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Mumbai, August 18: Samsung i7500 Galaxy have made their from Almost a month later, we now see the white version of the phone.

Apart from the cosmetic changes, there will be no difference between the white version and the “original” black one.

The Samsung i7500 is one of the first Android based phones shaped by Samsung and is featured with a 3.2-inch HVGA AMOLED touchscreen, 5MP camera, Wi-Fi, GPS, 3.5mm headset jack.

Samsung i7500 Galaxy is based on 528 MHz Qualcomm processor and is about 11.9 mm thick the phone is compact and light weighted.

Washington, August 18: Tech Gadgets Lenovo netbooks equipped with Dolby Headphone technology Lenovo Dolby Headphone.

Lenovo has launched its netbooks which is outfitted with the Dolby Headphone technology as to proffer music buff with best hi-fi sound.

The Lenovo ultra portable netbooks are marked as Lenovo IdeaPad S12 and S10-2 which is an ultra portable device which put forward an attention-grabbing surround sound experience.

Dolby Headphone technology allows the users to enjoy surround sound music with the use of any pair of headsets.

Srinagar, August 18: Jammu and Kashmir government has identified over hundred sites to develop small hydro power projects to meet the power demand in the state.

“As many as 110 project sites for development of hydro power have been identified by the Power Development Department,” an official spokesman said after a meeting.

The joint meeting of the officers of Science and Technology and Power Development departments, which was chaired by Minister for Science and Technology Aga Syed Ruhullah, discussed in detail 2MW and above capacity power projects.

Mumbai, August 18: Pakistani conspirators were in constant touch with the 10 terrorists involved in the 26/11 attacks through telephone calls using VOIP service of an American company and also made several test calls prior to that, a US-based witness told a special court today.

“Before the 26/11 attacks, people from Pakistan had made several test calls to Mumbai to ensure the quality of sound,” the witness, the fourth US citizen to hint at Pakistani link in the case, said in a video conference from Canada.

New Delhi, August 18: Sony India mobile is mostly recognized for its music phones world wide and as to carry on the same image the Sony Ericsson has launched two new walkman handsets.

The two latest music phones are tagged as Sony Ericsson W205 and W395 walkman.

Adelaide, August 18: Climate change is the biggest threat to the Great Barrier Reef, officials said on the heels of a report that also found some of Australia’s other unique flora and fauna are being negatively affected by the changing environment.

Washington, August 18:A Miami resident was charged with stealing 130 million credit and debit card numbers in what the Justice Department described Monday as the largest data breach ever in the United States.

Albert Gonzales, 28, and two unnamed computer hackers were indicted for using a sophisticated hacking technique called an “SQL injection attack” for stealing card information, through exploiting computer networks by finding a way around their firewall.

Bangalore, August 17: India has completed the design of Chandrayaan-2, its next mission to the moon this time in collaboration with Russia — that would have a lander and rover which can collect samples of the lunar soil and analyse them and send back the data.

“Right now, the design has been completed. We had a joint review with Russian scientists here,” chairman of Indian Space Research Organisation, G Madhavan Nair, said.

New Delhi, August 17: A celestial show greeted skygazers at the break of dawn on Monday with Venus and Moon coming together in the eastern sky for a conjunction.

The phenomenon was seen in the early morning sky during which the thin waning crescent Moon poised directly above Venus, popularly known as Goddess of Love, Director of Science Popularisation Association of Communicators and Educators (SPACE) C B Devgun said.

New Delhi, August 16: Desktop and computers accessories manufacturer Logitech has launched a Wireless Desktop MK700 in the market.

The company has plan-out the Wireless Desktop MK700 that assures user for the comfort and efficiency device.

The keyboard designed for this wireless desktop comes along with desktop provides concave Logitech incurve keys that allow the user to position their fingers appropriately.

The softly rounded edges of the keys allow the fingertips of users to soar easily from one key to another.

Chicago, August 16: Forty years after man landed on the moon, NASA plans to retire the Space Shuttle in 2010. It will be five years before NASA has a vehicle ready to carry astronauts back into space, which has some concerned about the future of the space program. Kane Farabaugh sat down with Apollo astronaut Jim Lovell to discuss what is in store for space exploration.

New Delhi, August 16: Sky gazers are in for a celestial treat as the farthest planet Neptune will be at opposition, that is opposite to the sun tomorrow night.

“On August 17, the blue planet Neptune will be at opposition or 180 degrees from the sun in the sky,” SPACE Director C B Devgun said.

In positional astronomy, Opposition defines that position of a celestial object when it is on the opposite side of the sun in the sky when viewed from the Earth as reference.

Berlin, August 16: Windows 7 won’t be available in stores until October 22, but Microsoft has already announced various pre-ordering options for the replacement to Vista.

To lure users into making the jump, the company is promising that anyone who buys a new computer now with Windows Vista versions Home Premium, Business, or Ultimate will receive a copy of Windows 7 in the fall. The offer is valid until January 31, 2010.

