In an attempt to attract holiday shoppers, Apple updated its MacBook notebooks with faster versions of Intel Corp. computer chips.

The MacBook, based on the Intel Core 2 Duo processor, is available in three configurations- 1.83 GHz and 2.0 GHz with a white polycarbonate enclosure, and a 2.0 GHz model in a matte black case.

Microsoft announced that Windows Vista, the next version of the Windows operating system, is all set to go on sale from January 30, 2007.

The news of the release comes days after Microsoft revealed that Vista would be obtainable to commercial clientele from 30 November.

Mercury, the smallest and closest planet to the Sun within the solar system, is scheduled to make a brief but the most unusual appearance on Wednesday.

Overfishing, pollution and global warming have put the world's oceans at risk of losing underwater populations, possibly before the mid-century, an international team of fisheries experts and ecologis

International debate on global warming intensified during the weekend when highlights of a report on Global warming showed that the climate change will cost the world economy as much as $7-trillion in

Chances are apparently bright to turn the aging U.S. Hubble Space Telescope into the brand new observatory, but the final decision will be taken on Tuesday by the NASA managers.

After nearly four hours of struggle to prevail over a temporary electrical power shortage, the Russia's Mission Control on Thursday successfully managed the docking of an unpiloted Progress 23 cargo craft, at 10:29 a.m.

To track solar storms more accurately and to study the sun for the first time in three dimensions, NASA has launched twin Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatories mission, known as STEREO that will e