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The device’s dual-core 1 GHz CPU, 4-inch, 800×480 screen, 5-megapixel rear camera (with an additional VGA one on the front)

What makes it different from most other smartphones on the market is its ultra-bright, 15-lumen projector, which lets you project a 50-inch wide image on a wall – really handy for presentations or those moments when you want to share your holiday photos with your family and friends.

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For adolescents, Facebook and other social media have created an irresistible forum for online sharing and oversharing, so much so that endless mood-of-the-moment updates have inspired a snickering retort on T-shirts and posters: “Face your problems, don’t Facebook them.”

But specialists in adolescent medicine and mental health experts say that dark postings should not be hastily dismissed because they can serve as signs of depression and an early warning system for timely intervention. Whether therapists should engage with patients over Facebook, however, remains a matter of debate. And parents have their own conundrum: how to distinguish a teenager’s typically melodramatic mutterings — like the “worst day of my life” rants about their “frenemies,” academics or even cafeteria food — from a true emerging crisis.

Last year, researchers examined Facebook profiles of 200 students at the University of Washington and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Some 30 percent posted updates that met the American Psychiatric Association’s criteria for a symptom of depression, reporting feelings of worthlessness or hopelessness, insomnia or sleeping too much, and difficulty concentrating. Their findings echo research that suggests depression is increasingly common among college students. Some studies have concluded that 30 to 40 percent of college students suffer a debilitating depressive episode each year. Yet scarcely 10 percent seek counseling.

“You can identify adolescents and young adults on Facebook who are showing signs of being at risk, who would benefit from a clinical visit for screening,” said Dr. Megan A. Moreno, a principal investigator in the Facebook studies and an assistant professor of pediatrics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Sometimes the warnings are seen in hindsight. Before 15-year-old Amanda Cummings committed suicide by jumping in front of a bus near her Staten Island home on Dec. 27, her Facebook updates may have revealed her anguish. On Dec. 1, she wrote: “then ill go kill myself, with these pills, this knife, this life has already done half the job.”

Facebook started working with the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline in 2007. A reader who spots a disturbing post can alert Facebook and report the content as “suicidal.” After Facebook verifies the comment, it sends a link for the prevention lifeline to both the person who may need help and the person who alerted Facebook. In December, Facebook also began sending the distressed person a link to an online counselor.

While Facebook’s reporting feature has been criticized by some technology experts as unwieldy, and by some suicide prevention experts as a blunt instrument to address a volatile situation, other therapists have praised it as a positive step.

At some universities, resident advisers are using Facebook to monitor their charges. Last year, when Lilly Cao, then a junior, was a house fellow at Wisconsin-Madison, she decided to accept Facebook “friend” requests from most of the 56 freshmen on her floor. She spotted posts about homesickness, academic despair and a menacing ex-boyfriend. “One student clearly had an alcohol problem,” recalled Ms. Cao. “I found her unconscious in front of the dorm and had to call the ambulance. I began paying more attention to her status updates.”

Ms. Cao said she would never reply on Facebook, preferring instead to talk to students in person. The students were grateful for the conversations, she said. “If they say something alarming on Facebook,” she added, “they know it’s public and they want someone to respond.” While social media updates can offer clues that someone is overwrought, they also raise difficult questions: Who should intervene? When? How?

“Do you hire someone in the university clinic to look at Facebook all day?” Dr. Moreno said. “That’s not practical and borders on creepy.” She said a student might be willing to take a concerned call from a parent, or from a professor who could be trained what to look for. But ethically, should professors or even therapists “friend” a student or patient? (The students monitored by Dr. Moreno’s team had given their consent.)

Debra Corbett, a therapist in Charlotte, N.C., who treats adolescents and young adults, said some clients do “friend” her. But she limits their access to her Facebook profile. When clients post updates relevant to therapy, she feels chagrined. But she will not respond online, to maintain the confidentiality of the therapeutic relationship.

Credits( By JAN HOFFMAN: New York times http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/24/us/facebook-posts-can-offer-clues-of-depression.html?_r=1&smid=tw-nytimes&seid=auto)

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Over the years we have witnessed an increase in the cyber crime. As more knowledge about the inherent loop holes in the systems emerge so does the innovative style of hooligans to deceive people. Hacking has become a reality to live with. Trojans and virus attacks are becoming more fierce.I would like to share a spam email with you which would give you an idea how people generate random emails with soft wares and other techniques and then sit to catch the fish. People who are simple and new to the technology become their victim. This is especially true for people from developing countries like Pakistan and India who are still not that well versed in the world of internet.

Hello,

How are you doing today?I hope all is well with you.I am more than happy in your reply to my mail.I am sending you email at church office.As a i am in refugee here I am really suffering,I want to go back to my studies because I only attended my first year before the tragic incident that lead to my being in this situation now took place.

This is a secret i want to reveal to you now which i have been keeping since the death of my parents,but i pray that you will not betray me after.I have my late father's statement of account,death certificate and other important documents of my late father here with me which I will send to you later,because when he was alive he deposited some amount of money in a bank in Europe which he used my name as the next of kin,because i am the only daughter,the amount in question is $2.1M (Two Million,One hundred thousand United State Dollars).

Already I have informed the bank about my intention to claim my late father's deposit.The bank told me to look for a foreign partner who will assist me in the transfer due to my refugee status here.

