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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.