Akmin Technologies has launched a new mobile based application. The users can make and publish website with the help of this application. Akmin Technologies is a Chennai based company, which offers mobile website services.

This application would be available for the users from August 15. It can be run using the link www.mobisitegalore.com. The users should have a GPS enabled handset to access this service.

CEO of Akmin mobile phones, S Prashanth said that mobile phones are leading to personal computers in India.

Washington, August 13 : E-medicine—prescribing medicines via the Internet—has been found to outperform the tradition system of visiting a doctor’s clinic, in treating patients with erectile dysfunction (ED), in a recent study.

Researcher in Utah randomly selected 1,000 patient medical records from patients seeking ED treatment from Jan. 1, 2001 to Dec. 31, 2005.

While half of the patients used the online prescriber, and the rest consulted a physician for treatment.

Using statistical analyses, the researchers compared the safety of both approaches in treating patients who had ED.

Manila - The Asian Development Bank (ADB) said Wednesday it was providing a 55-million-dollar loan to Afghanistan's leading mobile phone provider to expand its coverage to parts of the country with little or no telecommunications infrastructure in place.

The Manila-based ADB said the loan to Telecom Development Company Afghanistan Ltd (Roshan) would also support the roll-out of a mobile banking system that allows subscribers to transfer money through their mobile phones without having to open bank accounts.

A new line of 2.5” portable hard drives, which include the world’s first half-terabyte 2.5” drive featuring an industry standard 9.5mm Z-height drive, has been announced by Verbatim.

The consumers and businesses would also get an advantage to add from 120 to 500GB removable capacity to their computers through these new external drives.

The new drive has weight of 170 grams and measures only 86mm x 137mm x 16mm. Another fabulous features of these drives are Verbatim's 500GB 2.5" SmartDisk HDD, which makes it extremely easy to carry while traveling with the lap top and also requires less desk space when connected  to a desktop system.

HTC Android Handsets will not be available by the fourth quarter this year (2008). The HTC handsets would be available during the first half of 2009.

HTC is said to be facing issues incorporating Google’s required feature set in the mobile device they are building on the Android mobile platform.

The developers also showed interest in other platform such as Symbian, Windows Mobile, or Apple's iPhone.

Kuala Lumpur  - Malaysia's IT research company Mimos is to begin joint research with Germany's Ruhr-University Bochum in efforts to tackle cybercrime, a news report said Tuesday.

Both parties had recently signed a memorandum of understanding to conduct joint research into a hardware that could block security invasions on the internet, The Star newspaper's online news portal said.

"Phishing, pharming, virus attacks and hacking of systems belonging to companies is no longer done for fun or curiosity but is now big business, as there is money to made from such invasions," Mohamed Ridza Wahiddin, head of Mimos' Information Security Cluster, was quoted as saying.