“We have almost 1,500 employees in the Bangalore R&D centre itself, which is a huge number for any one centre,” official says.

India will continue to be Yahoo’s research and development (R&D) hub for catering to the global information technology market, a top company official said.

“Our India operations, namely Yahoo! India, has its R&D centre in Bangalore. It was set up for doing product innovations for not only India but also for the global market. This function of our R&D centre will continue and even grow in the future,” Head, Yahoo! Research, Prabhakar Raghavan, said here.

“India has the right atmosphere for catering to the global market by providing Internet services, technological tools and marketing solutions for businesses both in India and internationally. We have almost 1,500 employees in the Bangalore R&D centre itself, which is a huge number for any one centre. This shows the capability of the centre to be an international hub for IT related activities,” Raghavan said.

The Yahoo! Research Head was here to attend a two-day summit on the IT sector called Infovision 2007.

On the prospects of the convergence of mobile phone and Internet application in India, Rahgavan said that though India and China had many mobile devices, most of them were not data-rich phones, not fully digital.
“The challenge here is to create service and monetisation models that would help serve the market in a better way. We have such programmes in the pipeline. The challenge is also to find a greater variety of services to appeal to a larger audience,” he said. Source: deccanherald

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The National Association of Software and Service Companies (Nasscom) President, Kiran Karnik, said here on Wednesday that a study by the association indicated that the percentage of women employed in the IT (information technology) and ITeS (IT-enabled Services) sectors might grow from 30 per cent to 45 per cent by 2010.

The male-female ratio was also expected to improve from 76:24 in 2006 to 65:35 by early 2008, he said.

Speaking at the Nasscom Women IT Leaders summit here, Mr. Karnik said, “There is a clear trend of more educated young women joining the industry because of progressive and flexible human resource management policies. IT does not require any gender-specific skills”.

Britannia Industries Managing Director, Vineeta Bali, said, “While competency will remain a basic skill for either gender, men in senior positions have to initiate changes needed for more gender equality. The industry should realise the vast talent pool in the form of women with necessary skills. Bobby Mitra, Managing Director, Texas Instruments-India, said “Within our organisation, women have filed for 25 patents in the U.S. over the last two years, meeting stringent criteria. Recently, a team led by a woman successfully completed a project that produced a chip twice the speed of a competitor”.

Jerry Rao, Chairman of MphasiS, said “Men in senior positions now need to realise how talented women staffers, if encouraged, can help the organisation. Sadly, even HR heads, who are women, do not recommend women for some senior positions. Managements on their part can meet some of the handicaps faced by women executives by providing training in communication skills such as making business presentations”. Source: Hindu

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It’s an opportunity for young business and software decision makers to know about Web 2.0 and beyond, said Bal Tarakad, CEO of Trade Fairs & Conference International which is organising the two-day event.

More than 45 Web 2.0 experts will speak at the conference, which is expected to attract 750 delegates from across the country, he told a press meet.

The phrase “Web 2.0″ hints at the second innings of the World Wide Web.

The idea of Web 2.0 can relate to a transition of some websites from isolated information silos to interlinked computing platforms that function like locally-available software in the perception of the user.

Web 2.0 also includes a social element where users generate and distribute content, often with freedom to share and re-use.

Chairman and CEO of Brickwork, Vivek Kulkarni, who is part of the conference advisory committee, said the event focuses on the importance of Web 2.0 technology and its applications.

“In a nutshell, Web 2.0 technologies tend to foster innovation in the assembly of systems and sites composed by pulling together features from distributed, independent developers”, Kulkarni said. Source: economictimes

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The editing software, expected to be introduced late Tuesday in a partnership with Picnik Inc., represents Yahoo’s latest attempt to broaden Flickr’s appeal as the Sunnyvale-based company closes its older Yahoo Photos service.

“We think this is going to be very attractive to mainstream users,” said Kakul Srivastava, Flickr’s senior director of product management.

With its stock price stuck in a malaise that has lasted two years, Yahoo has been trying to make more money from all its services, including Flickr, which it bought in 2005. The profit push is one reason Yahoo is closing Yahoo Photos, which launched in 2000.

Although Flickr offers free accounts with limited photo storage to all comers, the service also sells $24.95 annual subscriptions that accommodate unlimited uploading. Yahoo is betting the editing tools will encourage more people to pay to show a larger number of pictures on the site.

Picnik, a Seattle-based startup run by an entrepreneur who sold his last venture, software startup PhatBits, to Google for an undisclosed amount in early 2005, is counting on the Flickr connection to help pay the bills now.

A more sophisticated version of Picnik’s editing tools costs $24.95 a year.

The editing software fills a glaring void at Flickr, which has blossomed into one of the Web’s busiest photo-sharing communities.

Most of Flickr’s rivals, including Shutterfly Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co.’s Snapfish, Kodak Gallery and Google Inc.’s Picasa, already offer free photo-editing tools. Source: economictimes

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Pursuant to the agreement, the company has initially set up a 100 people Operation Technology Center (OTC) for the bank at its software development campus in Whitefield, Bangalore, iGate said in a communique to the Bombay Stock Exchange.

“This is an exciting partnership for us and we are proud to be associated with UBoC and help them enhance their process and service capabilities,” iGate Global Solutions Ltd CEO Phaneesh Murthy said.

“This partnership also gives us confidence that our integrated Technology and Operations (iTOPS) model is gaining more acceptance and momentum,” Murthy said.

The company also informed that it has been ranked as India’s number one employer on choice in a recent survey by CNBC TV18 in collaboration with Watson Wyatt Worldwide and Jobstreet.com. Source: Hindu

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“Recruitments have started and we are taking engineers in computer science and electronics as well as MCAs. Already 1,000 freshers have been recruited during July and October for various centres. They are currently undergoing training at Bangalore,” said President and CEO, R&D Services, S Janakiraman.

