Bhaskar Prasad

Netflix has said that it would abandon its plan to separate its DVDs-by-mail business from its online streaming service.

Apple has received more than a million preorders for the iPhone 4S in a single day, toppling the previous record of 600,000 set by the iPhone 4 last year, the company says.

Users of Google's Android-based phones and tablets can now make use of a free new app that allows the user to see protons collide, in real time and in 3D, within the particle accelerator located on the French-Swiss border.

A link between decadal solar variability and winter climate in the UK, northern Europe and parts of America has been demonstrated by scientists according to a new study.

Subsequent to the introduction of the iPhone 4S by Apple, a number of observers have indicated that the iPhone 5 may not be launched until the 4G LTE technology is available for compact smartphones.

After weeks of speculation of its intensity as predicted the Draconid meteor shower happened on Saturday, lasting for several hours and splashing the darkening sky with trails of light.

China has marked the 100th anniversary of the revolution that ended two millennia of nearly unbroken imperial rule.

A total of 21 people nationwide have now died in the listeriosis outbreak linked to cantaloupes from a Colorado farm, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said

Califiornia children and youths under the age of 18 will no longer be allowed to use tanning beds under a bill Gov. Jerry Brown signed Sunday prohibiting minors from using ultraviolet tanning devices.

Paul McCartney married his third wife, American heiress Nancy Shevell, in London on Sunday

The iPhone 4S, which was labelled to be a flop phone by many, has shattered all preorder records of previous iPhone.

Kim Kardashian has said she's ready to have babies and has put a specific timeframe to get pregnant.

The Belgium government has offered to buy Dexia's Belgian banking business for 4 billion euros ($5.4 billion) according to a statement by the Prime Minister.

The shipping estimate for Apple’s new iPhone 4S indicates that customers pre-ordered the new smartphone can expect their devices to be shipped from one to two weeks.

Oracle Corp. announced it is building Oracle Public Cloud, a cloud service to host many of its key software products, including Java, database, middleware, and customer-relationship-management applications.

Astronomers have detected pulsed gamma rays from the neutron star at the heart of the Crab Nebula with energies far higher than their theoretical pulsar models can explain.

It is rumored that Amazon.com has received more than 250,000 preorders for the Kindle Fire - the online retail giant's competitively-priced tablet computer - in the five days since its launch. However, the Kindle Fire, priced at $199, will only be shipped from Nov.15. If you're unwililng to wait that long, you could look at a few other options, apart from the iPad 2. Here is a list of some Android-based tablets.

Given the likelihood one of the biggest rivals of the iPhone 4S will be the Samsung Galaxy S2, it will be interesting to have a comparison of the features of the two competitors.

Samsung Electronics Co. and Google Inc. have agreed to delay the public announcement of a new mobile-phone product following the death of Apple Inc.'s former chief executive, Steve Jobs, the Seoul-based electronics giant said Saturday.

The Draconid meteor shower is expected to begin its display Saturday, and it may peak between 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time.

Oracle has announced JavaFX 2.0 and its plans to move Java forward and continue investment in mobile platforms such as Java ME and Oracle Application Development Framework (ADF) Mobile in the OpenWorld conference.

A spacecraft orbiting Venus has discovered an ozone layer high in the planet’s atmosphere, similar to that surrounding Earth and Mars according to astronomers.

NASA will start accepting applications for its next class of astronaut candidates in November according to anew announcement it has made.

The 2011 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to three women. Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberian peace activist Leymah Gbowee and Tawakkul Karman of Yemen have won the Prize for their work on women's rights.

Swedish poet Tomas Transtromer has been awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize for Literature.

It is said that behind every successful man there is a woman. This seemed right in the case of Steve Jobs.

Pulsed gamma rays from the neutron star at the heart of the Crab Nebula with energies far higher than theoretical pulsar models can explain has been detected by scientists.

The authorized biography of Steve Jobs became the top-selling book on Amazon.com Wednesday night after it was revealed that he had died. The release date for the book is October 24.

Advertisements have more influence on children's food choices than their parents, according to a study from Texas.