Washington  - At a time when few have money to spare, the cost of running a computer is not an insignificant concern.

A typical desktop computer, together with a monitor and printer, can consume as much electricity as five or six powerful incandescent household light bulbs.

If left running for long periods of time - or even 24 hours a day - a computer can easily cost you more in electrical bills than its original purchase price.

U. S.-based iGate Corp has decided not to go for acquisition of 51 per cent stake in the fraud-hit Satyam Computer Services, leaving three firms L&T, Spice Corp and Tech Mahindra in the acquisition race, who submitted their expressions of interest (EoI) for the acquisition on Friday.

Government appointed board of Satyam Computers would discuss the matter on Saturday. The board would analyze the presentations made by firm's appointed investment bankers Goldman Sachs and Avendus to evaluate the financial positions of firms who submitted expression of interest by Friday.

On Thursday, the networking bigwig Cisco Systems announced its intentions of taking over the San-Francisco, California-based Pure Digital Technologies, the manufacturer of the popular Flip Video camcorder.

The San-Jose, California-based Cisco plans to strike a $590-million-in-stock deal with Pure Digital. In exchange, Cisco will gain all the Pure Digital shares, as well as a robust gadget startup that would further its foray into the consumer marketplace. The deal would likely close in Cisco's fiscal fourth quarter, ending July.

State-owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd. (BSNL) and Research In Motion (RIM) rolled out the BlackBerry® solution for enterprise and individual customers with the BlackBerry® Bold™, BlackBerry® Curve™ 8310 and BlackBerry® 8700g smartphones.

BSNL clients can now enjoy the freedom and productivity advantages of using BlackBerry smartphones to stay connected to people and data while on the move.

In partnership with the Indian Institute of Hardware Technology (IIHT), Hewlett-Packard (HP) has launched ‘HP Software University’ (HPSU) on Thursday.

The first of its kind program in the non-enterprise training space will concentrate on the increasing demand of software testing experts in the country.

Moreover, the pupils will also receive certified training on HP Software and a curriculum path surrounding different testing software from HP including Quick Test professional and LoadRunner.

The forthcoming Palm Pre and Web OS might just bring Palm some kind of a turnaround of fortunes, especially after the struggling company reported a 72 percent plunge in the smartphone revenue in the most recent quarter!

The Sunnyvale, California-based company reportedly generated $77.5 million in revenue, after a 42 plunge in the total sales of its smartphone devices to 482,000 units. The company's total revenue figures of $90.6 million also fell short of analysts' expectations of $105 million.