Out of these, 700 will be absorbed in IT services and the balance in R&D services, who are undergoing training in integrated circuit design, embedded software among others. At present, the company has around 5,500 people of which 1,500 are in the R&D services. According to Janakiraman, for R&D services, MindTree-Chennai will be providing design consulting to clients in the automotive, communications and manufacturing sectors.

“Chennai is fast developing as a hub for research and development services,” he pointed out. Already MindTree staffs 300 people at the Olympia Technology Park in the city. The company expects a revenue of USD 35 million from the Olympia centre and Mahindra City centre within a year. Research and Development activities are likely to contribute 25 percent of the total revenue from the Mahindra City centre when it is ready.

MindTree is targeting a turnover of USD 180 million this fiscal compared to USD 130 million last year with a growth of 30 to 40 percent in FY’08. The company would also add more clients in the current fiscal. It added 28 clients during last quarter with a total of 192 customers on its rolls currently. Source: newindpress

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The BlackBerry Pearl 8130 provided all sorts of upgrades, but not WiFi. That’s where the BlackBerry Pearl 8120 steps in, replacing the 3G radio with one that grabs 802.11b/g WiFi signals. Hence it opens up the possibility of VoIP and VoIP-like services. It also boasts of a higher-resolution camera, and enhancements to the handset’s browser and user interface. The remaining features remain from the original Pearl including the trackball navigator, SureType keyboard, integrated GPS, stereo Bluetooth, microSD memory expansion, updated mail software, and the 3.5mm headset jack, and it works fine.

The 8120 is also available in titanium, blue and gold. You can also install the Facebook application, and post online, besides emailing or MMSing your friends. It is very competent for a mobile phone at Rs 24,990. Pearl 2 does show that RIM is trying hard to break out of its ‘businesses only’ image, both design-wise and features-wise.

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McAfee released a research report on this “What’s In A Name: The State of Typo-Squatting 2007″ which says about how a typo sqatterer registers domains using common misspellings of popular brands, products and people in order to redirect consumers to alternative Web sites.

The report gives the example of iPhone mania as a recent example of typo-squatting saying that even though Apple’s new phone appeared on the market just a few months ago, its likely that atleast 8,000 URLs using the word “iPhone” by the end of this year will be available. Some will be fan sites or rumor sites, while others will be run by hackers and scammers. The only common thing among these sites is that they have no affiliation with Apple.

McAfee’s Key findings include:

• A consumer who misspells a popular wesite URL has a 1 in 14 chance of landing at a typo-squatter site.
• The heavily targetted sites are that of Children’s. The typo-squatters take advantage of typing errors to expose children to pornography. In fact, 2.4 percent, or more than 46,000 of the typo-squatter sites tested, include some adult content.
• Automated ad syndication services enable many typo-squatter sites to make money; In fact one popular search engine’s ads show up on 19.3% of all suspected typo-squatter sites in this study and another search engine shows up on 4.4% of all suspected typo-squatter sites
• The five non-U.S. countries most likely to have popular sites squatted are: the United Kingdom, Portugal, Spain, France, and Italy.
• The five non-U.S. countries least likely are: the Netherlands, Israel, Denmark, Brazil and Finland

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IBM will provide global business and technology services, hardware, software, and IT financing to help Ordyn make its business flexible to align with the rapidly evolving market dynamics, an IBM release said here.

This deal will enable Ordyn leverage IBM’s global domain knowledge and consulting expertise in the Indian Telecom space to ensure sustained growth.

Ordyn’s ambitious global plans and its rapid expansion in the global scenario demand a robust, homogeneous and seamless communication and application platform which can be replicated rapidly to create unified architecture at its global locations, it said.

“IBM’s expertise in this (telecommunication) segment and the breadth of products and services will help successful companies in the SME Market, such as Ordyn, continue to tackle the explosive Indian Telecom market with the assurance that they have IBM at their side at all times,” IBM India/South Asia Director, Global Mid Market Business Ramesh Narasimhan said.

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“Project Unwired Bangalore has just been launched as we strongly believe mobility in terms of personal computers and laptops,” said M.N. Vidyashankar, Secretary to Government (Information Technology and Biotechnology), here on Friday.

He was speaking after inaugurating a five-year integrated M.Sc. course in biological sciences of the Bangalore University on its Jnana Bharathi campus here.

Stating that the 21st Century belonged to wireless and nano technology, Mr. Vidyashankar said Karnataka, being the pioneer in information and biotechnology, had planned well to be ahead of others in these fields.

Wireless Bangalore was one among the two major initiatives of the Government while focus on nanotechnology was the other, Mr. Vidyashankar said.

Unrestricted Internet access will be offered in the entire 743-sq. km. area of Greater Bangalore under the unwired Bangalore project, which requires an investment of over Rs. 900 crore.

To give fillip to nano technology, the Government has constituted a vision group for the sector under the stewardship of scientist C.N.R. Rao. On the lines of IT.IN and Bangalore Bio, “Bangalore Nano” is slated to be held in Bangalore on December 6 and 7, he said. Mr. Vidyashankar said that the IT and BT sectors had been witnessing 35 and 40 per cent annual growth respectively.

The biotechnology sector, particularly agri-bio and pharma-bio sectors in Karnataka, had been witnessing a phenomenal growth of 170 per cent as against the national average of 20 per cent, he pointed out.

Commending Bangalore University for taking up the initiative to start an integrated course in biological sciences, Mr. Vidyashankar said students who complete the course would have a bright future.

Bio-technology industries in Karnataka had taken the initiative of setting up a finishing school that would start functioning in February next, he added. Source: Hindu

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