Yahoo ties up with RIM
San Francisco: Yahoo! Inc has tied up with Canada's Research In Motion to make available its services on BlackBerry handheld devices.

Yahoo! e-mail, searches and content will now be available to BlackBerry users as a result of a 'strategic global alliance,' according to the companies.
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Rice urges Congress to approve U.S.-India nuclear deal
Washington: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has urged the Congress to approve the nuclear energy deal with India. She said the deal would achieve the objective of reducing New Delhi's dependence on Iranian oil and creating thousands of new American jobs.

In testimony Rice rejected critics who say that the agreement undermines efforts to halt the spread of nuclear weapons though she acknowledged that under the deal India would be free to continue nuclear weapons production.

The agreement would permit transfer of foreign nuclear energy reactors and fuel from US to India. While the agreement has been controversial, members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee seemed largely supportive or neutral. Later during an afternoon hearing Rice faced tougher questioning before the House of Representatives International Relations Committee, where even supporters of the deal expressed grave concerns about India's ties with Iran and predicted Congress would seek to enact unspecified conditions.

Iran, branded a state sponsor of terrorism by Washington, says its nuclear program only aims to produce electricity.

Rice added that the nuclear deal, "may add as many as 3,000 to 5,000 new direct jobs in the United States and about 10,000 to 15,000 indirect jobs" as American companies engage India in nuclear trade.
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