Technology

Tehran, Iran, February 3 -- Iran has fired a new satellite-rocket carrying several live animals and various other technologies into space, it said on Wednesday.

Vatican City, January 24 -- Pope Benedict XVI has asked his priests to sign up on to the virtual world and make use of the influence of social networking sites to spread the word of God.

Moscow, December 23 -- Russian spacecraft Soyuz TMA-17, carrying a Russian cosmonaut, a NASA astronaut and a Japanese astronaut, successfully docked at the International Space Station (ISS) at 22:48 GMT.

Washington, December 5 -- The trap to “lock in” customers has been long played in the U.S. market, and the most recent company to participate is Verizon. The result is Obama administration’s FCC coming down knocking at their door.

Geneva -- Physicists at the Large Hadron Collider, located underground near the French-Swiss border, say proton beams have collided for the first time in the machine.

Mountain View, CL, November 18 -- Google has taken the experience of image search on the Internet to a whole new level with Swirl.

San Fransisco, November 15 -- While Google Doc is a staunch competitor of MS Office, a recent study conducted by Mashable.com has revealed that readers' loyalties still lie with the good old Office.

Los Angeles, CA, November 11 -- Google knows how to poke and prod every Internet sector. So it does not come as a surprise that they announced the release of their new open source programming language called GO on Tuesday.

New York, November 5 -- Apple's official declaration of having 100,000 applications fails to impress.