if you have a Sony Handycam with USB webcam feature and you misplaced the driver CD. You can get the USB Webcam driver for Windows XP from here

Opera has released Opera Mini for Android Platform. So, currently T-Mobile G1 users now have choice in web browser to use. G1’s inbuilt browser based on webkit is very competent and Opera Mini has its own advantages like reduced bandwidth usage due to actual processing done in Opera’s servers and what you get is very optimized data. This will be boon to users who dont have unlimited data plan.

Get your copy of Opera Mini from Android Market.

Opera’s performance is astonishing with load times in 1-2 seconds. Its good to see competition for Google’s mobile chrome browser.

Are you owning Nokia N95 8GB or N82 or N90? Then enjoy and make your friends jealous by loading the Quake III Arena which has been ported to your phone. Play Quake III arena and kill your time.

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KDE 4.2 beta 1 has been released and it will bring in many improvements to KDE 4 desktop environment.

Significant refinements of Plasma and KWin, the KDE workspace. few features are as follows

• Compositing desktop effects
• New desktop effects
• Central elements
• New Plasma applets
• Theming improvements in the Task Bar
• Multi-screen support has been improved

Fedora community has released their latest and greatest Fedora 10. It packs lot of punch and many features added are good for linux as a whole. Lets list some useful features added in fedora 10.

• faster bootup
• Wireless connection sharing enables ad hoc network sharing
• Better setup and use of printers through improved management tools
• Virtualization storage provisioning for local and remote connections now simplified
• SecTool is a new security audit and intrusion detection system
• Improved webcam support
• Better support for infrared remote controls makes them easier to connect and work with many applications
• Tools and meta-data that make it easier for anyone (ISVs, developers, OEMS, etc) to create and deploy virtual appliances
• Stream line graphical start up
• First Aid Kit is an automated recovery tool that brings together common recovery processes and applies them to a system
• Rewrite the PulseAudio sound server to use timer-based audio scheduling
• Include the Sugar Desktop (used in OLPC) in Fedora
• Make storage provisioning over libvirt connections (local and remote) virtual machines as simple as possible.

ISRO has announced that it will roll out a software called “Bhuvan”. Bhuvan means Earth in sanskrit. It is said that it can provide more zoom than Google Earth and will have more recent maps than Google Earth. 

Bhuvan will allow users to zoom into areas as small as 10 metres wide, compared to the 200 metre wide zoom limit on Google Earth. 

Bhuvan will use a network of satellites to create a high-resolution, bird’s-eye view of India – and later, possibly, the rest of the world – that will be accessible at no cost online and will compete with Google Earth. If a pilot version passes muster, Bhuvan will be fully operational by the spring. There are also plans to incorporate a global positioning system (GPS) into the online tool.

more here and here