Category: Biz Tech

A surgeon in China says he has constructed an extra nose out of a man’s rib cartilage and implanted it under the skin of his forehead to prepare for a transplant in probably the first operation of its kind.Surgeon Guo Zhihui at Fujian Medical University Union Hospital in China’s southeastern province of Fujian spent nine months cultivating the graft for a 22-year-old man whose nose was damaged. The striking images of the implant — with the nostril section facing diagonally upward

Doctors at RAK Hospital marked the opening of a new era of intervention in congenital heart disease for this part of the world by carrying out an Atrial Septal Defect (ASD)   Closure without surgical intervention on a young adult by the technique of Device closureASD device (Amplatzer septal occluder) is a relatively new non-surgical technique used to treat patients with atrial septal defect in which patients are born with “hole” in the heart.  It is the commonest defect encountered in

Apple Inc. is poised to announce record opening-weekend sales as throngs of excited customers waited through long lines in Sydney, Tokyo, London and San Francisco to pick up the latest iPhones.Sales for the iPhone 5s and 5c started yesterday with crowds in Sydney and extended through stores in the U.S., Canada, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, Puerto Rico, Singapore and the U.K. In London, the line at the Regent Street Apple store stretched for a mile. The demand has analysts

Iranians gained direct access to Facebook and Twitter for the first time in four years because of a technical fault, an Iranian official said on Tuesday, denying suggestions the government had lifted a ban on social media.On Monday evening, several Iranians said they gained access to their accounts without having to get round a government firewall, leading them to hope that authorities had relaxed a ban in place since anti-government protests in 2009, some of which were organised on social media.But Abdolsamad

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Thechikkottukavu Ramachandran's take-home salary would be the envy of many investment bankers. With his majestic ten-and-a-half-foot frame, the elegant Kerala resident is said to earn Rs 1 crore by working just seven months a year. Little wonder then that he's a Facebook star. Except that the 48-year-old Ramachandran is a large elephant, and a wildly popular fixture in most ceremonial temple processions in the state. His popularity also has much to do with a unique phenomenon: the recent proliferation

NATASHA LOMAS -Trying to raise $32 million via crowdfunding always looked overly ambitious. And indeed it has proved to be so. Canonical’s Ubuntu Edge Indiegogo campaign to build a smartphone designed for converged computing has fallen considerably short of its target, ending with the fixed funding project receiving nothing at all — which, when you’ve got pledges worth around $12 million, has got to hurt. The campaign ran from July 22 to August 21.The Edge, which promised to be both a high end Android

Earlier this week, security researcher Khalil Shreateh discovered a Facebook bug that allowed a hacker to post on anyone’s wall — even if they weren’t that person’s friend.While he was able to prove to Facebook that his bug was legit (despite an initial response that it wasn’t a bug at all), Facebook wasn’t too happy with the way he did it: by using the bug to post on Zuckerberg’s otherwise friends-only wall.Security research can be a pretty tough balancing act.

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has decided to ban the use of dotless domain names.In a resolution issued earlier this week, the non-profit organization defined dotless domains to mean "consist of a single label and require the inclusion of, for example, an A, AAAA, or MX, record in the apex of a TLD zone in the DNS."In plainer terms, this means Internet users won't be seeing Web addresses that look like, "http://insert name here." The basic URL

Small businesses are more prone to be attacked by cyber attacks, according to a  study.Many small businesses b server from inside their own networks, without much awareness about how to secure them properly. Their primary concerned is the daily running of their business, which makes insecure servers a prime target for cyber attacks.A recent case is a good example of how these attacks work. On May 30, Trend Micro’s assistance was requested after an unidentified company (which we’ll call Company

Now might be a good time to become accustomed with Windows 8 if you’re still a holdover Windows XP user. Computerworld reports that hackers have started storing up any fresh Windows XP exploits they find and are preparing to unleash them on unsuspecting XP users as soon as Microsoft stops supporting the operating system next year. Microsoft security expert Jason Fossen tells Computerworld that hackers who discover new exploits over the next few months may be able to charge twice

Dubai: Emirates, Etihad Airways and Gulf Air experienced delays on Tuesday morning after their passenger check-in and reservation system crashed.The passenger check-in and reservation system, designed by Sabre, experienced a worldwide outage at around 8am local time and lasted for two hours.Sabre software is used by more than 300 airlines around the world and some 100 airports worldwide were affected by the outage. Sabre is commonly used among international airlines, including Virgin Australia, United Airlines and American Airlines.A spokeswoman for

New figures have revealed an addiction to technology amongst UAE residents, with 71% stating that they could not live without their laptops or smartphones.Commissioned by dmg events Middle East as it gears up for the December launch of the region's largest consumer lifestyle event - The Life & Style Show UAE - the survey provides unique insight into the attitudes of UAE residents towards all-things tech. It also comes at a time when the UAE's consumer electronics industry is booming,

LG Display has agreed to pay $380m (£246m) to settle an LCD panel price-fixing case in the US.The company denied doing anything wrong, but said it had agreed to a settlement to avoid "the expense and burden of protracted litigation".It was the largest amount paid by any of the 10 companies that have settled the case, including Toshiba, Samsung, Sharp and Hitachi.They were accused of fixing the prices of LCD panels between 1996 and 2006.The money will go to US

If you're an audiophile who waxes nostalgic when it comes to the classic Walkman audio cassette and CD players -- you're in luck. There's a new Sony (SNE) Walkman out, though if you're in America, you may need to pack a passport to purchase one legally.The Japanese consumer electronics giant has been following Apple's (AAPL) iPod footsteps through Asia and Europe in recent years in its attempt to update its iconic brand. The Sony Walkman F800 is an impressive successor

Netflix is more popular among couch potatoes than investors a year after its polarizing decision to raise U.S. prices for video subscription services.The unexpected twist that Netflix unveiled a year ago Thursday triggered mass customer cancellations and a sell-off in its stock, which has wiped out more than $11 billion US in shareholder wealth.Netflix Inc. has bounced back this year to revive its subscriber growth. But even after a recent rally, its stock remains more than 70 per cent below