Great iPhone 4 Review

Apple said Monday that it sold 1.7 million iPhone 4s in three days after its launch last week, calling it its most successful product launch ever.

The iPhone 4 is still sold out at many stores. Online purchasers are told orders will ship in three weeks. "We apologize to those customers who were turned away because we did not have enough supply," Apple CEO Steve Jobs said in a statement.

Last year, the 3GS iPhone sold 1 million units in its first three days.

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Motorcyclist's body found by cellphone GPS

Nova Scotia police found the body of a missing motorcyclist Wednesday by tracking the GPS on his cellphone.

RCMP said the 48-year-old man left Hammonds Plains at about 8:30 a.m. to shop in Bridgewater. When he didn't return home, worried relatives called police.

Cpl. Joe Taplin said investigators contacted the man's cellphone service provider, and that led them to a ditch in Hubley, southwest of Halifax.

RCMP found the motorcyclist and his Yamaha at 11:30 p.m.

"The cellphone had a GPS on it and by using that we were able to locate the man near Joshua Slocum Drive," Taplin said.

GPS-equipped cellphones can allow police to track missing people and criminals.

But conventional cellphones without GPS can also be tracked, says Jesse Hirsh, CBC Radio's technology columnist.

"When cellphones connect, just making themselves available to accept calls, they are leaving a data trail of all the cellphone towers that they connect to, and that allows carriers to literally map out where a customer is," he said.

But that provider has to record and then recover the information, he added.

"From that data you're able to get a rough estimate of where people are. I mean, the accuracy is very general, it doesn't show you, for example, a specific intersection. It would show you a general area of say several hundred metres."

An RCMP traffic collision analyst is trying to determine the cause of Wednesday's crash. An autopsy is planned for Thursday.

Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/06/17/ns-fatal-motorcycle-crash.html#ixzz0r8MwAq9M

Video Conferencing On Your Cell Phone!

Speaking at a conference, Motorola CEO Sanjay Jha said that the company plans to introduce "two to four" handsets later this year with front-facing cameras, which could be used for video calling. Jha said he never felt mobile video conferencing was a compelling feature, but Motorola's phones will support it. Just a few weeks ago, Jha said that Motorola plans to introduce two new Android handsets with Verizon Wireless this summer. It is possible that one or both of these handsets will have the video feature in question. Jha also indicated that the Motorola Droid is still selling very well at Verizon Wireless. "(Droid) sales are going extremely well. If I could build more I'd sell more," Jha said. Jha noted that Motorola is a victim of supply chain constraints that are reducing the number of handsets it can produce.

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Cell phones killing Bees!?!

Are Cell Phones Killing Off Bees?

(CANVAS STAFF REPORTS) - Could cell phones be the cause of a massive decline in bee populations across Europe and North America?

Researchers in India think that radiation from mobile telephones is a key factor and is probably interfering with the navigational senses in bees, reports The Daily Telegraph .

Authors of the report, which appears in the journal Current Science , write: " Increase in the usage of electronic gadgets has led to electro-pollution of the environment. Honeybee behavior and biology has been affected by electro-smog since these insects have magnetite in their bodies which helps them in navigation."

The authors, Ved Prakash Sharma and Neelima Kumar from Chandigarh's Punjab University, wrote that both colony strength and the egg-laying rate of the queen declined significantly.

The study involved the comparison of bees in two hives in Punjab. They fitted one fitted with two mobile telephones that were powered on for two 15-minute sessions per day for three months, and placed dummy models in the second hive, reports The Telegraph.

At the end of the period the researchers say there was a dramatic decline in the size of the hive fitted with the mobile phone. Honey production also stopped and the queen bee in the hive with the phones produced only half the eggs as the one in the other hive, researchers found.

The decline has been blamed on various causes, including agricultural pesticides, climate change and genetically modified crops, reports Australian Broadcast Company .

"Previous work in this area has indicated this (mobile phone use) is not a real factor," Tim Lovett, of the British Beekeepers Association, tells The Telegraph. "If new data comes along we will look at it. At the moment we think is more likely to be a combination of factors including disease, pesticides and habitat loss."

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