The Indian market is flooding with latest gadgets and gizmo items, and recently Transcend India launched its latest high-speed SLC 2.5-inch Solid State Disk (SSD). This latest and exclusive disk by Transcend has 64GB of storage space.

SSD, which is based on reliable NAND flash memory, has some exciting features such as inbuilt durability benefits of solid state technology and ability to withstand vibration, shock and heat. It is silent, with no generation of voice and also uses less power for operation.

Bangalore, Aug. 14 : In a glittering ceremony held here, the Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL)-built first Hawk Mk132 trainer jet was handed over to Indian Air Force, marking a new era in the Indian defence aviation sector.

The Hawk Mk 132 was handed over to Air Chief Marshal Fali Homi Major, by HAL Chairman Ashok K Baweja.

Talking to mediapersons after the ceremony, Major said that the Hawk Mk 132 aircraft would tremendously help in the training of Indian fighter pilots.

London, August 14 : German researchers have created a faster and more energy efficient version of the RAM used in computers today.

Santiago Serrano-Guisan and Hans Schumacher of the Physical-Technical Federal Laboratory of Germany have revealed that their version of RAM is about 10 times faster than the existing magnetoresistive random access memory (MRAM), which hardware companies think will in a few years dominate the market.

"Present MRAM are programmed by pulses of about 10 nanoseconds duration. So we are ten times faster," New Scientist magazine quoted Serrano-Guisan as saying.

Washington, August 14 : A newly developed robotic vehicle has successfully completed its first scientific mission by surveying deep sea off the Pacific Northwest.

Developed by a team of scientists and engineers from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and the University of Washington (UW), the robot, called ‘Sentry’, is capable of diving as deep as 5,000 meters (3.1 miles) into the ocean.

The vehicle surveyed and helped pinpoint several proposed deep-water sites for seafloor instruments that will be deployed in the National Science Foundation (NSF)’s planned Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI).

San Francisco  - Facebook has overtaken MySpace to become the world's most popular social networking site with 132 million unique visitors in June, according to new figures from web tracking firm ComScore.

The study also found that Facebook's visitor growth far outpaced that of MySpace, with Facebook visits up 153 per cent on an annual basis, compared to just 3 per cent growth for MySpace. Other social networks showing strong global growth include Hi5 (100 per cent) Friendster (50 per cent), Orkut (41 per cent) and Bebo (32 per cent).

London, August 13 : Dell, Inc. considers the demands of the Indian workforce to be a major factor behind why it has had to develop laptops with significant new features.

The company has predicted a significant rise in the demand and sales of its new laptops, due to their significantly higher battery life than the existing machines, in the near future.

"The majority of people coming online and buying their first computer today are doing it in emerging countries like China, India and Brazil,” the BBC quoted Andy Lark, Dell''s vice president of global marketing, as saying.