Tehran  - Iran launched into orbit its first domestically produced satellite Tuesday morning, the official news agency IRNA reported.

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ordered the launching of the satellite called Omid, or hope, on a domestically produced Safir 2 rocket, IRNA said.

The United States is concerned about the satellite launch because it could be a precursor to the development of ballistic missiles, US State Department spokesman Robert Wood said.

Washington, Feb 3 : Fascinated by the blue ocean, but don't know how to swim? Well, take heart, for Google has launched Ocean in Google Earth that allows users to navigate underwater in unprecedented clarity.

Ocean builds on the free, popular 3-D mapping software Google Earth, the company''s virtual Earth model.

With the help of the latest version of the Google Earth software, users can clearly see the oceanic mountain ranges, trenches and abyssal plains.

Washington  - Sure, using a computer costs money. Electricity, printing, paper, and Internet access aren't free. But they're probably closer to a necessity for you than an option.

So the challenge is to find ways to save money while continuing to reap the productivity benefits that computing affords. Read on for some ideas.

Q: I'm using the Balanced power saving feature of Windows Vista, but I would like to know more precisely how much energy I would actually save by switching to Power Saver mode or customising a power scheme.

According to Bloomberg news service, the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, had Abode CEO Shantanu Narayen talking to reporters about Abode working with Apple, for developing a Flash version to run on the iPhone. Narayen also added that it is no mean task – and, the company has been striving for months!

Narayen told Bloomberg that the project was “a hard technical challenge,” and the responsibility on Abode is “to deliver.”

Amsterdam  - A Dutch company says it has developed the world's first internet search engine that guarantees users absolute privacy.

Ixquick (www. ixquick. com), established in 1998, is a so-called meta-search engine, which uses the search results of several search engines to provide its own list of results. The search is available in 17 languages.

"Ixquick is the first search engine that does not even store IP addresses temporarily," Ixquick CEO Robert Beens told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa.

Washington, Feb 1: A new study has said that an Internet program, called "Project CATCH-IT," helps to reduce depressive symptoms and prevent episodes of clinical depression in adolescent patients a