Friday, October 30, 2009
Monday, March 16, 2009
HCL's low-cost PC
HCL plans to market its new low-cost PC by partnering with major web portals for a piece of the "fortune at the bottom of the pyramid."
After having launched its low-cost PC in the Indian market, HCL is looking forward to injecting new vigor to its existing distribution strategy to tap the huge market potential in the Indian region. With an aim to increase its distribution footprint in the country, the company is all set to work on a two-pronged strategy. As part of this, HCL would be working closely with popular Internet portals in order to market its affordable product and the company would also be strengthening its existing distribution network.
As HCL targets the broad-based market segment it would be strengthening its existing distribution network by different strategies
"The real market lies at the bottom of the pyramid. Unless PC penetration increases from the current level, Internet and broadband will not take off in the country. As we target the broad-based market segment, we would be strengthening our existing distribution network by different strategies. We have already started working by taking online orders from customers. Moving forward, this would be a part of our overall distribution strategy," explained Ajai Chowdhry, Chairman and CEO, HCL Infosystems. Moving forward, the company would align itself with different online portals to channel its low-cost PC to more number of people and increase its distribution prowess. "As the demand of this product increases, we would be increasing the strength of our traditional distribution network as well," he added. The new HCL Ezeebee Pride computer, unveiled by the Communications and IT Minister, Dayanidhi Maran, comes with a configuration of AMD x86 1.6 GHz processor, 128 MB RAM, 40 GB Hard Disk Drive and 52X CD ROM. It also has a 15" color monitor and supports applications such as word processor, spreadsheet, presentations, e-mail and video conferencing.
HCL has priced the ready-to-use PC at Rs 9,990 with Linux software, and Rs 11,240 when bundled with Microsoft Windows XP Starter Edition. Initially, the company is making sure that the product is available at more than 1,000 dealer points spread all across the country. The company plans to increase its computer manufacturing capacity to one million units by the end of this year from the existing 600,000 units.
While the PC penetration in the country is a mere 15 per 1,000, the Government is looking forward to increasing this number to 65 per 1,000 by the end of 2008. Bringing down the PC costs to below Rs 10,000 is one way to make it more affordable to the huge population of the country. This is also likely to spur broadband and Internet penetration levels for the
country.visit full details in http://www.nextbillion.net/news/hcl-decides-the-market-for-low-cost-pcs-is-online
Sunday, March 15, 2009
IBM Takes Another Step To Changing The Patent Process
IBM collaborated over the summer with a group of 50 experts from outside IBM to come up with a new approach to protecting intellectual property. The result of this effort is summarized in the report Building a New IP Marketplace. This is superb and exciting stuff. Since our government can’t seem to make any progress with this, I hope they’ll at least follow the leadership of some major industrial companies that while ultimately acting in their own self-interest (as they should) recognize that they get more economic benefit long term by fixing the underlying dysfunction. check out in http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2006/09/ibm-takes-another-step-to-changing-the-patent-process.html
Caritor movin positive
Brian Keane, CEO of Keane Inc., said the e-services firm was bolstered by a loyal customer base and public-sector business during a tough quarter hit even harder by the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11.
For the third quarter ended Sept. 30, Keane Inc., based here, reported income, before charges, of $5.3 million, or 11 cents per share, on sales of $186.6 million. That compares with income of $8.3 million, or 15 cents per share, on sales of $208.6 million for the same quarter last year.
The numbers missed Wall Street estimates by a penny. First Call predicted income of 12 cents per share.
The impact of Sept. 11 on Keane Inc.'s business was painful and personal, said Keane. Two consultants from Keane Consulting Group who were working for a customer at the World Trade Center on Sept. 11 remain among the thousands missing there.
"Our thoughts and prayers are in support of family, friends and colleagues at this time," said Keane.
On the business side, the loss of personnel, temporary suspension of air traffic and lost billings, particularly in New York and Washington, resulted in a total loss of between $1 million and $2 million, said Keane.
At the same time, Keane Inc. signed its largest federal government contract, a $127 million, 10-year deal with the U.S. Air Force, to rebuild and manage its wholesale supply chain.
