Gas-guzzling Ford and General Motors are suddenly quarreling over environmental correctness; Both companies market globe-warming, gas-wasting dreadnoughts-but new models will improve their

Less than a year after doomsayers painted Asia and the Pacific as the world's biggest millennium-bug black spot, officials throughout the region are proclaiming that their banks, businesses,

In a direct response to Ford Motor Co.'s claim as the environmentally friendly automaker, General Motors Corp. said it would offer pickups and buses that will burn up to 50 percent less fuel than

General Motors Corp. and Exxon Mobil Corp. said they have improved technology to power fuel cells with gasoline, in a development that may result in a cleaner alternative to internal combustion

Aibo, Tama and other emerging pet robots represent the latest chapter in the history of robots, which began in U.S. factory floors in the 1960s. Japanese scientists are intent on bringing more robots

After Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson, our own R D Joshi appears to have got after Microsoft. And, again, the issue is the software giant's alleged monopoly practices. MRTPC officer Joshi's

Toyota Motor, Japan's largest vehicle maker, is planning to open a network of dedicated dealers and recycling centres across Europe to handle its environmentally friendly Prius

2-tier auto duty slab on the anvil: The govenremnt is considering imposing a two-tier duty structure on imports of secondhand vehicles to give protection to the domestic industry and prevent India

Idemitsu Kosan Co. and Matsushita Electric Works Ltd. aim to jointly develop 1.3kw polymer solid fuel cells for use in automobiles from 2003, company sources said. The project will combine Idemitsu's