Tata Consultancy Services would continue to provide IT services to Singapore Airlines for another three years, providing all basic application solutions to the airlines for its efficient working. The airline chose the Indian IT firm in a formal vendor selection process under existing terms and conditions.

A Pune-based bio-technology company geneOmbio Technologies has bagged the prestigious Indian Steps and Business Incubators Association (ISBA) entrepreneurship award 2008. The award was handed over to the company at Chennai.

The award was given to geneOmbio for its excellent business achievements as a biotechnology and life sciences company of science and technology park (STP), University of Pune. The founder and director (Research and Projects) Bikash Aich and the director-general of STP Rajendra Jagdale received the award from the minister for higher education in Tamil Nadu.

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), India's largest software company, is planning to extend working hours of its staff beginning April.

San Francisco  - Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said Tuesday that he still wanted to form an alliance with Yahoo to combat the dominance of Google in search advertising.

But in his annual forecast to financial analysts of Microsoft's plans for the year, he ruled out any revival of last year's aborted deal to purchase Yahoo.

Ballmer also predicted that Microsoft would face more competition from Google and Apple in the market for computer software. He said that Google's Android operating systems for mobile phones would be converted for use in laptops.

San Francisco  - Google on Tuesday apologized for an outage that struck possibly millions of users of its email system, Gmail, earlier in the day.

"The Gmail outage that affected many consumers and Google Apps users worldwide is now over. Users should find that they're able to access their email now without any further problems," said Acacio Cruz, Gmail site reliability manager, in a blog posting.

In order to prove that it can recover from the Barcelona disaster with Shanghai, AMD recently demonstrated working Istanbul six-core silicon.

The company which had had three demos to show off showed the fist with four sockets, and the last with two. A different feature of the new CPUs, cores, virtualization and compatibility was showed off by each. Unfortunately, there were no announcements regarding the speed, prices, or availability.

In the first demo, the core count was demonstrated in which four sockets were presented, each running a six-core Istanbul CPU is 24 cores.