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New York, August 25: Nokia, the world’s largest maker of cell phones, says that it will start making a small, light laptop, similar to ones PC manufacturers are already selling through wireless carriers around the world.

The Finnish company says the Nokia Booklet 3G will run Microsoft’s Windows software, have a 10-inch (25-centimetre) screen and weigh 1.3 kilograms.

That puts it squarely in the “netbook” category pioneered by Taiwanese manufacturers like AsusTek Computer.

New Delhi, August 25: Hold you heart beats as Hero Honda is soon going to launch Karizma’s upgraded model in the market to compete with other bikes which have already marched ahead in the power bike segment. Here comes the pain for other contenders, here comes the Karizma ZMR added with PGM-Fi technology.

The new Karizma comes packed with more power, more style and more aggression. The bike is all set to floor the other bikes in the 200+ cc category like P200 and P 220. Though P220 has also entered the market upgrading its power by a ps, from 20ps to 21ps.

Dehradun, August 25: Forest scientists today called for gathering accurate regional data on climate change to study its impact on the mangroves in Indian sub-continent.

“In the absence of accurate regional data on climate change, it is difficult to conclude its impact on short and long term basis on the mangroves,” noted scientist H S Singh said during a workshop, “Response to forestry sector to climate change,” inaugurated today.

New Delhi, August 24: Gigabyte after being a foremost manufacturer of computers hardware’s like motherboards and graphics cards. Gigabyte has launched a complete range of 785G series Motherboards which is equipped with the latest features and technology.

Gigabyte has launched an ATI_RADEON_HD_Chipset which is based on the newly AMD 785G chipset along with an onboard ATI Radeon HD 4200 graphics core.

The Gigabyte 785G series motherboards proffer a stupendous HD experience for even the sharpest HTPC devotee supporting UVD 2.0.

Washington, August 24: Nokia after being the master of the mobile phone market is now trying to take over the PC world.

Nokia has planned a new Netbook which is jammed with the latest technology and features.

This Nokia 10-inch and wt about 1.25KG Booklet would offer a higher-resolution screen like-1280×800 with a promise of providing a battery life of about 12Hrs.

The Nokia Booklet 3G is featured with an integrated Wi-Fi, 3G-HSDPA, GPS, Intel Atom Processor, HDMI output, USB Port, SD card slot, Windows 7, OVI Nokia service, Bluetooth etc.

Toronto, August 24: Married couples, beware of Faceboook. It triggers jealousy in your spouse.

The more time you spend surfing this social networking website, the more jealous your partner feels, says a new Canadian study.

The study also finds that the need for popularity drives young people to disclose more personal information on Facebook than they normally would reveal.

In their study, Emily Christofides and Amy Muise of the University of Guelph near Toronto say Facebook use leaves many triggers for jealousy in your partner.

London, August 23: The boom in “smartphones”, led by Apple’s iPhone, has inspired language learning tools that would have been inconceivable just months ago — and a Hong Kong firm is leading the charge.

Tens of thousands of “apps” — individual programmes that can be downloaded to the phone and do everything from recognising music playing in a bar to guiding tourists around a city — have been developed for the iPhone since it was launched in early 2007.

Berlin, August 23: Microsoft’s regular patch day featured nine new updates this month.

The new security patches are designed to plug 19 security gaps in Windows, Windows Media Player and Microsoft Office, reported Germany’s BSI Federal Office for Information Security. Unstopped, the security leaks could have allowed criminals to make use of programmes and documents to upload dangerous programs onto the computer.

Seattle, August 23: The restart Internet Addiction Recovery Programme a first of its kind centre in the US recently opened its doors on a tranquil 5-acre spread just a few km away from Microsoft’s headquarters.

The 45-day programme which costs $14,500(Rs 7 lakh) is designed specifically “to help Internet and video game addicts overcome their dependence on gaming, gambling, chatting, texting and other aspects of Internet addiction”.

—Agencies

London, August 23: A Romanian website developer has created what he claims to be the longest poem in the world, by pairing up random rhyming Twitter updates.

The work currently stretches to more than 3,64,000 verses and could in theory go on forever or as long as users of the micro-blogging updates keep posting.

While many of the lines come out as garbled nonsense (“goodnight my lovely, and good luck with that!/Just hanging out with the dog and cat”), the juxtaposition of conflicting thoughts occasionally throws up some poignant rhymes.

Ottawa, August 23: With many using popular online social networking sites to get fasting tips and exchange Ramadan diaries, modern technology is giving the holy fasting month of Ramadan a special taste.

“The spirit of Ramadan is the same,” Arij Elmi, a 21-year-old Canadian Muslim, told.

“But what has changed is that instead of looking at a calendar, I can look at my friends’ Facebook status to see what is coming.”

Elmi often uses Facebook, the world’s largest online social network, to get helpful recipes and tips for getting the most out of the daily fast during Ramadan.

New Delhi, August 23: Nokia XpressMusic has more over heated most part of the market and now it has come up with lastest technology equipped gadgets. Now this XpressMusic has planned a new handset Nokia 5530 touch phone.

The Nokia Xpressmusic 5530 is designed with 2.9 inches screen which gives16M-color TFT LCD touchscreen displays offering a resolution of 360 x 640 pixels.

It runs with ARM 11 434 MHz processor along with 128MB RAM memory and is a Symbian S60 5th edition handset.

New York, August 22: Climate change directly impacts food prices and wages in some developing countries, driving the urban poor deeper into poverty, a new study supported by the World Bank has said.

