It has emerged that Google’s messaging tool ‘Buzz’ has a serious privacy flaw, in which it could allow anyone to see who they have been emailing.
Google claims that Buzz allows users to “share updates, photos, videos, and more”, but users have discovered that unless privacy settings are changed, it publicly shares details of users’ contacts.
The [...]

Nokia N-900 shows what the Gen-Next convergence devices could look likeTo start with, the new Nokia N900 is not much of a phone. This time Nokia has gone into hybrid mode and put the best of their Internet tablets into a phone sized chassis to give the unit the power and looks that kill.Fire up [...]

The mobile data traffic is set to experience record growth in 2010, according to a report from Juniper Research.
Such a growth would cause an explosion in mobile data traffic, putting strain on 3G networks and causing network providers to reconsider pricing plans, the report added.
Juniper Research has compiled a list of top ten trends, reports [...]

A new research has analyzed what are the things in the movie Avatar that comply with science and can exist in reality and what are the things that are implausible.
According to a report in Discovery News, one of the plausible stuff shown in the movie is the concept of moons that can host life.
Inhabitable moons [...]

Diners in the Far East are quite partial to a variety of sweet, pink-skinned tomatoes. Now, a researcher has revealed the secret behind this pink vegetable.
Asaph Aharoni of the Weizmann Institute’s Plant Sciences department in Israel says that a mutated gene, SIMYB12, is responsible for producing these pink tomatoes.
This gene acts as a ‘master switch’ [...]

Reports indicate that a California preservation panel has taken the unusual step of naming the 1969 Apollo 11 moon landing site as a state historical resource.
According to a report in the Express, the vote by the California State Historical Resources Commission is part of an effort by several states to have Tranquillity Base become [...]

US space agency NASA is set to embark on an ambitious mission which will try to discover the causes of extreme solar activity, such as sun spots and solar winds and flares.
Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) will be launched in nine days’ time, reports The Times.
With the project’s help, scientists will be able to understand solar [...]

Two astronauts conducted a spacewalk outside the International Space Station Sunday to outfit the orbiting laboratory’s newest room, NASA said.
Nicholas Patrick and Bob Behnken, crew members of the visiting space shuttle Endeavour, connected outside cooling cables to the new Tranquility module. They also installed thermal covers on the Italian-made room and put in place handrails [...]

A nasal spray containing oxytocin, the “bonding” hormone, can help alleviate some symptoms of autism, scientists have found.
In the study, which was carried out on 13 patients with high-functioning autism, defined as those of normal or above-normal intelligence, researchers found that participants who inhaled the spray altered their behaviour temporarily, becoming more sociable and trusting, [...]

Controversies notwithstanding, the Shah Rukh Khan-starrer ‘My Name Is Khan’ has gone on to rake in around Rs.250 million (about $5.3 million) across the globe on the opening day.
Directed by Karan Johar, ‘My Name is Khan’ was released Friday.
‘We are delighted with the performance and audience reactions across demographics. More so, because this is only [...]

Three decades after he sang them, six of Mohammed Rafi’s unreleased songs have been brought together in an album
In the late seventies, while in college, brothers and co-composers, Anand and Milind Srivastava tried never to miss the practice sessions of playback singers who rehearsed with their father, composer Chitragupta. One of their favourites was a [...]

My Name is Khan’ producer and director Karan Johar, whose film is being lauded by audiences and critics, says he was fed up with the typical Bollywood stuff.
‘I was fed up with Bollywood, its item numbers, big sets – it was all too easy and getting repetitive for me. I wanted a challenge.
‘I’m not tearing [...]