Monday saw Rambus, a developer of high-speed interfaces and memory technologies, announcing its Mobile Memory Initiative. With this initiative, the company aims at achieving data rates of 4.3GHz at best-in-class power efficiency.

Martin Scott, senior vice president of research and technology development at Rambus reported, "As consumer expectations grow for more media-rich applications on their mobile devices, new memory solutions will be needed to keep pace with the rapidly increasing bandwidth requirements."

Gaza City  - Israeli F16 warplanes rocketed tunnels and a Hamas outpost in two separate airstrikes in the southern Gaza Strip Tuesday evening, witnesses said.

At least two rockets struck the border area between the southern Gaza town of Rafah and Egypt, they said, adding they heard two successive loud explosions in the area and the sound of F16s flying overheard.

One missile also hit a a post of the Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, the radical Islamic movement ruling Gaza. No injuries were reported in either of the strikes.

IBM has recently announced an even speedier supercomputer, just after seven months it came out with world's fastest supercomputer. The new one however is being learnt to have computing power of 2 million laptops.

On Tuesday, IBM informed that it is working to come up with technology for its new Sequoia computer, with delivery scheduled in 2011 to the Department of Energy for use at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

Moscow  - Farmers in Russia's Far East have outfitted their heifers with special furry bras to protect their udders as temperatures hit 50 degrees below zero.

Local residents in the Russian region of Yakutia say if they don't sew such mono-bras for the cows, their milking nipples may suffer frostbite in the drastic temperatures.

Cairo  - A Hamas delegation in Egypt for talks with Egyptian intelligence chief Omar Suleiman on Tuesday said no progress had been made in negotiations on a long-term truce in the Gaza Strip.

"Hamas and Egypt are agreed that an indefinite truce is impossible at the moment," Mohammed Nasr, a senior member of the Hamas delegation in Cairo, told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa.

"We are negotiating the length of the truce, the opening of the border crossings, and conditions for reconciliation talks with Fatah." Talks would continue on Tuesday night, he said.