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Microsoft's Internet Explorer 9 was downloaded over 2.35 million times ever since it was released on Monday evening. A blog post on the Exploring IE Blog gave the rates as over 27 downloads every second or over 240 downloads every 9 seconds.The version IE9 Beta had scored only 1 million downloads on the first day of its release. The new version includes HTML5, an improved UI and the most advanced tracking protection feature.

This new version of the Internet Explorer only runs on Windows7 and Vista that is seen as a blockade for it to grow market share.

Expressing dissatisfaction over Research In Motion's stand on accessing of its enterprise email, the Indian government has given a March 31 deadline to the Blackberry maker to provide a working solution for the encrypted corporate emails. 


India's Minister of State for Communications and IT, Sachin Pilot said in a written answer in the Parliament that Indian security agencies are not satisfied with RIM's offer of access to BlackberryMessenger (BBM) services data.

RIM had earlier offered access to its consumer services, including its Messenger services but the Indian security agencies maintained their tough stance on encryption keys needed for the lawful access to its corporate email.

A new software allows us to see not only the Earth's surface as it is now, but also takes us back in time to see how itevolved over hundreds of millions of years ago.

Earlier, at the click of a mouse, scientists could only virtually inspect our planet's surface using widely available mapping software. The new piece of free software is developed by a Sydney University geophysics team and international collaborators.

Released late last year, GPlates1.0 allows anyone to easily visualise the earth's tectonic plates, continents and oceans far back in geological time, according to a Sydney University statement.

"It's a little bit like having Google Earth with a time slider," said Dietmar Muller, Geophysics professor at the Sydney's School of Geosciences.

The University of Taiwan researchers have released a mobile application that alerts you on disasters. The application works by taking location data from a mobile phone's built-in global positioning system. With one touch it can send a request for help to emergency service phones as well as to family members, or whichever numbers the user programs in. It can transmit to any number of people of the location of users trapped in earthquake rubble or under mudslides.