Though a Chinese ship detected a pulse signal, officials said they "cannot verify any connection" at this stage between the electronic signals and the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370
The month-long hunt for the missing Malaysian plane continued on Sunday after a Chinese ship reported the detection of electronic pulse signals possibly related to the black box of the flight MH370 in southern Indian Ocean.
Some 10 military planes, two civil jets and 13 ships will look for any trace of flight MH370 aided by good weather with a cloud base of 2,500 feet and visibility greater than 10 km, according to the Joint Agency Coordination Centre coordinating the operations, China’s state-run Xinhua reported.
The search area is approximately 216,000 square km, about 2,000 km northwest of Perth. It is about 300 km farther from the western coastal city than the area searched on the day before, it said.
Reports overnight that a black box detector deployed by Chinese patrol ship Haixun 01 has detected electronic pulse signals in the Indian Ocean related to MH370 “cannot be verified at this point in time”, the JACC said in a statement.
Chinese patrol ship Haixun 01 had on Saturdayy detected a pulse signal with a frequency of 37.5kHz per second in southern Indian Ocean waters.
The black box detector deployed by the Haixun 01 picked up the signal at around 25 degrees south Latitude and 101 degrees east Longitude.
Also on Saturday, a Chinese air force plane spotted a number of white floating objects in the search area.
The plane photographed the objects over a period of 20 minutes after spotting them at 11:05 local time. The detection has been reported to the JACC, the news agency reported.
The Beijing-bound Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 — carrying 239 people, including five Indians, an Indo-Canadian and 154 Chinese nationals — had mysteriously vanished on March 8 after taking off from Kuala Lumpur.
The mystery of the missing plane continued to baffle aviation and security authorities who have so far not succeeded in tracking the aircraft despite deploying hi-tech radar and other gadgets.
Hakitzu Elite aims to teach children to code, using giant robots.
It's time for our weekly roundup of brand new and notable apps for
Android smartphones and tablets. It covers apps and games, with the
prices referring to the initial download: so (free) may mean (freemium)
in some cases. The equivalent iOS roundup will be published later today.
There's a new structure based on feedback from readers of previous
posts. The non-game apps are listed first, followed by the games. Read
on for this week's Android selection (and when you've finished, check
out previous Best Android apps posts).
There's a lot of talk at the moment about encouraging children to
learn programming skills, and a growing number of apps aiming to help.
Hakitzu Elite is one of the most intriguing ones: it teaches kids
JavaScript by getting them to build and battle giant (virtual) robots
against their friends. The game uses a virtual credits system: they can
be earned and/or bought, then used to customise the bots.
Cover is billing itself as a "smart lockscreen" for Android
smartphones, replacing Google's own lockscreen to provide speedy access
to your most useful apps, flick quickly between them, and a "peek"
feature to glance at what's new before opening an app fully. Its use of
context is the main appeal: the app aims to understand where you are and
what you're doing, then display the apps most likely to be needed.
This is an official app from Google: its standalone Device Manager
app for Android devices that fulfils the same function as Apple's Find
my iPhone / iPad feature. That means it'll keep tabs on your device's
location, and if it gets lost or stolen, can remotely enable you to
reset the screen-lock PIN or wipe all its data. The kind of tool you
don't regret not having until it's too late.
This is the official app from stock photography service Shutterstock,
providing a simple way to search its library from your Android
smartphone either by browsing categories and curated collections, or
searching for specific keywords. The app can then be used to cue up
image downloads from a computer, if you're a Shutterstock customer.
More coding, this time from Microsoft – an app based on its
"touch-friendly editor" for creating apps. This is the Android version,
although it would be more accurate to call it a companion for the web
version of the service, which has more features. The app requires you to
have Google's Chrome browser installed.
Something else from Google now: its annual Santa-tracking website has
an Android app this year, for children (and, in truth, parents getting
over-excited about the festive season). On Christmas Eve it'll track
Santa's supposed progress around the world, but until then it functions
as an interactive advent calendar, with something new to play with every
day. Chromecast support is a neat extra.
If your fridge door is as overloaded with children's artwork as mine,
you may see the appeal in Keepy. It's an app for storing photos of your
kids' pictures, homework and plasticine monsters, and sharing them with
family and friends. Everything is tagged for later reference, and can
be synchronised to Dropbox if you're worried that Keepy will (as so many
appy startups are) get acquired and shut down in the future.
