Thursday saw Microsoft Corp. launching gossip site Wonderwall. com, which basically is a scrolling wall of star photos and news aimed to provide users the feel of flipping through a celebrity magazine.

Wonderwall, which has been produced by Hollywood based BermanBraun is being expected by MSN to motivate users to spend quite a lot time on the site than they have elsewhere on the Web portal. It is also being hoped by the company that it will let the users to come up with innovative approaches to advertising.

Melbourne, Feb 6 : While it is often said that money can''t buy love, an Australian psychologist has cautioned that cash act as a major bonding material when it comes to keeping couples together in difficult times.

Dr Matthew Bambling of the Queensland University of Technology has revealed that many couples are parting ways owing to the recent credit crunch, as they face job insecurity, redundancy or worries about making ends meet.

Thus, Bambling has asked families to pull together amid the economic slump, and warned them to trim their financial "dreams."

He says that tough times like these ask for good communication within couples.

Washington, Feb 5 : Engineers have designed and tested a versatile, low-mass robot that can rappel off cliffs, travel nimbly over steep and rocky terrain, and explore deep craters, which might help future robotic spacecraft better explore and investigate planets such as Mars.

The robot has been designed by engineers from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and students at the California Institute of Technology.

While Axle may help robotic spacecraft explore foreign worlds such as Mars, on Earth, it might assist in search-and-rescue operations.

London, February 5 : Google techies have come up with a new Internet service that can put bunking employees and love cheats in danger, for the device can show their exact location.

The Google service, which works with Google Maps, can tell where a person exactly is by making use of GPS sat-nav signals from his/her mobile phone.

However, for those wishing to disconnect or manually programme their phone to conceal certain locations have the option to do so.

While company bosses and parents can rejoice, critics are apprehensive that employees may be forced to participate in the service, which can unveil somebody's location on a phone or computers in a jiffy.

London, Feb 05 : Talking or texting on a cell phone while driving is undoubtedly a deadly mix. Yet many people ignore the fatal risk and do not take precautions. Now, a Utah company is using Bluetooth technology to create a special driving mode that makes it impossible for a driver to talk or text when the car is on.

"The recent stats show that texting on the phone has overtaken drunk driving fatalities on public roads. This is all about saving lives and safer driving," Discovery News quoted Ronn Hartman of Accendo LC, the company working to commercialise the technology, as saying.

Search giant Google has decided to educate common people about power of Internet in India’s Tamil Nadu (TN) state.

To fulfill its purpose, Google on Tuesday flagged off a ‘Google Bus Project’, which will educate the power of Internet to the common people in 15 tier II and tier III towns in Tamil Nadu over a period of a month and a half.

It is an Internet connected bus, which will demonstrate content as well as usage of the internet to create awareness among the common people.