The indigenously built unmanned air vehicle (UAV), Nishant opened a new chapter in the history of Indian Aviation on Sunday, when it accomplished its test flight successfully. The Nishant’s historic took its test flight from an abandoned runway of World War II at a small village named Veerapura, eight kilometres from Kolar in Karnataka.

The leading map & GPS navigation services provider in India – MapmyIndia has hooked up with GPS device maker Garmin to offers its services on Garmin GPS devices. MapmyIndia has announced that its maps are now compatible with Garmin GPS devices, and the users can now install its India maps on their Garmin GPS device.

According to MapmyIndia, its database, offering maps of 202 cities, 130,000 towns and villages, 450,000 point of interests, and navigation to 640,000 unique reachable destinations across India, is now compatible with Garmin GPS devices; it is available for Garmin GPS devices; the Garmin users will now be able to access its Indian maps.

The leader in providing mobile data solutions for Macintosh computers – Nova Media has announced to launch iCON225 USB based 3G modem for the Apple Macs and Windows PCs. The Berlin, Germany based Nova Media has stated that iCON 225 helps establishing mobile Internet connections all around the globe.

It certainly is good news for Muslim brothers; they can now have a new mobile phone application that helps alert them at the time of their daily prayers. Well, the US researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed the new mobile application specifically for Muslim brothers.

One of the leading graphics solution manufacturers in the United States, XFX has launched XFX Radeon HD 4890 Graphics Processing Unit in India. The XFX Radeon HD 4890 GPU is expansion of the XFX Radeon HD 4000 GPU series, which include the 4870, 4850, 4650 and 4350 GPUs.

The XFX Radeon HD 4890 GPU features TeraScale graphics engine, over 1 teraFLOPS, around 1 billion transistors, 800 stream processors, and GDDR5 memory technology. The benefit of the GDDR5 memory technology is that it helps gaining twice the data per pin of GDDR3 memory at similar clock speeds.

The internet search giant, Google secured significant victories in its Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) cases against two Indian companies last month. The World Intellectual Property Rights Organization (WIPO) gave its verdict in favor of Google, in its domain names’ cases against Ascio Technologies and Net Jobs, and the WIPO arbitration and mediation committee transferred the domain names "googlehrd.com" and "mygooglemoney.com," used by the two Indian companies, to Google.