So I will like you to help me transfer this money to your account and from it you can send some money for me to get my traveling documents and air ticket to come over to meet you in your country.As i told you i kept this secret to people in the camp here the only person that knows about it now is you and me. However,in the light of above I will like you to keep it to yourself and don't tell it to anyone because I am afraid of loosing my life and the money if people get to know about it.Remember I am giving you all this information due to the trust I have on you. I like honest and understanding people, truthful and a man of vision, trustworthy and hardworking.

Please help me transfer my late father money, you can help me transfer this money into your account when the money is transferred,you send me some of the money so that i can use it and prepare my travel documents and join you in your country and also i want to continue my education when the money is transferred into your account.

Please send me your contact information so that i can send you the bank contact details.

( Full Name , Home Address , Mobile Number ,Country and Age )

Once I received the following information from you, I will send an email to the bank and notify them that you are a foreign representative to assist me transfer my late fathers money due to my refugee status here.I appreciate your concern.I love music and I love to dance.Thank you for being my helper.You have brighten my day. I pray to have warmth,happiness and joyful life again.God bless and protect you for me. Thanks I am hoping to hear from you soon.

Yours Princess

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I've had the PS Vita for a week. In that time, I've been impressed with the system's potential, and I appreciate the effectiveness of its dual analog sticks, but I've come away with one conclusion stronger than all the others: The Vita needs to be a phone.

By that I mean, in a phone. The current PS Vita, despite coming in a 3G flavor with AT&T mobile broadband, is far too large, and obviously couldn't be a phone, unless you used a Bluetooth or wired headset. However, the fingerprints of a phone-like OS are everywhere. The large, multitouch OLED screen, the gesture-based motions, the Android/iOS-like app icons, the open app pages, the web browser, the Twitter app, the front a rear-facing cameras...the PS Vita is so much like a phone that it becomes a hard device to describe to anyone who hasn't heard of it before.

I've explained the Vita to several people who didn't know about it, and while "next generation PSP" does get used quite a bit, so does "like a phone." The interface and the downloadable music, movies, and apps are phonelike, not gamelike. Here's why I think it could, and should, happen. Sony has already experimented with making a gaming phone. The Xperia Play worked from a hardware perspective. The failings of the Xperia Play were its branding and its limited software library. The "PlayStation Suite" games amounted to PlayStation 1 titles--not even PSP games. It was a disconnect for any PlayStation gamer, not to mention any iOS/Android gamer. The funny thing is, the Xperia Play is a great proof of concept for adopting physical buttons into a phone. The streaming gaming service OnLive runs on the Xperia Play, and having a control pad helps gaming as much as you'd expect.

OnLive's streaming game service running on an Xperia Play. Why not a VitaPhone next?

The Vita could easily fit into a smaller size device. The large 5-inch Vita OLED screen has a display resolution of 960x544. The iPhone 4s has a resolution of 960x640, in only 3.5 inches. The point being: the Vita screen could be shrunken down to four inches and be perfectly fine.

The original PSP's chief physical limitation was its UMD discs. Not anymore. The PSP Go dropped UMDs to become more pocketable, at the expense of its utility to most PSP owners. However, the Vita's game cards are tiny: smaller than an SD card, they're almost absurdly small compared to the size of the Vita itself. These cards could easily slot into a smaller piece of hardware: a shrunken-down next-gen Vita, or even a Vita phone.

The Vita, being so app-based, can survive as a platform, not just a product. Sony's experiments with PlayStation-certified tablets would be better served by adding Vita cross-compatibility in the future. That's probably been the plan all along. Vita games and apps should work on tablets or other devices, and it's not too difficult to imagine. Sony's Kaz Hirai has already hinted at the Vita OS moving to other products. Making a Vita phone would be a way of diversifying and keeping Vita gaming alive--there could, and should, still be a dedicated non-phone Vita, too.

Sony needs the Vita to have relevancy.

For most "non-hardcore" gamers, the Vita will be little more than an odd novelty. Versatility is key for the Vita in the long run to keep the platform from painting itself in a corner. If you don't think that's essential, then you simply haven't been paying attention to what's been happening in gaming. Yes, the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 have succeeded as "gamer systems," but they've also made great strides at being mass-market devices with kid-friendly peripherals like the Kinect and Move as well as evolving into set-top Blu-ray player/interactive TV boxes. While the idea of a Vita as a dedicated gaming device may have its charm, the truth is that building a dual-analog control pad and downloadable catalog of high-end Vita titles would be a killer way to turn an Android phone into the ultimate gaming smartphone. Make a Vita phone that works with PSP and Vita games--and runs Android apps--and Sony might actually have a vital competitor to the iPhone. There's only so much room in my pockets.

If I'm going out, do I take my PS Vita, or my phone? Of course I'm bringing my phone. Dedicated gaming devices are great for commutes or long trips, but I'm not likely to take it around like I do my phone. The sooner a Vita phone exists, the more likely it will be to stay in pockets.

I'd love to see it happen. Right now, the PS Vita is a strong piece of hardware with a small but compelling set of software that's simply too specified and high-priced to reach much further than a narrow market. That could easily change, though, in a year. And, let's face it: iPhone and Android games are the bleeding edge of the mobile game industry, but the lack of dedicated buttons crimps more hardcore mobile gaming. Sony, do you smell the opportunity?

Do you agree?

Scott Stein

Scott Stein, a CNET senior editor and laptop reviewer, is a bit of a New York Jets fan. He has written about tech, entertainment, video games, and viral culture for publications including Maxim, Esquire, and Men's Journal, and is a co-host of the CNET Labscast podcast. He's also been known to occasionally improvise in underground venues

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