Berlin, August 16: Windows 7 won’t be available in stores until October 22, but Microsoft has already announced various pre-ordering options for the replacement to Vista.

To lure users into making the jump, the company is promising that anyone who buys a new computer now with Windows Vista versions Home Premium, Business, or Ultimate will receive a copy of Windows 7 in the fall. The offer is valid until January 31, 2010.

New Delhi, August 16: In a yet another proof of Pakistan’s involvement in the 26/11 militant attack on the financial capital of the country, the leading mobile manufacturer, Nokia has confirmed in the track court that militants used five China made mobile phones that were later shipped from China to Pakistan in June 2008.

Terrorists used these mobile phones for mutual conversation to carry out the destruction of historic Hotel Taj and Oberai – an attack that claimed the lives of 166 national and international citizens.

Washington, August 14: Microsoft Corp put its new Zune HD digital music and video player on sale in the US on Thursday, pricing it below comparable Apple iPod devices, in an attempt to claw some market share away from the dominant leader.

The devices, which are available for pre-order but won’t hit shelves until September 15, are priced at $219.99 for the 16 gigabyte version and $289.99 for the 32 gigabyte version. Comparable iPod Touch players are priced at $299 and $399 respectively.

A 16-gigabyte player typically holds about 4,000 songs.

Washington, August 14: The NSS Labs, an independent security product testing lab, has found Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 8 to be the most secure browser to date.

The Texas-based facility tested Apple Safari 4, Google Chrome 2, Internet Explorer (IE) 8, Mozilla Firefox 3, and Opera 10 beta over a two-week period in July and released the results on Thursday.

The NSS Labs research indicated that IE 8 was the best browser in blocking phishing and malware attacks.

However, Firefox 3 equaled IE 8 in catching “social-engineering” phishing attacks.

Hyderabad, August 13: An Egyptian expert has arrived to restore a mummy from the age of the pharaohs and preserved at the State Archaeological Museum here.

Tarek el Awady, director of Scientific Research in Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA), arrived Wednesday night on a six-day visit to restore the mummy, dating back to 2500 BC, but which is showing signs of decay now.

Washington, August 13: An international team of astronomers has discovered the first planet that orbits in the opposite direction compared to the rotation of its host star.

Planets circle their host stars in the same direction stars rotate. The newly discovered planet, however, is an exception.

The planet, designated WASP-17, is twice the size of Jupiter, the fifth planet from the sun, yet it weighs only half of Jupiter due to a density like that of expanded polystyrene.

Washington/Toronto, August 13: A US judge has ordered Microsoft to stop selling its popular Word document creation application in the country in 60 days after finding that the software contains technology that violates a patent held by a third party.

Microsoft Office, which includes Word, accounted for more than $3 billion in worldwide sales in Microsoft’s most recent fiscal year and is used by literally millions of businesses and consumers for everyday tasks like word processing and making spreadsheets and presentations.

Washington, August 13: Groundwater levels in northern India have been declining by as much as one foot per year over the past decade and the loss is almost entirely due to human activity, results from NASA’s gravity satellites showed.

“More than 26 cubic miles of groundwater disappeared from aquifers in areas of Haryana, Punjab, Rajasthan and the nation’s capitol territory of Delhi, between 2002 and 2008. This is enough water to fill Lake Mead, the largest manmade reservoir in the United States, three times,” said a release of NASA.

Washington, August 13: A US judge has ordered Microsoft to stop selling its popular Word document creation application in the country in 60 days after finding that the software contains technology that violates a patent held by a third party.

Microsoft Office, which includes Word, accounted for more than $3 billion in worldwide sales in Microsoft’s most recent fiscal year and is used by literally millions of businesses and consumers for everyday tasks like word processing and making spreadsheets and presentations.

Washington, August 13: US space agency NASA does not have enough cash to track the large nearby asteroids that could pose a hazard to Earth, a study by the National Academy of Science found Wednesday.

In 2005, Congress ordered NASA to track up to 90 per cent of near- Earth asteroids that are 140 metres in diameter or larger by 2020. But no money was budgeted for the task, making it impossible to complete.

The report also said astronomers are capable of tracking the asteroids if given enough resources to do so.

New York, August 13: Software giant Microsoft today issued updates to plug at least 19 security holes in its various Windows operating systems and other software.

The patches fix dangerous flaws in Windows 2000, XP, Vista, Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008, 15 of which the Redmond, Washington based company described as “critical”.

Microsoft labels a security flaw “critical” if attackers could use it to seize control over a vulnerable system without any help from the victim.

New Delhi, August 12: The government has warned the users of social networking sites such as Facebook, Myspace and Twitter of a virus that is spreading through these sites targeting the members.

Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In), under the Department of Information Technology, the apex body that monitors Internet security threats in the country, said a new worm ‘Koobface’ is propagating through social networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace, hi5, Bebo and Twitter.