Microsoft revealed some of the details of its upcoming mobile operating system Windows Phone 7 at the recently held web developers’ conference in Las Vegas.

The announced details showed that Windows Phone 7 will lack a number of things that enjoyed prominent place in company’s earlier Mobile OS.

Cut-copy-paste is one of the many important features that Windows Phone 7 will miss. So users will not be able to copy and paste items. Instead, the company has introduced a new feature called single-tap action.

Developer Irrational Games has revealed some of those crooks which failed to become a part of the original BioShock first-person shooter game.

BioShock’s architect Ken Levine posted some of those baddies in company’s official blog.

Some of the rejected baddies were much more striking than the splicers that we saw in final game.

The HP Mini 210 Vivienne Tam Edition netbbok is the perfect combination of technology and fashion as it is designed collectively by technology giant HP and well-known fashion designer Vivienne Tam.

The HP Mini 210, which is going to hit stores in Singapore next month, is targeting females with its lovely butterfly design on the cover.

The 1.2-kg stylish netbook is less than one inch in thickness. It was first made public at the New York Fashion Week in September 2009.

Microsoft Corp's new web browser Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) will not run on Windows XP, which will make users to upgrade to Windows Vista or Windows 7.

Speaking on the topic, a spokesperson for Microsoft said, "IE9 requires the modern graphics and security underpinnings that have come since 2001.”

The statement clearly indicated towards XP that appeared that year.

The Carbon Trust has created a "dream team" of more than 70 top scientists from 11 institutions to develop a world-class, sustainable and commercially viable biofuel from algae.

The Carbon Trust has aims to cultivate around 70 billion litres of algae-based biofuel per year by 2030.

Speaking on the topic, the Carbon Trust CEO Tom Delay said, "We have pulled together a dream team of more than 70 UK algae scientists who have the expert knowledge to turn algae into a British biofuel success story.”

German scientists have designed a three-dimensional "invisibility cloak" that can make objects invisible by bending light waves.

As per the study, an object can be made invisible by changing the speed & direction of the light. It means that objects can be made invisible by changing the material's refractive index.

The findings that published in the journal Science could make it possible to make large objects invisible.

A ground-breaking technology has enabled a British soldier who was blinded in a grenade attack in Iraq to "see" with his tongue.

Lance Corporal Craig Lundberg, a 24-year-old soldier from Walton can now identify shapes and walk without help using the BrainPort device.

The BrainPort device has tha ability to convert visual images into a series of electrical pulses that are sent to user’s tongue. These electrical pulses help in distinguishing between light and dark.

Twenty-nine-year old Min-Kyu Choi's three-pin folding plug has won the Brit Insurance design of the year prize.

Min-Kyu Choi’s folding plug will be a good choice for those who have become fed up with bulky three-pin British plug that has changed little since its origin in 1946.

Min-Kyu Choi, the student from Bayswater said that he had carried a laptop with with him to the university but he was sad to see that its plug had scratched the machine.

Web browser Opera announced on Thursday that downloads of its browser jumped to more than double after Microsoft Corp. provided its users with a choice of Web software.

From March 1, Microsoft started offering its customers a choice of 12 browsers to settle European Commission antitrust charges. Earlier the software giant had been compelling its customers to install its own Internet Explorer browser as a default.

Social networking site has refused to install an anti-paedophile “panic button" on the main section of the site.

Facebook argues that installation of panic button on its main pages could dissuade anxious users from coming forward.

Calls for the panic button triggered following the murder of 17-year-old Ashleigh Hall by a serial rapist, Peter Chapman, who met her on the site.

After facing backlash over iPhone’s battery life, Apple has announced iPad battery replacement service.

Apple’s upcoming iPad, which is expected to be made available in April, has a 10-inch LCD display that demands a battery life of more than five times the capacity the iPhone 3GS battery possesses.

Apple iPad’s battery life will be a big factor in its success as it is the biggest device that will be used off the power cord most of the time.

Telecom's IT services unit Gen-i is all set to sell iPhones as well as providing service for clients who want to buy and establish iPhone devices.

Gen-i said its recent move aims at improving the service experience for its clients.

Speaking on the topic, Gen-i said, “The process has been put in place to ensure we are delivering the best client experience we can without a formal carrier agreement between Telecom and Apple.”

Twitter co-founder Evan Williams has announced that the company plans to launch a new platform dubbed @anywhere, a service that will allow its users to send and receive short messages while they are browsing other websites.

Evan Williams made the announcement during his speech at the South by Southwest conference in Austin.

The move is seen as a part of an effort to expand the jurisdiction of popular messaging service.

Both of Lenovo’s new ThinkPad X100e and the ThinkPad Edge are equipped with typical ThinkPad characteristic, the TrackPoint, which is a small red nub in the middle of the keyboard that allows its user to move the cursor in the desired direction.

The ThinkPad X100e comes with 11.6-inch screen and weighs 3.3 pounds as compared with the ThinkPad Edge, which has 13.3-inch screen and weighs 3.6 pounds with its base battery.

Google-owned YouTube has announced that people were uploading 24 hours of video onto the video-sharing site every minute.

Earlier in May, the company had announced that 20 hours of video were being uploaded onto the site every minute.

YouTube has described the achievement as a big success.

Hunter Walk from YouTube said in a blog, "A day's worth of content uploaded to YouTube every minute is a big achievement for our community and speaks to the role video plays in connecting and changing the world one upload at a time.”