In addition, Keane reported the firm's Application Development and Management (ADM) Outsourcing business remains strong, accounting for 52 percent of third-quarter revenue.
The sequential decline in ADM Outsourcing is primarily due to a reduction in the size of the deals by a few customers in the high-tech and telecommunications industries that have been severely impacted by the economic slowdown, Keane said.
"However, this in no way changes our strong belief that outsourcing is a highly attractive and stable revenue stream," Keane told analysts.
To illustrate his point, Keane said the company has received notification of the largest ADM Outsourcing win in its history, a $500 million, 10-year agreement with a major health-care organization. The deal, which Keane expects to sign during the fourth quarter, should produce about $50 million in annual revenue, he said.
Meanwhile, Keane told analysts the firm's pending acquisition of Metro Information Services is moving forward, said Keane. The Federal Trade Commission approval has been received, and the Securities and Exchange Commission declared the registration statement effective as of Oct. 19, 2001. Metro's shareholder meeting on the acquisition is set for Nov. 30.
Keane anticipates revenue for the fourth quarter to be between $185 million and $195 million. The company also estimates total revenue in 2002 will be about $1 billion. full datails check out in http://www.crn.com/it-channel/18816476
Saturday, March 14, 2009
Important news for 2009 batch...
Students of the country’s best engineering colleges may now have to wait till their final year for clinching a job with an IT firm. In a bid to get greater visibility of the business environment while hiring, IT companies, such as TCS and Wipro Technologies, are now looking to push campus recruitments closer to the pass-out date.
“We want to do real time talent management. While in the past we would go to campuses to recruit in the fourth or fifth semester, we will now do so only in the seventh or eighth semester. This will enable us to better match hiring needs with actual demand,” TCS’ Chief Executive and Managing Director, Mr S. Ramadorai, told Business Line.
The move would also help TCS to reduce the bench and increase utilization, as the company attempts to raise efficiency. TCS has also increased the performance bar for its employees to meet higher productivity demands.
Mr Ramadorai said that the company would soon be informing various colleges about its plans. “The first letters are going out today,” he added. Premier educational institutions such as the IITs and IIMs generally invite IT companies to hire in the final year.
“For instance, in case of a four-year course, we may approach the campuses only three months before the students pass out. Earlier, we would do it either before the end of the third year or beginning of the fourth year,” he said, adding that this was also in line with practices followed globally by companies.
“We will do it for the next batch…for those graduating in 2010,” Mr Ramadorai pointed out.
TCS is not the only one doing this. “This issue has also been deliberated in Nasscom and more or less, member companies have agreed to follow this practice,” the TCS CEO said.
Earlier, Mr Pradeep Bahirwani, Vice-President-Talent Acquisition, Wipro Technologies, had toldBusiness Line, “We have encouraged campus hiring both for IITs and other technical colleges to be held during the final semester of engineering and not during penultimate year of engineering, as is the current practice. This would give students enough time to be well-prepared for assessment and will also enable organisations to get a good grip on the future business demand.”visit http://rahul-bhattacharya.blogspot.com/2009/02/tcs-and-wipro-campusing-news-for-2010.html
Infosys Technologies Receives Positive Rating
Infosys Technologies Limited INFY today announced that Infosys received ‘Positive’ ratings in Gartner’s “MarketScope: for Remote Support Services (i)and Remote Monitor Services(ii)” reports. Infosys was one of 26 vendors evaluated for the reports, which focused on remote monitoring and support services for IT infrastructure functions, such as remotely-managed network services, data center services, ERP operation support, and operations and technical support.
Over the last year, Infosys has been at the forefront of IT solutions that meet client IT support and monitoring needs. The company’s commitment to identifying, implementing and managing these technologies enable Infosys to provide real-time data through secure, remote access. This ultimately translates to maximized efficiencies within the IT infrastructure.
