Free SMS service “Jaxtr SMS” launched by Hotmail co-founder!!!

Hotmail was so well-liked by users that Microsoft acquired it for around $400 million. Now Hotmail co-founder Sabeer Bhatia is hoping for similar success with Jaxtr SMS, a free text messaging service.

Jaxtr - owned by Bhatia and his partner Yogesh Patel - is a cross-platform texting application that lets users send SMSes to anyone in the world for free.

"We have developed this application that runs on all mobile applications in the world, including iPhones, Androids, Blackberrys, J2MEs, where one can send unlimited free text messages from his phone to any mobile phone in the world," Bhatia said in a statement quoted by the Economic Times.

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Jaxtr SMS was coded in Mumbai, India where it currently costs 5 Rupees to send an international SMS. The company eventually expects to have at least 100 million global subscribers.
  
"We witnessed tremendous response to this application during the soft launch where users across 197 countries downloaded it in a few weeks and expect 100 million subscribers by end of next year," Bhatia said.
  
The company will try and monetize the service with advertisements and premium options like archiving texts, multimedia, video etc. These features should be available by the middle of next year.
    

Jaxtr SMS looks to be getting into the right market at the right time, as there are currently 4.2 billion texters, a number which is predicted to increase to 12 trillion by 2015. As such, it should be interesting to see how much value an SMS application can create. If Bhatia can build up user opinion of Jaxtr SMS like he did with Hotmail, then the IT entrepreneur may see another hundred million plus payday.

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Astonishing bionic enables blind to see

If you are blind or any of your relatives are blind you don’t need to worry as Limited trials of a bionic eye that could restore sight to the blind have produced "astonishing" results, says a new study.

The tiny implantable microchip permitted patients, who had given up on seeing again, read a clock and identify daily objects.
The wafer-thin device is to be implanted for the first time in Oxfordand London, with surgery scheduled within weeks, the Daily Mail reported.

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If these and similar operations in Europevalidate the efficacy of the device, manufactured by a German firm Retina Implant, it could be available by 2013.

Most of the middle-aged patients were to be treated for retinitis pigmentosa, a hereditary disease that destroys the light-sensitive retina at the back of the eye.
A microchip packed with 1,500 light sensors is implanted to the back of the eye, to restore sight to those who lost it to the disease.
The sensors convert light to electrical signals, which stimulate nerves in the retina to pass down signals to optic nerve which would gap into the brain to form an image.
Robert MacLaren, surgeon who led the trial, cautioned that the surgery is still experimental and the device does not work in all cases.

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Bat Plant shows cancer-fighting potential!!

Bat plant, or Tacca chantrieri, could be used to fight cancer, according to researchers with The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio.

The researchers have pinpointed the cancer-fighting potential in the plant.
Susan Mooberry, Ph.D., leader of the Experimental Development Therapeutics Program at the Cancer Therapy and ResearchCenter and a professor of pharmacology in the School of Medicine at the UT Health Science Center, has been working to isolate substances in the plant, looking for a plant-derived cancer drug with the potential of Taxol.

Taxol, the first microtubule stabilizer derived from the Yew family, has been an effective chemotherapy drug, but patients eventually develop problems with resistance over time and toxicity at higher doses.
So, researchers have long been seeking alternatives.
“We’ve been working with these for years with some good results, but never with the potency of Taxol,” said Dr. Mooberry, lead author of the study.
“Now we have that potency, and we also show for the first time the taccalonolides’ cellular binding site,” she stated.

Microtubules are structures in the cells that act as conveyer belts. They help maintain cell shape and help guide chromosones in cell division to ensure that every new cell, including every new cancer cell, gets a full complement of genetic material.
When microtubules are stabilized — essentially held still so they can’t do their jobs — this disrupts numerous cellular processes, and the cell can die.
The taccalonolides stabilize microtubules in cancer cells, but they do not attack healthy cells, Dr. Mooberry said.
“We’ve run normal prostate cells and normal breast cells through these tests, and they don’t die. The taccalonolides selectively kill cancer cells,” she noted.
The study was published this month in the Journal of the American Chemical Society.

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Cellphone batteries to recharge in 15 minutes!!!

If you are having problem due to discharge of your’s cell phone battery., it sounds like there will come out a solution very soon.Scientists are closer to developing a cellphone battery that will take just 15 minutes to recharge and last more than a week.

A team of Northwestern University engineers created an electrode for lithium-ion batteries, used in cellphones and iPods that allow holding a charge up to ten times greater than current technology

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 Batteries with the new electrode also can charge 10 times faster than current batteries, the journal Advanced Energy Materials reported.
 "We have found a way to extend a new lithium-ion battery's charge life by ten times," said Harold H. Kung, researcher, a university statement said.
 "Even after 150 charges, which would be one year or more of operation, the battery is still five times more effective than lithium-ion batteries on the market today," Kung said.
 Researchers combined two chemical engineering approaches to address two major battery limitations - energy capacity and charge rate.
 Besides better batteries for cellphones and iPods, the technology could pave the way for more efficient, smaller batteries for electric cars.

The technology could be seen in the marketplace in the next three to five years, the researchers said. I hope this will be useful mainly to the cell phone user of developing country who are having problem of loadshedding.

