World 7 th Billion Baby

Somewhere in Uttar Pradesh - Allahabad would be a good bet - a pregnant woman is carrying a baby destined to be the planet's seven billionth human being.

The historic baby is due to be born on Monday (October 31), the United Nations Population Fund predicts. Experts have made Uttar Pradesh (UP) the hot favourite for the symbolic arrival, possibly for no better reason than that the state has the highest population in the country with 19.95 crore people, giving its mothers a head-start.

If they are right, another reasonable bet would be that the baby will grow up to be part of a historic demographic challenge. India will be grappling with a north-south divide with demographic patterns and migration of unskilled labourers that has the potential to generate a cultural conflict in the country.

India accounting for 17 per cent of the world's population has significant influence on deciding the demographic future of the world.

Windows?

Microsoft has inconsistently followed a marketing strategy of using basic, descriptive, one-word names. Word is an excellent example. So are Money and Office.

The name Windows fits into that philosophy. At the time of its original release late in 1985, most operating systems were single-tasking, text-only, and ran from a command line--like DOS if you remember that. Graphic user interfaces (GUIs) were still new. The Mac, less than two years old at that time, was the only GUI-based system enjoying commercial success. The word windows simply described one of the most obvious differences between a GUI and a command-line interface.

Of course, the name was never officially Windows, but Microsoft Windows. From the company's point of view, that's important. You can't trademark a common word like windows all by itself. (I suppose they could have trademarked Slow and Buggy Windows, but I guess that didn't get passed the Marketing Department.)

These one-word Microsoft names can cause some interesting mind associations. During that brief, pre-Internet time when everyone was publishing reference books on CD-ROM, the folks in Redmond released a CD called Microsoft Dogs. I thought it was a bundle of Microsoft Money and Microsoft Bob.

Tips to Keep iPhone 4S Battery

Apple iPhone 4S users worried about the device’s battery draining rapidly can take steps to prevent the problem.

Here’s a rundown of what may be causing the problem and how you can fix it.

It appears that the location services system in iOS 5 is one issue that has something to do with it.

A growing number of people have found that the "Setting Time Zone" element within Location Services in iOS seems to be operating when it doesn’t need to be, resulting in excessive battery drain.

To stop that from happening, go to Settings > Location Services > System Services. From there, it’s just a matter of turning off “Setting Time Zone.”

Switching it off may mean that your iPhone will no longer set its own time zone when you travel, but that’s a small price to pay for dramatically increasing the life of your iPhone charge, notes iDownload, which tested this method on several iPhones, including the 4s, iPhone 4, and an iPhone 3GS, all of which demonstrated drastically improved battery life after making the change.

So far Apple hasn’t commented on the issue but The Guardian reported on Friday that its engineers have begun contacting some people who have been reporting exceptionally rapid battery depletion.

The time zone setting might not be the only problem.

Macworld found that contact syncing within iCloud also increased battery drain. In that case, wiping the phone and then syncing via iCloud solved the problem.