To commemorate the rolling out of Mahindra’s 2 millionth vehicle in July 2007, achieving a significant sales milestone, Mahindra & Mahindra announced that it will donate two Scorpios to leading NGOs. These include the Uttar Pradesh based Sri Ram Krishna Sewa Sadan Cancer Hospital & Research Institute and the Naandi Foundation- Udaipur. Present on the occasion were Keshub Mahindra, Chairman, Mahindra Group, Dr. Pawan Goenka, President, Automotive Sector, M&M, and other senior dignitaries from Mahindra & Mahindra. Speaking on the occasion, Keshub Mahindra said, "The Mahindra Group’s destiny is inexorably linked to India’s. As India celebrates her 60th Independence Day, it is fitting that a company that brought the jeep to the country in the early 1950s is now celebrating rolling out its 2 millionth vehicle. Corporate Social Responsibility is at the core of our business philosophy and I am happy that we are using occasions like these to give back in a small measure to society."

JCB India Limited has embarked on an expansion plan at Ballabgarh. It has acquired additional land adjacent to its existing facility at Ballabgarh as part of the Rs 300 crores investment. The foundation stone was laid by Bhupinder Singh Hooda, Chief Minister of Haryana, in the presence of Matthew Taylor, Group COO, JCB UK and Alan Blake, Head – JCB Manufacturing, UK and Vipin Sondhi, Managing Director, JCB India. 

Speaking on the occasion, Matthew Taylor, said, “India is a very important market for JCB. JCB being one of the leading construction equipment player in India, is well equipped to be a partner in helping build India’s infrastructure. JCB is fully committed towards India and has invested in manufacturing facilities in Ballabgarh and Pune. We at JCB are delighted to see our growing business here and hope to look forward with continuous growth in the coming years too”.

Texas Instruments introduced a sub-1GHz radio-frequency (RF) transceiver featuring low-power consumption, high integration and excellent RF performance, recently. The CC1101 targets low-power wireless applications in alarm and security, automatic meter reading, industrial monitoring and control, and home and building automation. The CC1101 is an improved performance, code-compatible version of TI’s successful CC1100 sub-1GHz RF transceiver. 

The CC1101 provides extensive hardware support for package handling, data buffering, burst transmissions, clear channel assessment, link quality indication and wake-on radio. The main operating parameters and the 64-byte transmit/receive FIFOs can be controlled via an SPI interface. In a typical system, the CC1101 will be used with a microcontroller (MCU), such as TI’s MSP430 ultra-low-power MCUs, and a few additional passive components. Extensive digital features speed development time and reduce MCU strain, even at high data rates.