NASA selects investigations for mission to Sun

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has begun development of a mission to visit and study the sun closer than ever before and the unprecedented project, named Solar Probe Plus, is slated to launch before 2018.

The small car-sized spacecraf

Security more important than privacy: PC on BlackBerry

India has insisted for complete access to BlackBerry data as security is more important than privacy, Union Home minister P Chidambaram said on Wednesday.

India wants complete access to the BlackBerry data. The government feels that security is more impor

Indonesia warns BlackBerry of ban if it beams porno

Jakarta, Sep 1 : Indonesia has warned Canadian firm Research in Motion (RIM), the maker of BlackBerry, to stay away from showing pornographic pictures in smart phone or face ban in the country.

The ultimatum comes on a day when the multinational company ac

S.Y. Quraishi (CEC) reposes faith in EVM technology

Panaji: Amid increasing debate on the reliability of electronic voting machines (EVMs), Chief Election Commissioner S.Y. Quraishi Tuesday reposed faith in the EVM technology, which he said had stood the test of time since it was first introduced in 1982.

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Google, Associated Press reach deal on online news

Google and the Associated Press have reached a new deal that will allow the web-search giant to continue running stories from the AP on its Google News site, the internet company said Monday.

Terms of the deal were not disclosed in the announcement, which w

Cisco plans to buy Skype in around $5 billion

Cisco has made a bid to buy Skype for around $5 billion, before the privately-held internet phone company goes public, the influential Silicon Valley blog TechCrunch reported Monday.

Skype allows users to make free internet telephone and video calls to othe

Google plans pay per view movies on YouTube

Google is planning to launch a pay-per-view movie section on its popular video site YouTube, according to a report Monday in the Financial Times.

The web giant has reportedly been holding talks with the major Hollywood studios in order to snag films for its

BlackBerry give up, Government grants two month extension

BlackBerry phone maker Research in Motion (RIM) Monday gave in to the Indian government’s pressure and said it would consider setting up a server in India to help security agencies monitor its encrypted data.

In doing so, RIM got a two-month extension for c

Mobile phone Nokia enterprise server in India by Nov 5

Mobile phone maker Nokia Monday said it would set up servers in India for its push email services from Nov 5 to help the government monitor the contents.

“We are launching the server on Nov 5 in compliance with all the rules and regulation in the country. I

Nuclear bill moved in Rajya Sabha, BJP reiterates support

Moving the nuclear liability bill in the Rajya Sabha Monday, Minister of State for Science and Technology Prithviraj Chavan said nuclear power was not a panacea for India’s energy needs but it was an option which could not be ignored.

The opposition Bharati

Central panel inspects POSCO site in Orissa

A four-member central panel led by former environment and forests department secretary Meena Gupta Friday visited the proposed POSCO site in Orissa to check if there was any violation of law, an official said.

The team visited Dhinkia area of the district a

Did bacteria make a clean sweep of BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico?

Scientists claim to have solved the mystery of the disappearing oil from the BP spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

They believe that billions of oil-eating bugs have already done the most challenging part of BP’s clean-up job.

The bacteria, called oceanospiril

Strong encryption of wireless technology not unique: BlackBerry

Toronto, Research in Motion (RIM) stocks sank to a 17-month low as the BlackBerry maker Thursday said that use of strong encryption in wireless technology is not unique to them and “it is unquestionably an industry wide matter”.

Slipping 1.9 percent, RIM s

Scientists have created ‘Dry water’ that soaks up carbon faster

Scientists have created ‘dry water’ that soaks carbon three times better than water, and hence help combat global warming.

Each particle of dry water, a substance that looks like powdered sugar, contains a water droplet surrounded by a sandy silica coating.

Google opens new line to internet phone calls

All the fuss about tweeting, texting, Facebook pokes and various other cutting-edge forms of communication can obscure the fact that old-fashioned telephone calls are still a pretty effective way of conveying information.

But the 560 million people who are

Indian universities asspire to launch student satellites

Around 25 universities are aspiring to launch satellites built by their students but the Indian space agency says its hands are full as it has to launch four more student satellites by the end of next year.

University students across India are clearly ignit

Gmail allows phone calls from computers

Google Inc. Wednesday said its Gmail service will add a feature that allows users to call any phone directly from their computers.

“Starting today, you can call any phone right from Gmail,” Robin Schriebman, a software engineer at Google, wrote on the compa

Yahoo’s search migrates to Microsoft

Yahoo has completed the migration of its web and mobile search functions to Microsoft’s Bing search engine as the two companies hope that their combined market power may prove a more significant threat to the dominance of Google.

The integration comes more

BlackBerry standoff: Some questions and answers

While India’s 800,000 BlackBerry users struggle to figure out what the government wants and what its Canadian developer Research in Motion (RIM) has featured in these devices, here are some answers:

Q: What are BlackBerry services? Which aren’t?

A: Mobil

Hollywood to make film on Google

The path-breaking invention of internet search engine Google will now be the subject of a Hollywood film.

According to Deadline Hollywood, the entertainment industry blog, the film will be based on the Ken Auletta book “Googled: The End of the World As We K