BK Modi-promoted HotSpot has launched 'Mobi SafeGuard', a unique, all-inclusive warranty for mobile handsets in the domestic market. However, the facility becomes applicable, only when purchased with new handsets.

The company official stated that Mobi SafeGuard will covers repair of all kinds of handset faults including liquid and physical damage for a 2 year period.

In addition, the facility also provides a 2-year extended warranty that adds to the average life of the phone, and moreover if the handset is not repairable, the company will provide a refund equivalent to 50% of the existing market value of the particular mobile handset model.

The cost slab for Mobi Safe Guard will be as under:-

London, February 6 : Materials scientists at Pennsylvania State University in University Park have successfully used sunlight to convert carbon dioxide and water vapour into a range of fuels faster than ever before.

Lead researcher Craig Grimes has revealed that his team used hollow titania (titanium dioxide) nanotubes-around 135 nanometres wide and a tenth of a millimetre long-to catalyse the reaction.

Washington, Feb 6 : Large organisations can now save up to 13,000 pounds in electricity costs each month, all thanks to PowerDown, a computer programme that automatically shuts down systems after usage.

Systems experts at University of Liverpool embarked upon the idea of developing the software after realising that universities with PC centres in 24-hour libraries could be losing more than one million hours of unused computer power each month.

They found that 1,600 library-based PC''s alone were using 20,000 kW each week unnecessarily, which make up for approximately 2,400 pounds in current electricity prices.

And, to date, PowerDown has recovered 24 million hours of PC inactivity within the University.

London, Feb 06 : Brit UFO experts went into orbit on Thursday in search of a `Thunderbird', which was recently photographed flying high above Bournemouth.

The picture was taken by a professional photographer named Mark Wild.

The mystery craft, bright orange-red like Thunderbird 3, was caught in a head-on shot on camera hovering above the resort on the Dorset coast.

The stunning snap emerged on the day when it was revealed that a dossier made public by the Ministry of Defence showed UFO sightings doubled last year.

Excited alien-spotters hailed the picture as one of the best they had ever seen.

Berlin - Germany factory orders plummeted by a hefty 6.9 per cent in December, the Economics and Technology Ministry said Thursday, as the global economic crisis tightened its grip on Europe's biggest economy. The seasonally adjusted fall in the nation's key industrial orders in December was far more than the 2.5 per cent that analysts had forecast and represented the 12th consecutive monthly fall in German order books.

The decline in December followed a revised 5.3 per cent drop in November.

San Francisco  - Google announced a new mapping feature Wednesday that allows people's locations to be featured on Google maps in 27 countries. While the new application could be helpful in locating friends, or for parents keeping track of their teenagers, it also raises serious privacy issues, experts say.

The new feature, called Latitude, allows people-tracking via the internet and smartphones such as Blackberry, Google Android, Windows Mobile and Nokia. It will soon be available via the iPhone.