Nintendo had recently announced the launch of the DSi with lot of hype. The handheld gaming console, which features two cameras and enhanced audio feature created a craze among the users. 

But now, the company has officially announced something, which will definitely disappoint some of the readers. Reportedly, it has been learnt that Nintendo DSi will be region specific or region locked. That means people who are having European DSi won't be able to play any games from other regions and vice versa. 

A version 2.0 of the development framework has been released by Mono, the project that brought Microsoft's C# and .Net to Linux. A runtime system for C# is offered by this framework and Visual Basic code, instead of the Windows, could be run on the Linux operating system through this development framework. However, the complete .Net environment cannot be imitated by it. 

The Mono project site, on Monday started providing the code for downloading. Now Novell would sponsor Mono, with Miguel de Icaza becoming a VP of development at Novell from project leader initially. 

The Canadian maker of the BlackBerry family of smartphones, Research in Motion has unveiled its first ever touch screen device ‘The Storm’ on Wednesday. 

Targeted at business and consumer markets, the newly launched device is BlackBerry’s official answer to rival touch-based smartphones launched recently including Apple's 3G iPhone, Sony Ericsson's Xperia X1, T-Mobile's Google Android-powered G1 and Nokia's 5800 music phone launched last week.

‘The 3G Storm’ will be available through Verizon Wireless in the US, and Vodafone in the European market by November 2008.

Vienna - Using quantum physics, researchers said they communicated for the first time via a completely tap-proof telephone network in Vienna on Wednesday.

Scientists involved in the SECOQC project, funded by the European Union, found a way to create an encryption key based on the polarisation of photons, subatomic particles that carry light.

"Classic keys can be hacked by supercomputers, but not in this case," said Anton Zeilinger, a quantum physicist at the Vienna University.

Mountain View, California  - Google is set to expand its lead in the online advertising market by allowing advertisements within games, the company announced Wednesday.

Google would use its new so-called AdSense for Games programme to sell in-game video ads, the world's leading search engine provider said.

The company also hopes to make profits from its YouTube video platform by introducing a new "Click to Buy" programme allowing users to buy digital tunes from Apples iTunes or Amazon. com without leaving the site.

London, Oct 8 : Scientists in Japan have unveiled a life-like robot that looks like a five-year-old girl.

The team at Osaka University''s robotics department behind the robogirl, known as Repliee R-1, has claimed that it is the most realistic robot suit ever created.

Repliee R-1 has flexible silicone skin and contains dozens of sensors and motors, enabling it to move and interact with its surroundings like a human, reports the Telegraph.