| Mumbai asked to conserve energy
MUMBAI: Businesses in Indias financial capital, Mumbai, are being asked to keep down air conditioning use, change light bulbs and put computers on sleep mode in a drive to conserve energy and prevent severe power shortages.
Power supplier Tata Power Co Ltd said the city, which aspires to be a global financial hub and normally enjoys uninterrupted electricity, faced potential power cuts as demand peaks in April and May - the hottest months in the Mumbai calendar.
Demand for power has risen with shopping malls, cinemas and new luxury apartments springing up across the city, reflecting an economic boom that encourages spending on everything from refrigerators to plasma televisions.
Tata Power Co urged office workers not to use electricity at peak times, switch the air conditioning on an hour after starting work and flip off televisions and mobile phone chargers at the plug.
LG's SV280 "banana style phone"
The Korean firm rethinks (or, at the very least, rips from the Motorola RIZR Z8) ergonomics with its new SV280, apparently inspired by nature's perfect food: the banana. When closed, this clean-lined white slider looks like any other of its kind, but once opened (or is that peeled?), the handset curves to better fit against your face -- and we can easily see the ap'peel' (we so had to get that in somewhere) in that. Features include a 1.3 megapixel camera hidden under the slider, QVGA screen resolution, flashing sidebars for message notification, and an MP3 player. The rest of the phone's spec sheet is a bit of a mystery, but one thing that did pique our curiosity was the mention of "aromatherapy" -- and hey, who doesn't want the subtle scent of delicious fruits wafting toward their nostrils while they're on a call? In light of the local-market "Cyon" branding, expect this one to launch stateside in your wildest dreams only.[Via AVING] .
The true nature of modern loss
How novel, and how ancient, the world's first techno-massacre looked. Blacksburg, inspired by Hollywood and packaged for YouTubers, was as modern as MySpace and as old as wrath. As the religious ranting in the script Cho Seung-hui sent to NBC implied, there is nothing very new in the iconography of butchery. Unsurprisingly, the Old Masters did not spend their time depicting the hell of a grumbling appendix. From Ghirlandaio's Slaughter of the Innocents to Goya's Disasters of War, the history of art is littered with spree-killing. Add the psychopathy and remove the genius and Cho's home movie is Titian in QuickTime video clips. The only question is what response violence provokes in the viewer. When conflict was first photographed, it was assumed that brutal images would hasten peace. Now the opposite is true.
ASBO for Turf Moor car crook
POSTERS of a prolific criminal are being put up around Turf Moor to stop him breaking into cars on match days. Police say the posters of Sean Nerney will be put up around Burnley Football Club's ground for every home day match to let football fans know of the 28-year-old's anti-social behaviour order (ASBO). Nerney, a convicted thief from Hobart Street, Burnley, was issued with the ASBO to help reduce and prevent car crime in the borough and around the ground. If he breaches the order, which lasts until February 2009, he could face a five-year jail sentence. Police are hoping that raising awareness of the ASBO conditions will enable football supporters to help them to enforce the order. Inspector Damian Darcy from Burnley Police said: "The ASBO was secured to help prevent offences of car crime around Burnley FC so it is entirely appropriate that we make sure people in that vicinity are aware of it.
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