The mystery of a yeti finger stolen from Nepal half a century ago and smuggled with the help of the actor James Stewart has been solved by scientists at Edinburgh Zoo, The finger is now held in the Royal College of Surgeons museum in London. The finger was taken from a Nepalese monastery by an American explorer in the 1950s. Stewart smuggled it out of India in his wife’s lingerie case. DNA tests found it to be human bone but not an Abominable Snowman called Yeti. “It was obviously slightly disappointing,” said researcher Rob Ogden of the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland.
Research carried out on a BBC documentary yesterday, tracked down 85 years old Mr Byrne, to his home in the US, where he confirmed it was the one taken from the monastery.
He Said “The temple had a number of Sherpa custodians,” “I heard one of them speaking Nepalese, which I speak. He told me that they had in the temple the hand of a yeti which had been there for many years
Here is the BBC video http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-16320166
At least seven people have been killed in Nepal and northern parts of India after a 6.8-magnitude earthquake struck the region today (18-09-2011 Sunday).
Five people died in Nepal, including three crushed when a wall of the British embassy compound collapsed in the capital, Kathmandu and two in Dharan. At least two people died in the states of Sikkim and Bihar, officials said. Several minor earthquakes have hit the region this year, but none have caused major damage. In Kathmandu, 270km (170 miles) west of the epicentre, buildings were evacuated and traffic came to a standstill.
According to the National Seismologic Center (NSC), the epicenter of the 6.8 magnitude earthquake was in the border of Taplejung and the Indian state of Sikkim. Tremors were felt throughout Nepal and some parts of India. Read more…
Google Inc installed the Google cache server in Nepal at NTC office Jawalakhel Internet Exchange Point, operated by Nepal Telecom(NTC).
A Google cache server is a dedicated network server that saves Web pages or other Internet content locally. By placing previously requested information in temporary storage, or cache, a cache server both speeds up access to data and reduces demand on an enterprise’s bandwidth.
With the installation of google cache server the services provided by Google will be faster than before. Google services such as Gmail, Youtube etc will now be accessed faster from Nepal. This will also help NTC by reducing its bandwidth access and reduce its cost.
“After the installation of Google server, Internet bandwidth uses of NTC has been decreased” Said NTC representatives.
How NTC reduce its cost with the installation of google cache server?
Amy and Arsenal top “Summer Google searches”
AMY Winehouse’s death has been the most Googled subject this summer.
Fans scrambled to use the internet giant to get info on the tragedy last month, new figures show. Excluding the pop diva, 27, the top celebrity name punched into the search engine was that of the Beckhams new born daughter Harper Seven.
Dad David only made it to fifth place, while new Dragons’ Den telly investor Hillary Devey, 54, was a surprise entry nat No2. Among searches for football clubs, struggling Arsenal came top.
Top summer searches
- Amy Winehouse dead
- Google +
- Wimbeldon
- EuroMillions
- Ryan Dunn
- Ed Sheeran
- Ryan Giggs
- Harry Potter
- Weather Forecast
- Britain’s Got Talent Read more…
Founder of world famous social networking site facebook.com Mark Zuckerberg told that facebook and skype are going to interate together, so that facebook user can use video for chatting and calling directly from Facebook.
It’s a feature that’s been rumored for quite a while. I think definitely this is the awesome thing for users of Facebook.
Facebook is launching a new chat sidebar today. Read more…
Study form Search Engine Watch shows that CTR for first position is 36.40% while it’s shrink by 12.5% for 2nd position and 9.5% for third position in Google Organic Search.
One of the french blog NoWhereElse nicely showing rumors regarding the iPhone 5. There are lots of rumors going for the next generation iPhone 5. Like the iPhone 5 will definitely get the new A5 processor which is dual core processor, other rumors are NFC chip technology for near field payment, 3D, 4 inch screen, metal back.
Next generation iPhone 5 is rumor to be launch on jun 2011 at WWDC or at September.
Steve Hemmerstoffer from nowhereelse.fr, showcases 27 of the most popular iPhone 5 rumors to hit the web. He also has added in some percentages that indicate how likely a feature is to actually become reality on next iPhone 5 generation. Read more…
Today the popular company called amazon launch its amazon cloud storage. Amazon do this silently, there was no any rumored about this new service, the other company like apple and google are rumored to launch the cloud store but this is now live my amazon, that is great idea.
Amazon cloud storage has 5 GB of free space available. You can upgrade to $1/GB like 20GB, 50GB etc.
You can upload any data from music file like mp3 to any document files. It’s an awesome idea to store data on cloud. Even you can listen the music on build in browser which is like itune player. The music you buy from amazon get automatically backed up on cloud.
Amazon cloud can be access from any where thorough Internet, you can listen stored music from android based mobile phone using amazon mp3 application. But the most annoying thing I found is that I cant access it in UK. Currently its for US customers only.
https://www.amazon.com/clouddrive/learnmore/
Apple started the countdown to 10 billion earlier in the week with a counter on its homepage, so we knew the time was near. The are hundreds of thousands of apps to chose from in the App Store in a number of categories.
As of this writing Apple has not said who downloaded the 10 billionth app or what that app was. The page on the company’s Web site announcing the 10 billionth app says the winner is Gail Davis of Orpington, Kent, UK.
Davis downloaded Paper Glider, an app that tests how far can you flick and fly a paper plane.
For downloading the 10 billionth app Davis will receive a $10,000 iTunes Gift card from Apple.
Nearly two months after a licensing issue arose between the creators of the open-source VLC platform and creators of the VLC iOS application, Apple has removed the application from their App Store.
If that wasn’t enough, Courmont’s response to Apple pulling the VLC app from the App Store comes off as incredibly spiteful: ” At last, Apple has removed VLC media player from its application store.
But this time, the removal of one of the most popular free apps for iPhone and iPad has nothing to do with Apple and the app review team’s rules.
The situation is one of the prominent examples of conflict between the open-source GNU General Public License, which is tied to the VLC player, and the terms detailed in Apple’s own App Store licensing.
