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Sweden overtakes USA Sweden has overtaken the USA as the Web-savviest nation on the planet, a survey showed last week. Another European country, Denmark, was also more aggressive in taking advantage of the Internet than the USA, according to research carried out by the US computer company International Business Machines and the intelligence unit of British magazine The Economist. Of the 60 countries surveyed, Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan were at the bottom of the list with 2.37 and 2.52 points respectively out of a possible 10. Absent from the top 15 were France an Italy. South Korea jumped from 21st to 16th place, overtaking France, Italy, Taiwan, New Zealand and Belgium, as it boasts the world’s highest percentage of high-speed Web households. Cellphone accidents A new study by researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has found that drivers talking on cellphones are twice as likely to have rear-end collision than the other drivers. Crashes involving cellphone use, however, are less likely to result in fatalities or serious injuries than crashes not involving the devices. The most common violations for drivers involved in collisions while talking on phones were failure to reduce speed, traffic signal violations such as running red lights, speeding, following too closely and failing to yield to other vehicles. The study also found that cellphone crashes are more likely to occur during mid-day and afternoon hours in urban areas and on local streets. Trebling data transfer A new record for speedy transfer of data over the Internet has been set with the help of a latest piece of software. The software more than trebles the speed at which information can be sent over the Internet. It changes the way that computers monitor and respond to online traffic conditions, reports Nature. Steven Low, of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, and his colleagues have sent data 3,500 times faster than a typical broadband connection - at about 7 gigabytes a minute. This is a new speed record for data transfer. They designed the software with physicists in mind. But it could help biologists, engineers and medics swap information. And it might one day distribute online films to cinemas or homes. At top speed, the new technique could send a DVD movie in less than five seconds. Guardian Angel Worried about your child’s
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friend’s place alone. Well, parents could soon keep a much closer eye
on their children with the help of a mobile monitoring system, called
Guardian Angel. The new product allows parents to map out the exact
route a child takes to school. It will help send text alerts to their
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