Facebook and Twitter war for users

Earlier this month social media site Twitter, and Apple tech powerhouse together to make tweeting easier for iPhone, iPod touch users.
Apple owners will now be able to tweet directly from your camera, photos, maps, YouTube and Safari apps.

Twitter rival Facebook - partly owned by Microsoft - not expected to have similar functions to produce the iPhone.

NASA in 100-year quest for interstellar travel

NASA and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) have jointly announced a prize of $ 500,000 grant to the person or group with the most effective idea of ​​how the human interstellar space travel a reality to get through the next century.

A DARPA official last week presented the award to the most effective scenario for financing and implementing a research and development lead to interstellar travel, reports the Christian Science Monitor to determine.

Nortel patents' bid: It's Apple vs Google

PORTLAND: Apple Inc. has joined the bidders for a multitude of patents from Nortel Networks Corp., the bankrupt manufacturer of phone equipment, two people familiar with knowledge of the matter said.

Nortel, based in Mississauga, Ontario, said yesterday received "a considerable degree of interest" in the technology portfolio and the auction for one week to 27 June slowdown in demand to meet. People familiar with Apple's plan would not be identified because the bidding process is not public.