94 Seconds

Quick - fire quiz games that tickle your brain. Ideal for those moments of downtime - waiting in line, say, or for the phone to ring - 94 Seconds is a quick0fire quiz game that's good for tickling your gray mater without running the risk of getting bogged down in a game. Players use their minute and a half (and change) to fill in the letter and a category.

You're rewarded based on how original you are - for example, guessing " chameleon" instead of "cat" when asked for animals that start with "C" will get you a far better score. You can use a couple of quick cheats to get ahead in a round, but the best feeling is beating the clock with your own original answers.
For iOS and Android devices.

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Twitter Music

A Pleasant Distraction

Twitter took the wraps off a much-anticipated music service last month, which is supposed to make it easy for users to find new music and keep up with their favourite artists in the process. Users can listen to four types of songs: music that's popular on network, songs from "emerging" artists, songs from the people your friends follow and, finally, music from the artists you follow. Of course, you can share the songs you are listening to in a tweet.

Tracks play courtesy of iTunes - you also can hook the app into your Spotify or Rdio account to tap their song databases. There are a couple of quibbles, however, For one, not every artist you follow may have an available track, though there is a wide variety available. Also, the app isn't available for Android devices, which makes it unavailable to most of the US smartphone market.

While the app is fun and good for a few moments of distraction, it doesn't offer quite enough to replace your favorite playlists or Internet radio service, Free, for iOS devices.

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Amount

A handy tool for bakers and travellors alike.

Not everyone has the brain space to spare in order to remember how many teaspoons or the formula for converting Fahrenheit to Celsius - let alone that morning's exchange rate for dollars to yen. For those of us who aren't pub-quiz champions, Amount is an app that will put all of those quick coversions at your fingertips. It's undoubtedly a handy tool for international travellors or serious bakers, and the app lets you save favorite conversions on a handy shortcut list. But ultimately, it's a niche app & you may balk at having to pay any amount - even 99 cents - when it's just as easy to pop your convertion questions into your nearest search engine.
99 cents, for iOS devices.

Nokia slips to tenth position in sale

Nokia, once the undisputed leader in the mobile market, has slipped down to the 10th position in the smartphone scenario, according to research firm Gartner, USA. The Finnish manufacturer earlier monopolist the world mobile phone market until the entry of low cost mart phones. Despite the fall, Nokia's latest Lumia smartphones are selling good.

Mobile phone can cause blood pressure spikes

Got high blood pressure? Try hanging up your cell phone. A study at the annual meeting of American Society of Hypertension in San Francisco found that talking on a mobile phone causes systolic blood pressure - the higher number in a blood presure reading and the number doctors pay attention to as a risk factor for cardiovascular disease - to rise significantly.

Researchers from the Guglielmo da Saliceto Hospital in Piacenz, Italt, took12 blood pressure readings at one-minute intervals from 94 patients with mid hyper-tension. The patient's mean age was 53.

Patient's were seated in a comfortable armchair in a doctors consulting room and left alone after the first blood pressure reading was taken using an automatic device.

Reaserchers phoned the patiends at least three times and found that when the patient was on the phone or receiving a call, their blood presure reading jumped from 121/177 on average to 129/82. The American Heart Association says less than 120/80 is a healthy reading for adults age 20 and older.

Data compiledd by the US Census Bureau using the World Health Organization's (WHO) Study on Global Aging and Adult Health show hypertension to be "by far one of the most common health conditions for those age 50 and older in Russia", with nearlyhalf of 50-to-69-year-olds and almost two-thirds of people over 70 suffering from hypertension. Oddly, though, the researchers found that patiends who got more than 30 alls a day seemed to have developed a form of immunity to the blood pressure spikes seen in the study. Beta-blockers also seemed to help stave off blood pressure spikes. The reasearchers concluded that phone calls received when a mildy hypertensive patient is having a blood pressure reading could cause systolic pressure to spike, & advised that they turn off their phone, at least for the duration of the blood pressure test.

