Washington, Oct 167 : US Department of Energy''s Savannah River National Laboratory’s unique collection of microbes, called BioTiger, has been found to be useful for both cleaning up the environment and addressing people’s energy needs.

The BioTiger was the result of over eight years of extensive work that began at a century-old Polish waste lagoon.

"DOE had originally funded us to work with our Polish counterparts to develop a microbe-based method for cleaning up oil-contaminated soils," explained Dr. Robin Brigmon, SRNL Fellow Engineer.

With the aim to boost development of local platforms based in Intel architecture, Intel, the leading chipmaker, today unveiled the provision of Atom processors and reference designs in India, keeping in mind the mushrooming market for handheld devices in the nation. 

Atom processor N270 is really small equal to the size of a 25 paisa coin and has been applied in 45 nanometer technology. It is power optimized, which is capable of delivering excellent performance with minimum usage of power, that is below 3 watts. According to R Ravichandran, Director (Sales), Intel South Asia, “The single core processor is validated with Mobile Intel 945GSE Express chipset.”

London, October 17 : Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have created a molecular computer that can run calculations inside a living cell.

Project leaders Maung Nyan Win and Christina Smolke have revealed that, so far, they have tested the living computer on a living yeast cell.

The researchers believe that future models of the computer, made from the DNA-like molecule RNA, may be helpful in running calculations inside human cells to release drugs, or prime the immune system, at the first hint of illness.

They have revealed that the RNA device processes input signals in the form of natural cell proteins and produces an output in the form of green fluorescent protein (GFP).

An important announcement regarding a search engine was made on Wednesday by Opera Software. Apparently, the Metadata Analysis and Mining Application (MAMA) developed by Opera is a kind of a search engine that enables the users to not only search structure of a Web page but also it’s content. 

MAMA which is expected to be launched by the end of this year, will let the developers to ask questions like, “How many sites use CSS?” or “Can I get a sampling of Web pages that have more than 100 hyperlinks?”

New York/Sunnyvale - After a focussed cost-saving programme, US chip maker AMD was advancing toward the profit zone after reducing its losses in the third quarter to a surprising 69 million dollars, the company said after markets closed Thursday.

AMD had 396 million dollars in losses in the same period last year.

Revenues climbed by 14 per cent to 1.78 billion dollars, giving it another leg up against its much larger rival, industry leader Intel.

San Francisco - Internet search and advertising leader Google Inc on Thursday said its third-quarter profits jumped 26 per cent, as more people used Web search advertisements to increase sales amid the continuing economic downturn.

Google's net income rose to 1.35 billion dollars from 1.07 billion dollars, according to a company statement. Its revenue grew 31 percent to 5.54 billion dollars, up from 4.23 billion dollars a year earlier.