“I am delighted to learn that the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle-C14 (PSLV-C14) launched from Satish Dhawan Space Centre, SHAR, Sriharikota has successfully launched India’s Oceansat-2 satellite and six nano satellites from European Universities and agencies,” said Manmohan Singh.

Further adding, he said, “PSLV has once again demonstrated its versatility and reliability through this fifteenth successful launch in a row. The Oceansat-2 satellite will herald a new beginning in our understanding of the oceans”.

Designed in shape of a cube, the Oceansat-2 is launched so that it can study oceans’ connections with the atmosphere. It will help in finding out potential fishing zones, sea-state forecasting, coastal zone studies, weather forecasting and climate studies.

Speaking to IANS over phone from ISRO’s launch centre at Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh, M.Y.S. Prasad, associate director, Satish Dhawan Space Centre said: “Preparations are already on for the launch of GSAT 4 — the communication satellite using the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV). The rocket assembling process has started.”

The first stage of GSLV with four strap-on motors has been assembled and assembling of the second stage is to start soon.

The third stage — cryogenic stage — will come from ISRO’s Thiruvananthapuram facility, he said.

“GSLV will blast off from the second launch pad with its third stage fitted with an India built cryogenic engine thereby making the country absolutely self reliant in building the bigger rocket,” S. Sathish, ISRO’s director of publications and public relations, told IANS over phone from Bangalore.

For all the five earlier GSLV missions, ISRO had used Russian cryogenic engines.

Last December, the indigenously developed cryogenic upper stage engine passed the flight acceptance test with the engine tested for 200 seconds.

The development of cryogenic engines involves mastering materials technology, operating rotary pumps and turbines which run at 42,000 revolutions per minute (RPM).

Weighing around two tonnes, GSAT 4 will carry a multi-beam Ka-band bent pipe and regenerative transponder and navigation payload in C, L1 and L5 bands. The satellite can guide civil and military aircraft.

GSAT 4 will also carry a scientific payload, TAUVEX, comprising three ultra violet band telescopes developed by Tel Aviv University and Israel space agency (ELOP) for surveying a large part of the sky in the 1,400-3,200 A wavelengths.

Meanwhile, ISRO officials are gearing up the next week’s PSLV launch carrying the 960 kg Oceansat 2 and six nano satellites totalling around 20 kg.

“We conducted the pre-launch rehearsal — all activities that have to be carried out ten hours before the actual launch — starting at 2 a.m. Saturday and completed at 12.30 p.m. Everything went off well,” said Prasad. He said the actual 49-hour countdown process will start Monday 8 a.m. The rocket will fly at 11.51 a.m. Wednesday.

According to Satish, Oceansat 2 will be placed in a sun-synchronous orbit 720 km above the earth.

Prasad added: “Oceansat 2 will cover the whole earth as the coverage strip will be moving since it is not geostationary satellite. The orbit is designed in such a way that the satellite will cross the Equator at 12 noon near India.”

Along with Oceansat 2, four overseas Cubesats each weighing 1 kg will be ejected from the rocket, while the two Rubinsats each weighing 8 kg will orbit attached to the rocket’s fourth stage, he added.

This will be the second time that ISRO will launch a cluster of nano satellites. In 2008 ISRO — launching its cartography satellite (CARTOSAT-2A) and Indian Mini Satellite (IMS-1) — also sent up eight nano satellites and set a world record of maximum number of satellites sent up in a single launch.

“The increased launch of nano satellites from foreign countries is expected to propel Indian universities to follow the footsteps of Anna University to build satellites,” Satish remarked.

Chennai-based Anna University became the first Indian university to build a small satellite Anusat which ISRO launched in April this year.

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It’s traffic never went down and is still going upwards. And if it maintain their current growth for more 3-6 months they may be the mosted visited website on internet.

6 months back facebook has been the 10th most visited website in the world,where as today its the second most visited website. As per Alexa it have the maximum number of page impressions beating Google, Yahoo and Youtube.com, but their overall traffic rank is 2. where as google stands at rank 1 and yahoo at 3.