Tempo

A smarter calender

The Tempo calender app attempts to improve on the default calender program for the iPhone - and largely suceeds - by pulling information from multiple accounts, adding relevant information from multiple accounts, ading relevant information such as meeting locations from email accounts and letting users text or call contacts from within the app. Having all of that information centalized in one location is incredibly usefl, and the app is designed to pull in email attachments from your accounts to make items like meeting agendas or presentation materials easy to reach from your calender.

It remains, however a work in progress. Users can't, for example, add the names of attendees to events - one of many features developers promise are coming soon. Also, something the app does things like pull the wrong similarly named contact from your phone book into your calender. Still, the app gets better the more you use it and is an elegant alternative to Apple's baked-in offering. Free, for iOS devices.

Angry Birds Friends

Finally, competition

The Angry Birds franchise has taken us plenty of places. We've flung birds in Rio and in a galaxy far, far away, but now game-maker Rovio is attacking an entirely new frontier: the competitive arena. "Angry Birds Friends" taps you into your network of Facebook friends to offer a new dimension to its familier game. Users can play weekly tournaments with their friends with three levels per week. At the end of the tournament, the game lets you know how each of the four players have fared in their levels and ranks them. The addition of a ssocial, competitive element is fun - users should know the game must be granted Facebook access to work - but it's really easy to blitz through your levels fast and have the app sit dormant for the rest of the week. If you like trying to best your friends, then feel free to pick up this title.
But if you want a game with lots of playing time, give this one a miss. Free, for iOS and Android devices.

Women are more anxious than men

Are women less dashing than they appear in the media and movies? A survey in the US finds women as overly vulnerable to pangs and pains.
The survey seems to rebut the popular notion that women are naturally capable of overcoming agonies.
"Women are more likely than men to often feel worried, nervous or anxious" My Health News Daily reported.
The research done by Centers for Disease & Prevention recorded 22% women as saying that they felt nervous or anxious daily or weekly. But only 16% of men found as having same issues.
This cross-social analysis suggests that these issues self-limiting feelings are more common in young and middle-age adults.

"In men, 17% of those ages 18 to 44 and 18% of those between 45 & 64 reported daily or weekly worry, nervousness or anxiety. About 23% of women ages 18 to 64 said the same" The survey said.

Previously studies by the same team found adults as generally happier and less stressed younger generation.
In the latest survey that took place between 2010 and 2011 participants had to answer how often they had been hit by anxiety and worries. Options included daily, weekly, monthly, a few times in a year or never.
"In men, 17% of those ages 18 to 44, 18% of those between 45 and 64 reported daily or weekly worry, nervousness or anxiety. About 23% of women ages between 18 and 64 said the same" The survey said.
 Among elderly people aged over 75 only eleven% of men and 16% of women admitted to such feelings.
So the picture of the dashing women we find in the media is just a fad?

Beware of online bullying

While roaming on social networking sites beware of online bullying. A study in UK claims that 19-year old males are the biggest victims of online bullying especially on the popular site Facebook.
The study on more than 2000 teenager says bullying or trolling takes places most frequently on Facebook and close its heels is Twitter. The Telegraph reported, The study done under the aegis of knowledge.org.uk - a free online site offering advice on how to stay safe online brings out disturbing facts about online bullying.
Just imagine; 85% of 19-year old males reported experiencing some form of online it underlines the fact that bullying is all too common.
Most of the bullying, said 87% of the victims, happened on Facebook; while 19% were on Twitter and 13% on Black Berry Messenger.
The study also reveals that only 37% of all victims have reported bullying incidents to the social network where they took place. It means a major number of victims remains silent about their experience.
According to media psychologist Arthur Cassidy online bullying may have a "massive impact" on older male teenagers.
"Suicide rates are particularly high amongst this demographic, so it's worrying to hear that teenagers on the whole are choosing to deal with internet abuse themselves rather than speaking to parents or teachers for help," he said.
It is interesting to note that bullying on girls is not widely reported.