It has been concluded in a poll that every week about 25 per cent of adult walks just about an hour. A poll was conducted for the Ramblers.
About 2000 adults were polled by the YouGov survey, in which it was seen that when they walked, they did so for less than two hours per week.
According to government guidelines, every week, adults should indulge in physical activity for about 150 minutes.
People in the survey were questioned about the total walking they did and this included school trips, walking to work or shops.
Within weeks of its last-month official announcement that it has started carrying the popular Apple iPhone, fourth-ranking US carrier T-Mobile has now revealed that it has launched its `T-Mobile TV' app for iOS.
Though the `T-Mobile TV' app has been available on Android since 2010, the iPhone users on the T-Mobile network could not access content from TV channels till Friday.
Barnes & Noble' subsidiary Nook Media LLC revealed in a Friday announcement that its wide-ranging catalog of reading and entertainment content on the much-admired Nook HD and Nook HD+ tablets is being further expanded, with the addition of the popular Google Play digital content experience on these two devices.
A coroner has ruled that due to natural causes contributed by sheer neglect, a man with severe learning difficulties has died at Swansea hospital.
It was heard by an inquest in the city that the care delivered to Paul Ridd's at Morriston Hospital was below the expected standard.
In January 2009, following an operation on bowel, 53-year-old Ridd had died near Port Talbot. He was from Baglan.
The inquest heard that Ridd could not survive as he was drawbacks in care did not deliver him the chances of surviving.
As a part of the national swimathon, a five-kilometer swim was attempted by a young girl, after she made a splash in the pool in order to raise money for charity.
The girl is 12-year-old Riya Kotecha, from Morley Crescent West, Stanmore. She managed to raise £400 for Marie Curie Cancer Care after she jumped inside a local pool.
The total time taken to complete the swim was two hours and 22 minutes and out of all, the swimmer was the youngest person from Cannons Sports Pool, to be a part of the event.
On Thursday, music discovery service Songza released an updated version of its iOS app - Songza iOS app version 3.0 - which not only unfolds a simple, clean and more attractive interface, but also gives the users new ways to interact with the app.
With the view to facilitate employees in sending and receiving one-to-one as well as group text chats while working together on tasks and projects, Citrix has enhanced its Podio social collaboration platform with the recent addition of instant messaging.
The Podio Chat feature which Citrix launched on Thursday will essentially bring on real-time collaboration to the Podio platform for the first time; with video chat functionality also to be introduced soon.
With regard to the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) trend which is on the cards for employees in the coming years, the findings of a new study conducted by research firm Gartner have revealed that, by the year 2017, nearly 50 percent of all employers will require employees to make use of their own smartphones and tablets for work needs.
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A second meteorite landed in one of the towns of...
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