“Our large base of global customers is already reaping the benefits of Infosys’ end to end Remote Infrastructure Management capabilities,” said Anand Nataraj, vice president of Infrastructure Management Services, Infosys Technologies Limited. “We believe Gartner’s “Positive” rating confirms Infosys’ position in the market and our commitment to providing customers with transformation solutions in Remote Infrastructure Management solutions that meet their unique challenges.”for full datails visit http://news.moneycentral.msn.com/ticker/article.aspx?symbol=US:INFY&feed=BW&date=20081219&id=9464668
TCS Rated Strong Positive
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| Gartner has rated Tata Consultancy Services as 'Strong Positive' in the MarketScope for Business Intelligence and Performance Management Services, Western Europe, 2008 report. Developed by Gartner analysts as an assessment of the BI and PM capabilities of service providers, the MarketScope provides specific guidance for users who are deploying, or have deployed, products or services.Visit full details in http://www.efytimes.com/efytimes/fullnews.asp?edid=27805 |
Wipro positioned as strong positive
Wipro Technologies, the global IT services business of Wipro Limited (NYSE:WIT) announced that leading industry analyst firm Gartner, Inc., positioned Wipro Technologies as ‘strong positive’ in the Leaders Quadrant of its “Market Scope for Business Intelligence and Performance Management Services, Western Europe, 2008,” 2008 report.
Developed by Gartner, the 2008 Market Scope for Business Intelligence (BI) and performance management (PM) consulting and system integration (C&SI) services in Western Europe analyzes the market for BI and PM solution implementation services.
The report says, “Wipro Technologies goes to market through its GDM approach and has demonstrated stellar growth during the past few years and an ever-expanding global presence, fueled by high-level recruitment resulting in a larger practice in Western Europe. It now has a quarter of its BI and PM revenue in EMEA. Wipro is particularly strong in financial services, retail, manufacturing, services, telecommunications and utilities, and it has managed to establish a reputation as a BI service provider that can tackle strategic and tactical engagements, timing the market well for its BI service offerings.”
Wipro views Enterprise Information Management strategy as key to enable business outcomes and enhance value for enterprises. Elaborating on Wipro’s successful BI PM implementations, Srinivas Pallia, Vice President, Business Technology Services, Wipro Technologies said, “This recognition by Gartner reflects the acceptance of our position as a company helping our clients transform their business using the right information and insights. Our comprehensive performance management and analytics solutions address business objectives, critical business processes and incorporate robust Information Management technology.”
According to the report, “Wipro's ability to leverage a centralized BI practice globally and into Western Europe brings additional strength to the practice through significant size and scale, and this practice includes PM built on strong frameworks and advanced, domain-specific analytics in its portfolio.”
In an earlier report on ‘Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence and Performance Management Services, North America, 2008’, Wipro was positioned in the challenger quadrant by Gartner Inc.
Wipro offers industry specific analytics solutions and Performance Management solutions built on unique CAPS framework to drive organizational performance by effectively managing information. The IT major has created multiple patent-filed solutions like Data Migration solution, Enterprise data warehousing frameworks and SOA based business platform to provide comprehensive and agile solutions across the information management spectrum.
About Wipro
Wipro Technologies, a division of Wipro Limited (NYSE:WIT) is the first PCMM Level 5 and SEI CMM Level 5 certified global IT services organization. Wipro Technologies was recently assessed at Level 5 for CMMI V 1.2 across offshore and onsite development centers. Wipro is one of the largest product engineering and support service providers worldwide. Wipro provides comprehensive research and development services, IT solutions and services, includingsystems integration, information systems outsourcing, package implementation, software application development, and maintenance services to corporations globally.
In the Indian market, Wipro is a leader in providing IT solutions and services for the corporate segment in India, offering system integration, network integration, software solutions and IT services.
