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Sleep Time Linked to Postmenopausal Stroke

Postmenopausal women sleeping less than six hours or more than nine hours every night have increased chances of suffering an ischemic stroke, shows a study carried out by Jiu-Chiuan Chen, assistant professor at the University of North Carolina School of Public Health. Postmenopause is a stage a woman has to go throug...

21 July 2008
04:45 GMT

Women Are More Tense in Their Relationship with Computers

When it comes to dealing with a computer, women seem to be more frustrated than men. 55.8% of the women who have to face different computer-related difficulties are extremely irritated, while only 49.7% of the men feel the same. The data have been made public by a Swedish study that was cited by Royal Pingdom. The ma...

14 July 2008
10:40 GMT

Coffee Protects Women Against Heart Disease - But Not Men

About a month ago, I was telling you about a study that concluded that tea consumption is very good news for women - but not for men. Now comes the shocking part: coffee, it has just been revealed, has an equally surprising taste for gender disparity. A recent study published a few days ago in the Annals of Internal ...

19 June 2008
09:45 GMT

Anti-Alcoholism Campaign Targets Women's Looks

As funny as it may initially appear, alcoholism in women is no joke. Over the past decade, many developed countries with a solid drinking culture, such as the U.K. for example, saw the number of women dying from alcohol abuse double. In the States, an estimated 4 million women drink in a way that severely threatens t...

4 June 2008
06:54 GMT

Pregnant Women Shoud Stop Drinking Tap Water

People stopped regarding tap water as a luxury a long time ago - in some parts of the world, at least - and for all of us fortunate enough to live in a modern, developed society, tap water is part of our daily lives and we need it as strongly as we need to breathe or sleep. Tap water is cleaned via a process known as...

3 June 2008
05:56 GMT

Three Cups of Tea a Day Protect Women - But Not Men

Tea is not exactly the kind of thing you'd expect to show gender disparity - however, the latest research indicated that the millennia-old drink of mixed hot water and herbs has a documented tendency of proving more beneficial for women than for men - at least when it comes to its documented property of helping ...

12 May 2008
09:42 GMT

Samsung's Secret Color Phones Are Not Really Secret

Samsung Electronics is lately very preoccupied with providing mobile phones for girls and women. Well, it's no wonder, as a survey taken by the South Korean company revealed that women buy more gadgets than men, and I guess this fact is also applicable when it comes to mobile phones. After the L310 and L320...

28 January 2008
08:48 GMT

Samsung Brings New Feminine Phones

Samsung Electronics announced today the release of two new fashion mobile phones targeted for girls and women, enlarging its feminine handset line-up. The South Korean producer offers a special attention to its female customers and keeps on releasing fashion devices for them. After Samsung Lilly E420 and Samsung SCH-...

24 January 2008
12:29 GMT

Who Do Women Trust? Friends and Family, or the Internet?

One of the most embarrassing things to admit in front of a stranger is anything related to health. Even if he/she is paid to listen and to give advice, being shy about certain areas of the body or about the medical history is pretty common between both men and women alike. What set the two genders apart was who they ...

23 January 2008
07:31 GMT

Google Brings Women in Engineering Award

Many women have come up with wonderful inventions throughout the history and mythology, but their work was recognized way too rarely. Google decided to set things straight and launched in December its India "Women in Engineering Award." It decided to let the whole world know about it now on the Official Google Blog, ...

17 January 2008
15:51 GMT

Samsung: Women Buy More Gadgets Than Men!

What do women want? Well, they want...gadgets! And since holiday season can often become synonymous with stress, a "therapeutic" shopping spree could be the best thing for a gadget victim. Today, women love buying gadgets more than shoes or jewelery, so, we could say the days when technology was considered a "man...

20 December 2007
13:46 GMT

Women Juggle Phone Chatting with Other Activities Better than Men

A recent survey revealed that women are better multi-taskers than men when using their mobile phones. This proves their capability of doing other activities when on the phone, as well as using various handset functions at the same time.For some reason, Nokia was interested if women are indeed more capable of doing mo...

23 November 2007
05:20 GMT

More Women Than Men on Facebook

Facebook is one of the top services when it comes to social networking technologies with approximately 250,000 new users every day. But have you ever asked yourself how many of the total number of Facebook members are women and how many are men? If yes, I have some interesting statistics for you provided by blogger P...

22 November 2007
04:06 GMT

Half-Naked Sexy Women and Money!

Spammers are extending their activities now - if earlier they only used one lure to get people into falling for their scams, it seems that now they're getting better. Today (though not for the first time) I got a message on my blog - it was from another user, some "Britney" person I don't know. I believe th...

28 September 2007
05:52 GMT

Google Attracts Men, Rejects Women

According to a recent market research conducted in the UK, no less than 35 percent of the men sustained that Google becomes too commercial, while 23 percent of the women had the same opinion. The study was made by bigmouthmedia and included 1000 UK Internet users. Recently, the Mountain View company Google acquired D...

30 May 2007
15:06 GMT




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