The recent surveys conducted on multinational sat nav have revealed that it may have actually caused 30,000 accidents. The users usually rely blindly on the sat nav, and thus switch off their common sense. The survey done by insurance firm Direct Line showed that one in five motorists hesitate using the gizmo on a busy traffic road, as it made them lose the track of the road. One in 50 think that they faced or almost faced an accident while the using sat nav technology.

The launch of Apple’s MobileME has proved to be quite rockier than it was ever thought. The problems associated with the service of MobileMe continue as customers complain that they have not been able to access email on the service after several days. Under such circumstances, Apple posted a tech note to its Web site apologizing to the users regarding the inconvenience caused to them.

Customers are being told that it’s the fault of a mail server that is causing all these troubles. Apple clarifies that only 1% of the users were experiencing outages.

London, July 24 : Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and New York city mayor Michael Bloomberg have pledged half a billion dollars to fight tobacco use in developing countries.

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is going to invest 125 million dollars in the course of five years, on the other hand Bloomberg intends to boost his commitment to his Initiative to Reduce Tobacco Use from 125 million dollars to 375 million dollars in four years.

Global estimates suggest that the ‘tobacco epidemic’ kills 5.4 million people a year and that by 2010, smoking will cause about 930,000 adult deaths each year in India.

New York - Microsoft Corp was to reorganize its online services to try to increase focus on its internet business as the head of its online division was set to leave the company, The Wall Street Journal said Thursday.

Microsoft announced Wednesday that Kevin Johnson, the influential head of its online division was joining the network hardware maker Juniper Networks Inc.

Johnson is widely regarded as one of the architects of Microsoft's failed takeover attempt of the internet portal Yahoo Inc.

London, July 24 : A team of researchers from Purdue University and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign claims to have overcome a major obstacle in producing transistors from networks of carbon nanotubes, a technology that could make it possible to print circuits on plastic sheets for applications including flexible displays, and an electronic skin to cover an entire aircraft to monitor crack formation.

The researchers say their work may help significant improve the so-called "nanonet" technology, which involves circuits made of numerous carbon nanotubes randomly overlapping in a fishnet-like structure.

They point out that the network is generally contaminated with metallic nanotubes, which cause short circuits.

Sony has added three new phones to its existing Walkman series - W902, W595, W302, which are packed with some distinctive features to deliver a great listening experience to music lovers.

All three phones include Photo fix, Picture blogging, PictBridge printing, video recording, Walkman player, PlayNow, TrackID, FM radio, 3D games, Java, video viewing, and Bluetooth technology. Other features include USB support, speakerphone, predictive text input, sound recorder, wallpaper animation, navigation key, modem and synchronization.

These phones also support e-mail and Bluetooth Stereo functionalities. All the phones are GSM/GPRS/EDGE enabled, whereas the W902 and W595 handsets are UMTS/HSDPA 2100 compliant.