The Development Research Group at the World Bank and climate researchers from Purdue University in Indiana have concluded that the urban poor will be “hardest hit and they enter more rapidly into poverty as the climate changes throughout the century”.

Kourou, August 22: An Ariane-5 rocket put into orbit satellites for Japan and Australia after being launched from French Guiana on Friday, space officials said.

The rocket blasted off from the European Space Agency’s (ESA) launch center in Kourou, French Guiana on the northeast coast of South America.

One of the satellites, a JCSAT-12, will provide telecommunications services covering Japan, the Asia-Pacific region and Hawaii for Japan’s Sky Perfect JSAT Corp. It was built by Lockheed Martin Commercial Space Systems.

Toronto, August 22: Swedish telecom major Ericsson, whose acquisition of Nortel’s wireless business here last month has been challenged by BlackBerry maker Research In Motion (RIM) and Canadian opposition parties, says it is still in the dark about the fate of the deal.
Ericsson was the highest bidder at $1.13 billion at last month’s court supervised auction of Nortel’s wireless division.

The 124-year-old Toronto-based Nortel, which has been operating under bankruptcy protection since January, is selling its businesses one by one to pay off debtors.

New Delhi, August 21: Sony India company manufacturing different products like digital cameras, Cameras, LCD, Mobile phones, music players, MP4 etc.

But this time Sony gets nearer to the consumers with a new Compact, a Flash memory-based HDR-CX100E camcorder.

Sony HDR-CX100E camcorder has been carely designed with the stylish and the new looks which can use an 8 GB Flash memory along with a Memory Card slot.

London, August 21: Ever found yourself walking in circles? Well, scientists have revealed why people struggle to walk in a straight line.

Researchers in Europe have discovered that when people are lost they return to the place they started when they lost their bearings — in fact, when deprived of a compass or some reference points they find it impossible to walk in a straight line, ‘The Daily Telegraph’ reported.

Lead researcher Dr Jan Souman of Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Germany said: “The stories about people who end up walking in circles when lost are true.

New Delhi, August 20: world class laptops and desktop manufacturer HP has launched a new pavillion series laptop and is been named as HP Pavilion DV3-2150US.

This 13.3-inch HP entertainment laptop is designed with the latest confuguration for the users along with the latest features available in the market.

If we go in detail about this laptop than HP Pavilion DV3-2150US is confurured with an Intel core 2 Duo Processor T6500 which is a higher end processor in the family of latops.

Mumbai, August 20: Every internet user comes in contact with google search and have noticed the different logos according to the season, festivals, Events etc and this change which is noticed is reffered to be as Google doodles.

But today, the google has opened a event tagged as ‘Doodle 4 Google’ at school level starting from class 1-10.

Head of consumer marketing Google Arvind Desikan; In this event the participant just have to design a logo at the given theme ‘My India’. As this make the people to understand what does the India represent to there life and what does it means.

Washington, August 20: Forty years ago, on July 20, 1969, the United States achieved a historic feat when Apollo 11 landed on the moon.

“One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind,” were Neil Armstrong’s prophetic words that opened the pathway for new medical procedures and ‘holistic reinvention’ of vehicles.

America’s race to the moon also launched a generation of scientists. They were inspired by a sense of patriotism and the wonders of space.

Melbourne, August 20: Internet security company Norton Symantec has come up with a list of Top 100 dirtiest sites, which could infect your computer with malware.

Malware is a software that can damage or compromise a computer system without the owner”s consent.

Natalie Connor, spokeswoman of the anti-virus company, said that even visiting any of the named websites could expose a computer to infection and put the personal information into the hands of unwanted people.

New Delhi, August 20: To ensure better delivery of services to the people, the civic authorities in the city will now use a GIS-enabled land map to gather information on public utilities on the click of a mouse.

The 3-D Geographical Information System (GIS) mapping of areas under the jurisdiction of New Delhi Municipal Council has been completed recently. The 3-D database was developed under Delhi State Spatial Data Infrastructure (DSSDI) project of the Delhi government while the NDMC is focusing on its municipal components.

Washington, August 19: Until now, DNA was considered the “gold standard” of criminal investigations: Hundreds of wrongly convicted individuals have been freed around the world after DNA analysis proved them innocent of their crimes; and many of the guilty have been brought to justice through DNA evidence as well.

But the days of DNA’s supremacy in the courtroom could soon come to an end, as researchers in Israel say it can be faked and planted at crime scenes, using basic DNA analysis techniques.

London, August 19: South Korea is preparing for its first space launch, which if successful will make it the latest nation to join the region’s space race and the 10th in the world to send its own communications satellite into orbit from its own soil.

The partly Russian-made Korea Space Launch Vehicle-1 (KSLV-1), or Naro-1, will blast off from the Naro Space Centre at Goheung on the nation’s southern coast on Wednesday, officials said.

The lift-off, which has been delayed several times since last year due to technical problems, is planned for 07:40 GMT.

New York, August 19: Microsoft Tuesday sought stay on a court injunction which bars it from selling its popular Word document creation software in the US for violating a patent belonging to a Canadian company.

Toronto-based i4i had dragged Microsoft to court in 2007 for using its patented technology in the software without its permission.

In its ruling last week, the US District Court in Tyler, Texas, banned Microsoft from selling Word 2003, Word 2007 and future versions of the software that use i4i’s technology without a licence.