San Francisco - Ten years ago Google was just a misspelling of an obscure mathematical term that few had ever heard off. But then on September 7 1998 two Stanford University graduates founded a company with the name based on a cool idea of how to make web searches more accurate by analyzing links to websites.

What followed was one of the most meteoric rises in US corporate history, resulting in a hugely profitable company that rakes in 150 billion dollars per year.

But Google faces numerous challenges as it tries to keep growing. The company still relies on search advertising for over 90 per cent of its revenues, and its critics contend that it abuses its dominant position on the web to encroach on users' privacy.

New Delhi, Sep 3 : Amid continued reservations of some member countries over granting waiver to India, the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) will hold a crucial two-day meeting in Vienna from Thursday to consider the initiative.

The NSG will consider a draft which is being presented before the 45-nation grouping after amendments following demands by at least 15 countries during the 21st-22nd August meeting.

Countries like New Zealand and Austria, which are still not satisfied with the revised draft, are expected to voice their concerns over non-proliferation issues.

Dublin - Satellite navigation systems have been causing chaos in Ireland's idyllic Ring of Kerry, a 180-kilometre stretch of road around the rugged landscape of the island's south-west, national br

Washington, Sept 3 : Scientists at Boston College have created nanonets, by using titanium and silicon in a two-dimensional network of wires that resemble flat, rectangular netting – a finding critical to improving the performance of electronics and energy applications.

The nanonets are a flexible webbing of nano-scale wires that multiplies surface area critical to improving the performance of the wires in electronics and energy applications.

Washington, Sept 3 : Researchers in the US have used a new way to predict outbreaks of cholera - a water-borne infectious disease.

According to the researchers, this new technique could potentially control outbreaks of other important infectious diseases.

The bacterium that causes cholera, Vibrio cholerae, has a known association with a crustacean (called a copepod), which lives on zooplankton, a type of plankton.

Cholera outbreaks have been associated with environmental factors, including sea surface temperature, ocean height, and biomass.

London, Sept 2 : With Sony launching its electronic book reader that can store upto 160 tomes including classics by Charles Dickens and Jane Austen, experts are arguing that the technological advancement will kill off the traditional paperbacks.

The Sony Reader, priced at 199 pounds, will give buyers a choice of tens of thousands of ebooks to downloaded from the Waterstone''s website.

To savour the classics, people will have to connect the Sony Reader to their home computers.