Wipro also has a profitable presence in niche market segments of consumer products and lighting. In the Asia-Pacific and Middle East markets, Wipro provides IT solutions and services for global corporations. Wipro's ADS' are listed on the New York Stock Exchange, and its equity shares are listed in India on the Stock Exchange - Mumbai, and the National Stock Exchange.check the details in http://www.pressreleasepoint.com/wipro-positioned-‘strong-positive’-“market-scope-business-intelligence-and-performance-management-se
Friday, March 13, 2009
Thursday, March 12, 2009
beautiful girls
Biological gender interacts with environment in ways not fully understood.[7] Identical twin girls separated at birth and reunited decades later have shown both startling similarities and differences.[8] In 2005 Kim Wallen of Emory University noted, "I think the 'nature versus nurture' question is not meaningful, because it treats them as independent factors, whereas in fact everything is nature and nurture." Wallen said gender differences emerge very early and come about through an underlying preference males and females have for their chosen activities. Girls tend to like toys and other objects they can interact with, while boys will more likely prefer "things that they can manipulate and do things to." According to Wallen, expectations will nonetheless play a role in how girls perform academically. For example, if females skilled in math are told a test is "gender neutral" they achieve high scores, but if they are told males outperformed females in the past, the females will do much worse. "What’s strange is," Wallen observed, "according to the research, all one apparently has to do is tell a woman who has a lifetime of socialization of being poor in math that a math test is gender neutral, and all effects of that socialization go away."[9] Author Judith Harris has said that aside from their genetic contribution, the nurturing provided by parents likely has less long-term influence over their offspring than other environmental aspects such as the children's peer group.[10]
satyam
udin Apte, Senior Analyst and Country Head, Forrester, believes employees as well as clients are going to desertSatyam for a range of factors like future uncertainty. “Clients are raising questions about continuity of Satyam as an independent entity. They are also raising questions about Indian governance and accounting, and overall auditing practices.”
According to him, post the Satyam scam, clients are going to grow cold feet as they start looking at offshoring. “The pace of offshoring is surely going to take a hit. Many questions will come in during the evaluation process. Overall, the impact would be further slow growth. This is the last thing the IT industry wants to hear in a tough economic situation.”
Here is a verbatim transcript of the exclusive interview with Sudin Apte on CNBC-TV18. Also watch the accompanying video.
Q: We have your report with us. You must have spoken to a lot of Satyam insiders, employees, as well as Satyam clients. What is the sense you are getting? Is it imminent implosion with the best candidates, best guys walking out for fear of their jobs, or getting wooed out? And the best customers as well moving out because mission critical businesses cannot be left to this kind of wait and watch?
A: I want to first make one sort of a disclaimer in a way. In the last 48 hours we have not been able to access any senior Satyam executive formally. So, really the report hasn’t considered any Satyam interview.
But we have talked to some of the folks informally, some of the developers and team leaders et cetera as well, and we have talked several clients who also happen to be Forrester clients.
Our sense is that both employees as well as clients are going to desert Satyam for a range of factors. For employees future uncertainty all these factors. It is pretty obvious; all media have been talking about it. I really don’t want to go into that. But that is something big.
If whatever I am hearing in the media today morning for example, even the credit card limits have been thrashed that is just going to trigger the employee exodus.
As far as clients are concerned, which is a more serious issue from an industry perspective, the sense that I am getting is that every interaction that I had with the US and European clients, every interaction ends up saying, is it an isolated incident or is this going to happen to a few more companies. So, people do have a lot of questions.
I hope that this is an exceptional situation and Satyam is the only company. But clients are surely concerned, and raising questions about continuity of Satyam as an independent entity, clients are raising questions about Indian governance and accounting and overall auditing practices. So, there are issues on the client side.
Q: If you could put your experience behind what is going on, I am just trying to get yours and Forrester’s view on this, a) If I were sitting in the US, has the big, overall India outsourcing story hit a roadblock or a brake or a speed breaker, b) there is a certain belief that people who are with Satyam will move to Infosys or TCS or Wipro. What about moving to an EDS or Oracle or Sapient – companies that they are close to and used to dealing with?
A: Absolutely. Let me go one by one. On the overall India outsourcing story, there is a bit of goods news on that front. There is no alternative. I’d said in my earlier reports as well – TINA i.e. There Is No Alternative is going to help India because there are no other locations that can offer 60,000-100,000 people for building centers. So, even if you look at larger multinational companies or firms like TCS don’t have 50,000 or 100,000 people in other locations. So, just demographic is going to help India going.
But now we have a situation where clients are going to grow cold feet as they start looking at offshoring and there is no alternative. The pace of offshoring is surely going to take a hit; much more questions will come in during the evaluation process. And overall I think the impact would be further slow growth. This is the last thing the industry wants to hear in a tough economic situation for overall Indian IT, I would say.
