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Infosys Technologies, India’s second largest outsourcer, continued its expansion in China by setting up a new campus at the Zizhu Science and Technology Park in Shanghai and planned investment up to $150 million, reports said

Several drugs sold as ‘legal highs’ online do not include the components they claim, a report from the journal Drug Testing and Analysis said

An autonomous researcher said there are numerous security exposures in business social network LinkedIn, due to the ways it handles and broadcast cookies over SSL (Secure Sockets Layer), a report said

Apple has submitted a patent that plans to install better security facilities on its systems, reports said

President Barack Obama will use a European tour this week to urge U.S. allies to help press forward the movement for democratic change presented by the Arab spring uprisings in the Middle East, reports said

Criticisms have flared up this week if Google Android 2.3 operating system, Gingerbread, is already within the Android 3.0 Honeycomb.

A suicide bomber killed at least six people and wounded 23 more when he detonated explosives at a military hospital in the Kabul on Saturday, the Afghan Defense Ministry said in a statement

A bio-mechanical experiment carried out at the University Of Pennsylvania School Of Engineering and Applied Science has answered a long-standing theoretical question if microorganisms swim faster or slower in elastic fluids and the answer is “slower”, the university website said

iPad 2 users will now have the option of using the updated Yahoo! Messenger version 2.1 for video and voice calls.

Engadget, a multilingual technology weblog and podcast about user electronics, revealed Acer will delay the release of its 7-inch Iconia Tab A100 tablet till the second half of 2011.

A report by Chinese police said a company controlled by Ai Weiwei, one of China's best-recognized contemporary artists, has evaded a big amount of tax payment which indicated the first economic crime after his arrest and has triggered an international outcry

Sony’s supplementary website So-net Entertainment was compromised by hackers which accounted a loss of $1,200 worth virtual points, reports said

Apple’s iPhone will support China Mobile's fourth generation (4G) network in the future which will raise Apple’s iconic status among 600 million customers, a report from the company said.

ARM (Advanced RISC Machines) has announced the accessibility of the ARM Cortex-M System Design Kit (CMSDK), a system solution allowing Cortex-M processor licenses to get to silicon faster with reduced risks and focusing on differentiation, a report on ARM’s website said.

Security researchers at F-Secure, an anti-virus and computer security software company from Finland, have revealed a phishing site is running on the Sony’s servers, reports said

Day 1 Studios will be releasing the awaited F.E.A.R. 3 (short for First Encounter Assault Recon), a first person-shooter, on June 21 in US and June 24 worldwide, reports said

German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble announced on Friday that Europe will soon decide on a candidate to become the next chief of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), reports said

Acer and ASUS have confirmed their respective Tegra 2-powered, 10.1-inch Android tablets will be receiving the Android 3.1 update in June, reports said.

Microsoft, in a report, has announced students who buy a new PC for $699 or more will get a free Xbox 360 4GB console.

Annie Jacobsen’s new book, AREA 51: An Uncensored History of America’s Top Secret Military Base, for the first time, has revealed the history of America’s top secret military base. The book has interviews with scientists, engineers and pilots who have exposed what really happened in the Nevada desert.

A radiation alarm went off at Tokyo Electric Power company’s (TEPCO) Fukushima power plant even before the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, which served as a contrary to earlier theories the reactors were damaged by the natural catastrophes.

Nokia’s share of the mobile phone market has dropped by 25 per cent in the first quarter of 2011, a report revealed by Gartner said on Thursday.

The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS), worth $2 billion, was placed outside the International Space Station (ISS) on Thursday. The device will be used to discover new forms of matter in outer space, NASA said.

A Polish architectural firm has designed the world’s first zombie-proof house called the “safe House”, reports said.

The Endeavour astronauts, aboard the orbiting space station complex, are close to accomplishing the primary objective of their mission, NASA said.

Intel’s managerial unit declared on Thursday that keyboardless netbooks and tablets maybe a new cult thing, but it is not killing off PCs (Personal Computers), a report said.

Researchers at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon are working on strengthening an approach to password security which is not just about what the user will type, but will deal with the way the user will type, reports said.

The BlackBerry Playbook which was announced in the end of last year has been given a launch date of June 16 and is available for pre-order, reports said.

Space shuttle Endeavour docked with the International Space Station (ISS) for the 12th and the last time on Wednesday keeping harmony with its swansong mission, reports from NASA said.