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The world’s most-used internet browser, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, is on a steady decline in India, reveals a study by Irish metricsfirm StatCounter. IE, as it’s known, has lost almost 20% market share in India in the past two years, even as Google’s Chrome and Mozilla’s Firefox make great strides. products.herbalife.co.uk
I have started using google chrome since few months and also I am very comfortable that IE than google chrome. I prefer to use chrome becasue it is faster and reliable than IE. i think some time Chrome willcrashes when compared to IE but soon they will resolve the problem.

Pilots’ union Cockpit said Lufthansa had made an inadequate offer and announced a four-day strike between April 13 and 16. The pilots decided to wait until after the Easter holidays to avoid major disruptions for passengers.

 Some 4,500 pilots from Lufthansa, Lufthansa Cargo and subsidiary Germanwings are expected to take part.

I think that the company wants to pay salary the same rate as other company workers pay. Pilots working for the Cheapo  airlines in the states make very less amount like normal bus drivers. Here is a link to the commuter crash that should be a wakeup call to those wanting to fly with the lowest paid pilots

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124200193256505099.html

Wonder if the CEO and directors are going to give themselves a raise if they win a wage freeze.

Safety advocates who worry about the dangers of distracted driving have a new concern beyond cellphones and gadget-laden dashboards: digital roadside billboards.

These high-tech billboards marry the glow of Times Square with the immediacy of the Internet. Images change every six to eight seconds, so advertisers can flash timely messages ? like the latest headlines, coffee deals at dawn, a cheeseburger at lunchtime or even the song playing on a radio station at that moment.

The billboard industry asserts there is no research indicating they cause crashes, and notes that the signs do not use video or animation.

But to critics, these ever-changing, bright billboards are “television on a stick” and give drivers, many of them already calling and texting, yet another reason to take their eyes off the road.

IF YOU care about the environment, you may want to show that in the way you spend your money. Maybe you shop at an organic food store rather than a conventional supermarket. You probably look at energy efficiency labels before buying a new laptop. And if you’re really serious, you may even be concentrating your nest egg into “green” investment funds.
All of these decisions could help steer us towards a truly green economy – but only if consumers and investors have a good idea of which companies have genuinely minimised their impact on the environment. Do the corporations that benefit from our environmentally conscious purchasing and investment choices deserve their green halo?
To find out, New Scientist teamed up with two companies that have collected the most relevant data. Earthsense, based in Syracuse, New York, has polled US consumers on their perceptions of the “greenness” of various companies. Trucost, headquartered in London, has compiled an unparalleled quantitative assessment of companies’ global environmental impact (see interactive graphic, and “How we crunched the numbers”).
Bringing these two sets of information together shows just

This year, southern California will burn – you can count on it. But we may now be able to predict which areas will be worst hit, thanks to this map. It was compiled by Max Moritz’s team at the University of California, Berkeley, and is the first to take into account fire-friendly weather.

Wild fires cause millions of dollars of damage each year in California and elsewhere. Fire researchers typically identify risk areas by looking for flammable vegetation and features like canyons that can funnel fires. There is a third factor, however, that stokes many of the worst infernos: hot, dry winds, like the Santa Ana winds of southern California and the sirocco around the Mediterranean.

Moritz and his colleagues used a computer model of fine-scale weather patterns to predict temperature, wind speed and humidity at 6-kilometre intervals across southern California during Santa Ana wind events, then calculated the fire risk at each point. When they compared their map with historical fire records, the researchers found that the areas they had identified as being at high and low risk were equally as likely to burn, but the impact of fire was greatest in a high-risk area.