Washington, April 6 : Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a religious application that alerts Muslim mobile users when it's time to perform the five daily prayers called salat.

The application known as Sun Dial is currently being discussed this week at the human-computer interaction conference, CHI, in Boston.

"We have to understand religion because it''s such a central part of peoples lives," said Susan Wyche, doctoral candidate in the College of Computing and GVU Center at Georgia Tech.

The chief controller of the leading defence contractor and aerospace manufacturer, the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) on Saturday announced that the inexpensive, cost effective, rapid typhoid test kit will be available on the market shortly. According to the distinguished Scientist & Chief Controller of the New Delhi based DRDO, A. Sivathanu Pillai, the cheap typhoid test kit will be released on the market, after it obtains requisite certification and clearances.   

Frankfurt  - Dell's latest laptop is designed to take a beating and can reportedly survive a drop off a table, even when the display is operating.

The Latitude E6400 XFR is billed as a fully ruggedized notebook, designed to withstand drops of up to 120 centimetres when shut down and falls of up to 90 centimetres while running.

Other features include a Core-2-Duo processor, a scratch-resistant cover and the ability to withstand extreme temperatures. The laptop sells for 3,290 euros (4,265 dollars). ---

New software provides missing sync between Mac and BlackBerry

Bonn  - Internet users are advised to download the latest version of the Flash player to protect their computer from hacker attacks. The software is available free of charge at http://get.adobe.com/de/flashplayer.

The latest flash version is now required to display the content on many web sites, says the German Federal Agency for Security in Information Technology (BSI) in Bonn. Earlier versions suffer from a security hole that could allow hackers to gain control of external computers.

Washington  - Need a copy of the receipt for an order you placed online? Usually you get a printable copy from the vendor, but if not, you can save a record for yourself. Just open the File menu on your web browser, click Save As, and put a copy of the file into a folder on your hard drive. Save it as HTML so that when you open it up again, it will look largely the same as it did when you were online.