Author: Vinod Rawat

LinkedIn adds Facebook-like alerts

Posted by | Sep 6, 2012 | |

LinkedIn hums along on its promised site redesign, rolling out a notifications stream today that may strike a familiar cord with Facebook users. The professional networking site adds icons to the top left corner of a user homepage, including a little flag that will feature a red circle if you have any new activity, according to a blog post written by LinkedIn Associate Product Manager Angela Yang. “Launching today is our new notifications feature, which will keep you notified in real-time when someone likes what you’ve shared on LinkedIn, views your profile, accepts your invitation, and much more,” Yang writes

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Nash hundred gives Sussex control

Posted by | Sep 6, 2012 | |

Sussex 221 and 186 for 2 (Nash 106*, Goodwin 51* ) lead Somerset 134 (Panesar 3-15) by 273 runsScorecard Andrew Strauss has retired and the debate about who will step into his England opener’s job has suddenly become more pressing. Nick Compton and Varun Chopra, who have both passed 1,000 Championship runs in Division One, have their admirers. As for Chris Nash, whose unbeaten century left him 43 runs short of becoming the third England-qualified batsman to 1,000, he never merits a mention

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The pacemaker is about to get a whole lot smaller

Posted by | Sep 6, 2012 | |

A team of engineers out of Stanford is introducing a truly tiny wireless cardiac device to demonstrate that, thanks to a little ingenuity and impressive math, all medical implants may soon be powered wirelessly. Ada Poon led the research. (Credit: Stanford) Which means that devices such as pacemakers, which owe the majority of their bulk to the battery, are about to get a whole lot smaller

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Shah evokes youthful promise

Posted by | Sep 6, 2012 | |

Essex 180 and 217 for 2 (Shah 124*, Mickleburgh 73) lead Hampshire 229 (Ervine 43, Topley 3-59) by 168 runsScorecard A commonplace remark was made after Andrew Strauss announced his retirement last week. It was that Owais Shah, when a young cricketer making his way alongside Strauss with Middlesex, was the better prospect. If coaches and colleagues speculated which of the two might play in 100 Test matches, they settled on the right-hander with an array of shots not seen since Mark Ramprakash was attracting similar notices.

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Davies leaves Derbyshire on their knees

Posted by | Sep 6, 2012 | |

Kent 261 and 59 for 3 lead Derbyshire 200 (Madesen 64, Davies 5-27) by 120 runsScorecard Can history repeat itself? Derbyshire are left hoping that it will after Mark Davies collected his first five-wicket bag of the season to given Kent a clear but certainly not decisive advantage at the halfway stage of this crucial contest between two promotion contenders. A month ago, in the reverse fixture, Derbyshire managed to come from a long way behind to secure a thrilling two-wicket victory that kept them top of the second division table and prevented Kent from moving to the head of affairs.

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