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Wanted: very smart partner with high IQ
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TORONTO, CANADA: Tired of the same old Internet dating sites? If you’re an ultra-smart singleton and good at taking tests, a new website could be the answer.
The social networking site directed towards highly intelligent people with a knack for deciphering complex visual patterns, which started in Denmark, has now expanded to Canada and the United States.
Potential candidates have to pass an online test to prove they have an IQ of 115 or higher. The score places them in the top 15 percent of the population for intelligence, said Copenhagen-based Trine Jensen, the founder of IntelligentPeople.com.
“I believe that intelligent people communicate better with other intelligent people and, of course, love happens more easily if you communicate well,” she said in an interview.
“I started it because I thought it was missing from the dating scene and the social networking scene,” the 29-year-old corporate lawyer explained.
The test to join the site is based on one used by Mensa — an international society founded in England for people with an IQ in the top two percent of the population. It is designed to be “culture fair”, so it tests intelligence while minimizing cultural and educational biases, Jensen said.
People can take the test twice, Jensen added, admitting that in some ways it could be viewed as discriminatory.
“But there are other sites that discriminate on the basis of other criteria,” she said.
The new site, which has about 700 members, has attracted engineers, lawyers, students, Web developers and teachers, Jensen said, adding that it’s too early to say how successful the site has been at “hooking people up”.
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Mobile TV broadcast roll-out slow: Nokia
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HELSINKI, FINLAND: Nokia said on Friday its push to promote mobile television broadcasting has not succeeded as the world’s top cellphone maker had hoped.
Nokia has been for years promoting television broadcasts to cellphones and its digital video broadcasting handheld (DVB-H) technology won EU support earlier this year, but only a few operators in Europe have opened any TV broadcasting services.
“It’s a bit in a turmoil,” Niklas Savander, head of Nokia’s Internet services, told a conference in Helsinki.
Most people who watch TV programmes on their cellphones use third-generation (3G) mobile networks, bringing in long-awaited data transmission fees to operators, but these limit picture quality and user numbers.
“We have seen that there are multiple segments who are not interested in the broadcasting, but rather in downloads. Roll out is slower than also we anticipated a couple of years ago,” Savander said.
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Nokia intros three new S60-based applications
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BANGALORE, INDIA: Finland-based mobile handset maker Nokia today announced the availability of three new applications built on the S60 software platform for mobile phones: Quickoffice Version 4.1, Web Server and WaveSecure.
The Quickoffice Version 4.1 application for Nokia E90 phones makes users PC-independent to create and edit Microsoft Office documents – including Word, Excel and PowerPoint files – from the phone itself.
However, Quickoffice currently does not support open source documents.
Existing E90 users can download Quickoffice Version 4.1 on to their phones, Mahmood Kalantar, director, Mobile Software Sales and Marketing, APAC, Nokia, said at a press conference here.
The Web Server application remotely gives the user a complete access to the phone via the Internet. The user can access data stored on the phone, access the call logs section of the phone via the Internet to know the details of received and missed calls.
Additionally, the user can access photo gallery, send messages and click photographs remotely.
The Mobile Web Server is currently in beta and is provided free of charge. The user should create a log in ID to avail this application.
The Web Server application even doubles the phone as surveillance equipment. The camera can be clicked remotely via the Internet, and the clicked photo can be accessed on the computer monitor for remote surveillance.
According to Gautam Dhingra, marketing manager, Mobile Software Sales and Marketing, the Web Server application does not currently support videos.
He said such capability could be built on the S60 platform.
Using the WebSecure application – developed by Tencube – a user can track a missing phone via the Internet, create backup for the data stored and even delete the data.
The data retrieved can then be stored on to any S60 phone using a restore option.
Nokia termed WebSecure as the “ultimate security application” for the mobile phone.
S60 on Symbian OS is one of the three platforms Nokia uses to develop applications. S60 is the only one licensed to developers.
The other two platforms – Series 40 and Series 80 – are strictly for in-house development of applications.
Kalantar said that the S60 was “partially made in India.”
He, however, lamented that only eight per cent of Indian developers work on developing mobile applications. “Indian developers put most of their professional time on developing Web applications.”
Kalantar added that the combined power of the Internet and S60 could change the economics of development.
“S60 is open to all developers with the widest range of runtime environment and open channels to market,” Kalantar added.
Nokia has built a large developer ecosystem around S60, which supports Symbian C++, Open C, Open C++, Java, Python, Web run-time and Flash, among others.
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Heineken, Nokia and advanced sensor technology
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BANGALORE, INDIA: Even as Indian liquor baron and Member of Parliament, Vijay Mallya reportedly raised a toast to Heineken, Nokia said cheers with the same brand of beer, as it showcased its phone with advanced sensor technology.
The Finland-based mobile phone handset-maker had last year said it was developing a mobile phone with advanced sensor technology.
At a press conference here today, Gautam Dhingra, marketing manager, Mobile Software Sales and Marketing, passed “a round of drinks” to scribes.
The mobile phones passed around had beer bubbling on their screens and as the reporters “drank”, the beer level gradually decreased before “emptying the mobile phone”.
This, of course, was just to showcase the technology Nokia introduced in its phone. The mobile phone sensed its position – whether it was held upright or slanted or upside down – and the image of golden beer responded accordingly, as if it was in a pitcher.
The phone even sensed the collective lungpower of journalists.
Dhingra selected a game on his phone, a game in which one has to scream to make a building collapse without harming the passers-by, and thereby collect points. The collective scream of Bangalore journalists could garner only 97 points.
They were later told that the highest was over 110 points.
Flip Silent and Shake Lock
Later, during a post-press conference conversation, Dhingra explained more. Nokia has developed more applications, viz., the Flip Silent and Shake Lock.
A ringing phone could be made silent or even the call could be disconnected by flipping it over. The Flip Silent was developed on the S60 platform and partially has used Python.
“Shake Lock was also developed on the S60 platform and has used Python,” Dhingra told CyberMedia News.
With this application, a user can shake the phone to lock the keypad. This application would be more useful to countries like India, where a significant number of users go for low-end or mid-segment phones which need to be locked.
Dhingra, however, did not reveal when Nokia would start shipping this phone with sensor technology.
The Finnish handset-maker is learnt to be developing more sensor technology-based applications before it would launch the phone.
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