Avinash Chander, Chief Controller R&D (Missiles and Strategic Systems) at DRDO has said that the country’s 5,000-km version of the nuclear capable missile, the Agni-V in its final stages of testing and will be set for launch soon.

"Agni-V is in the final phase of testing. I cannot predict the exact date of its launch, but it will be launched shortly," said Chander. He was speaking at a press conference at the Terminal Ballistics Research Laboratory in Chandigarh.

The popular arcade racing game, Mario Kart appears to have kept its originality in the new version of the game developed for Nintendo 3DS, "Mario Kart 7" video game.

The biggest different in the game is that the carts are now not just meant fort eh surface as they can travel above the ground with gliders and underwater with propellers. Even as the features are new they appear to be natural and retain the racing ways of the popular game title.

Steve Wozniak, the co-founder of world's largest technology firm Apple, was in Bangalore in India to interact with young entrepreneurs and achievers of the Young Presidents Organisation, who eagerly listen to the story behind the most popular brand in the technology world.

Wozniak is the creator of the Apple II computer, which brought the global revolution in personal computing. He co-founded Apple Computer in April 1976 along with Steve Jobs and Ronald Wayne. Wozniak designed Apple I, which was the company's first product and the successful Apple II product.

Auto maker, Citroen will soon launch its Citroen DS4 crossover hatchback, which was unveiled last year at the 2010 Paris motor show.

The five-door model is based around the Citroen C4 model and will come in thee trim levels: DSign, DStyle and DSport.

The DSign model has six airbags, ESP, Hill Start Assist, air conditioning, daytime-running LEDs, 17 inch alloy wheels, front fog lights, six-speaker Surround Sound audio system and cruise control.

Jenna Fizel and Mary Haung of Continuum Fashion have designed the word’s first 3D-printed bikini called, the N12.

The designers used nylon discs of different sizes tied by springs to create the revolutionary bikinis. Initially the sized are limit, but the designers are working on a system allowing users to send their body scans and get their clothing "printed" according to their body shape.

Technology major Apple plans to launch an entire re programmed dual GSM-CDMA iPhone, an iPad comprising a increased-resolution screen and an SD card slot, and a fresh and new Apple TV along with an A5 processor competent of giving out 1080p video, as stated by a fresh statement.

Technology blog Engadget on Friday made available a lot of chit chats regarding Apple's forth coming product line for the year 2011, comprising the iPhone 5, iPad 2 and the 2nd generation of the re developed Apple TV.

The news states that the fresh iPad is on the line for a launch in April this year, and the 3G edition shall be including both GSM and CDMA radios by Qualcomm.

One of major telecom operators in the Indian market, Tata Docomo has recently said that the company will be starting the 3G service in the Indian market on the 8th November 2010.

According to the plan unveiled by the company, it will be launching the 3G services in areas like Maharashtra, Gujarat, Karnataka, Kerala, Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh (West), Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh by Diwali.

BlackBerry maker, Research In Motion, has announced to roll out its own tablet by the end of this year to give tough competition to Apple, which has sold over a million devices within days of launch in the US and its iPhone set to overtake BlackBerry throughout the world.

RIM has not given any information about its upcoming tablet, but bloggers said that the tablet would be 8.9 inches and expected to hit markets by December 2010.

A survey that aimed at willingness to pay extra for a faster broadband connection got amazing results as more than half the population agreed and voted for the motion.

It was a survey performed by ispreview. co. uk that gave out interesting findings that showed that 51.5 per cent were ready for the 100 Mbps broadband service and, if this asked for more money, they were ready to give the same.

Scribd has proclaimed an upgrade to HTML 5 based- web platform after a continuous usage of Adobe for two years.

It is believed that the popular document sharing website will entirely be running on HTML 5 based web platform standards. This comes as difficult news for Adobe as it has to lose its two year client.

Apart from adopting the new web standards, the new and improved Scribd will provide support for both Microsoft Office and Google Docs documents.

