Apple performed minor updates on ice which offers roadmap application, and launched it before the year 2008 closed out. iMac technically used non-standard processors that have the same performance characteristics as Intel’s latest mobile chips.

Sony Corp said five PC makers including HP, Toshipa will recall 1,00,000 batteries made by Japanese for fire hazard. Already 35,000 batteries were colleted by Sony and Tokyo-based company. Further it would recall 65,000 batteries from worldwide customers soon.

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Today, India has launched first unmanned spacecraft to orbit to moon at early morning. For last two years, the Indian mission is scheduled to prepare a three-dimensional atlas of the moon and prospect the lunar surface for natural resources, including uranium, a coveted fuel for nuclear power plants.

Google’s new Android OS comes with ‘Kill-switch’ that enables Google to discover a product that violates the developer distribution agreement and to remotely remove those applications from the device at its sole discretion.

Open source OpenOffice 3.0 offers true compatibility across multiple platforms, running on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X. More importantly, this suite is compatibile with the latest Office 2007 file formats (such as .docx) along with the newest Open Document Format (ODF) file standards.

The new Blackberry Flip design has the same feature as the first one with Wi-Fi and mobile calling facilities. This Blackberry Pearl Flip 8220 smart phone helps you to connect with people, provide facts and fun that matter. This smart phone gives you the control of how, when and where to communicate. The new Blackberry Pearl Flip is designed keeping you in mind. The new model looks good and has everything that one needs in his mobile. This is a smart phone with the feel good factor to it.

Microsoft has planned to launch “New Xbox Experience” a new redesigning interface of its Xbox Live, on November 19 in 26 countries. And will be localized in 19 languages.

Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Osamu Shimomura (80), Martin Chalfie (61) and Roger Y. Tsien (56) for taking the ability of some jellyfish to glow and transforming it into a ubiquitous tool of molecular biology for watching the dance of living cells and the proteins within them. Osamu Shimomura who is a Japanese scientist, is working as an emeritus professor at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Mass. Other two American scientists, Martin Chalfie and Roger Y. Tsien, were working as biological science professor at Columbia University and pharmacology professor at the University of California, San Diego.

XOHM WiMax is the next generation high speed wireless data services launched by Sprint Nextel in Baltimore. The cost value is $10 per day or $25 per month for home access, $30 per month for a mobile service and $50 per month for two WiMax devices coverage.