Washington, April 1 (ANI): Scientists at Newcastle University, UK, have worked out a mathematical formula that could be used to give advance warning of where a tsunami is likely to hit and how destructive it will be.

The research, led by Newcastle University's Professor Robin Johnson, was prompted by the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami disaster which devastated coastal communities in Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India and Thailand.

The manufacturer of BlackBerry phones, Research in Motion (RIM) has opened its one-stop application store, officially called BlackBerry App World, today. The RIM has declared that the BlackBerry App World is open for the BlackBerry users.

Jim Balsillie, the BlackBerry Co-Chief Executive, has stated that the BlackBerry App World is set to be available for application download for the BlackBerry users, starting at midday.

The Global Information Technology Report 2008-2009 released recently by the World Economic Forum (WEF) reveals the Networked Readiness Index (NRI) that shows how prepared countries are in using ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) effectively.

Guys, you can now send emails in five Indian languages – Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam through Google’s Gmail. Well, Gmail’s new feature, “Indic Language transliteration” – recently introduced in Gmail and Google Apps by Google India – allows you to write your mails in the aforesaid five Indian languages.

The computer hardware manufacturer best known for its motherboards, Gigabyte Technology yesterday introduced the GA-GC230D motherboard equipped with the Intel Atom 230 processor motherboard technology, in India. The Taipei, Taiwan based Gigabyte announced that the GA-GC230D motherboard will be distributed by Neoteric Informatique, in India.

The existing clients of Google AdSense won’t be able to see the video units feature of the revenue sharing ad program by end of April! The video units feature that lets publishers show YouTube content and video ads on their pages is being removed from Google AdSense.

Google has stated that Google AdSense’s video units feature is being removed because of poor performance.