After when Facebook received an alert that a jihadist group was using the site to spread its radical message, it shut down this fast growing jihadist group.

On the evening of 18th December, the site blocked the group called the Fursan Ghazawat Alnusra, which is Arabic for "Knights in Support of the Invasion" after its membership expanded to about 120 in just more than one week.

Basically the group aimed at teaching its members to wage "Jihad to aid the religion of Allah and his Prophet."

On Sunday, work to repair submarine cables under the Mediterranean commenced, which are suspected of being cut by a ship's anchor. As a result, it has hindered Internet and international telephone service in parts of the Middle East and south Asia.

On 21st December, at 1330 GMT, experts arrived at the site of the damage between Sicily and Tunisia on a cable ship.

A remotely operated submarine robot was sent with the aim to track down the cables.

Washington, December 23 : Unbreakable cell phone covers may soon be available in your neighbouring markets, thanks to researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) who have made a significant progress in understanding why some specific metallic alloys can form glasses while others cannot.

Research leader Carl. V. Thompson, the Stavros Salapatas Professor of Materials Science & Engineering and director of the Materials Processing Center at MIT, says that the team's study describes a way to systematically find the promising mixes from among dozens of candidates.

San Francisco  - Microsoft has given another reprieve to its faithful old operating system Windows XP in a sign of the lingering difficulties facing its successor Windows Vista.

The software giant announced over the weekend that it would allow computer makers to receive copies of the old system until the end of May 2009, which is shortly before the successor to Windows Vista is widely expected to hit the market.

A previous extension allowed computer makers to install XP on low cost laptops and netbooks through 2010.

It would not come as a surprise to anyone that Google accounts for a lion's share of the ad server market. On the contrary, it would shock everyone that Microsoft holds only the equivalent of a lion's paw.

After it received an alert that a jihadist group was using the site to spread its radical message, Facebook shut down the web page of the fast growing jihadist group.

On the evening of 18th December, the site blocked the group called the Fursan Ghazawat Alnusra, which is Arabic for "Knights in Support of the Invasion" after its membership expanded to about 120 in just more than one week.

Basically the group aimed at teaching its members to wage "Jihad to aid the religion of Allah and his Prophet."