Taipei  - Taiwan has picked Japanese chipmaker Elpida Memory Inc to help upgrade the island's semiconductor industry, an industry source said Wednesday.

But John Hsuan, head of the Taiwan Memory Co (TMC), which was formed last month to integrate Taiwan's semiconductor industry, said TMC also seeking the cooperation of US chipmaker Micron Technology Inc.

You will now be able to send emails in the language of your choice - Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam through Gmail. Google India has introduced new feature - Indic Language transliteration on Gmail and Google Apps that facilitates typing and sending in Indian languages.

The "transliteration" feature allows Gmail users to type in the local languages, using an English language keyboard. Currently, Gmail supports 5 Indian languages, including Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, and Malayalam. The language of your can be selected from the drop-down list next to the icon.

The provider security, storage and systems management solutions, Symantec Corp. today announced that it will soon release Norton 360 version 3.0 security solution in India. According to the Sunnyvale, California based security firm, Symantec, Norton 360 version 3.0 is an all-in-one security solution for computers with/without internet connections.   

Just a couple of hours have left for the blast of the Conficker time bomb! The Conficker time bomb is expected to blast tomorrow – on April 1; but, it’s still unknown whether the Conficker time bomb is an April Fool’s Day prank or a real threat. According to reports/rumors, the latest variant of the Conficker worm will hit the online computers around the globe, on the April Fool’s Day; that’s why it has been dubbed as “Conficker time bomb”.

Mike Stute of Dallas-based Global DataGuard, a network security firm, said, "Everybody is a little bit nervous about it. It could be nothing. It could be very dangerous."

You can now use new ATI FirePro V7750 graphics accelerator from AMD to deal with large models and shader-intensive applications to present amazing visual output, if you are graphics pros dealing in engineering, digital content creation and scientific fields.

The Sunnyvale, California based Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) has brought out its new ATI FirePro 3D V7750 workstation graphics cards that blend a new ATI OpenGL optimized driver with the award-winning ATI FireGL graphics technology. The new ATI FirePro 3D offers a new level of graphics performance and reliability for professional 3D graphics users.

For breach of agreement, NVIDIA Corp. has registered a countersuit against Intel Corporation in the Court of Chancery in the State of Delaware.

The action also seeks to end Intel's license to NVIDIA's graphic processing and 3D computing patents.

NVIDIA's countersuit was made in response to a suit filed by Intel during the last month in the Delaware court, aggressively claiming that the 4-year old chipset license deal does not expand to work on Intel's future generation processors - Nehalem aka Core i7 chips.