Microsoft Sells 175 Million Copies of Windows 7 in Nine Months

As apple annonced their best profit earning this Quarter so does the Microsoft. Microsoft had announced their record-breaking Q4 earnings report, mostly driven by sales of Windows 7 and Office 2010. Microsoft is reporting that more than 175 million copies of Windows 7 were sold in just nine months, making it the fastest-selling OS in the company’s history.

Just a month ago, the company announced that it had already sold 150 million units, or seven copies of Windows 7 per second.

The sale of 175 million copies in just nine months is just mind blowing since, on average, about 20 million copies sold per month.

Microsoft Sells 175 Million Copies of Windows 7 in Nine Months

Now, Facebook has 500 Million Users.(OFFICIAL)

Facebook in its blog has announced that it has passed the 500 million member mark.

In a blog post, CEO Mark Zuckerberg writes that, “I could have never imagined all of the ways people would use Facebook (Facebook) when we were getting started 6 years ago. I want to thank you for being part of making Facebook what it is today and for spreading it around the world.”

Zuckerberg  latest venture, announced the launch of Facebook Stories, showcasing interesting ways that people have used the social network around the world. News of the feature leaked over the weekend.

Now, Facebook has 500 Million Users.(OFFICIAL)

No 'Bajaj' for their popular bike brands?

Rajiv, who is the Managing Director of the firm while addressing shareholders in its annual report for 2009-10, Rahul said it pleased him that the company is leveraging its key brands to maximise profits.

"Your Managing Director often says that while products may generate market share, brands provide pricing power and create higher profits. I am increasingly tending to agree with him," the senior Bajaj wrote.

His comment is in contrast to the opinion he expressed earlier about the changes brought in by his son on the branding front.

Rajiv had said the 'Bajaj' name will be done away with from the motorcycles as the brand has been diluted, having presence from electricals to insurance to automobiles.

No 'Bajaj' for their popular bike brands?

After Winning the First World Cup, Spain looks to Bid 2018 FIFA WC.

MADRID(AP) Now that Spain has its first World Cup title, the country's soccer authorities are focusing on winning the right to host another World Cup.

Secretary of state for sport Jaime Lissavetzy says the joint bid with neighboring Portugal to host either the 2018 or 2022 event is Spain's ''next very difficult challenge.''

Lissavetzy says the World Cup victory in South Africa, when Spain defeated the Netherlands 1-0 in the final, showed Spain is ''an international power'' in sports.

After Winning the First World Cup, Spain looks to Bid 2018 FIFA WC.

Premier League Club Bans Vuvuzela from stadiums.

Although the Premier League has not made any ruling on the vuvuzela covering its 20 teams, Tottenham banned the South African instrument late Monday.

Arsenal, Birmingham, Everton, Fulham, Liverpool, West Ham and Sunderland followed Tuesday, with most citing concern that the distinctive blaring of the vuvuzelas could prevent spectators at matches from hearing safety announcements such as evacuation instructions.

''Following discussions with the police and representatives from the local licensing authorities, the club will not be permitting vuvuzelas or similar instruments into White Hart Lane on match days,'' Tottenham said. ''We are concerned that the presence of the instruments within the stadium pose unnecessary risks to public safety.''

Vuvuzelas at the recently concluded World Cup annoyed plenty of television viewers around the world by drowning out television commentary and other crowd noise.

But many enjoyed the local flavor they added to the monthlong tournament. The trumpets were a common souvenir for visiting supporters to take home from the World Cup, but with Arsenal following its north London neighbor in imposing a ban, half of last season's top four clubs have ordered fans to leave them at home.

Premier League Club Bans Vuvuzela from stadiums.

Loew to stay as Germany Coach.

FRANKFURT, Germany(AP) The German football federation has called a news conference later Tuesday amid reports that national coach Joachim Loew has agreed to extend his contract by two years.

The Sueddeutsche Zeitung newspaper reported Loew will stay through the 2012 European Championship in Poland and Ukraine.

Loew led Germany's young team to a third-place finish at the World Cup in South Africa this month.

He has been out of contract since the end of the tournament. Earlier talks on an extension stalled over several issues, including remuneration.

Loew to stay as Germany Coach.

Kapil to fulfill Indian migrant's last wish .

