Sydney : JPMorgan Chase, which had yesterday claimed that a slimmer iPhone, based on the iPod Nano, was on the way, and was expected to hit the markets soon, has now quashed the same reports.

London : A camera that can simultaneously take images in seven colours has been developed at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in Garching, Germany.

London : Only a week after Apple Inc. launched its iPhone amidst much hype, a hacker has claimed to have overcome restrictions by AT&T's network activation that prevents unauthorised usage of the gadget as a Internet browsing and music device.

Washington : US based Neovision Labs has developed a new technology designed to enable the viewing of 3-D content on such mobile devices as PDAs and iPods, without the use of special glasses.

London : Japanese electronics giant Sony has come up with an innovation that promises to protect the sensitive innards of a cellphone in case of an impact.

Idle computers should be set to automatically switch into stand-by mode after extended periods of disuse. Stand-by mode protects the computer's components and helps them last longer.

Tokyo -- Japan's leading mobile telephone operator NTT DoCoMo has launched an instrument that automatically locks itself when it is stolen, lost or left behind.

While Indian elections are going the electronic way, computer scientists at the Princeton University in the US have shown that electronic voting machines are extremely vulnerable to election frauds.

After playing the role of a camera, radio, television and much more, the mobile phone is soon going to be your virtual wallet.