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IndianExpress: IN gross misuse of public property, a private showroom for cars has taken over part of the 21,000 sq mt land belonging to the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) on Satara Road for parking its own vehicles. The land that has been reserved for PMC’s truck terminus has now become the parking place for vehicles of Deccan Honda showroom.

The private showroom has even gone a step further and posted its own security guard at the entrance of the terminus. On Tuesday, when City Improvement Committee chairman Vikas Mathkari visited the truck terminus to take a first-hand look, the guard did not allow his official car to enter the terminus. The guard’s explanation: It was meant for parking his malik’s cars.

IndianExpress:  MEMBER of Parliament Suresh Kalmadi promised the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) will develop a garden at Thakarsey Hill at Yerawada and connect Bund Garden to the hill via a ropeway.

He was speaking at the bhoomipoojan of new classrooms of the Colonel Young School in Yerawada on Monday. The PMC has acquired two and a half acres of land at Thakarsey Hill. Kalmadi was all praise for corporator Shivaji Kshirsagar who followed up the issue.

IndianExpress: COMMUTERS travelling to Satara from Katraj have been asked to use the old Katraj ghat tunnel by the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) as the the new Katraj twin tunnels will be closed from Wednesday. The NHAI plans to start work on ventilation of the tunnel. said project director P D Arora.
 
 

IndianExpress: The Pune Municipal Transport (PMT) has changed the route of Market Yard-Shivajinagar buses (Route Number 15) with effect from Wednesday. PMT officials said the change has been made on demand by the commuters.

The buses plying on the route proceed via Kalubai temple, Bhapkar petrol pump, Swargate, Appa Balvant Chowk, Shaniwarwada and Pune Municipal Corporation. On the changed route, the buses will ply via Gangadham, Zala Complex, Kumar Park, Pushpa Mangal Karyalaya, Bhapkar petrol pump, Swargate, Appa Balvant Chowk, Shaniwarwada and Pune Municipal Corporation.

IndianExpress:  FARMERS of the country can look forward to better dissemination of agriculture-meteorology (agri-met) information. To this end, the agencies involved in the field will collaborate and share their resources and expertise to give the farmers an integrated package of agriculture-related information, according to L S Rathore, advisor to Noida-based National Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting, at a seminar here on Tuesday.

Thus, India Meteorological Department, National Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting, Indian Council for Agricultural Research, State agricultural universities and departments, have joined hands to run 107 Agro-Meteorology Advisory Service units in different agro-climatic zones of the country. Besides, 20 more units belonging to state advisory committees will be roped

BetaNews: At an early morning keynote address to open the semi-annual Intel Developers’ Forum in San Francisco, CEO Paul Otellini confirmed what hardware industry resources had already known for weeks: A Core 2 Extreme quad-core processor is coming this November for the enthusiast segment of the PC market, with Core 2 Quad processors for the mainstream segment and Quad-Core Xeon server processors soon to follow in the first quarter of next year.

It will be Intel’s best opportunity in years to effectively grind competitor AMD’s nose into the silicon dirt, if you will, with regard to both price and performance. Last July’s introduction of the Core 2 Duo and Core 2 Extreme desktop PC processors, based on Intel’s Conroe architecture, saw a dramatic leap in both performance and power efficiency in a category that AMD had dominated for the past few years.
 

TechTree: A-Data Technology is releasing a new 8GB SD High Capacity (SDHC) flash card that redefines the maximum capacity “barrier” of 2GB normally associated with SD cards.

The company says that the new SD cards are based on the SDA 2.00 specification introduced by the SD Card Association, and are designed to support high-end photo, video, and music SDHC-compatible devices.

Besides, the new 8GB SDHC flash cards, which have high speeds, and are lightweight, compact, offering the highest SD card storage available, open new doors for peoples’ active digital lifestyles.

The latest cards utilize a FAT 32 (vs. FAT16 for SD) file system that can support capacities from 4GB to 32GB, and still meet the SD transmission standard.

TechTree: At the ongoing “Photokina 2006″ in Germany, Apple Computer announced Aperture 1.5, a major update to Aperture 1.0, the company’s All-in-One post production tool designed specially for photographers.

Aperture 1.5 includes enhancements over its predecessor, such as a powerful open library; seamless iLife’06 and iWork’06 integration; XMP metadata support; powerful adjustment tools; and an export API.

Commenting on the update, Rob Schoeben, vice president - applications product marketing, Apple Computer, said, “Aperture has given photographers around the globe the confidence to work in exciting new ways. Now with Aperture 1.5, we’ve opened the library and extended the workflow to provide a solution that is as flexible as it is powerful.”