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Apple is all set to launch its new versions of its iPod MP3 music players on Tuesday at a rocking event titled “Lets Rock” at San Francisco. On the other hand, Microsoft, its rival is focusing on its Zune devices to survive in the competition.

All the fans of Apple products, received an email of invitation last week, which read “Lets Rock”, and a colorful outline of a person who is excitingly listening to an iPod.

The other information included in the invitation email, was the time of the press conference and the way to the theatre where it will be held.

Analyst Rob Enderle of Enderle Group in Silicon Valley, informed, “The best bet is they are going to refresh the iPod Touch and the iPod Nano.”

London, September 10 : Scientists at the University of Washington in Seattle have come up with a new scheme that can solve the problem low connection speeds during peer-to-peer (P2P) downloading.

Such problems usually occur when Internet users download P2P content that is stored a long way from their homes, and the online links over thousands of kilometres get tied up delivering it.

The researchers say that their scheme called Proactive Provider Participation for P2P (P4P) can help ease the load.

Their idea is to take the help of Internet service providers (ISPs) in supplying P2P sites with data on the shortest routes between peers.

Washington, September 10 : Tel Aviv University researchers have written a unique software program called the ‘Korset’ that can stop computer viruses from wreaking havoc on the servers running on Linux, the operating system used by the majority of web and email servers worldwide.

Avishai Wool, a professor in the university’s Faculty of Engineering, says that the new software can predict how any insidious program residing inside a computer for months or years after developing immunity to anti-virus solutions should behave in the future.

This advance is significant because most anti-virus companies often take days before their software updates can prepare one’s computer for the next attack.

“Spore Origins”, the original game designed for Apple’s iPhone and iPod gadgets, will be launched this month by Electronic Arts Mobile. The other games in the pipiline are, Yahtzee Adventures, EA Mini Golf, Lemonade Tycoon, Mahjong, Monopoly, Here & Now the World Edition, SimCity, Tiger Woods PGA Tour 09, Need for Speed Undercover and The Sims 3. All these games are suitable for both platforms.

The iPhone’s inbuilt accelerometer is fully used by the “Spore Origins” and the players also have to tilt and turn to escape the seep and work their way up the evolutionary ladder.

New Delhi - Germany and India on Tuesday launched a strategic initiative which will foster cooperation between science and industry on innovation in skill development, industrial growth and life sciences.

India's Science Minister Kapil Sibal and German Federal Minister for Education and Research, Annette Schavan inaugurated the Indo-German Science and Technology Centre (IGSTC) in New Delhi for which each side will provide 10 million euros over the next five years.