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After 5 decades and one hundred missions, India's space program is growing faster than ever, ISRO chief K Radhakrishnan noted.

Speaking after the successful launch of India's advanced communication satellite GSAT-10 on Saturday morning, Radhakrishnan said India took 27 years to complete its first 50 space missions, but for completing the next 50 it took just 10 years.

Hewlett-Packard (HP) has recently unveiled its Windows 8-based ElitePad 900 tablet, which is essentially aimed at business users and will compete with a horde of other business-centric mobile devices in the coming months.

According to a new Wall Street Journal (WSJ) report, Finnish handset-maker Nokia and bigwig tech company Oracle have apparently worked out an agreement under which Oracle's customers will be able to access Nokia's mapping technology.

As per the WSJ report, citing confirmation by a spokesperson of Nokia, the Nokia-Oracle deal - which comes close on the heels of Nokia's similar mapping agreements with Groupon and Amazon - will probably be announced at the forthcoming OracleWorld conference in San Francisco on Monday.

In a new announcement which underscores Adobe's attempts at facilitating its Acrobat users in editing PDF documents, the company has recently unveiled a new version of Acrobat platform - Acrobat XI - for distribution and collaboration with documents.

The new version of the Acrobat platform is scheduled for release by October-end; and will help the users not only edit PDF documents but will also enable them to get content from Microsoft Office and other similar apps.

Last week, Finnish game developer Rovio announced that its newest title - `Bad Piggies' - was immediately available for Apple's popular devices --- including the iPhone, the iPad and the iPod touch.

According to the announcement by Rovio, the `Bad Piggies' version for the iPhone and iPod touch is priced at $0.99; and the iPad version is available for $2.99. Both the versions can now be downloaded at Apple's iTunes-based App Store.

At the last week BlackBerry Jam Americas developer conference, Research In Motion (RIM) demonstrated a near feature-complete version of its forthcoming BlackBerry 10 operating system (BB10 OS).

Going by the demonstrations by RIM at the conference, the BB 10 OS - which is likely to be shipped on the company's new BlackBerry smartphones early next year - boast a new look as well as some compelling new features.