10 things we'd like to see in Chrome

10 things we'd like to see in Chrome
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So far we're pretty smitten with Google's Chrome. It's certainly not without its faults, but for version 1.0 of a browser it's pretty sharp. We've compiled a list of 10 things we'd really like to see added or tweaked. Some come from other browsers, and some are just improvements on some of the existing features. Google, we hope you're listening.
1. Profile roaming between multiple browsers. This may be a pipe dream, but if Foxmarks for Firefox has proved anything, syncing up your bookmarks between multiple machines is awesome. Doing the same with passwords, settings, and history would be even better. Considering Google already has a way for your browser to send data back to the mothership, and a hosted Web history service of its own, a little sync using my Google account doesn't seem that hard does it?

2. Better bookmark management. Speaking of bookmarks, the bookmarking system in Chrome is about as basic as it gets. "Stripped-down" might be a better way to describe it. On the outset, it seems as robust as Firefox 3's with a really simple one-click way to save links. Where the system falls apart is the lack of tools for organization, and a complete lack of a back-up tool to save your short (or long) list of favorite sites. Of course, a bookmarks plug-in like Delicious would help sort this out, which brings us to the next yearning...

3. Plug-ins. Google has acknowledged that plug-ins are on the road map, which is a good thing. Here's how the search giant can totally one-up Mozilla, though: let me install and make changes to extensions without having to restart the browser. Nothing is worse than having 30 tabs open and having to restart, even if it remembers what I had open before. This reminds me...

4. Saved sessions/Warning messages when closing multiple tabs. Firefox's little warning for when you're closing a group of tabs was a huge lifesaver in version two. Firefox 3 brought with it a way to save that grouping of open tabs for later. Chrome has neither of these features. Accidentally closing your browser with a slew of tabs open means they're gone for good--that is unless you set it from the default option of clearing what you were looking at. Chrome is also nice enough to tell you some of the most recently closed tabs back on its special start page, but that's it.

5. A full-screen mode. I love the minimalism of Chrome, but sometimes I just want those extra 60-90 vertical pixels back. Give me a keyboard shortcut for this too, and I'll be in screen hog heaven.
6. A more customizable interface. The blue is neat, but getting that great deep purple found in incognito mode is enough of a tease to make me want to change the way it looks based on how I'm feeling. Plus, you've taken away the nice special Windows-theme coloring I had when you got rid of the top of the application, so let me choose how I want it to look. Bonus points for a tie-dye mode or something that changes depending on what time of day it is--like your personalized homepage service iGoogle

. A way to drag "applications" back into the main browser. The option to turn a certain site into a self-contained browser window with a stripped-down interface is great. However, the inability to drag it back into an open Chrome browser window is maddening when you're trying to re-open some real estate on the task bar. You can do this with existing tabs and windows, and it works great.
8. A Mac/Linux version. The lack of a Mac client has left the growing percentage of Mac users in a bit of a tizzy. Worse yet, based on Google's track record with some of its other cross-platform software offerings like Google Earth and Google Desktop search, the Mac has fared a little worse with slower release schedules and less features than its PC siblings. Hopefully new features will be rolled out to all the platforms at about the same time.

9. A pop-up blocker that blocks. Clearly Google is trying to shake things up with a pop-up blocker that really should be called a "pop-up relocator," since it not only lets them open but also load. Frankly, this drives me nuts since I have to close them down to get them off the screen. Also if it's really important and something I meant to click, I have to go drag it off from the bottom of the screen.
10. A regular old search box. Yes progress is good and the "omnibar" does a pretty slam-dunk job of getting new searches going, but let's get some of the ambiguity away from that thing and have an option to leave it for URLs only. Also, a separate search box would let me pick from the other multitude of search providers in addition to Google without compromising my screen real estate.

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Sensex ends 415 pts down as bank, IT stocks decline

Sensex ends 415 pts down as bank, IT stocks decline

Weak global markets and uncertainties on the Indo - US nuclear deal front prompted a negative start on the major Indian bourses this morning. And equities, especially stocks from bank, realty, information technology and metal sectors remained in the red right through the session as the bears remained relentless till the very end.

Stockometer Top gainers Worst losers

Thanks to the fall in crude oil prices, PSU oil stocks had a good run in the positive territory today. Aviation stocks Jet Airways and Deccan Aviation too enjoyed a bright spell. Power and FMCG stocks rebounded from their lower levels thanks to renewed buying in afternoon trade. Auto and capital goods stocks posted sharp losses.

