New Delhi, Nov. 4 : Union Minister of State for Science and Technology and Ocean Development Kapil Sibal has said the country needs an Information Communication and Technology (ICT) revolution if it has to move forward.

Speaking at the 55th Convocation Day of the Institution of Electronics and

Telecommunication Engineers (IETE) here over the weekend, Sibal said that ICT should be recognized as the vehicle of success and growth of the nation and initiatives should be taken at political level.

This is the second time in two months that Sony’s name has been linked with overheating problems that has initiated recall on more than 100,000 batteries found in Hewlett-Packard, Toshiba and Dell Notebook Computers. “The lithium-ion batteries can overheat, posing a fire and burn hazard to consumers,” reported the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission.

The Samsung Delve phone has been launched in US by Samsung Delve Phone Alltel Wireless. Apart from being stylish and vibrant, the phone also supports an intuitive interface. A virtual QWERTY keyboard and TouchWiz interface that supports widgets, adds to its other exciting features.

The integrated drag-and-drop widgets on the screen provided by the Samsung Delve let the users to instantly access their favorite functions directly from the screen. Other than this, the users can also change the main display screen according to the icons of the application.

Los Angeles - Online media site MySpace is offering the owners of copyright material the chance to cash in on its online popularity.

MySpace said Monday that it had reached a deal with media giant Viacom whereby it will insert adds into the company's video excerpts that are screened on its site and pay the media giant a slice of the revenues.

Prior to this arrangement, the only procedure MySpace followed in dealing with copyrighted material was to try and identify it and block its appearance on the popular social networking site.

San Francisco - Worldwide threats from malicious software that cripple computers with spy programs, viruses and worms have increased 43 per cent over the past year, Microsoft said Monday in its Security Intelligence Report.

The software giant said that the rise occurred despite a significant improvement in the security of its operating systems, as hackers targeted individual programs and naïve users.

Microsoft said that 90 per cent of new vulnerabilities over the past year targeted programs, while only 10 per cent honed in on operating systems.

Seoul - Microsoft Corp plans to invest 60 million dollars in South Korea's software industry over the next three years, chief executive Steve Ballmer told President Lee Myung Bak Monday during a visit to the Asian country.

The world's largest software maker wants to concentrate its investment on advancing software developers and new companies in the industry, Ballmer was quoted as saying by Lee's office.

US-based Microsoft also wants to encourage these firms in their expansions to other countries, he added.

Before his meeting with Lee, Ballmer signed an investment agreement with South Korean authorities for the promotion of the software sector.