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The BlackBerry PlayBook which was sold along with its Wi-Fi features will enable tethering to a BlackBerry smartphone, thereby providing users with the tablet access to the cellular network of the smartphone. Along with all the usual features like calendar, messaging and Web-browsing features operating on the smartphone, according to the RIM officials, as they informed on Thursday.

The number of South Bay researchers, researching on all topics ranging from close-to-Earth asteroids to pollen-based drug delivery, got national honours last Wednesday. This team of scientists comprised of a record number of researchers, and all of them are high school seniors.

A few of their projects are extremely cutting-edge, such that there isn't any scientific literature for them to infer on, like for instance the work done by Roshni Bhatnagar at The Harker School.

An unknown Verizon-branded handset has come up in a range of images linked to HTC's all new Sync software. Mysteriously though, the unknown device seems to have no buttons on its facade.

The never before seen image has started speculation that HTC might be trying to develop an Android smartphone for the purpose of Honeycomb, the tablet-optimized version of the mobile OS of Google which will not need a similar button layout like in the cell phone versions.

The rendering might as well be a simple placeholder, despite the Verizon branding being seen as an improbable feature for a generic picture.

The IT major Infosys Technologies had the results announced yesterday and took everyone by surprise as the stocks on market fell by over 3 percent. The outsourcing firm's rating however was raised by Goldman Sachs to "buy" from "neutral" on Friday as it considered the low price a very attractive point of entry.

The investment bank further went on to add that the correction is a healthy one and will be giving a good return on the risk and thus it would be a great time to enter the stock with a positive outlook.

Amidst a situation of rocketing inflation and constant worries of interest rate hikes the Rangarajan Committee, details has come forward and is an eye opener. It points serious questions at the food security in the nation.

The level of under nutrition is shamefully amongst the top in the world. This cannot be the condition of a country that the world is looking forward to as one of the fastest developing country and the situation of under nutrition cannot be plainly contained by just spending an amount of Rs 10,000 crores on the Public Distribution System.

The inflation word has been ruling the minds of almost the entire India since the year 2011 has started and the government is just busy making promises. The top officials meeting that had been trying to reach a concrete conclusion for the last 2 days has finally reached one.

The government says it now has a small plan to counter the demon of inflation as it will be keeping a strict eye on the hoarders and black marketers.