The co-founder and chief technology officer at Scribd Jared Friedman said, “We were abandoning a two-year investment in Flash technology, and for a totally unproven idea. Honestly, it wasn't an easy decision. In Scribd's case, though, we got lucky, and it actually works great.”  

The latest app in the iPhone apart from the Betfair app is the, Rolls Royce app. This new in sink application allows one to configure 'Ghost' all from their devices and see their final designs before actually ordering the car.

The app which is ready for download constitutes of various potential designs, colors and customizations to come up with the ideal version for the Ghost (Ghost is the latest addition in the Rolls Royce family of cars after the 'Phantom').

By using nano technology, now computers and internet can be run hundreds of times faster. Communication devices are going to be smaller, more flexible and more powerful by the help of this nano technology.

This has been informed by Dr. Koby Scheuer of Tel Aviv University's School of Electrical Engineering. He has said that the current technologies are here to stay for five or ten years in the future.

After that, it will be the era of nano technology. By applying such techniques, the size of the devices can reduced; the speed can be enhanced as well.

British Sky Broadcasting Group Plc, a satellite TV group in UK, announced today that its third quarter profit beat the expectations of the company. BSkyB said that the excellent performance in the third quarter ended march was mainly attributable to the increased revenue in the period.

Confronting tough rivalry from Apple's iPhone, Research In Motion (RIM) declared that it will more than double its client base.

At present, BlackBerry maker has 41 million users throughout the world - almost 3% of the worldwide mobile phone market.

Calling its base of 41 million clients "a good beginning," RIM president and co-CEO Mike Lazaridis announced that the next objective for his company is 100 million users.

The Delhi Metro has set a new record with 1.1 million passengers. It has announced that on Wednesday it has carried a record number of 10,92,780 passengers. Delhi Metro spokesman Anuj Dayal has informed that it has been another milestone of Delhi Metro. It has recorded its highest ever ridership figures in a day.

Blizzard, the other name for real-time strategy gaming, has been released for Mac platform. Also in addition to the above the Map-Mod editor has been fed for the Windows version.

StarCraft II beta which was earlier a platform for Windows version has released itself for the Mac users. According to Chris Sigaty a key member for StarCraft II, stated that Blizzard will be releasing StarCraft II Beta for Mac users in near future.

Altera Corporation declared a launch of FPGAs with the highest bandwidth; it discovered the 28-nm Stratix V FPGA family of offerings.

This product is designed to meet the high end functionalities like defense broadcast and healthcare markets. This new range of products features integrated 28-Gbps transceivers targeting up to 100G systems.

Altera decided to release its software 6 months before the before the shipping of the actual product for its developers.

eBay has said that the current mobile market structure is the most powerful e-Commerce platform in the world. Mobile Commerce has become the largest and promising platform in global level.

eBay is known to be the most successful ecommerce websites which was founded almost fifteen years back by Pierre Omidyar. Then it was an online auction site which has transformed itself to be the leader in the e-commerce arena.  

Now it has around USD 9 billion in revenues and over 2.5 million active users. The company is also the owner of online payment site paypal. It has also acquired the Indian shopping mall, bazee.com for around Rs. 230 crore.  

The global PC shipments have increased by 27% in the first quarter of 2010. For the first three months of the year, the shipment of personal computer is found out to be84.3 million units.  This was reported by the IT research and advisory firm Gartner Inc.

As per the preliminary reports of the research this fact has been found out. This result has been much beyond the result that had been expected earlier. Gartner Inc. was expecting a 22% growth in the shipments.

Principal analyst at Gartner, Mikako Kitagawa has informed that the stronger-than-expected growth was due to the vigorous recovery in the European economy.

Sophos has announced the release of new versions of its safeguard projects. India's leading IT security and control firm Sophos has introduced version 5.50 of Sophos SafeGuard Easy and Sophos SafeGuard Enterprise to its users.

This latest inclusion to the safeguard products will provide its customers an all new approach to comprehensive security and data protection. The company officials have said that the new products will reduce cost and complexity of the user.