The Sensex, which opened with a negative gap of around 330 points at 14,569.01 and tumbled to a low of 14,438.59 in intra-day trades, ended at 14,483.83 with a huge loss of 415.27 points or 2.79%. The Nifty settled at 4352.30 with a loss of 95.45 points or 2.15% at 4352.30. The NSE barometer which opened at 4444.70 this morning, touched a low of 4328.90.

Besides several large cap stocks, a number of stocks from midcap and smallcap segments too declined sharply on selling pressure today. The market breadth was weak. Out of 2728 stocks traded on BSE, 1619 stocks closed with losses. 1017 stocks ended on a positive note and 92 stocks ended flat.

Among Sensex stocks, only Hindustan Unilever (1.8%), ITC (0.2%) and ONGC (0.2%) ended in the positive territory. Nifty stock BPCL posted a handsome gain of 7.8%.
Ranbaxy Laboratories plunged 8.75% to Rs 450.25. HDFC lost around 5.75%. DLF and Jaiprakash Associates closed lower by 5.4% and 5.2% respectively.

Wipro eased by 4.85%. ICICI Bank, HDFC Bank, Infosys Technologies and Sterlite Industries lost 4% - 4.5%. Satyam Computer Services, Tata Steel, Reliance Industries, Grasim Industries, Bharti Airtel, Hindalco, Larsen & Toubro and Tata Motors lost 2% - 4%. State Bank of India slipped by over a per cent and Reliance Communications ended 0.85% down.

Unitech, Cairn India, Punjab National Bank, SAIL, Dr. Reddy's Laboratories, Nalco, Power Grid Corporation, Ambuja Cements, Tata Communications, Siemens, Zee Entertainment and Hero Honda were among the prominent losers in the Nifty index.

Axis Bank, Essar Oil, Akruti City, Gujarat Minerals, Bharat Forge, Aditya Birla Nuvo, Kotak Bank, Gujarat NRE Coke, Jindal Steel, REI Agro, Essar Shipping, NMDC and Crompton Greaves were some of the major losers from BSE 'A' Group today.

Hindustan Petroleum Corporation, Aban Offshore, Bajaj Holdings, Indian Oil Corporation, Reliance Power, Jet Airways, Phoenix Mills, Bharat Earth Movers, Mphasis, Areva, IDBI Bank, RECL and OnMobile Global ended with impressive gains.

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Corporate Headlines

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Mkt down 151 pts; Inflation cools further to 12.34 per cent

Sensex sheds 151 pts as nuclear deal
Global jitters weigh on sentiment; Sensex ends 150 points lower
Sensex ends 151 pts down in volatile trade

Index Value: 14,899.10
Trade Time: 3:58PM IST
Change: - 150.76 (1.00%)
Prev Close: 15,049.86
Open: 14,895.85
Day's Range: 14,766.01 - 14,994.15
52wk Range: 12,515.00 - 21,206.80


Tracking weak Asian markets, equities opened on a negative note on the major Indian bourses this morning. A few front line stocks managed to buck the trend but the premier indices Sensex and Nifty traded in the red right through the session as every small rally was followed by a strong round of selling.
Stockometer Top gainers Worst losers
Market participants appeared wary of building up positions ahead of release of inflation data and the outcome of the crucial Nuclear Suppliers Group meet today.

Realty and bank stocks bore the brunt of the onslaught this morning. Though bank stocks bounced back well and ended well off their morning lows, realty stocks found the going pretty tough today. Metal, FMCG, capital goods and power stocks also had a weak outing.

Select IT, pharma and oil stocks edged higher on stock specific support. As the mood remained quite lacklustre, there was not much action in midcap and smallcap segments today.

The Sensex, which opened with a negative gap of over 150 points at 14,895.85 and slipped to a low of 14,766.01, ended the day at 14,899.10 with a loss of 150.76 points or 1%. The barometer hit a high of 14,994.15 in early afternoon trade. The Nifty settled at 4447.75 with a loss of 56.25 points or 1.25%. In intra-day trades, the Nifty touched a high of 4514.60 and a low of 4419.45.

Maruti Suzuki (2.95%) topped the list of gainers from the Sensex. Hindalco moved up by 2.4%. Jaiprakash Associates and Tata Power advanced by around 1.75%. Grasim Industries, State Bank of India, Infosys Technologies, ICICI Bank and Ranbaxy Laboratories ended with modest gains.

