London, Aug. 23 : The British firm -- P. A. Consulting -- which lost the secret records on 84,000 prisoners, won 240-million pounds of Government contracts — including Labour’s ID card scheme.

According to The Sun, the firm sparked a furore this week after losing a computer memory stick holding details of all 84,000 prisoners in England and Wales. Confidential records on 43,000 of Britain’s most prolific criminals also vanished.

PA Consulting has also carried out work for the Ministry of Defence, Treasury and Cabinet Office, as well as the Departments for Children, Health and Transport — costing nearly a quarter of a billion pounds.

New Delhi, Aug 23: The Indian Air Force software experts from Bangalore based Software Development Institute (SDI) indigenously developed software patches to make Su30-MKI avionics compatible with NATO operational philosophy.

This wholly indigenous effort has saved valuable foreign. The IAF is participating in the exercise Red Flag, which is an advanced aerial combat training exercise hosted at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada in USA.

Microsoft seems very much serious on privacy and security issues on the internet world. It has decided to introduce a "privacy mode" for the next release of its Internet Explorer (IE) web browser.

IE8 web browser will control the amount and data and enable customers to maintain their privacy. The senior vice president of Microsoft's search, portal and advertising platform group, Satya Nadella said that the browser will come with a special private mode. The two most probable trademarks are Cleartracks and Inprivate.

After luring users with ‘8800 Sapphire Arte’, Finnish giant Nokia has made announcement about the launching of Nokia 8800 Carbon Arte phone, which will hit market by third quarter of this year (2008).

Targeted at style conscious youngsters, the newly launched handset is specifically made from carbon fibre, titanium, polished glass and stainless steel.

To entice users, the new 3 Skypephone phone S2 has been introduced that lets users to access Internet services such as Facebook, Google and Windows Live Messanger without any difficulty.

The new 3 Skypephone S2, a successor to the 3 Skypephone, comes in a classy black and metal finish.

Weighing just 95 grams, the new 3.2 mega-pixel camera phone with dimensions of 103.0x 45.0 x14.0 comes packed with 50MB internal memory, HSDPA capabilities, Bluetooth, mobile TV, last.fm and a battery back up of 410 minutes.