With China-based Skytone's Alpha 680 netbook sending ripples of excitement after its online spotting earlier this week by Computerworld blogger Seth Weintraub, Skytone's co-founder Nixon Wu has confirmed that the netbook is going through final testing process, and will hit the markets within three months.
Roughly priced at $250, the Alpha 680 will run on Google's Android operating system, and will make use of the economical and energy-efficient ARM processor - used in mobile phones, including iPhone - rather than the commonly-used Atom processor used in most netbooks.
The flagship company of the Reliance-Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group – Reliance Communications is aiming to be one of the top five mobile phone operators of the world, and for that the company is looking to hike up the number of its subscribers by one third to 100 million by the end of the current year – reports the Financial Times. 
Highlighting the escalating economic importance of India in the world scenario, the Indian government has sought an increase in its International Monetary Fund (IMF) quota share, saying that it would put in nearly $10 billion to enhance the Fund's resources, corresponding to its existing share.
Citing the 'Sunday Times Rich List,' the Daily Telegraph reports have it that the financial meltdown has taken its toll on even the 'wealthiest of the wealthy!' Going by the most-recent estimates, UK's wealthiest 1,000 people have had more than half their collective wealth obliterated due to the recession - the cumulative wealth figures, that stood at £412 billion in 2008, have plunged to almost £200 billion.
Technical analyst Hunny Tarika, Fairwealth Securities has maintained ‘Buy’ rating on ABB Ltd stock to achieve a target of Rs 540.
You can now have a new computer capable of reading lips and identifying different languages. Yes, the computer scientists at the University of East Anglia (UEA) in Norwich, England have developed lip-reading computer that can tell the difference between languages.
