Another Netscape patch

Netscape has released an updated version of its Netscape 8 browser to fix a bug that broke XML rendering in Microsoft`s Internet Explorer (IE), CNET reports.

The update, version 8.0.2, addresses a problem highlighted in a Microsoft employee`s blog a few days after Netscape 8`s May debut.

Dave Massy, a program manager on the IE team, warned that installing the Netscape browser would cause IE to render XML files as blank pages.

The revamp is the second update in a month since Netscape 8 launched.

Google has given mobile phone users a reason to rejoice with its new search service that links only pages that have been formatted for display on small screens, reports Techtree.

The company has added a "Mobile Web" button to the options menu that allows users to link to pages that have been formatted for the smaller displays of mobile devices.

The other options that are available to mobile users are "Web", to run a query against the full Google Web index, "Images", to search for pictures, and "Local", for Google`s business directory for local merchants.

The world`s oldest monastery plans to use hi-tech cameras to shed light on ancient Christian texts preserved for centuries within fortress walls in the Sinai Desert.

Saint Catherine`s Monastery hopes the technology will allow a fuller understanding of some of the world`s earliest Christian texts, including pages from the Codex Sinaiticus, the oldest surviving Bible in the world, Reuters reports.

The technique, known as hyperspectral imaging, will use a camera to photograph the parchments at different wavelengths of light, highlighting faded texts obscured by time and later writings.

It should allow scholars to understand corrections made to pages of the Codex Sinaiticus, written between 330 and 350 AD and thought to be one of 50 copies of the scriptures commissioned by Roman Emperor Constantine.

Computer scientists in the US are developing a system that would allow people to teleport a solid 3D recreation of themselves over the Internet.

BBC reports that professors from Carnegie Mellon University in Pennsylvania think that within a human generation we might be able to replicate 3D objects out of a mass of material made up of synthetic atoms.

Cameras would capture the movement of an object or person and then this data would be fed to the atoms, which would assemble themselves to make up an exact likeness of the object.

"We thought that a good analogy for what we were going to do was claymation - something like the Wallace and Gromit shows," said Professor Todd Mowry.