London, Jan 8 : Brit schools are looking into the possibility of using humanoid robots to teach their students by the end of the year, in a bid to make computing lessons more fun.

The deal, which is about to be signed between British design company Kablamm and hundreds of secondary schools, will involve schools buying the latest MechRC robots.

The robotic gadget, designed by academics from the University of Reading, can easily be programmed by children to move around, dance, play football or even complete an assault course.

Finnish giant Nokia has recently released its Nokia 5800 XpressMusic phone for its Indian users.

Ace music director A. R. Rahman, who has been associated with Nokia for several years now, launched the ‘Nokia 5800’ on his birthday on Tuesday.

Rahman has composed a complete album ‘Connections’ for Nokia, which is preloaded in this novel handset and three other models in the XpressMusic series.

Along with a user friendly interface, the new edition of Y-Browser for the XpressMusic phone has added in some handy extras and features.

Today, Ramalinga Raju, the founder and Chairman of Satyam Computers resigned from the Satyam board.

In a letter written by Raju to the board, he gave details of the balance sheet. It was astonishing to note that the sheet had inflated cash balances of Rs 5040 crore and accrued interest of Rs 376 crore, which in fact is non-existent. Furthermore, Rs 1230 crore was arranged to Satyam and has not been reflected in the books.

While Merrill Lynch can be entrusted to explore possibilities of merger with some other technology company, Ram Myanpati will act as Interim CEO.

With the announcements about new versions of the company's photo management software and an update to its productivity suite, Apple started off its final Macworld trade show in San Francisco yesterday. However, it should be noted here that people were more amazed and talked about the company's "one last thing", which was that now songs by ITunes would be sold without any restrictions and at three prices: 69 cents, 99 cents and $1.29.

The people residing in United States, who wanted to get their hands on the Sony Ericsson Xperia X1a, can be happy now, since the handset can now be purchased in the US through Sony Style, although this comes with a delay of around a month.

As per reports from an exclusive news website, then the official Sony US store now has the high-end Xperia X1a Windows Mobile smartphone in stock, and it can be acquired not only online, but also from some retail locations.

San Francisco - Computer chip giant Intel on Wednesday warned of a fourth-quarter sales plunge of more than 23 per cent and said it expected to record an investment loss of about 1 billion dollars when it reports earnings for the fourth quarter of 2008 on January 15.