Legendary all-rounder Kapil Dev is all set to fulfill the last wish of an Indian migrant to Australia who died more than six decades ago.

Kapil will land in Australia this weekend to collect the ashes of Pooran Singh and take them to India for immersion.

Kapil will also attend a ceremony organised by the Victorian Sikh Community this Sunday to collect the ashes. Pooran, who migrated to Australia 111 years ago, had wished that his ashes be immersed in River Ganges.

Kapil to fulfill Indian migrant's last wish .

Lenovo planning Android tablet PC

Lenovo Group, the world's No 4 PC brand, said it will come out with its own tablet PC, will try to compete with line of companies who will soon come out with there own version of android based tablet rivaling Apple Inc's popular iPad.

Lenovo was developing a tablet PC, known internally as LePad, that would run on Google Inc's Android operating system, Lenovo spokeswoman Wu Hwa said on Wednesday, adding that no launch date had been set and the name of the product may change.

"We want the tablet PC to be compatible with our LePhone smartphone, which is why we're using Android," Wu said.

Lenovo planning Android tablet PC

War on terror costs US $ 1 trillion

The United States has spent more than $ 1 trillion on wars since the September 11, 2001, says a recently released Congressional report.

Adjusting for inflation, the outlays for conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere around the world make the "war on terrorism" second only to World War II that cost $ 4.1 trillion at today's prices, the report says.

The report "Cost of Major US Wars" by the Congressional Research Service attempts to compare war costs over a more than 230-year period-from the American Revolution to the current day-noting the difficulties associated with such a task.

Since the 9/11 terror attacks, the United States has spent an estimated $ 1.15 trillion. World War II cost $ 4.1 trillion when converted to current dollars, although the tab in the 1940s was $ 296 billion.

War on terror costs US $ 1 trillion

Russian spy Anna tries to make her living by selling her story.

Russian spy Anna Chapman, who was sent back home after being arrested in the US, is in a secret $ 250,000-deal to reveal her espionage adventure and wants the money to be paid into the Swiss bank account of one of her associates.

The spy is hoping to net a fortune from the story of how she infiltrated American society and has asked a London-based friend to discreetly reach out to the media for a deal.

Chapman hopes to get around rules in the US and Russia banning her from profiting from her story by channeling the money from any deal to a friend, the New York Post reported quoting sources.

Russian spy Anna tries to make her living by selling her story.

Vitamin C ‘can block tumour growth’

Vitamin C can help block the growth of cancer cells, found New Zealand researchers—a feat that could be quickly adopted into cancer treatment.

After much controversy over the role of vitamin C in cancer treatment, a team from Otago University at Christchurch have now shown that it has a role in controlling tumour growth.

They have said that their study of tumorous and normal tissue samples from women with cancer of the uterine lining, has given the first direct evidence of a link between vitamin C and a protein called HIF-1.

HIF (hypoxia inducible factor)-1 is considered a key protein in tumour survival.

Vitamin C ‘can block tumour growth’

Eating lunch off toilet seats safer than office desk!

Having lunch off a toilet seat is safer than a typical office desk, according to an American microbiologist.

"There's more faecal bacteria in your kitchen sink than in your toilet after you flush it. People nuke their bathrooms, but not their kitchens," The New Zealand Herald quoted Dr Charles Gerba, of Arizona University, as saying.

He added: "There are 200 times more E. coli on the cutting board than on a toilet seat. It's safer to make a sandwich on a toilet seat than on a cutting board in the average home."

This is because many people don't sanitise the board properly after cutting up raw meat, or don''t use separate boards for raw meat and ready-to-eat foods.

Eating lunch off toilet seats safer than office desk!

Computer programme decodes language used in Biblical times.

A new computer programme has successfully decoded a written language last used in Biblical times.

The success could lead to "resurrecting" ancient texts that are no longer understood.

Created by an MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) team led by Regina Barzilay, the programme translates written Ugaritic, which consists of dots and wedge-shaped stylus marks on clay tablets, and was last used around 1200 B.C. in western Syria.

Through repeated analysis, the programme linked letters and words to map nearly all the Ugaritic symbols to their Hebrew equivalents in a matter of hours.

Computer programme decodes language used in Biblical times.

Blackberry launches it new Messenger, targets Youth.

