It seems that India's effort to reach Islamic world is showing good results.

Three top dignitaries from the Islamic World are visiting India in the coming days. They include are Turkish PM Tayyip Erdogan, Arab League Secretary General Amr Moussa and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.

Visit of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is seen as a crucial step towards strengthening bi-lateral relationship between these two countries. The Egyptian President is visiting India after 25 years. Egypt alone accounts for almost 40% of India's trade with northern Africa. But Chinese influence is growing day by day in Egypt. India is hoping that ties between two nations will reach a new high after Mubarak's visit.

Google Inc., through Google.org, is launching “Flu Trends” to track geographic outbreaks of illnesses in time and warn potential victims early enough to enable them to get a preventive vaccine. Working with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Flu Trends hopes to track the number of searches by Google users for flu related items like "thermometer" and "cold remedies." According to the Drudge Report "anonymized, aggregated counts of how often certain search queries occur each week," could indicate a flu outbreak in the area.

On Monday; Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems line was unveiled by Sun Microsystems. The company is hoping to boost up its business through it, which at present has taken a down track.

Earlier, the Sun Storage 7000 line was known as “Amber Road”, and by adding open source to its hardware, it hopes to better the company’s storage business. The customers would also find it easier to install and configure the systems and reduce costs through this move.

The performance would be increased through the three open-source storage and the Sun's Solaris Zettabyte file system (ZFS) will help in giving lower cooling requirements. The three mew models are as follows:-    

Maharashtra Seamless Ltd, a leading seamless steel pipe maker, has informed that it has pocketed a contract worth Rs 757 crore from the state-run Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC).

According to the sources, the proposed order has been bagged for the supply of seamless casing pipes.

The sources further revealed that with this contract, the order-book of the conglomerate stood at Rs 1,370 crore.

According to the reports, in June, Maharashtra Seamless Ltd had won an export order of 45 million dollar from a US firm.