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In Zimbabwe, Africa, you will find the magnificent Victoria Falls, at a height of 128m.

The location is known as the “Devil’s Swimming Pool”. During the months of September and December, people can swim as close as possible to the edge of the falls without falling over.

These falls are becoming well known amongst the “radical tourist” industry, when more and more people search for the ultimate experience.

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EID MUBARAK TO ALL THE MUSLIMS ALL OVER THE WORLD!

Microsoft has now unveiled its next version of their decision engine, Bing Visual Search. The new Visual Search, powered by Silverlight, lets users scroll through galleries of images using specific keywords.

Users can browse in the visual search by products, sports, consumer electronics, famous people, entertainment, reference and many more categories. The updated search makes it easier for users to find what they are looking for through the stylish 3D flip image layout.

Bing now helps users sort through their choices by “Most popular on Bing”, eliminating choices for you to help decide on what to buy. The decision engine can now help expand your search by taking your queries and turning out wider results. Bing will take queries such as “NFL Players” or “MLB Players” and locate as many results of player’s images by face. Bing can also help narrow down user’s queries by sorting players by position, team, salaries and more.

Bing Visual Search requires Microsoft Silverlight to be installed to use the newest version of Bing.

Test out the new beta of Bing at http://www.bing.com/visualsearch

The popularity of social networking sites such as the giant Facebook and its baby brother Twitter is something which can be hard to quantify in terms of figures. Perhaps the best way to do so is to use the site yourself and see if indeed, it changes the way you live your life in the way it seems to have changed others.

Facebook for example, is particularly popular at universities where societies and organizations need a free infrastructure to manage social and university events, it is these functions – amongst others which have rocketed Facebook into the big time.

Both Twitter and Facebook have had their ups and downs since their respective launches – DDOS attacks galore and some bad press regarding some members of the user base have meant that some difficult moralistic decisions have had to be made, despite this popularity has grown and grown.

News is being reported today with some foretasted figures regarding Twitter’s user base, the result is somewhat unsurprising. According to the latest research from eMarketer, that number will be at around 18 million by the end of 2009. But how many of these users are ones who wake up especially early to tweet their thoughts and news to the rest of the tweeters on Twitter?

eMarketer considers ‘users’ as people who access Twitter via any platform – Web, client, mobile or otherwise – at least once per month. Perhaps a benchmark which many might consider to be especially irregular in terms of the amount the service is used. The study is pertinent to the US only and the research firm calls its estimates ‘conservative’ in light of other stats that show Twitter has a high abandonment rate, according to Mashable.com

The numbers are fifty percent higher the estimates that eMarketer made earlier this year, when they projected that Twitter would have just 12 million users at the close of 2009. On this basis, onwards to predictions during 2010 – the current estimate is for 26 million users. A clear sign that the tiny Twitter might well be outgrowing its baby clothes.

Castletown, England – the narrowest street.

Buenos Aires, Argentina – the widest road.

Dunedin, New Zealand – the most abrupt road.

Svindon, England – the most complicated/tangled junction.


San Francisco, USA – The most curved road.

I FA 2009: Not a tablet, but still touchable powerhouse

Budget PC maker Medion has launched The Touch, an all in one PC that boasts it is a PC, television, audio system, Blu-ray and DVD player all in one.

Going under the moniker of The MEDION THE TOUCH X9613, the 24-inch multi-touch display that will go up against the HP and Sony Vaio all in one models and fit in a casing just 7.7cm thick allowing you to mount it on a wall.

Inside and you get an Intel CoreTM2 Quad processor Q9000, NVIDIA GeForce GT240M graphics card, a 1TB hard drive capacity and 4 GB of DDR3 RAM.

Elsewhere you’ll get Dolby Home Theater V3-certified sound and a subwoofer, radio remote control and wireless keyboard as well as a 2 megapixel webcam with microphone.

Blu-ray, DVD burner, Ethernet, Bluetooth and fingerprint reader complete the package.

Yours for around £2000.

Full Specs include:
- 61 cm (24″) widescreen multi-touch display (16:9) Full HD resolution with 1920 x 1080 pixels
- Intel CoreTM2 Quad processor Q9000
- NVIDIA GeForce GT240M DirectX® 10 graphics
with 1 GB GDDR3 graphics memory
- Two integrated speakers and one subwoofer (Dolby Home Theater V3-certified)
- 1 TB of hard drive capacity
- 4 GB of DDR2 SDRAM
- Blu-ray drive / multi-standard DVD/CD burner with Blu-ray disc, DVD-RAM
and dual layer support
- Full multimedia feature spectrum, including backlit touch keys, control field
with 3.5″ SideShow touch display
- Integrated 2.0 MP webcam and microphone
- Integrated DVB-T and DVB-S TV tuner, including remote control
- Wireless LAN 802.11b/g / Draft-n
- Gbit Ethernet LAN network controller (10/100/1000 Mbit/s.) on board
- Fingerprint sensor
Connections – 4 x USB 2.0 / 1 x LAN (RJ45) / multi-card reader / 1 x ExpressCard slot / 1
x eSATA / 1 x VGA in / 1 x VGA out / 1 x HDMI out / 1 x SCART
- Audio: 1 x mic in / line in / line out, including S/PDIF / 8-channel audio out
OEM software
- Windows 7 Home Premium – Microsoft Works 9.0 including Microsoft Office Home & Student 2007 Trial Edition
- CyberLink Power2Go
- MEDION Home Cinema Suite, including PowerDirector 7, PowerProducer
5, PowerDVDTM8 Ultra, MediaShow4
- MEDION Touch Centre with interactive support guide
- BullGuard Internet Security
- System Recovery powered by Symantec
- External power pack, wireless keyboard including touch pad, remote control

At the Nokia World event in Stuttgart the Finnish phone maker is demonstrating a Nokia device that boasts a no-glasses-required 3D display.

Running on a Nokia N810 Internet Tablet – not the planned launch platform for the tech – the display (pictured, but obviously not captured by the camera) offers rudimentary 3D on a handheld device.

Phone manufacturers in the Far East have already brought 3D mobiles phones to market, but Nokia Research could not predict a launch timescale for its solution.

Such launches are market-driven, and although Nokia has the technology to create such a handset, the usual trio of expense, demand and content mean it’s not planned for an imminent release.

A Nokia Research exec, that described the in-house tech as “advanced”, revealed to Pocket-lint that the company has been working on 3D phones for “several years”.

The device we saw working, the aforementioned N810, has a special screen made by a secret third party manufacturer and has proprietary software to run the content, however, the content that the phone can display is ordinary, common-or-garden 3D, so the current boom in 3D filming might well mean a launch is sooner rather than later.