A nice upgrade courtesy of Google Docs has been received by Gmail's integrated software-free PDF viewer. The good thing is that now when someone opens up a PDF in Gmail, it won’t fire up his native PDF viewer like the slow-to-load Adobe Acrobat. Instead it will send him to the document reader built into Google Docs.

Furthermore, the updated page view will let the user hop around the document a whole lot faster and its built in zoom will scale the text so that it fits the user’s monitor with a higher degree of detail than the text resizer found in the browser.

San Diego-based wireless communications company Qualcomm announced that it will shortly launch its small laptop, named Kayak, in the Indian market at an unbelievable price of Rs 10,000.

The laptop, primarily used for accessing Internet services, will hit the market during the second half of next year (2009).

Nokia is gradually fulfilling its goal of reaching out to the end-consumers.

And this time, the Finnish giant plans to roll out subscription-based mobile phone services ‘live tools’ for the farming and student community in India.

Mr. D. Shiva Kumar, Managing Director, Mobile Phones, Nokia India, stated that with these new services, farmers can easily get information on agriculture, commodity prices and weather to the farming community and other related issues over their mobile handsets.

Gigabyte has announced its latest GV-R487D5-1GD graphics card in India. The novel graphics card is built on the ATI Radeon HD 4870 GPU and features 1GB/256-bit high-speed GDDR5 video memory for super-fast performance for applications and 3D games.

Furthermore, technologies like the native DisplayPort connectivity, TeraScale graphics engine, ATI CrossFireXT support, Unified Video Decoder 2 (UVD 2) and the ATI PowerPlayT power management technology form as the other essential features of the GV-R487D5-1GD graphics card.

It has been informed by the ISRO Chairman G. Madhavan Nair that now fisherman can be explained the exact part of the sea where they should go to get heavy amount of fish.

Madhavan Nair informed, “The ISRO has developed a methodology to locate fish schools by reading sea surface temperature and analysing the ocean colour through satellite remote sensing.”

An endowment lecture in the name of the late Prof. C. Karunakaran, the founder of the Centre for Earth Science Studies (CESS), a leading science institution of the State government was being delivered by him.