With the intention to hunt for unsecured Wi-Fi (Wireless Fidelity) connections in the city, Mumbai police have started the drive to act quickly to tackle this major issue.

The drive is on the back drop of cases wherein it came out that activists used such networks to send terror mails before blasts and terror attacks.

Soon, Mumbai policemen will be seen roaming at different locations with laptop computers and internet-enabled mobile phones in their hands in quest of unsecured Wi-Fi connections.

Washington  - Ready or not, here comes Windows 7. Although the release of the successor to Windows Vista isn't due out in final form until later this year, Microsoft wants you to start thinking about Windows 7 now - and maybe even to start using it.

The company announced this week that the public beta of Windows 7 will be released ahead of schedule. As with previous public betas, anyone will be able to download and try out Windows 7, and judging from the high level of interest in the new operating system, lots of people will want to.

Washington, Jan 9 : NASA and the National Science Foundation have successfully launched and demonstrated a newly designed super pressure balloon prototype over Antarctica that may enable a new era of high-altitude scientific research.

The super-pressure balloon ultimately will carry large scientific experiments to the brink of space for 100 days or more.

This seven-million-cubic-foot super-pressure balloon is the largest single-cell, super-pressure, fully-sealed balloon ever flown.

This time, LG has wished ‘Valentine’ to its tech savvy users in advance, by making announcement about the launching of its latest full touch screen GSM handset KP500 Cookie, as well as a HT953TV high power (1,000W) output home theatre system in the Indian market.

LG Cookie is an affordable and user-friendly full touch screen GSM phone, which comes with an array of features including a 3 megapixel camera, a QWERTY onscreen keyboard, powerful battery with talk time up to 7 hours, 48 MB internal memory plus 1GB micro SD cards.

It has been learnt that the new Windows PC operating system has being opened up by Microsoft for anyone who has the guts to download it early.

A pre-release, test version of Microsoft (MSFT) Windows 7, the successor to the oft-maligned Windows Vista could be fetched by the public on Friday. This announcement was made on Wednesday night on the eve of the Consumer Electronics Show by CEO Steve Ballmer.

London, Jan 8 : The karaoke machine has been named the most irritating invention to have blighted Britain in a government survey.

The humble singalong box with its back catalogue of pop classics has topped a poll of more than 2,500 adults.

Almost a quarter of people picked karaoke, while other annoying creations included 24-hour sports channels, computer games consoles, mobile phones and alarm clocks.

"Seeing the karaoke machine at the top of that list made me smile," the Telegraph quoted Kane Kramer, a director of the British Inventors Society, as saying.