When I questioned my friend Rohan why his caller tune rang to the song of Tum jo mil gaye ho, to ye lagataa hain… he admitted that with this tune he wanted to show his love for his college classmate Sheryl. On the other hand the caller tune Donon ne kiyaa thaa pyaar magar mujhe yaad raha tu bhool gayi confirmed that my neighbour had just broken up and was going through a low phase.
With a wide range of caller tune options being made available, technology has indeed changed the way we greet our callers.
Unknowingly and unintentionally, the choice of our caller tune does reflect a lot about our inward, temperamental, emotional and mental state of mind. In short, it serves as a blueprint of our personality.
Caller tunes not only reflect an individuals likes and dislikes but also their inward reflections.
However, individuals do play mind games with caller tunes, admits Rahul who broke off with his girlfriend recently. His caller tune goes Tum aa gaye ho noor aa gaya hai. Rahul says, in the unlikely event that his girl friend calls him back he does not want to show her that he is affected in any way. On the contrary he wants her to keep guessing with his caller tune. Then, there are individuals who don't like the idea of paying monthly user fee for a caller tune, which they never hear at all.
As a matter of fact, even telecom providers keep enhancing their caller tune collection.
Whatever might be the reason but the growing popularity of caller tunes have witnessed a mark improvement in the business for telecom providers.
Saturday, December 26, 2009
Caller tunes reflect your state of mind
Sunday, December 6, 2009
Cellphones don't cause brain cancer
It is official: cellphones don't increase the risk of brain cancer.
A long-term study has found there is no link between brain tumour and the use of cell phones. The study among Scandinavian people from 1974 and 2003 has found that the use of cell phones did not increase brain tumour risk among users.
"We did not observe (notice) an effect of mobile phones on the incidence of brain tumours,'' study leader Isabelle Deltour of the Institute of Cancer Epidemiology in Copenhagen told a Canadian television network. As part of this extensive study, 16 million people in Finland, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden were tracked for what happened to rates of glioma and meningioma brain tumours among them over 30 years.
But the researchers found that only 60,000 of them developed brain tumours. This rate of brain tumour was not higher than that seen before the use of cell phones began. The study found that there was no increase in risk. If there was any increase in risk, it was too small to be observed or the period needed for cell phones to cause brain tumours was longer than the period studied.
The Scandinavian study commenced just when cell phones were introduced.
"If there was a connection, we would have expected a sudden marked increase in the rates, especially among younger males, which were the first to use cells phones.We didn't see that,'' Deltour said.
However, the researchers stressed that more longer-term studies are needed to prove that the use of cell phone does not raise the risk of brain cancer. They said they will continue monitoring to see if it takes longer to detect changes in tumour rates.
Another international study on the link between cell phone use and brain cancer is likely to come out next year.
The Scandinavian study has appeared in Journal of the National Cancer Institute.