Latest data put forward by Net Applications on Monday, suggests that
last month saw market share of Internet Explorer fall down as Mozilla's
Firefox, Google's Chrome, and Apple's Safari experienced small gains.

The data also said that the top spot was held by Microsoft's IE, with
“67.55 percent of the browser market, though that was down .06 percent
from last month and down 7.92 percent from the same time last year.”

The number two spot was held by Firefox with 21.53 percent market share

The maiden 2 terabyte (TB) hard drive was today announced by WD. As per industry experts, this hard drive is the world's highest capacity drive and the newest member of WD's well-liked, environmentally friendly, cool and quiet, WD CAviar Green hard drive family.

It should be noted here that the latest 3.5-inch platform is based on WD's industry-leading 500 GB/platter technology (with 400 Gb/in2 areal density) with 32 MB cache, producing drives with capacities of up to 2 TB.

Monday saw Rambus, a developer of high-speed interfaces and memory technologies, announcing its Mobile Memory Initiative. With this initiative, the company aims at achieving data rates of 4.3GHz at best-in-class power efficiency.

Martin Scott, senior vice president of research and technology development at Rambus reported, "As consumer expectations grow for more media-rich applications on their mobile devices, new memory solutions will be needed to keep pace with the rapidly increasing bandwidth requirements."

IBM has recently announced an even speedier supercomputer, just after seven months it came out with world's fastest supercomputer. The new one however is being learnt to have computing power of 2 million laptops.

On Tuesday, IBM informed that it is working to come up with technology for its new Sequoia computer, with delivery scheduled in 2011 to the Department of Energy for use at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

Global slowdown, spreading fast in India, has adversely hit country's export sector in January with reported decline of 22% in merchandise exports. The data provided for January gives indication of grimmer situation ahead with a large number of job losses and stagnation in economy.

The country witnessed overall 1.1 per cent decline in export in December. Experts believe that situation may become worse in coming months for exporters due to non-availability of new contracts in the international market.

Shares of Indiabulls Securities closed in negative zone after touching intraday high of Rs 23 on Tuesday, after the company announced to buy back shares from the open market at a price of up to Rs 33. The Company' Board of Directors has approved the idea to buy-back of equity shares worth Rs 83.18 crore under the sub-section (2) of Section 77A of the Companies Act, 1956.