Hotmail, Rediff recognise J&K

R Jai Krishna

Friday, August 10, 2007

NEW DELHI, INDIA: MSN Hotmail and Rediff.com today said they have rectified the error in excluding Jammu & Kashmir from their registration processes.

In an email communiqué to CyberMedia News (CMN), MSN Hotmail said: “This is to inform you that Jammu & Kashmir has been included in the Live Hotmail registration process.”

When contacted, Rediff.com today said it has updated the registration process by adding Srinagar.

“It was an error of omission and after it was brought to our notice we have updated the registration list,” said Manish Agarwal, vice president (marketing) at Rediff.com.

CMN had on August 8 reported that MSN Hotmail and Rediff had excluded Jammu & Kashmir from the list of Indian States in their registration process.

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Tata Sky crosses 1 million mark in record time

Tata Sky crosses 1 million mark in record time 

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Geodesic announces Mundu™ IM for the Apple iPhone

Geodesic announces Mundu™ IM for the Apple iPhoneProduct Fills Instant Messaging Void for iPhoneBanagalore, India – August 8, 2007 – Geodesic Information Systems today announced a brand new member of their Mundu™ mobile products line – Mundu IM:iPhone Edition.  Geodesic has designed and optimized this product specifically for the iPhone, and it is the only IM application that provides users the unique look and feel that they have come to expect from native iPhone applications. The iPhone, equipped with the most advanced web browsing capabilities ever on mobile phones, ushers in a completely new generation of mobile devices. However, the iPhone does not include a native instant messaging client. Geodesic leveraged the iPhone platform to enable its users to experience the power and convenience of instant messaging while on the move. With Mundu IM – iPhone Edition, iPhone users have access to seamless chat across leading IM services AIM®, MSN®, Yahoo®, and Google Talk® – all through a single chat window.  Atul Chitnis, Geodesic’s Senior Vice President for Products, said, “Mundu IM:iPhone Edition not only demonstrates Geodesic’s ability to identify future markets, but also to leverage its technological prowess to rapidly create products needed by those markets. It is to Geodesic’s credit that this product is rated so highly by users in terms of both performance and user-experience.” Mundu IM:iPhone Edition adds to Geodesic’s suite of mobile products, including the recently released Mundu™ IM v4 for leading mobile platforms such as PalmOS® and Windows® Mobile Smartphone, and the award winning Mundu Radio. More information about the product may be found on http://messenger.mundu.com. iPhone users can use Mundu IM:iPhone Edition directly by pointing their browsers at http://iphone.mundu.com. About GeodesicGeodesic Information Systems Ltd., is an innovator in software products focused on Information, Communication and Entertainment (ICE) for mobile phones and desktop computers. Headquartered in Mumbai, India, Geodesic’s Mundu suite of products includes solutions for Instant Messaging, Voice-over-IP and Internet Radio. Since its inception in 1999, the Mundu Interoperable Instant Messenger has been used by several hundred thousand users on the mobile phone and over 5 million users on the desktop. Geodesic reported consolidated revenues of over $43MM for the year 2006-2007. The company is listed on the National Stock Exchange and Bombay Stock Exchange in India. Geodesic has offices in Mumbai and Bangalore in India, USA, Sweden, Hong Kong and Singapore.#   #   #Mundu™ is a trademark of Geodesic. All other brands or trademarks are the property of their respective holders.This is a product release.  Thanks & Regards Akhila DeshpandeAccount ExecutiveText 100 Public Relations Global Technology Public RelationsTel.:+91 80 25548808-11Mobile: +91 98867 69561Email: akhilad@text100.co.in
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SUN MICROSYSTEMS ENTERS COMMERCIAL SILICON MARKET

 Record Benchmarks and Virtualization, Decoupled from Sun Servers,
to Power Third-Party Server, Storage and Networking Device Marketplace New Delhi, August 8, 2007 – Sun Microsystems, today announced the world’s fastest commodity microprocessor, the UltraSPARC(R) T2, as the cornerstone of its merchant portfolio of microelectronics.  Available for sale separate from Sun’s own systems, this new processor is the industry’s first volume processor with eight cores and eight threads per core. Formerly known as the “Niagara 2” project, the UltraSPARC T2’s world-record performance raises the bar on commodity processors while boasting the industry’s highest energy efficiency per thread. With each thread capable of running its own operating system, the chip delivers a whopping 64-way system on a single chip.  Sun will provide the UltraSPARC T2 processor design to the free and open source community via the GPL license. 

