CNETAnalysis: A handy new update to the Sky+ app now lets you use your iPhone or iPod touch as a remote control. You’ll need to have your Sky+ box and iPhone or iPod connected to the same Wi-Fi network to change channels, pause, play and rewind TV and set up or delete recordings on the box. The iPad was already capable of controlling Sky+ in real time but the other iOS devices were languishing in administrative control only. So while you could arrange recordings from afar on the Apple handset, you were stuck using the old-fashioned remote control to actually change channels. Nightmare. Popularity The Sky+ app has proven popular with the broadcaster’s customers; it has been downloaded over 5 million times since it launched in 2009, with around 1.2 million people using it each month. This doesn’t surprise us all that much, given that Sky is a premium broadcasting service and Apple’s iDevices are premium mobile devices. No word yet on when the Android equivalents will get the same remote control functionality, although Sky tells us that it hopes to bring the features to Android handsets “in the coming months”. Posted by: Maryum
CNews Karachi. July 05: A Pakistani Scientist in Britain has invented a new chemical for processing plastic (polythene) bags which has the quality of dissolution after its use in 105 days.A manufacturing unit for these plastic bags was being set up in Turkey while interest has been shown in the setting up of a big unit and manufacturing firm’s head quarter in Karachi which will be used to supply such dissolvable polythene bags to Asian countries. The Director of UK based firm Bio Plast Biodegradable Plastics GL Punn while leading a 15 member delegation called on EDO Municipal Services City Government Masood Alam. The Executive Director of Bio Plast Pakistan Muhammad Hanif Awan and M. Sultan Mehmood Awan was also present on this occasion. The Director of Bio Plast informed the EDO Municipal Services about the characteristics of new chemical. He said that the firm was going to set up its first plant in Turkey which will be operative in next two months. The delegation also praised the vi