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Frankfurt, June 3 (DPA) You can find them in cell phones, digital cameras and navigation systems. They are digital storage cards, and they can be enormous - at least in a digital sense - holding hundreds of photos or a plethora of large documents.

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The launch of the next-generation iPhone promises to be Steve Jobs' greatest stunt yet.

Melbourne, May 31 (ANI): Web mapping company MapJack has removed controversial photographs of the streets at Pattaya in Thailand, some of which showed Western males mingling with bar girls in the town's red light areas.

Kuala Lumpur, May 31 (IANS) Blogging is the new buzzword in Malaysia with more and more politicians and others in public life taking to it.

Sydney, May 30 (IANS) It has been called the holy grail of the modern era - cheap solar energy. And scientists say it may be within our grasp soon.

Some of James Bond's gizmos were fanciful. Others are quite realistic. Most of them are extremely cool.

New Delhi, May 29 (IANS) The Delhi High Court Thursday allowed proceedings against Avinash Bajaj, managing director of Baazee.com, for allowing an auction of a pornographic video clip involving two students on his website.

Kochi, May 29 (IANS) In five years, 1.7 million jobs in Information Technology (IT) sector in India will move out of tier 1 cities like Delhi, Mumbai, Pune, Bangalore and Hyderabad, to tier 2 cities, Siddhartha Bhattacharya, Infopark's chief executive officer, said here.

Panaji, May 29 (IANS) He was a secret service agent who used to torment freedom fighters when Goa was under Portuguese rule. Now some crucial missing links on 'Agente Monteiro' have surfaced in cyberspace.

What's the difference between a phone that costs $300,000 and one that costs $100? Details, details, details.

Washington, May 28 (ANI): Current Internet usage puts a great deal of strain on available bandwidth for transmitting data. And to solve this problem, researchers at Yale University have engineered a system to make the Internet work more efficiently, in which Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and Peer-to-Peer (P2P) software providers can work cooperatively to deliver data.

At an age when people begin to lose interest in many aspects of the world around them, 96-year-old Randall Butisingh not only mastered the intricacies of the internet but also began his own blog, which describes him as one of the world's oldest bloggers and shows him as a man with a remarkable catholicity of interests.

Melbourne, May 23 (ANI): If you are the sorts who keep on changing your Facebook status from time to time, then you are one big attention seeking extrovert, says a social networking analyst.

Getting the full Internet experience on a device that you can hold will happen sooner than you think.

In the always-connected future, devices in your home will touch the Web multiple times a day--whether you know it or not.

London, May 22 (ANI): You buy something from eBay, find out it's defective and return it leaving a negative comment about the seller on the site. The next day you find the seller has retaliated by posting a nasty comment about you, branding you a time-waster. Suddenly you're persona non grata among all the sellers who don't want anything to do with you.

London, May 22 (ANI): The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) is launching age ratings for downloaded video content and video games.

A handful of hacker tricks make it possible to infiltrate millions of Web pages. Unfortunately, solving these problems will take a million fixes.

Melbourne, May 19 (ANI): Majority of online users are not equipped with latest internet security skills, thus making one in five home computers infected by malicious software, according to a first time survey of ordinary users' online behaviour.

New York, May 19 (IANS) A study in the US has shown that about 20 percent of all American heads-of-households have never sent an e-mail and about 20 million households, or 18 percent, are without Internet access.