“The market for commodity silicon and the devices they power is well into the tens of billions of dollars,” said Arnab Roy, GM Marketing, Sun Microsystems India. “The UltraSPARC T2 processor also makes possible a new breed of compact, power-efficient, highly integrated devices—going beyond servers to routers, switches, network devices, medical imaging, industrial printing and more. With UltraSPARC T2 technology, we can bring the speed and scalability of chip multithreading into much wider use—and provide welcome alternatives to companies that want commodity economics without commodity performance.”

 “We’re at a historic point in computing, moving away from sequential processing to multicore designs,” said Professor Dave Patterson, Pardee Chair of Computer Science for the University of California at Berkeley. “Hence, we need to invent new ways to evaluate these new parallel systems. Our initial experiments suggest that Niagara 2 has the highest performance, is the most power efficient and is the most ’software friendly’ of the processors we’ve tested.”  The UltraSPARC T2 is the industry’s first processor to bring together the key functions of multiple systems—virtualization, processing, networking, security, floating point units and accelerated memory access. Integrating these elements on a single piece of silicon reduces cost and increases performance, reliability and energy efficiency—making it the superior choice for a diversity of workloads, from networking equipment to high-performance computing or storage devices. As a general-purpose processor, the UltraSPARC T2 also provides support for the massively threaded, open source Solaris (TM) operating system, and other real-time operating systems, as well as future versions of Ubuntu Linux, bringing a massive community of developers and productivity to the growing market. “We are excited about exploring the capabilities of the UltraSPARC T2 processor,” said Mark Murphy, global alliances manager at Canonical, the commercial sponsor of Ubuntu. “We certify Ubuntu on the SPARC architecture as we believe it is at the forefront of what’s possible in processing and for many Ubuntu users this is of critical importance. UltraSPARC T2 shows Sun continues to push the boundaries and we are proud to be alongside pushing with them.” This next generation of the UltraSPARC family of processors also extends its lead in eco performance, bringing Sun’s revolutionary CoolThreads(TM) chip multithreading (CMT) technology to the UltraSPARC T2 processor, powered by fewer than two watts per thread. At one-tenth to one-thirtieth the power consumption of competitive offerings, the UltraSPARC T2 processor sets the gold standard for green computing and efficiency, combining the industry’s lowest power consumption with double the cores, 16 times the threads, 4 times the throughput, with on-chip network and security functionality. Bottom line: The UltraSPARC T2 processor has the potential to save systems builders and their end users millions of dollars on skyrocketing power, cooling and space expense. A breakthrough in architectural design, the UltraSPARC T2 processor delivers an unprecedented level of integrated system functions on a single chip: ·          High-throughput processing – Eight cores and eight threads per core accelerate throughput as shown by two world-record, single-chip SPEC CPU scores, based on tests that delivered 78.3 est. SPECint_rate2006 and a 62.3 est. SPECfp_rate2006. The UltraSPARC T2 processor has twice the thread count of Sun’s UltraSPARC T1 processor, which recently set a world record on ten Sun Blade(TM) T6300 Server Modules delivering 8253.21 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard*·          Networking – Dual, virtualizable, multithreaded 10 Gigabit-per-second Ethernet ports with built-in packet classification ensure fast access to networks and server-to-server communications·          Security – Eight cryptographic acceleration units and a total of 10 independent functions address ever-heightening security needs, including NSA-approved algorithms, without a performance penalty·          Computation – Eight floating point units extend the benefits of CMT to high-performance computing workloads for scientific applications; world record single-chip SPECfp_rate2006 and world-record single-chip SPECompM2001 scores·          Input/Output – Eight lanes of industry-standard PCI Express I/O speed applications like streaming media, database read/write and data back-up·          Memory access – Quad memory controllers deliver more than 50 Gigabytes-per-second of memory access·          Software support – The massively threaded Solaris OS takes excellent advantage of the highly threaded processors and enables open and cost-effective virtualization In production now, Sun’s new UltraSPARC T2 processor offers more consolidation and virtualization flexibility than any processor in its class. With up to 64 logical domains per processor, customers can achieve unprecedented levels of efficiency by consolidating many physically separate systems onto a single UltraSPARC T2 processor-based platform. 

