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All mobile phones could soon use a single kind of charger. The world�s 14 most famous mobile manufacturers have been sent details by the European Commission of a new standard connection. The technical specifications are based on the micro-USB connector that lots of mobile manufacturers have already begun to use. Samsung, Apple, Nokia and Research in Motion, the maker of the BlackBerry, are between those that have been agreed to adopt it. The micro-USB jack is already becoming general as manufacturers, including those outside the 14 who have already agreed on it, have made the shift in preparation. Apple�s iPod connector, yet, continues to be used for a host of accessories. The Commission anticipates that the first devices whose chargers meet the accurate details of the new standard will appear early next year. European Commission Vice-President Antonio Tajani, Commissioner for Industry and Entrepreneurship, called on manufacturers to prove their support for the new standard. �Now it is...

A woman is expected to be charged with capital murder in connection to the desertion of a 12-year-old boy, MyFoxHouston.com reported late Wednesday. The Harris County District Attorney's Office accepted the charges against Mona Yvette Nelson, 44, after burned remains found Tuesday were positively recognized as Jonathan Foster�s, the site reported. Investigators say Nelson is a family relationship. Detectives questioned her all through the day and, police say she admitted to being with Jonathan but has not confessed to killing him. No motive has been on the loose. Earlier in the week police questioned Jonathan's mother and stepfather, Angela and David Davis, which is normal process. I never pointed the fiddle with at anybody. I just said there is a time to surround people came by and that's the people that came by," the mother said. "My husband took a polygraph, and he accepted. He is innocent only. He is just as distressed and upset as I am.� Foster was last seen ...

An administrative at Rovio Mobile, the developer of the best-selling i Phone game "Angry Birds," said that Apple will be the number one platform for developers for a long time, calling the Android ecosystem disjointed. Peter Vesterbacka, Rovio Mobile's "Powerful Eagle," stated Apple's continued dominance during an interview with Tech N' Marketing earlier this week. Since its release in December 2009, Rovio Mobile's "Angry Birds" iPhone game has turn out to be a global phenomenon. The game had a slow start, but ultimately took off; reaching 50 million downloads crossways platforms. According to Vesterbacka, "Angry Birds" has remained at number one on Apple's App store up "longer than anybody else." The game's characters have grown to be so iconic that some Wall Street analysts have begins using the birds as a symbol for the promising profitability of the mobile app market. When they asked how he viewed a variety o...

The chemically treated term paper strips were manufactured at an Abbott facility in the United Kingdom between January and May 2010, according to company spokesman Scott Davies. The deficiency came to light via routine in-house testing, Davies said. Abbott, based in North Chicago, reported 22 cases of "false low" readings to the Food and Drug management and volunteered to accomplish the reminder, FDA spokeswoman Erica Jefferson said in an e-mail. The agency is working with the company to conclude if there may be additional instances where the readings were inaccurate. Though any inaccuracy in blood sugar readings is because for anxiety for diabetics, this is an error in a safer direction, falsely low rather than falsely high, said Michael Thompson, a diabetes researcher and associate professor of medicine at George Washington University. A false high reading could guide the diabetics to overdose on insulin, triggering a dangerous hypoglycemic episode. This is not going to do ...

An actor performing in the Broadway musical �Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark� was injured during a performance Monday nighttime, according to the police and several witnesses. Theatergoers who attended Monday�s performance of �Spider-Man,� a $65 million musical featuring complicated aerial stunts, said they saw either the actor playing the title character or his stunt two times fall about 8 to 10 feet during the closing minutes of the show, and that some equipment fell into the audience when this occurred. A police spokesperson confirmed that a male actor was injured at about 10:42 p.m. and taken to Bellevue Hospital Center. No other information was immediately available. Two brothers from Toronto who watched the presentation, Scott Smith and Matthew Smith, saw the fall from their balcony seats. �It looked like it was supposed to happen,� Matthew Smith said. �But he fell at a faster pace. It did not look right.� Audience members said that after the show they saw an ambulance taking the c...

