Chandrayaan-2 will try out new ideas, technologies

Chandrayaan-2, the proposed second Indian mission to moon, would undertake "extremely good" experiments and try out new technologies but accommodating foreign payloads on board does not appear to be a possibility at this stage.

The first edition of the moon odyssey had six foreign payloads and five Indian ones on board but heavy orbiter (satellite) and lander weight this time has put constraints on the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) in terms of carry-load of instruments.

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BlackBerry should comply with security rules or shut shop:Govt

The government has said that the makers of BlackBerry - Research in Motion (RIM) - have to address its security concern by offering monitoring facility, else the popular smartphone company will have to shut its shop in India.

The Ministry of Home Affairs has asked the Department of Telecommunication to tell the Canadian service provider in no uncertain terms that its email and other data services must comply with formats that can be monitored by security and intelligence agencies.

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Slimmer iPhone with clearer screen due June 24

The next iPhone comes out June 24 and will have a higher-resolution screen, longer battery life and thinner design.

CEO Steve Jobs opened Apple Inc.'s annual conference for software developers Monday by demonstrating the iPhone 4, which will cost $199 or $299 in the U.S. with a two-year AT&T contract, depending on the capacity. The iPhone 3GS, which debuted last year, will still be available, for $99.

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Computers set for radical makeover with carbon nanotubes

Computers are set for a radical makeover with carbon nanotubes replacing silicon transistors in 10 years.

Johannes Svensson, physicist from the University of Gothenburg, is working on the manufacture and use of carbon nanotubes, on which he has based his doctoral thesis.

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Nokia, Opera support Adobe's Flash in Apple spat

Cellphone maker Nokia and browser firm Opera Software pledged on Thursday to support Adobe Systems' Flash software in its bitter row with Apple.

Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs last month slammed Adobe's Flash multimedia software, which is used in most smartphones, calling it unreliable and ill-suited for mobile devices, escalating a pitched battle between the two firms.

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