Swapping of clients – there is no common answer. There are lots of areas that Satyam operates in, for example engineering services. Now the top one or two companies in India may not be the best suited vendors for that work. So, to whom the work would shift to is a function of who is the incumbent vendor in that account in addition to Satyam because in that case those companies will know the client, client processes, work, business, domain et cetera.
So, who is the incumbent vendor is a key question. The second question is that do they have the bandwidth to offer those high-end SAP capabilities or high end engineering services or auto and aero capabilities. These are going to be deciding factors where they switch to.
The larger clients of Satyam really are in a fix. They cannot really think about ramping up 500-600 ODCs overnight. So, the size of the client and the incumbent vendors and the domain expertise are a variety of factors that are going to play here. I don’t think we can say rampantly that all Satyam clients will move to TCS or Infosys.
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The MP3 lossy data compression algorithm takes advantage of a perceptual limitation of human hearing called In 1894, Mayer reported that a tone could be rendered inaudible by another tone of lower frequency.[2] In 1959, Richard Ehmer described a complete set of auditory curves regarding this phenomenon.[3] Ernst Terhardt et al. created an algorithm describing auditory masking with high accuracy.[4] This work added on a variety of reports from authors dating back to Fletcher, and to the work that initially determined critical ratios and critical bandwidths.The psychoacoustic masking codec was first proposed in 1979, apparently independently, by Manfred R. Schroeder, et al..[5] from AT&T-Bell Labs in Murray Hill, NJ, and M. A.Krasner[6]both in the United States. Krasner was the first to publish and to produce hardware for speech, not usable as music bit compression, but the publication of his results as a relatively obscure Lincoln Laboratory Technical Report did not immediately influence the mainstream of psychoacoustic codec development. Manfred Schroeder was already a well-known and revered figure in the worldwide community of acoustical and electrical engineers, and his paper had influence in acoustic and source-coding (audio data compression) research. Both Krasner and Schroeder built upon the work performed by Eberhard F. Zwicker in the areas of tuning and masking of critical bands,[7][8] that in turn built on the fundamental research in the area from Bell Labs of Harvey Fletcher and his collaborators.[9] A wide variety of (mostly perceptual) audio compression algorithms were reported in IEEE's refereed Journal on Selected Areas in Communications.[10] That journal reported in February 1988 on a wide range of established, working audio bit compression technologies, some of them using auditory masking as part of their fundamental design, and several showing real-time hardware implementations aimed at laboratory experiences. This hardware was never used in PC audio cards.The immediate predecessors of MP3 were "Optimum Coding in the Frequency Domain" (OCF),[11] and Perceptual Transform Coding (PXFM).[12] These two codecs, along with block-switching contributions from Thomson-Brandt, were merged into a codec called ASPEC, which was submitted to MPEG, and which won the quality competition, but that was mistakenly rejected as too complex to implement. The first practical implementation of an audio perceptual coder (OCF) in hardware (Krasner's hardware was too cumbersome and slow for practical use), was an implementation of a psychoacoustic transform coder based on Motorola 56000 DSP chips. MP3 is directly descended from OCF and PXFM. MP3 represents the outcome of the collaboration of Dr. Karlheinz Brandenburg, working as a postdoc at AT&T-Bell Labs with Mr. James D. Johnston of AT&T-Bell Labs, collaborating with the Fraunhofer Society for Integrated Circuits, Erlangen, with relatively minor contributions from the MP2 branch of psychoacoustic sub-band coders.MPEG-1 Audio Layer 2 encoding began as the Digital Audio Broadcast (DAB) project managed by Egon Meier-Engelen of the Deutsche Forschungs- und Versuchsanstalt für Luft- und Raumfahrt (later on called Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt, German Aerospace Center) in Germany. The European Community financed this project, commonly known as EU-147, from 1987 to 1994 as a part of the EUREKA research program.The info that available in all post may or may not be true. The Blog owner is not responsible for the false data.The real website link is provided at the end of each post. Please check those website for full information
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