The Government of India has finalized the road map for the introduction of Mobile Number Portability (MNP) that will give mobile phone users the freedom to choose their service provider while retaining their numbers. Read about what all is in store for the consumer in the telecom market.

Scientists have made the first observation of an unusual class of optical waves called Airy beams. Unlike most types of light waves, Airy beams have the ability to resist diffraction over long distances, and can also freely accelerate during propagation. These unusual features may enable Airy beams to be used in ...

It's been a busy few weeks for the big technology companies. On October 1, Adobe Systems announced an agreement to buy Virtual Ubiquity, a company that has created a web-based word processor built on Adobe's next generation software development platform. One day earlier, Microsoft outlined its plans for Microsoft Office ...

A major European vendor of city-wide traffic management systems is porting its flagship traffic light controller to Linux and real-time Java. Signalbau Huber says its Actros controller will better meet safety-critical requirements after moving to Sysgo ELinOS/PikeOS 4.1 with Aonix's PERC real-time Java runtime.

The open souce community has triggered warning bells for Microsoft with the release of Beryl, the open source window manager, which is direct competition for Aero technology bundled with the latest version of Windows, Windows Vista. Beryl is a combined window manager and compositing manager written in C that runs on ...