BPCL, GAIL India, Cairn India, Tata Communications, Dr. Reddy's Laboratories, Hero Honda, Ambuja Cements, HCL Technologies and Punjab National Bank closed with notable gains. Nalco, ABB, Unitech, SAIL, Siemens, Power Grid Corporation, Idea Cellular, Sun Pharmaceuticals and Suzlon Energy ended with sharp losses.

KSK Energy, Akruti City, Aban Offshore, UCO Bank, Piramal Healthcare, Essar Shipping, Bank of India, Petronet LNG, Federal Bank, Century Textiles, Bombay Dyeing, Yes Bank, India Cements, EIH, Biocon, Financial Technologies and Oriental Bank of Commerce were among the prominent gainers from BSE 'A' Group.

Midcap stock Moser Baer shot up by nearly 9.5% to Rs 116.20 following global investors injecting Rs 411 crore in the company's solar photovoltaic business. Himadri Chemicals, Zee News, Mercator Lines, JM Financial Services, Dish TV, Karnataka Bank, MIC Electronics, Ballarpur Industries, Sun Pharma Advanced Research, Wockhardt, KEC International, Jagran Prakashan and Jindal Drilling were among the other major gainers in the midcap index.

The market breadth was marginally positive when traded ended today. Out of 2685 stocks traded on BSE, 1332 stocks closed with gains. 1259 stocks declined and 94 stocks ended flat.
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Inflation cools further to 12.34 per cent

Continuing its southward journey, inflation further slipped to 12.34 per cent for the week ended August 23 from 12.4 per cent recorded a week earlier. The nation’s annual inflation rate, however, was expected to have inched up in the third week of August to 12.44 per cent, driven by higher prices of some commodities and demand pressures in economy, a Reuters poll showed earlier. The decline in inflation last week was largely on account of the drop in the global crude prices and marginal easing of prices of essentials such as fruits, vegetables, eggs, meat and fish. Economists, however, cautioned that it may be too early to assume that the declining trend had set in. “While there has been some stability in the index since June, it may be too early to say that inflation has started declining,” said leading economist Saumitra Chaudhury.

DK Joshi, principal economist, Crisil, said, “It is essentially the impact of the global oil prices.” Lehman Brothers has already said in a report that they expect the final WPI inflation to peak in Oct/Nov at around 13.5-14.0 per cent, “but to stay in double-digit territory until February 2009. Based on our forecast of slower GDP growth of 7.3 per cent in FY09, our energy team’s forecast of the price of oil falling sharply to $90/bbl in Q1 2009, plus favorable base effects, our forecast is that WPI inflation will start turning down decisively in January 2009.”

Source: ET, SIfy

Bharti, RIL among 10 Indian cos in Forbes Asia's Fabulous 50

Bharti, RIL among 10 Indian cos in Forbes Asia's Fabulous 50

Ten Indian companies led by the likes of state-run Bharat Heavy Electricals, telecom major Bharti Airtel and Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Industries have made their way into the Forbes' list of 50 best listed companies in the Asia-Pacific region. The 'Asian Fabulous 50' ranking is topped by Taiwan-based computer maker Acer, while BHEL and Bharti Airtel are the top ranked Indian companies at the overall fifth and sixth spots. Acer is followed by Chinese steel maker Angang Steel, Taiwan's Asustek Computer and Indonesia's Bank Rakyat Indonesia at the second, third and fourth spots, respectively. Among Indian firms, BHEL and Bharti Airtel are followed by private sector lender HDFC Bank (22), IT bellwether Infosys (25), diversified conglomerate ITC (27), engineering and infrastructure firm Larsen & Toubro (30), auto maker Mahindra & Mahindra (34), Reliance Industries (39), world's sixth largest steel maker Tata Steel (44) and software exporter Wipro (46).

Among countries, China has the maximum representation with 13 firms, while India comes second with its 10 companies. "Indian companies once again had a strong showing, with 10 making our cut. Infosys and Wipro, perennial top performers, are back for the fourth year. Reliance Industries, Bharat Heavy and Larsen & Toubro are back for the third year. "Consumer-oriented companies such as Bharti Airtel, HDFC Bank, Mahindra & Mahindra and ITC are growing with India's middle class," the magazine said in an accompanying report. The list is based on long-term profitability, sales and earnings growth, stock price appreciation and projected earnings for every company in the region with revenues or market capitalisation of at least five billion dollars.

