New Delhi, Feb 9 : India through an Access Agreement with the European Patent Office, has established a mechanism to protect India''s traditional medicinal knowledge from bio-piracy.

The maiden Indian effort in creating ''Traditional Knowledge Digital Library (TKDL) database would now be available to the Patent Examiners at European Patent Office (EPO having 34 member states) for establishing prior art, in case of patent applications based on Indian systems of medicine.

The accessibility of data base has come into operation from February 2.

New Delhi, Feb 9 : The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India has signed a Grant of Permission Agreement for establishing, maintaining and operating a community radio station at St. Aloysius College, Mangalore.

The community radio station is expected to be operational within three months as per the agreement.

St. Aloysius College''s community radio station will be the 42nd station in the country.

St. Aloysius College, Mangalore is a 129-year old educational institution.

Mobile major Sony Ericsson has got another reason to be back in the news. The mobile company, in collaboration with Zapak.com and Microsoft XBOX 360 launched its first gaming handset ‘F305’.

Speaking on this, Sony Ericsson General Manager Sudhin Mathur said, “The F305, which has the motion sensor technology, is the first gaming phone from the stable.”

The new mobile costs Rs 8,995.

Mathur also pointed out that the company in the coming years would launch more gaming handsets. The company already has its Walkman and Cybershot range for the music and imaging segment.

Finally, LG confirmed the hearsays about its new high-end media phone media phone KM900 on the company's official UK blog.

The puzzle both confirms the device’s name through the file name, and that the touchscreen candybar phone use LG’s innovative and dynamic 3D User Interface.

LG also admitted that the phone (KM900) will have its formal debut at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona that will take place this month.

With this, more info regarding the phone is coming out slowly for mobile buffs to feast on.

Redmond, Washington  - Microsoft has released a new version of its Internet Explorer browser. Compared to its predecessor, the new software offers technical improvements and new functions, the company said. The browser is also available in 25 languages.

The novel features include the ability to send highlighted text directly to a lexicon or mapping service using a context menu; and webslices, a service to keep users informed about changes to subscribed sites like weather and auction portals.

Berlin  - IT specialists have been hot property in recent years partly because too few young people entered the field over the last decade, meaning that not enough graduates with degrees in hand have been reaching the other side.

"That situation hasn't changed significantly," says Maurice Shahd from the BITKOM, the German association for the IT industry. It's just one of the reasons why IT specialists have less to fear from the hard current economic times than other workers.