Sun, the Open Source Leader

Having surpassed 5,500 downloads of the OpenSPARC(TM) T1 source code, Sun is working to release source code for the UltraSPARC T2 processor to the OpenSPARC community at www.opensparc.net. Today Sun is announcing the following to give a head start to the development community around OpenSPARC T2:·          A programmer’s reference manual – Jumpstarts software ports, operating system ports and tools development for OpenSPARC T2 projects·          Microarchitecture specifications – Detailed description of the features and functionalities of the OpenSPARC T2 hardware blocks help hardware and system designers innovate and potentially create new applications·          OpenSPARC T2 beta review – This program provides early access to a limited number of hardware designers and tool developers to begin working with the state-of-the-art CMT processor with system-on-a-chip functionality. The program catalyzes the development of a community for OpenSPARC T2, speeds the debugging process and leads to a better first release of the technology UltraSPARC T2 AvailabilityThe UltraSPARC T2 processor is available in production quantities this quarter, with prices starting well below $1,000, and licensing options wide open for derivative works. For more information about the UltraSPARC T2 processor, visit www.sun.com/T2. For information about licensing Sun’s Microelectronics technology, go to www.sun.com/products/microelectronics. About Sun Microsystems, Inc.A singular vision — “The Network Is The Computer”(TM)–guides Sun in the development of technologies that power the world’s most important markets. Sun’s philosophy of sharing innovation and building communities is at the forefront of the next wave of computing: the Participation Age. Sun can be found in more than 100 countries and on the Web at http://sun.com.### * All SPEC CPU metrics quoted are from full “reportable” runs, but are nevertheless designated as “estimates” because they use preproduction systems. SPEC, SPECint, SPECfp, SPECjAppServer and SPEComp are registered trademarks of Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. Results from www.spec.org as of August 6, 2007. Sun UltraSPARC T2 @1.4GHz (64 threads, 8 cores, 1 chip) 78.3 est. SPECint_rate2006, 62.3 est. SPECfp_rate2006. Ten Sun Fire T6300 (80 cores, 10 chips) and one Sun Fire E6900 (48 cores, 24 chips) 8253.21 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard, SPECompMbase2001/SPECompMpeak2001 (63 OpenMP threads, 64 threads, 8 cores,1 chip): 14230 (est)/ 15081 (est). Sun, Sun Microsystems, the Sun logo, Sun Microelectronics, Sun Fire, Solaris, CoolThreads and “The Network Is The Computer” are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc., in the United States and in other countries. All SPARC trademarks are used under license and are trademarks or registered trademarks of SPARC International, Inc., in the United States and other countries. Products bearing SPARC trademarks are based upon an architecture developed by Sun Microsystems, Inc. Intel Xeon is a trademark or registered trademark of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries in the United States and other countries. This press release contains forward-looking statements regarding Sun’s beliefs and expectations, including statements regarding the availability and licensing options of the UltraSPARC T2 microprocessor, potential customer cost savings associated with the UltraSPARC T2 microprocessor and Sun’s intent to, and progress in, distributing UltraSPARC T2 intellectual property to the open source community. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties and actual results could differ materially from those predicted in any such forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause Sun’s actual results to differ materially from those contained in such forward-looking statements include: risks associated with developing, designing, manufacturing and distributing new products; lack of success in technological advancements; pricing pressures; lack of customer acceptance of new products; the possibility of errors or defects in new products; competition; adverse business conditions; failure to retain key employees; the cancellation or delay of projects; Sun’s reliance on single-source suppliers; risks associated with Sun’s ability to purchase a sufficient amount of components to meet demand; inventory risks; risks associated with Sun’s international customers and operations; delays in product development or customer acceptance and implementation of new products and technologies; Sun’s dependence on significant customers and specific industries; and Sun’s dependence on channel partners. Please also refer to Sun’s periodic reports that are filed from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2006 and its Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarters ended October 1, 2006, December 31, 2006 and April 1, 2007. Sun assumes no obligation to, and does not currently intend to, update these forward-looking statements.

