The first weather channel in China was launched on Thursday, providing updated weather forecasts every ten minutes around the clock. It will follow extreme climatic events and provide real-time emergency reporting on typhoons, sandstorms and flooding, according to the China Meteorological Administration. Other information about environment, traffic, tourism and artistic performances will also be offered

Now the company Microsoft has a new surprise for it’s clients more exactly the appearance of the version Windows Media Player 11 which will be compatible with Windows XP and Windows Longhorn. Windows Media Player is a proprietary software digital media player and media library application developed by Microsoft that is used for playing audio, video and images on personal computers

The white hot IT employment market is about to get hotter. Google Australia is looking to beef up its numbers with the formal opening of a local office in Sydney and a campus recruitment drive to snap up the best and brightest young minds. Offering a rare peek inside its Australasian headquarters today, Google's head of sales and operations, Kate Vale, said that as of today, Google's Sydney branch has become a fully-fledged R&D centre

Fujitsu Siemens Computer (FSC) reckons that customers can get one of its Primergy BladeFrame servers up and running with a base configuration in under two minutes. The company said that an implementation was performed recently for one of its public sector customers looking for servers that can be deployed quickly and can support high performance, mission-critical applications. The piloted set-up was timed at one minute and 31 seconds

On Monday, Kaspersky Lab launched the latest versions of its anti-virus and Internet security products aimed for the consumer and small business markets. Kaspersky Anti-Virus 6.0 (KAV) sets a new standard of protection against viruses, Trojans, worms, spyware, rootkits and phishing being available for retail at the price of $59.95. Kaspersky Internet Security 6.0 (KIS) protects against all these plus spam, hacker attacks, and network intrusion and fraud and retails for $79.95

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) approved the new domain ".tel," awarding a contract to Telnic, an Internet communications company based in London in a decision made last Tuesday, said Andrew Robertson, spokesman for ICANN in London. Telnic applied for the domain in October 2000, says it envisions creating a universal text and navigation system for contact information over the Internet

In a surprising decision, Skype announced that all US and Canadian-based Skype customers can now make free SkypeOut calls to traditional landline and mobile phones in the US and Canada. Previously, Skype users in both countries were required to pay for Skype calls from their PCs to traditional telephones. Free SkypeOut calls to the US or Canada will be available to US and Canadian-based Skype users until the end of the year

Adult film studio Vivid Entertainment launched on Monday a service called Vivid Burn to DVD, a solution that allows viewers download the studio's popular adult films directly and burn a personal DVD copy on a home PC. The discs can then be played on any compatible device, on a DVD player conencted to a TV set, on a computer DVD drive, enabling customers t o watch adult shows on DVD just as they did on purchased discs.

Almost everyone knows by now about the tough competition going on between Microsoft's Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox with its supporters when it comes to the Internet browsers market. Well, it seems that the latter one is slowly but surely gaining more ground. According to market analysts, the shares of Internet Explorer had another slight decline, getting from the 85.82 percent it had in January to 85.17 percent. Meanwhile, Firefox got from 11.23 percent to 11

SEOUL: In one of its most comprehensive enterprise product launches ever, Hewlett-Packard (HP) has unveiled 17 imaging and printing products and five notebook series - all targeted to meet the needs of businesses across the Asia-Pacific. Speaking at the regional media launch in Seoul, Ms Margaret Ong, vice-president of HP Business Imaging & Printing Group (Asia-Pacific and Japan), said that there is a need for more products that are designed and manufactured in Asia for the Asian market