled to start production later this year, Otellini said.Otellini spent much of his speech talking about areas where he sees that U.S. efforts to support innovation need to improve. Several countries now offer a more generous research and development tax credit than the U.S. government, he said, and U.S. corporate taxes are the second highest in the world.Asked to rate Congress, Otellini graded its performance as "pretty poor.""It's been a series of endless compromises and debate at a time when action is needed," he said.While a huge economic stimulus package that passed Congress in early 2009 may have prevented economic disaster, much of the money won't go out until 2011 or 2012, he added.Countries including China and India are pumping huge money into tech investments, and India has launched an aggressive broadband plan, Otellini warned. "The countries of Europe, Asia, Latin America, and before long, the Middle East are going to be competing with us in every sphere of the economy in years ahead," he said. "If we want to stay with them, and remain a vibrant growing economy, we have to recommit to a strategy that drives the economic growth of the future."

Introduction

hi its me barsha gurung frm nepal!!! well i m new student......just wana knew about new things... well i stay at beautiful city pokhara.i am proud to be nepali citizen........well i am the one in pink tshirt