CircleMe's Google Play listing is a bit buzzwordy – "an innovative
social way to collect all the things you love and discover new ones
through smart serendipity" – but it's an interesting idea nonetheless.
You tell it your interests and hobbies, see who else shares them, and
join in conversations, while checking out "plants" of useful events and
locations related to that activity on a map.
Finally, a potentially useful took for anyone with a wardrobe stuffed
with clothes, and the desire to boast about them to friends. The idea:
you take photos of your clobber, cut them out and then group them
together in whatever outfits you like. Sharing to Facebook, Twitter and
Pinterest is supported.
The latest Angry Birds game is controversial for its enthusiastic
adoption of pretty much every free-to-play gaming mechanic going, from
timers that make you wait to play once you've had a few races through to
coins, sponsored power-ups and a kart costing £34.99. However,
underneath that is a genuinely impressive karting game with smooth
handling, well-crafted tracks and a sense of fun.
Developer Six to Start made the innovative Zombies, Run! fitness
game, which got people jogging while pretending to be chased by zombies.
This follow-up takes similar basic principles, but it's less athletic:
using your walking steps as part of the gameplay rather than requiring
you to run. That may also make it more mainstream, which the NHS – a
partner – will be hoping for. The storyline involves walking the length
of the UK with a package that "could save the world".
Fantasy gaming fans will love Small World 2: based on a popular board
game, it's a colourful and engrossing strategy game that sees you
taking on AI opponents or real people over the network with your band of
fantasy creatures. Funded through Kickstarter, its strongest appeal
will be to fans of the board game, but the mobile version is good enough
to hopefully win new fans too.
In theory, Adventure Time is a children's cartoon. In practice, there
are a lot of parents enjoying it too, so this game could cross over to
both age groups. It sees the stars of the Cartoon Network show sliding
down hills on their bottoms to evade avalanches, pulling stunts as they
go. It looks to have captured the quirky charms of the show perfectly.
This brand new Tekken game popped up quietly in the Google Play
store, although it's a different take on the venerable beat 'em up
franchise, to say the least. Pitched as "the first social strategy RPG
featuring Tekken", it sees you training up a character and battling
rivals from around the world, with gameplay influenced as much by Mafia
Wars and other free-to-play games.
Another big console publisher is jumping into the free-to-play waters
here: this time 2K Games. Sensei Rules is a fighting/strategy game that
sees you building a Dojo, attacking enemy bases and training up an army
to defend yourself. If that reminds you of Clash of Clans... Well, yes.
Although the selling point here is that the battles are in more
console-like 3D.
Knightmare Tower made its debut as a game for the Android-powered
Ouya microconsole earlier in the year, but now it's available for a much
wider range of Android devices. It was one of the highlights on Ouya: a
knight bouncing his way up a tower laying about him to kill monsters,
while picking up power-ups. It's very moreish.
Another game designed for more hardcore gamers to get their teeth
into, this is a science-fiction themed massively multiplayer RPG with a
healthy dash of Star Wars in its DNA. Expect lots of questing, fighting
and levelling up as you try to save the Princess LeiaIllaria character from her alien enemies.
Sega's Sonic the Hedgehog has suffered a few gaming indignities in
recent years, but this latest Android port of one of his classic games
isn't one of them. It's a lovingly-remastered version of Sonic the
Hedgehog 2 – the one with Tails the fox – complete with the famous
Hidden Palace Zone that was left out of the original Mega Drive game.
A game to make you think as well as play, this: developer Psyop is
working with charity the Against Malaria Foundation to raise awareness
and funding for its work. The game itself sees you wooshing through the
bloodstream of a girl with malaria, avoiding creepy mosquitos while
saving "stranded teddy bears" (no, I don't remember those from Biology
GCSE either) over 21 levels.
Finally a good, old-fashioned roleplaying game in the
party-of-four-heroes vein, taking turns to explore, battle and loot in
the time of "humanity's last settlements". If you grew up on this kind
of game, you'll love it, with bags of depth in character development and
customisation.
