The Director of space agency Roskosmos' Manned Flight Programmes, Alexei Krasnov announced on Friday that for the sake of future manned missions to the Moon and Mars, Russia is thinking over to develop an orbital station to serve as an assembly platform and springboard.

He said, "We will soon propose to our government a project to construct a low-orbit complex, which could serve as a foundation for the implementation of the Lunar programme and later on - the Mars programme."

The readers would be very glad to know that on Tuesday, Sony Philippines launched two models of the Vaio P, of which the most attractive feature is its 8-inch ultra wide high-resolution (XGA 1600 x 768) display.

The company claims that its new mini laptops are not netbook but pocket style PCs.  

Intel’s Atom Z processor is used by the Vaio P, which has been equipped in it after making it more compact and power efficient than the previous Atom N chip.

On 3rd February, when the National Mission on Education through Information and Communication Technology is launched; the people would also see a $10 laptop (Rs 500) prototype, with 2 GB RAM capacity, would be on display in Tirupati.  

The latest $10 laptop project has arrived as a response to the $100 laptop of MIT's Nicholas Negroponte, which he was trying to sell to India. This $10 laptop had been possible due to the efforts put in by students of Vellore Institute of Technology, scientists in Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, IIT-Madras and involvement of PSUs like Semiconductor Complex.

San Francisco  - One of the top technology pundits in the blogosphere said Thursday that he planned to take a break after receiving a death threat and being spat at during a tech conference.

Michael Arrington, whose TechCrunch blog is one of the most influential forums in the technology world, announced his decision in a blog posting from a conference in Munich.

"Someone walked up to me and quite deliberately spat in my face," Arrington wrote. "Before I even understood what was happening, he veered off into the crowd."

New Delhi, Jan 29 : China has set up its third Antarctic research station, also the country's first on the continent's inland, marking a significant step in polar exploration.

The Kunlun station was erected at Dome Argus (Dome A), the pole's highest icecap at 4,093 meters above the sea level, on Tuesday by the China's 25th expedition team to the South Pole.

Chinese President Hu Jintao sent a congratulatory telegram to the team, saying that the construction of the station will help China further improve scientific research on the continent.

As per some of the popular tech blogs, Google, world’s most popular and widely used advertising system, would soon come up with 'GDrive', an online storage for its users.

If launched, the Google’s GDrive would store all the data of your PC on the internet. If instructed, G-drive would keep syncing all the data of the web and your PC on a periodical basis. Not only this, the new service from Google would make it possible to access and update information like emails, photographs, music, documents and spreadsheets from any device with an internet connection.