 For further information, please contact:JagannathGM, MarketingSun Microsystems India Pvt. Ltd.Ph: 080- 66930600Email: jagannath.a@sun.com Sanjay Chaudhary / Rishi Seth / Manpreet SinghVaishnavi Corporate Communications Pvt Ltdsanjayc@vccpl.com / rseth@vccpl.com / manpreetsingh@vccpl.com9810203810 / 9871741875 / 9810286337

THE CHANGING BPO LANDSCAPE: AN UPDATE ON THE INDIAN ITES-BPO INDUSTRY

THE CHANGING BPO LANDSCAPE: AN UPDATE ON THE INDIAN ITES-BPO INDUSTRY ‘Best Practices in Ethics’ Framework for the ITES-BPO industry announced  Delhi, August 7, 2007: The Indian ITES-BPO segment continues to chart strong year-on-year growth. In the last decade, India has strengthened its leadership position as an offshore destination with an estimated share of 65% of global offshore IT and 46% of global BPO. The addressable market for offshore BPO globally stands at USD 150 billion leaving enough headroom for further growth. India is already the leading skill-surplus destination and will continue to be so in the next decade due to its lead in five key dimensions of competitiveness: abundant talent, quality and scaleable infrastructure, operational excellence, conducive business environment and growing domestic BPO market.  The Indian ITES-BPO exports grew from USD 6.3 billion in FY 2005-06 to USD 8.4 billion in FY 2006-07 while the revenues of domestic BPO grew significantly to USD 1.2 billion in FY 2006-07 from USD 0.9 billion in FY 2005-06. The sector provides direct employment to 553,000 in FY 07 up from 415,000 in FY 06. In order to maintain this leadership position, the NASSCOM ITES-BPO Forum is focused on addressing the specific needs of the industry and further consolidate ‘Brand India’ in the ITES-BPO space worldwide. The Forum has now been active for the past four years and has been conducting a series of activities at a national and regional level involving industry players, government and academia. In its ongoing efforts to maintain the cutting edge advantage and facilitate the build up of skilled manpower, a number of NASSCOM initiatives are underway.  TALENT MANAGEMENT 1.       ‘Best Practices in Ethics’ Framework for the ITES-BPO industry – Recognizing the need for effective manpower development as the key to the growth, NASSCOM will launch an industry wide HR management guidelines for the ITES–BPO industry. The aim is to create a set of guidelines which will help in attracting and retaining talent and solving the issue of attrition to a large extent. The Best Practices in Ethics Framework has been designed around following principles to which all the member companies will voluntarily adhere:

• Employee Friendly Policies
• Safety and Security of Employees
• Code of Ethics in Hiring
• Corporate Social Responsibility
• Industry Initiatives

