Jetstar Pacific to increase flights throughout Vietnam during Tet

Low-cost air carrier Jetstar Pacific will add extra flights on its route between Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City during the Tet Holiday (Lunar New Year) to help cope with increased demand and traffic, the company announced today." According to the announcement, from January...

Tatas shut down Singur plant, preparing plan for Nano relocation

" Kolkata: With no hopes of the stalemate ending in Singur, Tatas on Tuesday said it was considering shifting the low-cost Nano car project from West Bengal to some other State, on which a decision may be taken...

Advance brings low-cost, bright LED lighting closer to reality

"WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Researchers at Purdue University have overcome a major obstacle in reducing the cost of "solid state lighting," a technology that could cut electricity consumption by 10 percent if widely adopted. The technology, called light-emitting...

VP asks state banks to finance low-cost houses

"Under the medium-term development plan, the government had set itself the target of constructing 270,000 low-cost houses per year. However, real estate developers could only build 100,000 low-cost houses per year because of limited funds, he said."It means that we still need...

Atmel launches low-cost Starter Kit for CAP customizable microcontroller

"Michel Le Lan, Atmel's Marketing Director for Application-Specific Products, commented, "The CAP Starter Kit significantly enlarges the CAP user community. It lowers even further the cost barrier for developing a customized microcontroller. It can be used by anyone from a...

Dell to launch retail presence in China

"Dell announced a deal yesterday to launch a retail presence in China by selling computers through the country's biggest chain of electronics stores as it struggles to capture a bigger share of the booming market. The deal extends Dell's strategy of expanding beyond its...

'$100 laptop' production begins

"Five years after the concept was first proposed, the so-called $100 laptop is poised to go into mass production. Hardware suppliers have been given the green light to ramp-up production of all of the components needed to build millions of the low-cost machines. Previously,...