Top Ranked chess players and even former World champions are taking up the role of seconds. But surprisingly, Viswanathan Anand has said that he may not turn into a second at any time in his career, since they indulge in quite strenuous work. 

A day after his after his arrival on Friday, while sitting relaxed on a sofa at his apartment in RA Puram, Anand said, “I have excellent understanding with his team of seconds and it went like a dream.” 

Google is all set to open its search results to annotation, alteration, and public comment with the aim to enhance user engagement and improve ad revenue potential. 

On Thursday, Google unveiled SearchWiki, a way to customize search results as they appear to one specific Google Account. The good thing is that users can re-rank search results, delete them, add new ones, and maintain notes about specific sites. 

On Friday, Research In Motion Ltd. unveiled its first touch-screen BlackBerry device in the U.S. market. The launch saw long queues of customers standing in lines to grab their very own touch screen BalckBerry Storm. However, the question still remains that how will the new touch screen BlackBerry Storm compete against its biggest rival Apple-iPhone. 

The latest report prepared for the Broadband Forum by research firm Point Topic, reveals that the total number of broadband subscribers globally has reached a whopping 400 million. The report also specifies that the tremendous growth in subscribers is due to technological developments and increased geographical spread. 

If compared, back in the year 1998, there were only 57,200 broadband subscribers globally, in the following 12 months; they increased nearly six fold reaching up to 280,890 in 1999. The customers prefer fast speed broadband connection the most, and reportedly there has been 600,000% increase in the number of subscribers in the past ten years, with a 300% increase in the last five years alone, to now reach 400mn. 

The users of Apple iPhone can now download iPhone 2.2, which helps would help them a lot in navigation as it offers easy way to find directions to a particular place. All the users need to do is click on Google Maps once they have downloaded iPhone 2.2. 

Moreover, Apple has even added novel podcast availability and e-mail functions in iPhone 2.2. One good thing is that users don’t need to learn a lot and won’t have to sit for long period of time in order to download and install it. It works just right away. 

The American and Ugandan scientists have recently spotted a new species of the deadly Ebola virus. 

Back in 2007, wide region in western Uganda was badly affected from the new virus, named Bundibugyo ebolavirus. The scientists from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Columbia University, the Uganda Virus Research Institute, and the Uganda Ministry of Health, informed that the new virus is different from all other known Ebola virus species, differing by more than 30 percent at the genetic level.