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Battle with Microsoft heats up as Google creates own web browser

Google ChromeNew York - Google Inc, creator of the world's most popular internet search engine, has developed its own web browser in a challenge to Microsoft Corp's dominant Internet Explorer.

A test version of new software, named Google Chrome, is to be available for download Tuesday in more than 100 countries, Google announced Monday on its corporate blog.

The company said its aim was to deliver a faster, more user-friendly and safer browser.

Sony Bravia VPL-HW10 Full 1080p HD Projector Unveiled

Equipped with high quality cinematic experience, the full 1080p HD projector called VPL-HW10 has been introduced by Sony as its new Bravia range.

Some of the mind-blowing features of this new VPL-HW10 include triple-panel Sony SXRD (Silicon X-tal Reflective Display), 8-stage image processing, 2.5ms response time, All Range Crisp Focus (ARC-F) lens and 1.6x manual zoom. Additionally it has been equipped with Sony’s Advanced Iris 2 dynamic contrast adjustment technology that provides 30,000:1 contrast ratio.

Motorola Launches ‘MOTOZINE ZN5’ In India

The leading mobile manufacturer Motorola Inc has released its new camera Motorola Launches ‘MOTOZINE ZN5’ In Indiaphone MOTOZINE ZN5 in the Indian market.

The newly launched phone supports Kodak’s MOTOZINE camera and is supported by 23Megapixel camera with auto-focus and a Xenon flash.

The new MOTOZINE ZN5 is expected to give stiff competition to Cyber-Shot series of Sony Ericsson. It offers high quality photography with modern technology.

Microsoft acquires European site ‘Ciao.com’ for $ 486 million

Next cool trend: GPS tags from new phones and data loggers

Global Positioning SystemBerlin - Watch out for geo-tagging. A previously nerdy hobby that aims to map and describe every spot on the Planet Earth may be about to go mainstream, thanks to a rash of new, easy-to-use gadgets.

All the devices use the Global Positioning System (GPS), the network of orbiting satellites which issue signals that are currently best known for guiding satellite navigation (sat-nav) devices in cars.

GPS can also be used to calculate the exact latitude and longitude of a place - a "point of interest" in geo-tagging jargon - or of a route, which simply consists of a series of fixes known as "waypoints."

Oldest known archaeological example of beekeeping discovered in Israel

King DavidKing SolomonWashington, September 1 : Scientists have unearthed the remains of a large-scale beekeeping operation at a nearly 3,000-year-old Israeli site, which dates to the time of biblical accounts of King David and King Solomon, thus becoming the oldest known archaeological example of beekeeping.

Excavations in northern Israel at a huge earthen mound called Tel Rehov revealed the Iron Age settlement.

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