Moscow, August 09: Indian and Russian scientists are close to final development and testing of the air-launched version of the BrahMos supersonic cruise missile.
A top Russian defence official said a new takeoff engine for launching of the missile in air and at extreme high altitudes had been developed.
Alexander Leonov, director of the Russian Machine Building Research and Production Centre, said: “we are ready for test launches.”
Washington, August 09: Telecommunications providers will not have to give the government sensitive revenue and Internet speed data for a program to map broadband use in U.S. homes and bring high-speed Internet service to more people.
The U.S. Commerce Department said on Friday that companies such as Verizon Communications Inc, Comcast Corp and AT&T Inc do not have to share how much money they make from each Internet subscriber. Nor must they say how fast their Internet connections typically run.
New Delhi, August 08: Search engine Google today admitted its “mistake” of wrong depiction of certain areas of Arunachal Pradesh as parts of China and said its maps would be rectified shortly.
“Earlier, this week, as part of routine update to Google earth, we published new data for the Arunachal Pradesh region that changed the depiction of certain place names in the product. The change was a result of a mistake in our processing of new map data,” a spokesperson for the search giant said in a statement.
Washington, August 08: Dell after being familiar to the normal users and is now taking care of the game-loving peoples while keeping these things in mind Dell has planned a new gaming series laptops.
Dell Alienware M17x is configured according to the need of the gamer.
The look and features attract gamers toward this gadget and also Dell claims that this machine is the most powerful machine of the universe.
The Alienware M17x gamer dream laptop is defined in a universal standard size of 17-inch.
New Delhi, August 08: LG mobiles has launched latest 8 megapixel camera phone in the Indian market. The new LG Viewty Smart now is called as LG-GC900.
At last the LG lovers would able to grab the 8-MP camera phone Viewty Smart GC 900 in the Indian market too.
When we talk about the features then for the first time an Intelligent Shot Mode camera phone is launched that expose an excellent photos, automatic scene analyzing along with adjusting camera settings.
Washington, August 08: A new research indicates that Saturn’s haze-enshrouded moon Titan turns out to have much in common with Earth in the way that weather and geology shape its terrain.
Wind, rain, volcanoes, tectonics and other Earth-like processes all sculpt features on Titan’s complex and varied surface in an environment more than 100 degrees Celsius colder on average than Antarctica.
“It is really surprising how closely Titan’s surface resembles Earth’s,” said Rosaly Lopes, a planetary geologist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California.
Washington, August 08: Recent images captured by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft are revealing new three-dimensional objects and structures in Saturn’s otherwise flat rings, thanks to the planet approaching equinox on August 11th.
Through the detections of shadows cast upon the rings, a moonlet has been spotted for the first time in Saturn’s dense B ring and narrow vertical structures are seen soaring upward from Saturn’s intricate F ring.
Geneva, August 08: When launched to great fanfare nearly a year ago, some feared the Large Hadron Collider would create a black hole that would suck in the world. It turns out the Hadron may be the black hole.
The world’s largest scientific machine has cost USD 10 billion, has worked only nine days and has yet to smash an atom. The unique equipment in a 17-mile (27-kilometer) circular tunnel with cathedral-sized detectors deep beneath the Swiss-French border has been assembled by specialists in many countries, with 8,970 physicists eagerly awaiting the startup.
New Delhi, August 08: SONY VAIO planned W series mini notebooks with colorful addition in the Indian market.
Sony mini notebook would have the same strength and performance that a usual Sony VAIO notebook offers.
This series is mainly designed to access email, instant messaging, Facebook, YouTube and more.
New Delhi, August 08: New Blackberry smartphone Curve 8520 is now available via T-mobile online service.
If we talk about the features of smartphone then Blackberry offers 2.64-inch 320×240 LCD display, QWERTY keyboard, standby time of 17 hours, 2 megapixel camera, it can synchronization with Microsoft Outlook, MP3 player with external controls that make easy for the users to go down with their headphones and drive music. The Blackberry comes with stereo Bluetooth wireless technology that allows users to connect their phone to PC.
Mumbai, August 07: iPhone 3GS would not be available on 9th August in India. It’s seriously upset news for the iPhones lovers.
iPhone 3GS is noticed by its quickly launch applications, its Web pages render in a small part of the time, view email attachments faster than any other.
This Improved performance and updated 3D graphics deliver an unbelievable gaming experience too.
Each and every function of this cell phone is designed to get the best result.
The iPhone 3GS is packed with a new 3-megapixel camera gives great still photos and an inbuild-autofocus.
Paris, August 07: Scientists in the United States have decoded the overall structure of the HIV virus genome that causes AIDS in humans, according to a study published Thursday.
The breakthrough should help develop strategies for combating the virus with new anti-viral drugs, the researchers said.
“We are beginning to understand tricks the genome uses to help the virus escape detection by the human host,” said Kevin Weeks, a professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the study’s main architect.
