Washington, Aug 19 : DEET, the widely used mosquito repellent, does not block the insects'' sense of smell but simply stinks to them, according to researchers at the University of California, Davis.

"We found that mosquitoes can smell DEET and they stay away from it," said noted chemical ecologist Walter Leal, professor of entomology at UC Davis.

"DEET doesn''t mask the smell of the host or jam the insect''s senses. Mosquitoes don''t like it because it smells bad to them," Leal added.

Lenovo has launched the new updated version of ThinkPad X301 Notebook. The improved version of the notebook will provide high storage capacity and performance.

The updated version is available in 64GB and 128GB memory storage.

The new X301 Notebook is very thin having weight around three ponds. It consists of the latest DDR3 memory and the latest IntelCore 2 Duo ultra low volt processor. These specifications make it more efficient that earlier model of the notebook.

The software giant Microsoft has a reason to celebrate. The International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) has rejected appeals against the file format of Open XML (OOXML). The countries such as Brazil, South Africa and Venezuela had challenged the ratification regarding file format of OOXML. The ISO had given OOXML as a title of international standard and asked the participant countries to file the appeal against the decision in two months.

Los Angeles  - Electronic Arts, the world's largest maker of video games, said Monday it-was reconsidering its hostile takeover bid for smaller rival Take-Two Interactive because a merger could not be completed in time for the all important holiday season.

Take Two is the publisher of the controversial, but highly successful game series Grand Theft Auto - selling 8.5 million copies of the latest version in the quarter that ended in June.

Tehran - Iran on Monday said that the launching of its satellite carrier was a scientific rather than military project, official news agency IRNA reported.

"The enemies of Iran are trying to distort Iran's scientific achievements and portray them as a military issue," Defence Minister Mostafa-Mohammad Najar was quoted by IRNA as saying.