Science/Technology

n what may help develop more effective repellents, scientists claim to have discovered that malaria mosquitoes use several different kinds of odour sensors to sniff out their human prey.

Wonders never cease to exist. Two Delhi students have discovered a new asteroid as part of a unique astronomy project connected to the USspace agency NASA.

A satellite for monitoring the country's forest cover will be launched in 2013, the Rajya Sabha was informed Monday.

Olive has launched India's first 3G network supporting tablet OlivePad VT-100. Sporting a 7-inch capacitive touchscreen, this tablet comes loaded with Google's Android OS.

Bangalore: Along with its plans to take on Apple and its iPhone with its upcoming Windows Phone 7 series, global giant Microsoft has something special planned for markets like India.

Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) Director V.K. Saraswat on Wednesday said that India's anti-ballistic missile defence programme is ahead of China's programme.

Rolls-Royce has launched its top of the order Phantom in India. The world’s most admired car aims to attract new millionaires in India that the country has in thousands.

At rupees 4 crore, the Phantom is the most expensive car launched in India so far and has great attraction for the super rich who have another expensive item to show to their peers. How often they will take the car out on roads is a mystery as our roads that are in pathetic condition are not meant for such beauties?

MUMBAI: The first images from RISAT-2, the all-weather spy satellite put into orbit by a Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) on Monday, will
start arriving next week, Isro said.

Isro's chief spokesman S Satish said on Tuesday that there would be no further altitude-raising operation for RISAT-2 and Anusat, the country's first university satellite that piggy-backed on the spy satellite.

"In the first shot itself they reached their designated orbits 18 minutes after lift off,'' he said.

SAN FRANCISCO — T-Mobile is planning an aggressive push deep into the home with a variety of communications devices that will use Google’s new Android operating software that already runs one of its cellphones.

T-Mobile plans to sell a home phone early next year and soon after a tablet computer, both running Android, according to confidential documents obtained from one of the company’s partners. The phone will plug into a docking station and come with another device that handles data synchronization as it recharges the phone’s battery.

New Delhi: HP has unveiled a new range of products and solutions that enable organisations to address the short-term cost reductions required by today’s challenging economy.

The new storage virtualisation solutions – StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array 6400 and 8400 (EVA6400/8400) and the enhanced SAN Virtualisation Services Platform 2.1 (SVSP 2.1) – will change the economics of customers’ infrastructures by reducing costs and better leveraging existing technology investments.