The festival season brings many joys and, unfortunately, many countervailing nutritional pitfalls. Even the fittest and most disciplined of us can give way, indulging in more fat and calories than at any other time of the year.  The health consequences, if the behavior is unchecked, can be swift and disturbing. A recent study by scientists in Australia found that after only three days, an extremely high-fat, and high-calorie diet can lead to increased blood sugar and insulin confrontation, potentially increasing the risk for 2 kind of diabetes. Waistlines also can expand at this time of year, prompting self-recrimination and impractical New Year�s resolutions. But a new study published in The Journal of Physiology suggests a more consistent and far simpler response. Run or bicycle before your breakfast. Exercising in the morning, before eating, the study results give you an idea about to considerably diminish the ill effects of holiday Bacchanalias.  For the study, researchers...

Young adults who maintained a high intensity of physical activity gained less weight in middle age, found researcher Arlene Hankinson, MD, an instructor of preventive medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago. Activity has an effect, but it does not entirely eliminate age-related weight gain she tells WebMD. But it does help, she finds, and the benefit appears greater for women, although she is not sure why. Highly active women gained 13 pounds less over 20 years than women with low     action levels, while highly active men gained 6 pounds less than the men with low activity levels. While some who hope activity can wipe out age-related weight gain might see the results as disappointing, Hankinson disagrees. I think it's tremendously optimistic news, she says. It's showing how favorable activity is in reducing weight gain with age.

Acupuncture treatments to treat one type of lazy eye proved as good as the customary patching of the eye used to help the eyes work together, according to a new study. Acupuncture could potentially become an choice of a treatment to occlusion [patching] therapy for ambylopia [lazy eye], the researchers write. The study, conducted in China, is published in the Archives of Ophthalmology. U.S. experts familiar with the study call it interesting but say the treatment needs more study and wonder if it would hold on the U.S. Acupuncture for Lazy Eye Vs. Patching: While some previous research has found acupuncture for lazy eye effective, the researchers couldn't find a study that in straight line compared acupuncture with conventional treatments such as patching. So Dennis Lam, MD, a researcher at the Joint Shantou International Eye Center of Shantou University and Chinese University of Hong Kong, and his generation evaluated 88 children, ages 7 to 12, with the condition known as anisomet...

President Barack Obama is predicting congressional sanction of the tax-cutting compromise he has reached with Republican leaders, but he is not decision out that unhappy congressional Democrats will make some changes in the enormous legislation. In an interview with NPR released Friday, Obama said that regardless of a rebellion by many Democrats against his tax deal, it will pass because "nobody � Democrat or Republican � wants to see people's paychecks smaller on Jan. 1 because Congress did not act." The deal would extend cuts in income tax rates for all earners that would otherwise expire next month, renew long-term jobless benefits and trim Social Security taxes for one year. Democrats have objected that it is too kind to the rich, especially its provisions cutting estate taxes for the wealthiest Americans. House Democrats voted in a closed-door meeting Thursday not to allow the package to get to the floor for a vote without changes to scale back tax relief for the ric...

Smoking causes immediate lung and DNA damage that may lead to ultimate illness and death, U.S. Surgeon General Regina Benjamin said. New research shows that chemicals in cigarettes can damage the body �from the moment they enter your mouth� by attacking tissues as smoke actions to the lungs, Benjamin said in a report issued today. Smoking weakens the immune system�s ability to prevent injured DNA from causing cancer, she said. Benjamin�s conclusions are the first Surgeon General�s report issued under the Obama administration. The document expands the scientific sympathetic of how tobacco smoke causes illnesses, Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Margaret Hamburg and Thomas Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said in an introduction. �By learning how tobacco smoke causes disease, we learn more about how chemicals harm cells, how genes may make us at risk, and how tobacco users become addicted to nicotine,� Benjamin said in the report. The answers ...

The geographical range of the document on installations is unexpected, our correspondent says. If the US sees itself as waging a "global war on terror" then this represents a global information bank of the key installations and facilities - many of them medical or industrial - that are seen as being of vital importance to Washington. Some locations are specified unique billing. The Nadym gas pipeline intersection in western Siberia, for example, is described as "the most critical gas facility in the world". In some cases, specific pharmaceutical plants or those production blood products are highlighted for their crucial importance to the global make obtainable chain. The critical question is whether this is really a listing of potential targets that might be of use to a terrorist, our correspondent says. The cable contains a simple listing. In several cases towns are noted as the location but not actual street addresses, although this is unlikely to stop anyone with...