May 16, 2012

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Another low cost smart phone provider is being developed in China by a popular internet search engine. The smart phone will run on its very own operating system; the company's hope is that the phone will be unmatched in the quality-for-less smart phone market. Check out the details in the first article.

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China search giant Baidu enters phone wars

BEIJING - Baidu, China's Internet search giant, has announced its intention to enter the mass smartphone market with a phone running its own mobile operating system. The low-cost Changhong H5018, to be built by Foxconn, will be powered by Baidu's own Cloud OS. With a price tag of less than $158 it will face fierce competition in the low-end smartphone market, analysts said, as Baidu attempts to create a significant presence in China's booming mobile arena boasting the largest number of smartphone users in the world. Low-cost smartphones by companies such as Huawei Technologies, ZTE Corp, HTC, Lenovo and Xiaomi are competing in that market, but Baidu's director of international communications said he felt the H5018 would do well. "It's a terrific market opportunity for us, and Baidu is constantly adjusting, understanding what users are interested in," Kaiser Kuo told BBC News. The phone will be offered with 100GB of cloud storage on Wangpan, the Chinese equivalent of Dropbox or Google Drive. "The new handset is integrated with the cloud -- and with our 100GB offering, I think that no one will be able to match that," Kuo said.


Supernova shows secrets of its brightness

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - A NASA orbiting telescope has observed the first evidence of a supernova shock wave breaking through a cocoon of gas around the star, astronomers say. The findings by the Chandra X-ray Observatory may help explain why some supernova explosions are more powerful than others, a release by the Chandra group at Harvard University reported Tuesday. The supernova in a galaxy about 160 million light years from Earth was first spotted by astronomers on Nov. 3, 2010, and was one of the most luminous that has ever been detected in X-rays, the researchers said. In the first Chandra observation of the supernova, the X-rays from the explosion's blast wave were strongly absorbed by a cocoon of dense gas around the supernova formed by gas blown away from the massive star before it exploded. In a second observation almost a year later, there was much less absorption of X-ray emission, indicating that the blast wave from the explosion had broken out of the surrounding cocoon. This findings suggest some unusually luminous supernovas are caused by the blast wave from their explosion ramming into the material around it, astronomers said.


New species of fish found in Sweden

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Swedish scientists say a new fish species has been discovered in Vaderoarnam, known as the "Weather Islands," off the country's west coast. The species, Callionymus reticulatus, or reticulated dragonet, was captured on film by Lars-Ove Loo, an underwater photographer, while making an inventory ahead of the creation of a new nature reserve in the islands, the University of Gothenburn reported Monday. The reticulated dragonet is similar to its more common Swedish relatives the common dragonet and spotted dragonet, researchers say. Dragonets are found from the Weather Islands in the north down the coasts of the southern North Sea, in the Irish Sea, from southwestern Ireland down to Portugal, and in the western Mediterranean, researchers said, but it is unusual for a new species of fish to be discovered in Sweden.


Bacteria seen as biofuel production key

LIVERMORE, Calif. - Understanding the makeup of a bacterium found in the soil of a tropical rainforest may lead to more efficient production of biofuels, U.S. researchers say. The production of liquid fuels derived from plant biomass offers a promising technology for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and dependence on fossil fuels, but toxic chemicals, especially salty solvents, used in the first steps in the process are often harmful to bacteria then used to break down the biomass, they said. Now scientists led by researchers at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California have discovered how certain bacteria can tolerate those man-made toxic chemicals used in making biofuels. "Discovering microbes naturally tolerant to salty liquids and understanding their mechanisms of tolerance should significantly enhance biofuel production," Lawrence Livermore's Michael Thelen said. Microbes in natural environments such as decomposing forest soils produce highly efficient enzymes to degrade biomass and are often able to adapt to stressful changes in their environment, the researchers found. The researchers focused on enterobacter lignolyticus strain SCF1, a bacterium that can degrade biomass, and found SCF1 grows well in the presence of relatively high concentrations of the salty liquids used in a pretreatment step in biofuel production. "Vigorous efforts to discover and analyze micro-organisms with properties similar to those of SCF1 have the potential to greatly benefit industrial processes," Thelen said.

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