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Sony has announced the DSC-H50 and DSC-W300, two new point-and-shoot digital cameras. The DSC-H50 and DSC-W300 will be released in May for $400 and $350 respectively. The highlight of the cameras is a 9.1 megapixel resolution with 15x optical zoom lens. There are also features like optical image stabilization and 3-inch tilting LCD display covered in scratch-resistant UV hardcoat.

Airtel the leading mobile telephony provider has joined five leading international companies including Google to build a 10,000 km undersea cable to link Asia and the United States. The high bandwidth cable system that would pump 7.68 terabits of information per second — equivalent to about 9 crore telephone lines — is being called Unity and is estimated to cost $ 300 million (about Rs 1,200 crore). The Unity consortium includes Malaysia’s Global Transit Limited, leading search engine firm Google, Japanese telecom major KDDI Corporation, and Pacnet and SingTel from Singapore. The ultimate aim of the cable is to be able to allow companies to send large amounts of data across the world at a lower price. Consortium companies will utilize a five fiber pair cable system, which can be upgraded to eight fiber pairs later down the road.

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According to a report Rocky planets, resembling Earth could be found around most sun like stars in our galaxy, a new research suggests, raising scientists’ hopes that they will someday find extra-terrestrial or at least primitive life beyond our solar system.

Using, NASA’s Spitzer Telescope, Michael Meyer of the University of Arizona discovered that at least 20 percent and possibly up to 60 percent of stars similar to the Sun could potentially have rocky planets in orbit around them.

In a report in BBC Helen Briggs said there may also be hundreds of undiscovered worlds in outer parts of our Solar System, astronomers believe.

Future studies of such worlds will radically alter our understanding of how planets are formed, they say.

New findings about planets were presented at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Boston.

GVK Biosciences (GVK BIO) announced that it has licensed its Mechanism Based Toxicity Database (MBT) to AstraZeneca. MBT has over 13,000 drug and drug like compounds, their routes of metabolism, toxic indications and the numerical values of the measures of toxicity. The data has been manually curated from over 35,000 individual references. The license represents an extension of the existing license of all the GVK BIO Target and Drug databases. The GVK BIO Databases contain over 3.2 million compounds manually curated from patents and journals and represent over 7 million quantitative SAR data points. Read more

First Yahoo rejected Microsoft’s bid in a bid to increase the offer bid now Microsoft rejects Yahoo rejection! Is Microsoft the big daddy? Is Yahoo just bidding for a few dollars more to sell itself?

According to Jeff Gamet, Microsoft responded to Yahoo’s take over bid rejection with a rejection of its own on Monday. The Redmond-based company said in a statement that it feels “moving forward promptly to consummate a transaction” will best serve both companies.

Microsoft executives did not say what the company’s next step would be. At this point it could counter with an offer that comes in above the original US$31 a share, or $44.6 billion, offer, or it could try to sway shareholders and move for a hostile takeover.

“The Yahoo response does not change our belief in the strategic and financial merits of our proposal. As we have said previously, Microsoft reserves the right to pursue all necessary steps to ensure that Yahoo!Õs shareholders are provided with the opportunity to realize the value inherent in our proposal,” Microsoft said.

Microsoft presented the Yahoo with an unsolicited buy out offer on February 1 after the Internet search company reported a 23 percent drop in earnings. Yahoo responded on Monday by stating if felt Microsoft was “substantially undervaluing” the company.

Micron Technology, Inc., today announced that it is sampling to customers and major enablers the industry’s fastest 512 megabit (Mb) Mobile DRAM component, designed for the latest feature-rich mobile electronic devices. Mass production is expected in the second quarter of this year. With mobile applications adding increased computing and multimedia functionality, faster and better performing memory becomes paramount for optimizing performance.

Micron’s 512 Mb Mobile DRAM addresses the needs of today’s most advanced mobile devices by delivering maximum clock speeds of up to 200MHz allowing the transfer of 400 Mbs of data per second. This industry-leading speed provides the additional bandwidth necessary to boost the operating capability of mobile applications, including running more functions simultaneously without performance issues or powering high speed video. Read more

Spanco (S) Private Ltd, a subsidiary of Spanco Telesystems & Solutions Ltd which is one of the leading providers of telecom integration and back office services in India, has announced the acquisition of Great IT Private Ltd. Great IT owns exclusive rights to provide complete technology and IT infrastructure to Great Wheel Corporation. Spanco expects to generate revenues of more than $ 200 million in the next 6 to 7 years besides indirect revenues through various other opportunities which will come up in the similar segment and in the countries of operation. Spanco will invest around $ 40 million in the next 2 years. Read more

Symantec (NASDAQ: SYMC) today announced that HDFC Bank, India’s leading global bank has entered into a US$7.4 million, three-year strategic Enterprise Level Agreement with Symantec for IT compliance, enterprise security and storage management solutions. Symantec will also provide HDFC Bank with consulting and implementation services.

“HDFC Bank has been working with Symantec for several years and has confidence in the company as a trusted partner,” said CN Ram, head, information technology, HDFC Bank. “HDFC Bank entered into this deal with Symantec to further enhance the bank’s security posture, ensure our data is protected and available and help facilitate our compliance and corporate governance programs to increase customer confidence.” Read more

Bharti Airtel, India’s leading telecom services provider, along with eight major leaders of the global telecommunications industry has signed a formal Construction and Maintenance Agreement in Rome today to build a high-capacity fiber-optic submarine cable that stretches from India to France via the Middle East. The cable system, known as I-ME-WE (India, Middle East, Western Europe) is the fifth in the series of similar cable systems which includes the SEA-ME-WE series.
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