Bridging the yawning gap between its $400 32GB iPod touch and $1,000 MacBook, Apple will likely launch an iPod-like touchscreen tablet, costing between $500 and $700, in the first half of next year!

Washington  - US President Barack Obama met Thursday with Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete, with the two leaders discussing cooperation with other partners in the region to seek solutions to some of Africa's worst conflicts.

Their talks addressed US-Tanzanian partnerships in health, education and agriculture.

Washington  - The question of what to do with detainees held at the Guantanano Bay prison camp has thrust US President Barack Obama into the biggest political fight of his young presidency.

Washington  - NASA said Thursday it is ready to send two missions to the moon in a launch next month that will set the course for the resumption of human lunar exploration.

Washington  - A former US Army soldier convicted of raping and murdering a 14-year-old Iraqi girl and killing the rest of her family was sentenced Thursday to life in prison by a jury in federal civilian court in Kentucky, CNN reported.

A study in the May 21 Nature reveals that surplus of cancer-suppressing proteins formed in cases of Down syndrome is the reason why cancer is so rare in the ones affected by this syndrome.

People born with Down syndrome have an extra copy of chromosome 21, instead of the usual two copies, one from each parent, and thus they inherit 231 extra genes.

On Wednesday, Vista Equity Partners raised its bid for software maker SumTotal Systems Inc. to $4.85 per share which values the company at about $163 million.

San Francisco-based Vista said it would increase that offer to $4.95 if SumTotal's breakup fee with rival bidder Accel-KKR is invalidated or reduced.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced a new $120 million, five-year program for development of new drugs to treat rare and neglected diseases, announced the U. S. health officials on Wednesday.

AT&T’s decision of venturing into the computers arena has found a stronger footing after the company expressed its satisfaction on Wednesday regarding the 3G netbook trial, saying that the April-launched trial was successful enough to go ahead with it countrywide. 

According to the Financial Times’ Wednesday report, Google CEO and Chairman, Eric Schmidt, has said that the US search giant is not likely to acquire a newspaper in the near future.