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Miniature system-on-chip called CTC-iChip System which is created by the researchers from the Massachusetts General Hospital is capable to find even a single cell of any cancer in the bloodstream from the blood test. Problem with these individual tumor cells is that sometimes just one among the billions of blood cells is may stop anywhere in the body and start to produce metastases. Using this chip doctors are able to very fast detect, because of early detection treat these cells with smaller financial backup. This should all happen prior to metastasis, and therefore make the treatment more sucessful.

HTC finished yet another quarter with very slim profit, which is in fact the weakest in company's history. According to Bloomberg, in the first three months of this year, the Taiwanese manufacturer has achieved earnings in the amount of only $2.8 million, which is nothing if you compare it to Samsungs expected earning for the same quarter of $7.7 billion.

Intel's Thunderbolt is already one of the fastest interfaces available for connection of additional devices to the computer. Theoretical bandwidth of the current version of the standard is 10 Gbps, but Intel has announced a further improvement.

Under the guise of a fair practices organization (Fairsearch Eurpoe) Microsoft, Nokia Oracle and a few others are trying to make a case against Google and Android. What is interesting is that they are using “predatory pricing” as their main argument. Microsoft is complaining (through Fairsearch) that Google is undercutting their sales by giving away their operating system and asking that companies bundle Google apps in return. Microsoft and their pals say that this gives Google an advantage over all of the other players and is an abuse of their (Google’s) dominant position in the market.