Prosecutors won’t seek death for engineer charged with shooting 3 at Santa Clara firm

March 30th, 2009 Six people, including three children, were killed in a family shooting at an upscale housing development in the heart of California's Silicon Valley, police said Monday. The suspected gunman was believed to be among the dead inside the modern home, said Santa Clara police Lieutenant Phil Cooke.'We do believe this appears to be a family-on-family murder-suicide,' Cooke said in a televised news conference.

April 17th, 2009 The bodies of a software professional, his wife and baby daughter, killed by his Indian American brother-in-law in California last month, were brought to their native Ayyankolli village in Tamil Nadu's Nilgiris district Friday for the last rites. The bodies of Ashokan, his wife Suchitra and their daughter Ahaana, were brought to Bangalore by a flight early Friday and then to Ayyankolli in the district, 550 km southwest of state capital Chennai, by road, family sources said.

June 4th, 2009 Intel to buy Wind River Systems for $884MSANTA CLARA, Calif. — Chip maker Intel plans to buy testing and development software maker Wind River Systems for $884 million.

July 14th, 2009 Sun Micro expects 4Q results below estimatesSANTA CLARA, Calif. — Sun Microsystems Inc.

January 21st, 2009 HYDERABAD - Muthyala Purushottam, a 27-year-old software engineer from Andhra Pradesh, was found dead in his flat in Indianapolis in the US, family sources said Thursday. This is the second incident of the death of a techie from the Indian state in the US this month.

February 20th, 2009 NOIDA - A 22-year-old woman, wife of a software engineer, committed suicide at her home here, police said Friday. Kirti Nath, who was married to Manju Nath, a software engineer with IT firm HCL, was found hanging in her room at their house in Sector 20 in Noida Thursday night, a police official said.

May 14th, 2009 WASHINGTON - The numbers of Indians and other Asians and Latinos in America's Silicon Valley continued to surge from 2007 to 2008 even as the population growth of the two ethnic groups unexpectedly slowed nationwide. For years, Santa Clara County's diverse population - with more minorities than whites - has served as a pointer for the rest of the US, but the latest data released by the US Census Bureau Thursday is expected to push back the projected date that minorities will outnumber whites across the US by a decade.

July 30th, 2009 McAfee 2Q profit slides 40 pct, tops analyst viewsSANTA CLARA, Calif. — McAfee Inc.'s second-quarter financial performance exceeded analyst expectations amid rising demand for the software maker's computer security products.

May 12th, 2009 Intel CEO: 'So far, so good' in 2QSANTA CLARA, Calif. — Intel Corp.'s chief executive said Tuesday that chip orders have been "a little better than we expected" so far in the second quarter, a sign that semiconductor sales are slowly improving.

March 2nd, 2009 BANGALORE - Umesh Krishnan, a 27-year techie employed with IT bellwether Infosys Technologies, was robbed and suffocated to death early Monday by a gang of four suspected dacoits at his house in the city's eastern suburb, the police said. 'The incident happened in the wee hours when Krishnan was attacked by the gang, which barged into his house and gagged his mouth and nose with cello tape,' city joint commissioner Alok Kumar told IANS.

June 4th, 2009 Intel to buy software maker Wind River for $884MSANTA CLARA, Calif. — Intel Corp.

January 14th, 2009 HYDERABAD - Akshay Vishal, a software engineer from Hyderabad, was shot dead by unidentified people in Arkansas in the US, his father said Thursday. Vishal, 26, was an employee of fraud-hit Satyam Computer Services Limited and was on contract with US company Jet Falcon.

May 9th, 2009 Feds want 3-year term for Mo. mom in MySpace hoax LOS ANGELES — Federal prosecutors say a Missouri mother should serve three years in prison for her role in a MySpace hoax on a 13-year-old neighbor who committed suicide.

February 9th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Satyam Computer Services scam is 'just a case in isolation' and it would not affect the image of India's IT industry, a Singapore diplomat said here Tuesday. 'What happened to Satyam came as a surprise and shock, but we are pleased at the speed of the Indian government that has replaced the board with very credible and highly respected individuals,' Tommy Koh, ambassador-at-large at Singapore's ministry of foreign affairs, said.

July 7th, 2009 WARANGAL - An Indian software engineer from Andhra Pradesh was shot at by unidentified assailants in Johannesburg in South Africa. B Kiran, who was working in South Africa for the past two years, was attacked last Thursday when while returning from work.