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Daily intake of alcohol leads to mouth cancer
There have been claims that having two large glasses of wine or two pints of beer every day can make you develop mouth cancer.
Drinkers will be warned about this through a new campaign and it has been stated that even if the recommended daily limit is exceeded even a little bit then this leads to serious health problems.
According to the NHS recommendations , the daily intake for men must not be more than three to four units on a daily basis and women should not have more than two to three units.
Catheter mishap takes life of one-month-old baby
After nutritional fluids were discharged around the heart by a catheter put to feed a baby, the month old baby was declared dead, the Coroner's Court in Glebe heard today.
Gastroschisis was the problem that Joshua Elliott who was born on August 9 in 2009 suffered from.
The baby was sent to Sydney’s Kareena Private Hospital after the problem was surgically corrected.
But a decision to send the baby back to the children’s hospital was taken seeing that the child showed signs of not digesting properly.
Long-term Facebook stock holding should be a prudent decision
After having reported $3.7 billion revenue in 2011, popular social network Facebook officially filed its initial public offering (IPO) on Wednesday. The IPO will reportedly value the company at between $75 billion and $100 billion.
The imminent IPO – expected some time in May - is already prompting the savvy investors to take a deeper look into the Facebook financials, so as to ascertain the social network’s revenue-generating mechanism; which chiefly has advertising contributing approximately 85 percent to the total revenue figures of the company!
Sony names Kazuo Hirai to replace Howard Stringer as CEO
On Wednesday, the Sony board named 51-year-old Kazuo Hirai as the chief executive officer, a post for which he was effectively anointed in March last year when he was promoted as the head of the company's key revenue-generating consumer products and services businesses.
Hirai, who is a 28-year Sony veteran, succeeds Howard Stringer at a time when Sony is struggling with persistent losses and its attempts to regain its once-domination position as a leading gadget brand have failed to produce the desired results.
Google defends new privacy policy
In response to the widespread criticism of Google's last-week announcement about a consolidated new privacy policy that will be effective from March 1, the Internet search giant said recently in its defense that the changes will bring its privacy policy more on the lines of the privacy policies of competitors like Apple, Yahoo, and Microsoft.
The Daily: Microsoft's Kinect coming aboard Windows 8-powered laptops
According to an earlier-this-week report in The Daily, Microsoft is apparently mulling the possibility of allowing OEMs to include its Kinect technology into their Windows 8 laptops; with the Kinect-enabled laptop users seemingly set to get the advantage of interacting with Windows 8 or playing motion-controlled games just like their Xbox 360 Kinect counterparts!
The likelihood of the Kinect technology coming aboard laptops was first highlighted by the Kinect chip manufacturer PrimeSense in 2010, when it said that it would sign a PC partnership with Microsoft by the year-end.






