Quick Heal Technologies hosted Asia’s Premier Information Security Conference – Association of Anti-Virus Asia Researchers (AVAR 2008) for the first time in India.

AVAR 2008 is an exclusive three day occasion presenting the newest technologies in Information Security and Anti – Malware Industry. in reality, this is the largest Asia – Pacific Conference for anti – malware technologies.  

Tokyo  - Japanese electronics giant Panasonic Corp has secured the takeover of competitor Sanyo Electric Co with deals to buy stakes in the smaller firm held by the US investment bank Goldman Sachs and two Japanese investment firms, the financial newspaper Nikkei reported Thursday.

Sanyo's management threw its support last month behind the takeover, which would create one of the world's largest consumer electronics companies.

For the holiday season of Christmas, Acer has deducted the prices of entire range of netbooks for the Indian customers. Acer's Aspire One, which comes with pre-installed XP Home version, will be available at Rs. 17,499 under this offer, and the customers can avail these netbooks in five different colors - Sapphire Blue, Brown, Black, Pink and White.

Intel’s Convertible Classmate PC, also known as the CTL 2go PC has made one more public appearance before its official CES 2009 launch and both the hardware and software have been squeezed. Furthermore, the bile green lid has been replaced with a blue-white pattern and there has been tremendous improvement in the build-quality. There have been further improvements that Intel has made in the Windows XP pen-friendly, with their new Vision Objects Pen Input app.

It was announced by Motorola today that with an aim to optimize its network, the company’s Multi-Vendor Intelligent Optimization Service (MVIOS) solution has been chosen by Mumbai's BPL Mobile.  
 
It is being claimed by Motorola that the best possible user generated data analysis is provide by the MVIOS solution and thus allows a consistent and repeatable approach to network optimization, irrespective of the network equipment vendors involved.

With the aim to tremendously bring down the cost involved in manufacturing the traditional cells; Chinese scientists have developed a fuel cell using alkaline membrane. The cost would be definitely reduced since less expensive metals would be needed.

A fuel cell is basically a device that produces electricity from fuel and nearly all of them use membranes that are acidic. They come with associated parts made of platinum or other rare and expensive metals.

It was informed in an article published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) by Lin Zhuang and his colleagues at Wuhan University's chemistry department that they were successful in developing a membrane that utilized silver and nickel.