During the global WiMax Exposition-cum-conference in New Delhi, the laptops installed with WiMax were unveiled, which come with Intel chips from computer manufacturers like Lenovo and Asus. The new WiMax embedded laptops are expected to increase the growth of wireless broadband in India at a really fast pace.

After the Department of Telecom announced the Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) spectrum auction policy, the first Indian WiMax Expo-cum-conference was held.

Washington - The successor to Windows Vista now has a name: Windows 7.

Although the new operating system is not due to hit store shelves until late next year, Microsoft felt that now was the time not only to unveil the name of the next version of the world's most-used operating system but, more importantly, the rationale for the abandonment of the "aspirational" naming scheme of recent versions of Windows.

Helsinki - The construction schedule for Finland's fifth nuclear reactor has run into a new delay, Finnish power company Teollisuuden Voima (TVO) said Friday.

Work on the third reactor at Olkiluoto, south-western Finland, began in 2005. Power generation was now slated to begin in 2012 instead of 2011, TVO said Friday.

Two of the country's four operating reactors are also located at Olkiluoto.

TVO said the "the reactor plant civil construction works will take several months longer than earlier estimated."

Washington, Oct 167 : US Department of Energy''s Savannah River National Laboratory’s unique collection of microbes, called BioTiger, has been found to be useful for both cleaning up the environment and addressing people’s energy needs.

The BioTiger was the result of over eight years of extensive work that began at a century-old Polish waste lagoon.

"DOE had originally funded us to work with our Polish counterparts to develop a microbe-based method for cleaning up oil-contaminated soils," explained Dr. Robin Brigmon, SRNL Fellow Engineer.

With the aim to boost development of local platforms based in Intel architecture, Intel, the leading chipmaker, today unveiled the provision of Atom processors and reference designs in India, keeping in mind the mushrooming market for handheld devices in the nation. 

Atom processor N270 is really small equal to the size of a 25 paisa coin and has been applied in 45 nanometer technology. It is power optimized, which is capable of delivering excellent performance with minimum usage of power, that is below 3 watts. According to R Ravichandran, Director (Sales), Intel South Asia, “The single core processor is validated with Mobile Intel 945GSE Express chipset.”

London, October 17 : Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have created a molecular computer that can run calculations inside a living cell.

Project leaders Maung Nyan Win and Christina Smolke have revealed that, so far, they have tested the living computer on a living yeast cell.

The researchers believe that future models of the computer, made from the DNA-like molecule RNA, may be helpful in running calculations inside human cells to release drugs, or prime the immune system, at the first hint of illness.

They have revealed that the RNA device processes input signals in the form of natural cell proteins and produces an output in the form of green fluorescent protein (GFP).