Zanzeer a tolywood MegaPower star introduced an angry young man to Bollywood who went on to become the Grand Old Man of Indian Cinema Mister Amitabh Bachchan, completed 40 years in May this year. Four decades later, someone is attempting (read it 'daring') to portray Vijay Khanna and that is none otherthanRam Charan, the most blessed star kid in Telugu.
Produer Released movie date on press meet in september 6th.The film has veteran star Sanjay Dutt playing Sher Khan, played by Srihari in Telugu, his second rendezvous with Ram Charan as 'Sher Khan' after Magadheera. Priyanka Chopra is playing the 'Damsel In Distress' Mala. While Prakash Raj is playing mafia don Teja, Tanikella Bharani is playing a key role too. Producers are happy to have received thumbs up from Amitabh Bachchan for Ram Charan saying 'The young man is a wonderful actor like his father'
His anger makes a good action in the film.producer makes good comment on this film in the press meet.we also ope for the besst movie action from Zanjeer/toofaan
Finally Australia have shown some real fight with the bat in this Ashes series. Michael Clarke won a good toss and had no hesitation in opting to bat first. The openers laid a solid platform before Watson was dismissed - not LBW for those curious. Rogers was in fine nick and he outscored Watson during the opening stand. Rogers brought up his fifty even as Khawaja got a shocker from the third umpire after he reviewed a caught behind decision.
Michael Clarke dragged Australia back into the Ashes series by hitting his 24th Test century against a lacklustre England on Thursday, taking the spotlight away from more umpiring controversy on the opening day of the third Test.
The captain became the first Australian to make three figures this series, as he reached stumps on 125 not out, with the tourists in command on 303-3, as they look for a victory to stay alive in the Ashes.
On a hot and humid day at Old Trafford, Australia’s batsmen finally found some form with opener Chris Rogers hitting a Test-best 84 and Steve Smith adding 70 in an unbeaten 174-run stand for the fourth-wicket with Clarke.
That helped them overcome the dubious dismissal of Usman Khawaja, who was given out caught behind off Graeme Swann for one, despite replay technology showing the batsman hadn’t touched the ball. Third umpire Kumar Dharmasena upheld the on-field umpire’s decision to the amazement of most in the ground as well as Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, who tweeted - “That was one of the worst cricket umpiring decisions I have ever seen.”
Australia’s batting has been far too open and expansive this series the team hadn’t reached 300 before today but the performance was noticeably more patient here after winning the toss. Clarke, in particular, picked his moments to pounce, with a lofted uppercut for four off Broad when 79 and then a straight drive down in the 90s being his highlights.
Rogers shared a 76-run opening partnership with Watson and splayed England’s pace attack to all corners of Old Trafford, with five fours in the two overs after the drinks break, bringing up his fifty off just 49 balls.
Smith by contrast grew into his innings, hitting seven fours and looking just as well set as Clarke by the time stumps was called.
Microsoft launches 60-day trial for Office Professional Plus 2013
Microsoft signed off on the release to manufacturing build of Office 2013 last month,
meaning the coding and testing phase ahead of the productivity suite’s
launch is over. Although general availability is slated for the first
quarter of 2013, those who want an early taste can now download a full
copy of the Professional Plus edition -- containing Word, PowerPoint,
Excel, Outlook, OneNote, Access, Publisher, and Lync -- as a 60-day
trial
The download is available in 32- and 64-bit flavors from Microsoft's TechNet Evaluation Center.
You’ll need to login with your Microsoft credentials, fill in a form
with your name and country of residence, and choose the desired version
and language, before being served with a download link and a product key
to activate the trial.
Instead of an installer, Microsoft decided to release the software as a
disc image. Windows 8 offers native support for .img files, so users
already running the latest version of the operating system will be able
to access the installer with a simple double-click. Everyone else will
need third-party software like ImgBurn or Daemon Tools, both available for free, to either burn it into a disc or mount it as a virtual drive.
Microsoft Office 2013 requires Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Server
2008 R2, or Windows Server 2012 to run -- Windows XP holdouts are out of
luck. Standalone versions will be available at $139.99 for the Home
& Student Edition, $219.99 for Home & Business and $399.99 for
Office 2013 Professional. The suite will also be available as part of an
Office 365 subscription package for either $99.99 or $149.99 per year. Download: Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2013 Trial
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