The Waterloo-based Canadian wireless giant has just launched TV, Internet and poster ads to woo young people in North America by playing up its BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) which is extremely popular among its professional and corporate clients.

More than 25 million of the total 46 million BlackBerry subscribers worldwide use BlackBerry Messenger. According to RIM co-CEO Jim Balsillie, BlackBerry Messenger is so popular that its use has shot up nearly 500 percent during the fiscal.

In fact, at the RIM's annual shareholder meeting last week, BlackBerry Messenger was the toast of the evening, with television commercials highlighting the software for its better network efficiency against competition.

Blackberry launches it new Messenger, targets Youth.

Russia to start construction of new spaceport

Russia will be investing US $800m (£527m) into a new spaceport in the country's Far East, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has announced.

It is said to aim to ease the dependence on the Baikonur launch site in Kazakhstan, built during the Soviet-era.

The future cosmodrome will be built near the town of Uglegorsk in the Far Eastern Amur region, close to the border with China.

It is planned to be mostly used for civilian launches and should be operational by 2015.

Russia to start construction of new spaceport

Anti-aircraft laser unveiled at Farnborough Airshow

Artists representation of what the CIWS laser beam looks like which, in reality, is invisible.

Raytheon US based Defense firm  has unveiled its anti-aircraft laser at the Farnborough Airshow in Hampshire.

The Laser Close-In Weapon System (CIWS) can either be used on its own or alongside a gunnery system.

In May, the laser was used to shoot down unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in a series of tests.

Raytheon said the solid state fibre laser produces a 50 kilowatt beam and can be used against UAV, mortar, rockets and small surface ships.

Anti-aircraft laser unveiled at Farnborough Airshow

Mexican man caught smuggling small 18 monkeys in his clothes.

Mexican authorities have arrested a man who was trying to smuggle 18 small monkeys into the country by carrying them in his clothing.

Roberto Sol Cabrera, a Mexican citizen, was stopped at a random check at Mexico City's international airport after arriving from Lima.

In a statement, police said Mr Cabrera Zavaleta had been behaving "nervously".

Once he was searched, it was discovered that he had hidden 18 titi monkeys in a girdle around his waist.

After his arrest, Mr Sol Cabrera confessed that the animals had travelled in his luggage, and that he had put them under his clothing "to protect them from X-rays" as he was going through customs.

The animals had been put into socks, police explained, and two of them were dead at the time of confiscation.

Mexican man caught smuggling small 18 monkeys in his clothes.

Prince William 'under fire over 1.4-mn-pound security bill'

Prince William has come under fire over an estimated annual bill of 1.4 million pounds which the British government has to foot to protect him at a private cottage after he shunned the Royal Air Force accommodation, a media report said.

The Prince is classified as the highest security risk and receives round-the-clock armed protection. Scotland Yard provides him with a number of personal protection officers. In addition, a 15-strong unit of armed officers has been formed by North Wales Police to look after him during his training.

But, the second-in-line to the British throne's decision to live off base for the duration of his three-year helicopter pilot training course at RAF Valley in Anglesey has costly implications for the force providing his security, the Daily Express reported.

Prince William 'under fire over 1.4-mn-pound security bill'

How to download the Rupee symbol [VIDEO]

Government of India says may have to wait for at least one year before you get keyboards for your computers with the new Rupee Symbol.

Foradian Technologies Pvt Ltd, a Mangalore-based firm, has created a new font called the Rupee_Foradian, which can be downloaded from the company's site - Download the symbol here .

The firm has also put in a slide show on the site to help users download the symbol, and the move has generated amazing results with the tiral version being loaded about 1,100 times with the first hour of its launch. The company made available the full version, free, as soon as the hits crossed 5,000.

How to download the Rupee symbol [VIDEO]

The Women look Most Beautiful at the Age 31.

Women aged 31 are at the peak of their beauty, according to a new study which breaks the age-old myth that teenagers are the most attractive.

Women in their late 20s and early 30s are considered more attractive than fresh-faced eighteen and nineteen year olds, researchers said.

The findings, from a survey of the opinions of over 2,000 men and women, found that beauty was as much rooted in personality as appearance, according to The Telegraph.

The Women look Most Beautiful at the Age 31.