 2.      NASSCOM Assessment of Competence (NAC) – NAC was launched as an industry standard assessment and certification program to ensure the transformation of a “trainable” workforce into an “employable workforce” hence creating a robust and continuous pipeline of talent for the BPO sector. After the successful rollout of NAC in Rajasthan where 2500 people took the test and subsequent job fair was held in association with the Department of Information Technology & Communication (DoIT&C) and State Government, NAC is now being taken to the next level, by proliferating it across Tier II and Tier III cities and towns. These cities will be developed as the BPO hubs and used as playgrounds for nurturing job-ready professionals. By the end of the year, NAC will be rolled out in various states of India, including Gujarat in August 2007, Chandigarh and Andhra Pradesh in September 2007 and North East from October 2007 to January 2008.  In the future, NAC will help align educational curriculum offered by universities and colleges in the country with the needs of the ITES-BPO sector. The initiative is also expected to help ITES-BPO players reduce their hiring costs, improve efficiencies, enlarge the candidate pool and perhaps more importantly reduce; if not remove the current escalation the market is seeing in entry level wages.  Encouraged by the success of NAC in the BPO sector, NASSCOM has also launched a similar testing and accreditation offering, NAC-Tech, for the IT services sector starting this academic year. The aim is to make NAC-Tech an industry standard for evaluating students aspiring to find jobs in the technology/engineering industries. NAC-Tech will help the industry, academic institutions and individual colleges to understand the potential of their students and determine their calibre, in terms of industry relevance and employability. SECURITY FRAMEWORK IN THE INDUSTRY  1.      National Skills Registry – The NSR is a centralized database of employees of the IT services and BPO companies, was launched as a step to ensure that there is a verified database (with independent background checks) of the human resources within the Industry. This is the first such registry of its kind in the global IT BPO industry. The initiative has reached a substantial mass with the registration for the NSR touching the 1,25,000 mark as of July 2007 of which 60% are web registrations and rest 40% are complete registration. NASSCOM will also be rolling out a series road shows to generate awareness in the next six months across 8 cities. The target is to take this number 5 times over to touch 500, 000 by December 2007.  List of companies that have signed on for NSR are available for reference in Appendix 1.  2.      Data Security Council of India (DSCI) – Another key milestone was the launch of Data Security Council of India, a self regulatory body for the Indian IT-BPO industry in April 2007. Headed by Mr. Shyamal Ghosh as its Chairman, the DSCI will establish, popularize, monitor and enforce privacy and data protection standards for India’s ITeS-BPO industry.  Details enclosed in Appendix 1 3.      Cyber Security Framework and Training -As part of the Trusted Sourcing Initiative, NASSCOM has been working very closely with Indian law enforcement organizations. NASSCOM has set-up cyber training labs in Mumbai, Thane, Pune and Bangalore for training police officers in cyber crime investigation and till date, over 3000 police officers and personnel have been trained through programs conducted at Pune, Nasik, Udhampur (J&K Police Academy), Gurgaon, Barrackpore (West Bengal Police Academy), Aurangabad, Nagpur, Goa, Bhopal, Indore, Jaipur, Gandhinagar (Gujarat) and Thrissur (Kerala Police Academy). NASSCOM, in partnership with Chandigarh Administration and Punjab Engineering College, also launched 1^st Regional Cyber Security and Research Centre (RCSRC) in Chandigarh in March 2007.  AWARENESS AND EDUCATION 1.      Catalyze the domestic BPO market-  Another key area of growth identified is the domestic BPO market which if tapped appropriately is estimated to grow at a CAGR of 50% over FY 2002-07. As the Indian economy becomes more globally integrated, businesses in India are beginning to face increasing levels of global competition and being push to deliver world class levels of products and services. Recognizing the need to develop the domestic BPO industry, NASSCOM has launched various initiatives such as roadshows, roll out of NAC in Tier 2 &3 cities and job fairs etc. to generate awareness and create opportunities for young talent to work in this booming industry. NASSCOM will be organizing a series of roadshows in:   ·          Rajasthan – Jaipur, Udaipur, Jodhpur, Ajmer ·          Gujarat – Surat, Vadodra, Gandhinagar, Ahmedabad ·          Chandigarh ·          Andhra Pradesh – Hyderabad, Warangal, Guntur ·          Tamil Nadu ·          Kerala·          Assam -  Dispur ·          Arunachal Pradesh – Itanagar ·          Manipur - Imphal ·          Mizoram - Aizawl ·          Tripura – Agartala ·          Nagaland – Kohima ·          Meghalaya – Shillong ·          Sikkim – Gangtok
 The ITES-BPO sector has become a major growth catalyst for the Indian economy given its multiplier effects on income generation and job creation. However the industry faces a set of challenges which if not addressed may impact the current growth rate in the long run. The Indian ITES-BPO sector currently faces challenges such as rupee appreciation which has a greater impact on the BPO industry which works on wafer thin margins. The sector also needs to increase its awareness in Tier 2 and 3 towns which are touted to be the domestic BPO hubs with tremendous growth potential. Another important area which needs constant development is the security both for information as well as employees. The BPO sector also faces a challenge in talent management both in terms of its suitability as well as its attraction, development and retention. NASSCOM has taken the holistic view of the situation and has rolled out above mentioned initiatives in association with other stakeholders to address these challenges and sustain the growth trajectory of this sector.   About NASSCOMNASSCOM^® is the premier trade body of the IT software and services industry in India. Its focus is on ensuring the growth of the IT industry in India, on promoting the use of IT for economic and social benefit, and promoting global trade in IT.  NASSCOM has over 1100 members, of which about 250 are global companies from US, UK, EU and APAC countries. These include the biggest Indian and foreign IT companies, as also SMEs and even start-ups. They are in the business of software development, software services, software products, consulting services, R&D services, ITeS-BPO services, e-commerce and web services, engineering services and animation and gaming. NASSCOM’s member companies constitute over 95% of the Indian IT industry’s revenues in India and directly employ over 1.6 million professionals. For further information, contact:

