London, August 28 : NASA has confirmed that a computer virus made its way into space, through a laptop carried to the International Space Station (ISS) in July this year.

According to a report by the BBC, the worm, known as Gammima. AG, was first detected on Earth in August 2007 and lurks on infected machines waiting to steal login names for popular online games.

Space news website SpaceRef broke the story about the virus on the laptops that astronauts took to the ISS.

London, August 28 : A new study has determined that after mountain glaciers melt, primitive bacteria start to invade the soil immediately, enriching it with nutrients, cementing the ground, and preventing landslides.

Researchers, who have studied the process in the Peruvian Andes, carried out the study.

A few studies have looked at the types of plants that colonize mountain valleys that were previously covered in ice.

A new decision has been taken up by Telecom Commission, which has modified the 3G policy for CDMA players. It has now opted for auctioning system for the players of CDMA too. Prior to this, DoT had expressed to allot spectrum to the CDMA players in the 800 MHz band based on the total number of subscribers. This would have indirectly provided profit to CDMA biggies including RCom.

There are basically three categories of circles, the prices of which have been allotted by the Telecom Commission. For metros the base price in the 800 MHz band would be Rs 40 crore, as well as for category ‘A’ circle. For category ‘B’ circle and ‘C’ circle, the price would be Rs 20 crore and Rs 7.5 crore respectively.

London, Aug 28: The latest version of Microsoft Corp.''s Internet browser includes a piece of software that lets you surf the Web without a trace of what you checked out.

The InPrivate feature on Internet Explorer 8, dubbed “porn mode”, allows users to conceal the sites they have viewed at the click of a button.

Scrabulous would no longer be available from face book. It is exterminated from USA, Canada,UK and Australia. The rights to the Scrabulous IP are held by Mattel Inc. The company had blocked the access for U.S. and Canadian people in the month of July this year. It was blocked following legal battle between Hasbro and Scrabulous creators Rajat Agarwalla and Jayant Agarwalla. Hasbro is a creator of the on board game Scrabble while "Scrabble" is an internet base online game.