Bengaluru, Nov. 8 : An official of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Saturday confirmed that the spacecraft Chandrayaan-1 had entered the lunar orbit successfully.

S. Satish, spokesperson of ISRO said that the Chandrayaan-1 orbit would last around 800 seconds in 7,500km x 500km elliptical orbit around the moon.

"The lunar orbit insertion (LOI) will start around 5 p. m. and last around 800 seconds," Satish said.

New Delhi - India's moon mission Chandrayaan-1 was successfully placed in lunar orbit on Saturday, officials at the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) said.

"The lunar orbit insertion placed the Chandrayaan in an elliptical orbit with its nearest point 400 to 500 kilometres away from the moon and the farthest, 7,500 kilometres," ISRO director S Satish said from the southern city of Bangalore.

The complex positioning which depended on precision timing was carried out from the space control room in Bangalore.

With shares of Yahoo Inc. plunging on Friday, Steve Ballmer, CEO Microsoft Corp. said at a business lunch in Sydney that Microsoft is no longer interested in “revisiting a possible acquisition” of the struggling Yahoo. Still, he did suggest a partnership in the search engine market is possible.

Ballmer’s latest remarks follow Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang’s statement earlier this week that he remained “very open minded” about a full or partial merger with Microsoft.

Washington  - Kids love the Internet. Unfortunately, as every parent knows, there's a lot of trouble they can get into while wandering through cyberspace. The challenge is to allow youngsters to learn from and enjoy the Internet while keeping them safe from harmful influences. That's the focus of this week's questions.

Q: My kids have their own accounts on my computer. I would like to set up their Web browsers so that a kid-friendly search engine appears automatically. Can you recommend some?

IBM has launched a program which aims at sponsoring talented engineering students from various leading technical institutes of India. The program also aims at encouraging further researchers in the region. 

"The IBM Blue Scholar Program is aimed at growing that rare talent that blooms in a scientifically challenging atmosphere," said Dr. Manish Gupta, associate director, IBM India Research Laboratory.

To improve the performance and reliability of solid-state drives (SSD), SanDisk Corp. on Wednesday announced an advanced flash file management system called ExtremeFFS system.

Don Barnetson, senior director of marketing at the Milpitas, Calif.-based memory maker's SSD business unit, said ExtremeFFS should boost the speed of writing common types of data to SSDs by as much as 100 times, thereby dramatically improving two of the main weaknesses of SSDs.