BHEL which is country's largest energy equipment provider holds about 60-65 per cent market share of India's power capacity additions. However, the magazine said rising prices of commodities could put the company's margins under pressure in the next several years. On Bharti Airtel, the report said, as many as 10 million new subscribers sign up every month for wireless access in India. "One in 4 sign up with Bharti Airtel, not only to make calls but also to access the web, download cricket scores and send billions of text messages." The report added that the firm is maxing out its allotted airwaves and that more spectrum should help Bharti Airtel "steal more wireless Web customers." The magazine said RIL is India's largest private sector company, accounting for 3 per cent of the nation's GDP and 13 per cent of its exports. Forbes added that the firm is also entering into joint- venture with US office property developer Vornado. Each would shell out $250 million to open shopping centers throughout India. On Tata Steel, the magazine said that Ratan Tata transformed his steel company from a south Asian foundry into an enterprise also spanning the rest of Asia, Europe and the US with the USD 13-billion takeover of Anglo-Dutch Corus Group last year. There are 23 rookies making their first appearance in the list and most of them are from China. Japan and South Korea are represented by three and two companies, respectively. Chiyoda, Nintendo and Yahoo! Japan have made it to the league of 50 from Japan, while Doosan and LG are from South Korea, the magazine said.

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Source:ET

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Exports sharply up, but no let-up in imports too

Exports sharply up, but no let-up in

India's exports accelerated to 31.2% in July and to almost 25% during the April-July 2008 period over their respective levels a year ago.
But, imports too maintained their unstoppable momentum, with a year-on-year surge of 48% during the latest month and by over 34% during the first four months of 2008-09.

In the event, trade deficit for July zoomed to $10,798 million from $5,879 million during the same month of the last fiscal; for the four-month period, the trade gap widened to $41,227 million from the preceding year's $27,352 million.

The export effort was partly facilitated by the depreciation of the Indian rupee vis-à-vis the dollar.
This provided an incentive to exporters whose realisation in our currency would thus go up.

Indications are that though the rough weather faced by the American economy has proved to be a dampener in our export performance, this setback has been more than made good by better showing in the Asean, South-east Asian and Latin American markets.
But, with crude prices on the boil for most of the period covered by the foreign trade data, the oil import bill till July 2008 rose by a whopping 54.9% and by a staggering 69.3% in July alone. Translated into simple terms, this means that we must brace for a steep rise in the value of crude imports during the current fiscal, as any softening trend in the months ahead may not adequately compensate the high cost of oil in the first four months.
Compounding the problem posed by high cost of oil imports, the first four months of 2008-09 also saw a strident increase in other imports —- mainly raw materials, capital goods and essential items. Non-oil imports during July were higher by nearly 39% and till July by 25%.
With imports outpacing exports by a sizeable margin, the trade gap remained disconcertingly vast in July 2008 as well as during the first four months.
In other words, there was a further deterioration in the ability of our exports to pay for our imports during this fiscal.
The import-purchasing power of exports fell to 58.9% from 63.5% during the comparable period of 2007-08.
With ample foreign currency assets at our disposal, the imbalance in our external trade ledger may not be a serious problem now but, it does impact on the current account.

But, the trend in exports thus far suggests that we are on course to hit the target of $200 billion set for 2008-09. Already, we have reached $59 billion; since the latter part of the year is usually a period of heightened tempo in the growth of exports, there is even a possibility of surpassing this target.

Source:Sify

Market cheers oil slide; Sensex closes 550 points up

Market cheers oil slide; Sensex closes 550 points up

Equities closed sharply higher on Tuesday led by surge in interest-rate sensitive sectors after international oil prices tumbled to a low of $105.46 per barrel.

Bombay Stock Exchange’s Sensex closed at 15,049.86, up 551.35 points or 3.80 per cent. It touched a high of 15,106.15 and low of 14,543.21. National Stock Exchange’s Nifty ended at 4504.00, up 155.35 points. The 50-share index touched an intra-day high of 4522.40 and intra-day low of 4343.10.

BSE Midcap Index closed 1.66 per cent higher at 5,837.01 and BSE Smallcap Index ended at 6,982.39, higher by 1.32 per cent. State Bank of India (7.44%), ICICI Bank (7.34%), DLF (7.14%), ONGC (6.97%), Jaiprakash Associates (6.83%) were amongst the major Sensex gainers. Ranbaxy Laboratories (-1.89%) and Tata Motors (-1.82%) were the only losers. Market breadth was positive on the BSE with 1675 advances against 986 declines. In Europe, oil prices rebounded to $108.24 per barrel after plunging to $105.46 per barrel on concerns of fall in global demand and as worries on hurricane Gustav eased.

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