Marseilles (France), Sept. 29 : The Horizontal Civil Aviation Agreement signed between India and the European Union on Sunday evening, finally ends nearly six years of legal uncertainty on bilateral deals on civil aviation services between EU member states and third countries discriminated against airlines from other EU states.

It may be recalled that in November 2002, a European Court had decided that such deals could not be encouraged.

With the passing of the latest deal, 26 separate deals that India had held with individual EU member states have been

India’s Ambassador to the European Union, J Bhagwati, French government and EU officials inked the deal.

Melbourne, Sept 29 : A new survey has revealed that four in five travellers believe that if mobile phones were allowed to function on planes, it would drive them ‘crazy’.

Surveyors from the website totaltravel. com asked 1490 people over four weeks whether mobile phone usage should be allowed on aircraft.

They said that over 80 percent of the respondents answered negatively, reports news. com. au.

According to them, the respondents said that if they had to listen to fellow passengers talk on their mobile phone for hours, it would irritate them to no ends.

Melbourne, September 29 : Aussie researchers behind a website offering free online treatment for fear of spiders, scientifically know as arachnophobia, are afraid that a huge response from people may crash their site.

However, the group behind the website, Feardrop, still want people to test out their treatment.

University of Tasmania psychiatry researcher Philippa Cannan, one of the persons behind the online treatment website, points out that about five per cent of the adult population experience some form of phobia, with higher rates found among females than males.

She says that many people suffer arachnophobia, some with seriously dangerous panic reactions and intrusive checking behaviour, but still few of them seek treatment.

London, September 29: With the development of a network of supercomputers, known as the Grid, the speed at which information is downloaded to personal computers would be revolutionized, heralding the dawn of a new internet age.

According to a report in the Times, the power of the Grid is such that downloading films should take only seconds, not hours, and processing music albums just a single second.

In its latest move, an unlocked version of iPhone 3G has been launched by Apple in Hong Kong, giving the independence to the consumers to pick whichever carrier they want.

This comes as an extreme opposite to the policy of the Apple, as unlocked iPhones are uncontrolled in almost all other parts of the world. However, that is not something that Apple has sanctioned.

An apple site recently informed that for these handsets, one will have to shell about $695 (5,400 Hong Kong dollars) for an 8GB version and for a 16 GB model, the price would be $798 (6,200 HK dollars).

With the aim to convert the best ideas into useful product ends, Google has unveiled a competition under which the person with the most unique and best idea will win the prize money of $10 million.

This competition has been launched as part of celebrations, for the company has completed its 10 years. The people have been asked to submit their ideas within seven categories to the project called 10th to 100th.

An announcement made on the website of the company informed, “Never in history have so many people had so much information, so many tools at their disposal, so many ways of making good ideas come to life. Yet at the same time, so many people, of all walks of life, could use so much help, in both little ways and big.”