The recent launch of facebook lite can even further pull up their traffic to beat Google. Facebook don’t have a strong business plan to convert their traffic into money. but as per their management they are not really looking for money as yet their goal is to grab more and more users.

Intel’s latest Nehalem microarchitecture is brought to the desktops and servers through the new Intel Core i5 processor series, two new Intel Core i7 processors and the Intel Xeon processor 3400 series.

“With the launch of the new Core i5 and Core i7 series of processors, we are extending the path-breaking Nehalem microarchitecture for mainstream PC users. This is coupled with revolutionary changes in chipset design delivering great new levels of performance and scalability. Ultimately it allows discerning users to get previously unheard levels of intelligent performance in their desktop PCs and experience smooth and more realistic gaming and multitasking”, says Prakash Bagri, Director-Marketing, Intel South Asia.

These chips are especially meant for the people who want high end performance for digital media, productivity, gaming and other demanding applications.

iPlayer TV support was added to 2.53 version of Sony PS3. While in the new 3.0 update, a direct link to iPlayer was added from the PS3’s X-Media launcher.

The Appliance is equipped with very prominent storage capabilities and also comes at budget-friendly prices.

Jonathan Huberman, president of Iomega and the Consumer and Small Business Products Division of EMC says, “The new StorCenter ix4-200d delivers the unquestionable advantages of EMC’s world class enterprise storage technologies to small businesses and distributed enterprises in an affordable and easy to use solution. From device-to-device replication and iSCSI support to dual Gigabit Ethernet connectivity, VMware certification and other innovative and user-friendly features, the ix4-200d is an excellent yet affordable NAS appliance that gives smaller organizations and work groups not only cost-effective powerful network storage but many of the same sophisticated data management capabilities as a Fortune 100 corporation that no competitor can match.”

Offering block-level access in order to enable a complete use to its storage, the StorCenter ix4-200d gives a networked storage of up to 8TB.

To enhance business continuity and file recovery, device-to-device replication to network targets are also embedded into it. Through the remote access, users will be able to access and manage their ix4-200d from wherever they are. It can also be used as a back up for Mac computer using OS X (10.5 or later) through the Time Machine.

Automatic shutdown of unattended systems is enabled by the USP support. The Iomega StorCenter ix4-200d also features enhanced security capabilities.

The pricing list for various capacities goes as follows:

2TB StorCenter ix4-200d NAS – $699.99 (approx. 34,201)

4TB StorCenter ix4-200d NAS – $899.99 (approx. 43,973)

8TB StorCenter ix4-200d NAS – $1,899.99 (approx. 92,833)

These words include the terminologies from sites like Facebook, Twitter and Myspace.

Instant messaging and popularity of Web 2.0 has been recognized very well as the words like ‘meh’ suggesting disliking, ‘hmm’ – meaning to ponder and ‘mwah’- duping the sound of a kiss.

Other words to make it to the dictionary in the first time are woot (to celebrate), WTF (what the f**k), OMG (Oh my god) and noob (online newbie).

The UK price has not yet been revealed by the company.

The LG’s first OLED TV will be first launched in Korea, but UK will have to wait till 2010 to have it. Along with that, Samsung has promised a 30-inch OLED TV by the year 2012.

There is by far, no ward on pricing by the company but it can be expected to stand around the same price as that of Sony XEL-1.

The prime features of the PRS-600 Touch Edition reader include a 6-inch screen, a stylus pen for making notes on your texts and an audio out. Also on the board is a built-in Oxford Dictionary. Storage features include an additional SD card and Memory Stick slots to ensure huge storage capacity.

The Pocket Edition PRS-300 was also announced by Sony along with PRS-600 earlier this month.

While the PRS-600 will sell for £249, the Pocket Edition PRS-300 will sell for a more affordable £179. It has a 5 inch touch screen with storage sufficient for nearly 350 texts and is available in pretty colors like pink and silver.