The world is aiming to go green and keeping this motto in mind, Sony has come out with its latest HDTV in its Bravia line dubbed as WE5, which the company claims would help the users to significantly save energy and thus reducing electricity bills.

How does WE5 do it? Well to understand this, it should be first noted that most TVs even when turned off, draw power. However the new WE5 is equipped with special switch, which can be activated reducing the power consumption of the set to zero watts when not in use.

The Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, Tuesday had GSMA announce its plan to realize an industry-wide standard with regard to a universal mobile phone charger by January 2012.

Bigwigs, like Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Motorola, Samsung, and Qualcomm, are among the seventeen mobile handset-makers and service-providers that are backing GSMA's announcement of a universal charging solution -UCS - based on the industry-standard Micro USB interface.

ComScore, a global leader in measuring the digital world, has released a report on the top social networking sites in Europe, with a particular focus on France, based on data from the comScore World Metrix audience measurement service.

According to study, around 22 million French Internet users visited at least one social networking site during December 2008, reaching 64% of the whole French Internet viewers.

ComScore, a leader in assessing the digital world, today released a report on the top social networking sites in India.

The report said that visitation to the site group grew 51% from the previous year to over 19 million visitors during December 2008.

According to report, global social networking brands continued to gain status in India in 2008, with Orkut, Facebook, hi5, LinkedIn and MySpace each witnessed significant increases in visitation.

With the intention to promote scientific research for the development of India, Software giant Infosys Technologies has made announcement about the launching of ‘Infosys Science Foundation’ on Tuesday.

Infosys Science Foundation, a not-for-profit trust, will encourage research in sciences and accolade exceptional inputs and achievements by Indian people.

The foundation has been funded with a corpus of Rs 21.5 crore contributed by the eight board members of the company.

As part of its worldwide Intelligent Urbanisation initiative, Cisco Systems has signed up a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the government of Karnataka to launch ‘Intelligent Bengaluru’ pilot project in the city.

Under the MoU, the project launched by the state government and networking giant will focus on global sustainable solutions for public safety and security, transportation, buildings, power distribution, energy utilization, health care, education and environment conservation.