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Animals Straying Into Adjoining Villages Easy Prey, Foresters Worried by Naresh Mitra | TNN

A tiger was found dead outside the Kohra forest range of Kaziranga on Saturday. Foresters suspected a revenge killing by angry residents of villages that border the national park. It was the third tiger to die in Kaziranga this year.
The carcass was spotted beyond the park boundary, near an upcoming resort in the Mohpara area. The tiger was between seven and eight years old and may have died a couple of days ago.
Foresters ruled out the poaching angle, pointing to the fact that the tiger’s body wasn’t mutilated and no organs were missing. “We found the ninth rib of the tiger broken and partially calcified. We are waiting for a report on the exact cause of death,” said Kaziranga divisional forest officer D D Gogoi.
Over the past week, tigers in Kaziranga have frequently lifted livestock from neighbouring villages. On Saturday, a pig reportedly fell prey to one of the big cats in the park’s Sildubi area. The incident lent credence to the belief that the tiger death in Kohra was the result of a revenge attack.
But some forest officials said the tiger could have also been killed by a rhino. A few days ago, a tiger had attacked a rhino calf in the Bagmari area of Kaziranga. “Probably, the tiger suffered grievous injuries in the attack by a rhino while attempting to kill the calf. One of its ribs was found broken. But until we get the post-mortem report, it’s difficult to say how it died,” an officer said.
Veterinarians from the Bokakhatbased Centre for Wildlife Rehabilitation and Conservation (CWRC) conducted the post-mortem and collected samples for further tests. “Preliminary findings indicate the tiger might have died of infection following the fracture of the ninth rib on the right side. The infection also spread to the lungs and caused emphysema — a chronic respiratory disease due to over-inflation of alveoli in the lungs. It declines lung function and causes breathlessness,” said CWRC veterinarian Phulmoni Gogoi, who conducted the post-mortem.
Twelve tigers have died in Kaziranga since November 2008, a trend that has prompted the state government to start setting up tiger foundations to ensure their foolproof protection. Though the Wildlife Crime Control Bureau did not find a direct involvement of poachers in those tiger deaths, conservationists warned it was a matter of time before poaching became a huge threat in these parts.
Frequent cases of tigers straying out of the park to prey on livestock have increased their vulnerability, both in the face of angry villagers and poachers. Unlike rhinos, it is difficult for poachers to kill tigers inside Kaziranga as 65% of the 430 sq km area is grassland. But the cats can be targeted when they stray out into human settlements.

Sony plans to bring 3D to BRAVIA TVs, VAIO laptops, PS3 games, and Blu-ray movies

Financial Times reports that Sony exec Howard Stringer will soon announce that the company will release a line of 3D BRAVIA-family HDTVs before the end of 2010, and that 3D tech will also reach VAIO laptops, Blu-ray players, and PlayStation 3 games at some point too. more @ Financial Times: http://bit.ly/BENG6

Sony 3D Vaios, Bravias all coming 2010

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Recognizing that a shortage of content could doom its 3D push from the start, Sony is likely to launch cameras that give consumers the ability to shoot in the format. Recognizing that a shortage of content could doom its 3D push from the start, Sony is likely to launch cameras that give consumers the ability to shoot in the format. The cameras will form part of a drive by Sony to make 3D the next big thing in entertainment. On Wednesday Sony committed to launching at least one Bravia TV and one Vaio laptop computer with 3D capabilities in 2010 and also said it would offer a Blu-ray Disc player, as long as Blu-ray Disc Association settles on a 3D format.

Well first thing i wanted to do when I read about it in the newspaper was to see it. Well Labnol’s website provided a glimpse. Can’t judge it if its Blasphemy or to laugh at the lazyness of the graphics artists!!

This is the original picture that appeared on a Microsoft website meant for US customers.

altered one!

Read in deatail and more @ labnol.org

Not many know that Microsoft was not IBM’s first choice when the latter was looking for a disc operating software. In fact, reportedly Bill Gates himself suggested IBM to approach Gary Kildall of Digital Research, the author of the CP/M operating system. Kildall who is said to be busy with another customer order, is said to have asked his wife Dorothy Kildall to negotiate with IBM. Kildall not happy with the deal IBM was proposing sent the IBM execs packing. After this, IBM is said to have approached Bill Gates, who with Paul Allen came up with MS-DOS. Rest is history. Incidentally, MS-DOS was based on Tim Paterson’s QDOS (the Quick and Dirty Operating System), which was itself based on CP/M OS. MS-DOS 1.0 was released with IBM PC in 1982. Later, IBM ended up offering both Microsoft’s DOS (for $60) and a version of CP/M ($240) to buyers of the original IBM PC

Few people know of Apple’s saviour in late nineties. The time Mac sales were dwindling and the company was running low on cash.

This was the time when Apple received a much-needed cash aid of $150 million from a seemingly unlikely quarter: Microsoft. The company also promised to continue developing its Mac Office suite. The deal was brokered by then Apple consultant Steve Jobs.

Had Microsoft let Apple wither, it would have at least one rival less to content with.