WASHINGTON - Somewhere between 5,000 and 10,000 rare and precious medieval manuscripts have been scanned over the past decade into formats that could be studied over the Internet if only scholars knew they existed and knew where to find them.

PANAJI - Goa will launch 'Cyber Treasury', a state-wide area network that enables entrepreneurs to pay commercial taxes, including value-added tax (VAT), online, state Finance Secretary Udipta Ray said here Wednesday.

NEW DELHI - IT industry body National Association of Software and Services Companies (Nasscom) Wednesday said it will form a corporate governance and ethics committee, headed by Infosys Technologies chairman N.R. Narayana Murthy.

MUMBAI - The National Association of Software and Services Companies (Nasscom) Wednesday signed an agreement with Colombia's Federation of Software and Related Technologies (Fedesoft) to enhance software trade between the two countries.

Google’s Android OS powered phone T-Mobile G1 is creating much techno-babble within a few days of release. With some dynamite reviews to backup, its being drawn parallel with world's most affable Nokia phones and of course the much-talked about Apple iPhone. It seems the new kid on the block has started writing on the wall against Apple's smartphone. Well, I have no feasible reasons to discount it either. There are a good number of practical as well as technical vindications that are hard to avoid.