Los Angeles (dpa) - Sales at Dell Inc dropped 3 per cent in the quarter, but the company said Thursday that it increased its earnings per share by cutting jobs.

The Texas-based computer maker said that the global economic slowdown pushed third-quarter sales down to 15.16 billion dollars from 16.21 billion in the year-ago quarter.

Total earnings were 727 million dollars, down from 766 million dollars a year ago. But earnings per share rose 9 per cent to 37 cents, thanks to Dell's aggressive share buy back programme.

NVIDIA Corporation introduced a 'Tesla Personal Supercomputer' at very attractive prices in Indian market. It would provide much higher efficiency and performance over ordinary desktop.

Tesla Personal Supercomputer can be assembled at local level and plugged into the normal power sockets for house hold use. It comes with graphics processing unit (GPU) technology which is also used by computer manufacturers such as Dell, Lenova and HP due to its efficient performance. The company has spent $500 million to develop the processor which would revamp the data processing by computer. '

Washington, Nov 20 : Fearing you won''t be able to keep track of your workout sessions during the holiday season? Well, in that case, scrap all your worries, for cell phone software has been developed that can help people maintain their exercise routine and keep the pounds off over winter months.

Researchers at the University of Washington and Intel have created two new cell phone applications, dubbed UbiFit and UbiGreen, which can track workouts and green transportation.

And the interesting part of using the programs is that they display motivational pictures on the phone''s background screen that change the more the user works out or uses eco-friendly means of transportation.

Washington, Nov 20 : A new research has suggested that the first eyes in the animal kingdom evolved for the purpose of seeking light.

Larvae of marine invertebrates – worms, sponges, jellyfish - have the simplest eyes that exist. They consist of no more than two cells: a photoreceptor cell and a pigment cell.

These minimal eyes, called eyespots, resemble the ‘proto-eyes’ suggested by Charles Darwin as the first eyes to appear in animal evolution. They cannot form images but allow the animal to sense the direction of light.

This ability is crucial for phototaxis – the swimming towards light exhibited by many zooplankton larvae.

London, Nov 20: Iran has blocked access to more than five million Internet sites because they are immoral and anti-social,” according to reports.

The Iranian ban includes many news sites, Sky News reported.

Internet service providers have been told over the years to block access to political, human rights and women’s sites, as well as anything deemed pornographic or anti-Islamic.

The country’s 21 million Internet users will now also be prevented from viewing weblogs expressing dissent, along with popular sites as Facebook and YouTube.

The technology keeps on advancing day by day, and it brings happy news for all those who are Gizmo fans.

To add more to their wardrobe, Virgin Mobile has made announcement about the launching of its ‘vKewl’ branded handset in the Indian market.

With superb video recording capability and a 1.3 mega pixel camera, the candybar phone comes with a FM radio, MP3 player, MMS, speakers and headset support.