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New experiment shows neutrinos travel faster than light

An improved re-run of the experiment that appeared to show faster-than-light travel was possible has produced the same result. In September, CERN's OPERA experiment found that neutrinos were traveling to the Italian measuring station at San Grasso about 20 parts per million faster than the speed of light.

Since then, the team has rechecked many aspects of its analysis, taking other scientists' suggestions into account

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One of the most important tests, now completed, was to repeat the measurement with very short beam pulses from CERN. This allowed the extraction time of the protons that ultimately lead to the neutrino beam, to be measured more precisely.

The beam sent from CERN consisted of pulses three nanoseconds long separated by up to 524 nanoseconds. Some 20 clean neutrino events were subsequently measured at Gran Sasso, and precisely associated with the pulse leaving CERN - confirming that it wasn't inaccurate timing that was to blame.

"The new measurements do not change the initial conclusion," says CERN.

"Nevertheless, the observed anomaly in the neutrinos' time of flight from CERN to Gran Sasso still needs further scrutiny and independent measurement before it can be refuted or confirmed."

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Dental cleanings reduce heart attack risk

Are you visiting dentist regularly? If not start it from now onwards as the recent research suggested that dental cleanings reduce heart attack. People who have their teeth scraped and cleaned had lowered their heart attack and stroke risk by 24 and 13 percent respectively, compared to those who never had a dental cleaning.

These findings are based on a Taiwanese study of a database of more than 100,000 people who underwent dental cleaning and were followed for an average of seven years.

Scientists considered tooth scaling frequent if it occurred at least twice or more in two years; occasional tooth scaling was once or less in two years.

"Protection from heart disease and stroke was more pronounced in participants who got tooth scaling at least once a year," said Emily (Zu-Yin) Chen, cardiology fellow at the Veterans General Hospital in Taipei, Taiwan, who co-authored the study.

Professional tooth scaling appears to reduce inflammation-causing bacterial growth that can lead to heart disease or stroke, she said, according to a Veterans Hospital statement.

The study included more than 51,000 adults who had received at least one full or partial tooth scaling and a similar number of people matched with gender and health conditions who had no tooth scaling

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None of the participants had a history of heart attack or stroke at the beginning of the study, under the Taiwan National Health insurance data base, the source of the information used in the analysis.

In a separate study, researchers found a big difference in heart and stroke risk based on the number of remaining teeth.

Anders Holmlund, Centre for Research and Development of the County Council of Gävleborg, Sweden, and senior consultant (specialized dentistry) studied 7,999 participants with periodontal (gum) disease and found people with fewer than 21 teeth had a 69 percent increased risk of heart attack compared to those with the most teeth

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A higher number of deepened periodontal pockets (infection of the gum around the base of the tooth) had a 53 percent increased risk of heart attack compared to those with the fewest pockets.

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Pomegranate juice beneficial for kidney and heart disease patients

Washington, Nov 12 : If you wants to be healthy and free from kidney and heart disease start drinking the pomegranate juice daily. Recent research has shown that, Pomegranate juice, which is rich in antioxidants, offers a wide variety of health benefits to kidney disease patients including managing blood pressure and lowering cholesterol, a new study has claimed.

 Lilach Shema and her colleagues from the Western Galilee Medical Center in Israel investigated the long-term effects of drinking pomegranate juice on heart disease risk factors like high cholesterol and blood pressure in kidney disease patients

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They randomised 101 dialysis patients to receive about three-and-a-half ounces of pomegranate juice or placebo, three times a week.

After one year, the number of blood pressure drugs patients took decreased in 22 percent of patients drinking pomegranate juice compared to 7.7 percent in the placebo group, while an increase was documented in 12.2 percent of patients drinking pomegranate juice compared to 34.6 percent in the placebo group.

They also found that patients who drank pomegranate juice had healthier blood pressure and cholesterol levels and less plaque build-up in their arteries.

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Foetus can sense mum's mental condition

Washington, Nov 11: If you or your wife is pregnant and wants to give birth to a healthy child than you should be healthy yourself. The recent research shows that the mentality of pregnant mother affects the health of child. A growing foetus is bombarded with messages from its mom -- not just about heartbeats but also chemical signals, including those about the mother's mental state, through the placenta

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A new study finds that if the mother is depressed, it affects how the baby develops after it is born.
In recent decades, researchers have found that the environment a foetus is growing up in - the mother's womb - is very important, the journal Psychological Science reports.
Some effects are obvious. Smoking and drinking, for example, can be devastating. But others are subtler -- people born during the Dutch famine of 1944, most of whom had starving mothers, were likely to have health problems like obesity and diabetes later.

Curt A. Sandman, Elysia P. Davis and Laura M. Glynn of the University of California, Irvine studied how the mother's psychological state affects a developing foetus.

They recruited pregnant women and checked them for depression before and after they gave birth. They also gave their babies tests after they were born to see how well they were developing, according to a university statement

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They found something interesting: what mattered to the babies was if the environment was consistent before and after birth.
That is, the babies who did best were those who either had mothers who were healthy both before and after giving birth, and those whose mothers were depressed before birth and stayed depressed afterward.
What slowed the babies' development was changing conditions - a mother who went from depressed before birth to healthy after or healthy before birth to depressed after. "We must admit, the strength of this finding surprised us," Sandman said.
"We know how to deal with depression," he said. The problem is, women are rarely screened for depression before birth.

In the long term, having a depressed mother could lead to neurological problems and psychiatric disorders, Sandman said.

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