New Delhi, August 07: One of the world’s best conservation stories is being scripted at a wildlife Centre in Haryana’s Pinjore, where a slender-billed vulture nestling, a rare species, has for the first time hatched in captivity and is ready to fledge.
–Agencies
Washington, August 07: Five months after it was launched on a mission to find earth-like planets, the Kepler space telescope has sent back to Earth high-precision images of a planet some 1,000 light years away, NASA said Thursday.
But the real excitement at NASA was over how well Kepler was working, and the promise it holds for the future.
With Kepler only in the calibration phase, the telescope, which was launched in March on a mission to find earth-like planets in the galaxy, sent back to Earth highly precise images of a planet with the unromantic name of HAT-P-7-B.
Geneva, August 07: The world’s biggest atom-smasher will operate below full power when its restarts in November, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) said Thursday.
In a statement, CERN said no more repairs would be necessary for “safe running” this year and next, after the 27-kilometre (17-mile) collider is switched back on.
Nestled inside a tunnel straddling the Franco-Swiss border near Geneva, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) promises to unlock scientific mysteries about the creation of the Universe and the fundamental nature of matter.
Geneva, August 07: The world’s biggest atom-smasher will operate below full power when its restarts in November, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) said Thursday.
In a statement, CERN said no more repairs would be necessary for “safe running” this year and next, after the 27-kilometre (17-mile) collider is switched back on.
Nestled inside a tunnel straddling the Franco-Swiss border near Geneva, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) promises to unlock scientific mysteries about the creation of the Universe and the fundamental nature of matter.
New Delhi, August 06: A yellow shining full moon turned into a dim red one early this morning as sky watchers witnessed the penumbral lunar eclipse.
Though only a fractional diameter of the Sun was eclipsed by the Earth, it was closely monitored by scientists and amateur astronomers all over the world, Director Nehru Planetarium Rathnasree said.
Lunar eclipse occurs when the moon passes behind the earth in such a way that the earth blocks the sun’s rays from falling on the moon, she said.
Washington, August 06: Saying that the US needs to wake up to the reality of India’s technological revolution being led by IIT-educated ‘young men and women under the age of 27’, President Barack Obama’s nominee for deputy commerce secretary said countries like India, China, Brazil and Russia were going to pose a major challenge to American dominance in the coming years.
Kolkata, August 05: A tiny device, almost a look-alike of popular iPhone except for its larger screen, promises to bring about a paradigm shift in the way education is imparted in government-owned schools in rural areas.
Called the ePod, the hand-held device aims to make available the fruits of the latest computing technology in the hands of millions of students.
Manufactured by Tidaldata, a storage devices company, based in California, the ePod had become a rage with the students in the US in 2008.
Tokyo, August 05: A group of experts held an inaugural meeting here to discuss how Japan should explore the moon following the formulation of a national space development project in June that underlined the country’s ambition to send its first manned moon probe.
A private panel set up under Seiko Noda, state minister for Science and Technology Policy, and Food Safety, plans to consider how Japan can bring moon exploration to realisation. The panel plans to produce a report around June next year.
Hamburg, August 05: One day soon, your car may be able to alert you if a tsunami, tornado or other disaster is imminent, according to a team of German scientists.
In the past, sirens howled to warn the population against floods, large fires or chemical accidents. Today, however, there is no extensive warning system in most countries following the dismantling of sirens after the Cold War.
New Delhi, August 05: Sony Ericsson has done a lot to gain the attention. Sony has previously launched its mobile application store and now Sony is again back with a new class cell phone.
Sony Ericsson W995 Walkman is the ultimate mobile phone for the entertainment purpose. This handset can be used wherever it’s needed.
Sony Ericsson W995 Walkman is the powerful Video mobile as the company has mainly aimed the visual quality of the cell phone.
San Francisco, August 05: Social networking website Facebook continues its rapid rise and has already become the fourth most trafficked website in the world, technology blog TechCrunch has reported.
In June this year, Facebook attracted a total of 340 million unique visitors globally, trailing only Google, Microsoft and Yahoo sites, the report said, citing latest results from market research firm comScore.
According to the report, Facebook grew 157 percent in the past year alone, gaining 208 million visitors.
San Francisco, August 04: Google on Monday resorted to old-time outdoor billboards in its quest to convince business IT managers to use software applications that the internet titan offers as services online.
Messages that will change each work day for four weeks debuted on billboards along major commute routes in Boston, Chicago, New York City and San Francisco, according to Google Creative Lab managing director Andy Berndt.
New York, August 04: Doing crossword puzzles, reading, and playing cards daily may delay the rapid memory decline that occurs if people develop dementia, according to a US study.
Researchers from New York’s Albert Einstein College of Medicine spent five years following 488 people aged 75 to 85 who did not have dementia at the start of the study.
During the study period, 101 of these people developed dementia.