AMD targets Indian market with six-core server processor

September 30th, 2009 Japan prices tumble by record in AugustTOKYO — The government says prices in Japan tumbled at a record pace in August amid growing worries about jobs and wages. The country's core consumer price index fell 2.4 percent from a year earlier.

September 22nd, 2009 Hedge fund sells part of its New York Times stockNEW YORK — Harbinger Capital Partners LLC says it has sold part of its 20 percent stake in The New York Times Co., but still considers the company a core holding. The hedge fund said in a securities filing this week that it sold 5 million Times shares at $8.25 each.

September 12th, 2009 KOCHI - Multinational paint manufacturer National Paints Saturday opened its first factory in India at Angamali industrial area in Kerala. The plant will have a daily production capacity of 120,000 litres, the company said.

August 21st, 2009 Sector Snap: Agribusiness stocks riseST. LOUIS — Shares of agribusiness stocks rose on Friday after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said the economy is on the verge of recovery, signaling that global demand for meat and grains could strengthen in coming months.

August 1st, 2009 WASHINGTON - Researchers in South Africa have come up with a system that allows biometric data to be used to create a secret key for data encryption. Describing the new technology in the International Journal of Electronic Security and Digital Forensics, Bobby Tait and Basie von Solms of the University of Johannesburg have shed some light on how biometrics-fingerprints, iris pattern, etc.-can be used to encrypt and decrypt data, so that Internet users do not have to remember endless, complicated passwords.

June 11th, 2009 Ikea snubs Indian market after spat with gov'tSTOCKHOLM — Swedish furniture retailer Ikea Thursday said it has postponed plans to enter the Indian market after talks with the Indian government broke down. According to Indian regulations, foreign companies aren't allowed 100 percent ownership of retail outlets in the country, but can enter the market by forming joint ventures with local owners.

June 3rd, 2009 WASHINGTON - An Indian-origin researcher at the Georgia Institute of Technology is working on new heat transfer models that can be used in future data centre facilities to reduce the portion of electricity used to cool their equipment by as much as 15 percent. "Computers convert electricity to heat as they operate.

May 27th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Intel Corp intends to ride the fame of its computer chips to push its less-known graphics processor and a memory controller later this year when it launches its latest low-cost processor Pine Trail. In a move clearly aimed at taking competition head-on, Intel will club its graphics processor and memory controller - the two critical components of a computer that it is not renowned for - into a single unit for netbooks and nettops.

May 21st, 2009 LONDON - Global technology provider, Serverside Group, announced that the Indian Patent Office has granted a patent directed to its core card customization architecture, thus establishing an international trend. Since the Indian filing was part of an international strategy, the grant of the Indian patent, which follows the grant of a European Patent, not only enhances Serverside's competitive position in India but indicates the likely outcome in other territories yet to come to grant.

May 13th, 2009 SILIGURI - Tea exporters in Siliguri are in a joyous mood, as demand for Indian tea in the world market goes up, with competitors Sri Lanka and Kenya engaged in domestic problems. The demand for Indian tea has considerably gone up even as there is a marginal drop in supply in the international market.

April 23rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - US aerospace major Lockheed Martin has briefed the Indian Navy on its ship-mounted Aegis ballistic missile defence system and is also open to integrating it with indigenously developed armament, company officials said Thursday. 'We have briefed the Indian Navy on what is the only system that can cope with the highest state-of-the art threats,' Dan Howard, Lockheed Martin's senior advisor for Asia and Pacific affairs, said at a select media interaction here.

April 23rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - German luxury car maker Audi Thursday launched a new variant of its existing sedan Audi A6 in the Indian market. The car will be available in the market in May first week with a price tag starting from Rs.38.57 lakh (ex-showroom Mumbai).

April 6th, 2009 NEW DELHI - German luxury car maker Audi sold 162 cars last month in India, up 55.7 percent from 104 vehicles it sold in March 2008, the company said Monday. The company has sold 384 vehicles in the Indian market in the first three months of 2009.

February 26th, 2009 KOCHI - The South Indian Bank, one of the oldest banks in south India, will collect insurance policy renewal payments on behalf of ING Life, part of the ING Group, it was announced Wednesday. Customers of ING Life can now pay their policy renewal premium at any of the 530 South Indian Bank branches spread across the country.

February 9th, 2009 KOLKATA - Domestic shipping companies Tuesday urged the government to set up a fund to help the cash-strapped industry buy new vessels. 'Some fund should be built up for the shipping industry specifically as ECBs (external commercial borrowings) have dried up.