Study Finds Internet Generation At Risk of Rickets
Bone-bending rickets can now be added to the list of ills linked to children spending uncounted hours before a computer screen, British researchers said Friday. Youngsters with rickets, caused primarily by a chronic lack of vitamin D, develop painful and deformed bow-legs that do not grow properly. The condition is linked mainly with extreme poverty and the 19th-century Victorian England of Charles Dickens, and can be easily avoided through a balanced diet and exposure to sunlight. The condition has been linked to cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, several kinds of cancer and a soft-bone condition in adults called osteomalacia.
Kids tend to stay indoors more these days and play on their computers instead of enjoying the fresh air," said Simon Pearce, a professor at Newcastle University in northeast England and lead author of a new study on Vitamin D deficiency. "This means their vitamin D levels are worse than in previous years," he said in a press release. Half of all adults in Britain -- especially in the north -- have Vitamin D deficiency in winter and spring, with one-in-six having severe deficiency.
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Rambus Patents Violated By Nvidia, ITC Judge Rules
U.S. International Trader Commission Judge Theodore Essex ruled today that Nvidia is violating three patents owned by Rambus. The decision could result in a ban on imports of certain Nvidia chips and products that use them, Bloomberg reports, including some computers made by Hewlett-Packard and a host of other PC and graphics card companies.
In a statement, the company confirmed that the judge issued an initial determination finding that three of five patents Rambus asserted against Nvidia are valid, enforceable and infringed. The judge found no violation of the other two patents. The company notes that the case can be appealed to the full ITC, which can affirm, modify, reverse, set aside or remand all or part of the decision. The company notes that the case, originally filed in November 2008, sought a bar on importation of any infringing products. Other companies named in the complaint include Asustek Computer and Asus Computer International, BFG Technologies, Biostar Microtech and Biostar Microtech International, Diablotek, EVGA Corp., G.B.T. Inc. and Giga-Byte Technology, Hewlett-Packard, MSI Computer Corp. and Micro-Star International, Palit Multimedia and Palit Microsystems, Pine Technology Holdings and Sparkle Computer.
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SanDisk 8GB Gaming Memory Stick Micro (M2) for Sony PSP Go
Double the fun on your portable gaming console with a 8GB SanDisk Memory Stick Micro M2 Gaming Memory Card - made for Sony PSP go system. Now you can take all your games, movies, tunes and TV shows wherever you go. Check out how the card performs as we benchmark it and give it a test drive in our PSP Go.
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