Researchers at Hewlett Packard have claimed that Twitter, the popular microblogging service can predict Box Office behaviors of any movie accurately up to 99%.

will be the perfect challenge to the Apple iPad. Currently, Google is the only company which would dare to stand up against the iPad and bring out its own tablet.

Plink developers claim it has been downloaded over 50,000 times in the last four weeks. The two founders of Plink, PhD students Mark Cummins and James Philbin, will now join the Google Goggles team and help enhance their own product under Google.

Palm is on sale. The bidding will commence this week. Potential buyers include HTC, Lenovo and Dell. Palm has recorded a 60% surge from Jan 2010, 32% last week.

WebKit, the open-source engine behind browsers like Apple Safari and Google Chrome has recently announced that it will bring a new API layer to itself creating a WebKit2. This will let web content and the application to run in two different processes.

With the iPhone OS firmware release 4.0 users will get multitasking and some customization on the desktop. This feature has been ever available on Android.

The Zune HD 64 GB is now available from the zune website and it is $50 cheaper than the iPod touch. This makes it a good contender for the music player market.

James Gosling, the CTO of Oracle’s Client Software Group has resigned from the post. Gosling has held the office of CTO for both Sun Microsystems and Oracle.

Rick Spencer said Ubuntu was entering a revenue sharing deal with Yahoo!. Now, we know that a similar deal with Google gives much better financial returns.

Windows 7 SP1 has just leaked over the Internet. This much awaited Service Pack update from Microsoft is now available at various torrent sites.

In 2005, IBM promised of not using it’s patents to trouble Open-Source. But now, it is acting otherwise. IBM said, TurboHercules violates 173 of IBM’s patents.

At a strategic time just before the release of its Lucid Lynx, Canonical has released data relating to the number of Ubuntu users worldwide. This report estimates Ubuntu users at 12 million. That is a major 50% increase over the last 18 months.

Mozilla security saw a new bug-report filed at bugzilla reporting an unclaimed RSA root certificate. The certificate goes by the name of RSA Security 1024 V3. Both Verisign and RSA have declined ownership of this certificate.

The new HCL Beanstalk Xtreme, Beanstalk Classic and Beanstalk Ultima between Rs. 39990 and Rs. 85000. featuring a core-i7 processors and Windows 7.

The much awaited Apple iPad launch lived up to its hype. From 9:00 AM today, it is finally available at at Apple and Best Buy stores around the country.