Microsoft announced a complete repair of its Windows Live suite of software and services last month. During the time, it was said by the company that general public would be able to avail Live by early December. Sticking to what the company had said, Microsoft announced today that the refreshed services has been launched and are available at home. live. com.

Recently, it was revealed by the U. S. researchers that they are bringing in use, materials called piezoelectrics, in order to push science closer to self-powering devices, like cellular telephones.

It has been informed by Texas A&M Professor Tahir Cagin and his team that they have made a very vital discovery in the area of power harvesting. It is basically a field that is directed to design self-powered devices that do not require replaceable power supplies, such as batteries.

Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd, a leading pharmaceutical major, has announced that it has clinched an exclusive licensing pact with US-based BioPro Pharmaceutical to market Gliadel tablets in India.

Earlier, Ranbaxy had announced a similar agreement with CD Pharma, a leading Europe-based  biotech  firm to sell its probiotic dental medicine Inersan in India and  Nepal.

It has been revealed by the Japanese electronics conglomerate, Hitachi that it will produce Solid State Drives (SSD) jointly with chipmaker Intel. SSDs are memory devices that are figured as a nice alternative for HDDs (Hard Disk Drives). Hitachi, the world's third largest hard drive maker has never used the SSD technology before. Since the SSDs are capable of absorbing shocks better and consume less power than hard disk drives, they are mainly used in laptop PCs. The features of SSDs are quite vital for any laptop user.

Late on Tuesday, an old item from the support site of Apple, that suggested Mac users to use multiple antivirus utilities was removed by the company. Apple maintain that Mac is safe "out of the box."

It was reported by Apple spokesperson Bill Evans that they have removed the KnowledgeBase article because it was old and inaccurate.

Edimax Technology, top maker of networking solutions, has rolled out the Wireless 802.11b/g 3G multifunctional Broadband Router with Print Server.

The 3G-6200Wg is a cost-effective IP based router, which lets several users to share a single Internet connection through an ADSL or cable modem.

3G-6200Wg, which backs up automatic backup function, is a speedy wireless 3G broadband router.