Parul Gupta NASSCOM Press office – Text 100Mobile: 9999333695Email : parulg@text100.co.in

Deepakshi JhaNASSCOMPhone :+ 91 11 23010199E-mail : deepakshi@nasscom.org

  

NEW RELEASE OF CA’s UNICENTER SERVICE CATALOG HELPS ENABLE IT MANAGERS TO DEFINE AND DELIVER IT SERVICES IN BUSINESS TERMS

Fulfill Requirements for Expanded Role of the Service Catalog in ITIL v3INDIA, Mumbai, August 7, 2007 – CA, Inc. (NYSE: CA) today announced a new release of Unicenter Service Catalog that helps enable IT managers to define and deliver IT services in business terms.Poor alignment between IT services and business objectives undermines total returns on technology investments, and contributes to end-user dissatisfaction and lost productivity. To avoid these problems, IT organizations need to communicate with business decision-makers in terms they can readily understand.Unicenter Service Catalog r11.2 addresses this challenge by providing a centralized source of information for all services-ensuring that business users have an accurate, consistent view of all available IT services. By keeping IT informed about who is requesting and consuming resources-as well as the frequency with which they’re doing so-Unicenter Service Catalog r11.2 also aids in demand planning and allocation.“A service catalog is one of the most important elements of Service Level Management, as it allows IT to act as a true service provider,” said Harry K. Butler, III, support center manager of military electronics leader EFW. “Unicenter Service Catalog enables us to streamline IT service delivery and keep resource allocation well-aligned with business needs by providing the business with a clearly defined ‘menu’ of available services and associated costs.”Support for Expanded Role of Service Catalog in ITIL v3Unicenter Service Catalog r11.2 has been architected to help fulfill the requirements for the new expanded role of the Service Catalog in ITIL v3. In v3, Service Catalog is elevated to a separate process reflecting the importance of the process-making it the primary interface by which services to users are requested, managed, and delivered.Unicenter Service Catalog r11.2 also enhances service delivery by enabling customers to define service level agreements, initiate manual and automatic notification of catalog requests, attach appropriate documents to requests, and generate a variety of management reports. Additional enhancements include:

• An easy-to-use “web store” interface that simplifies the process of searching catalogs, requesting services, managing existing requests, and reviewing request histories
• Custom forms that streamline the request, approval and fulfillment processes by automatically capturing user information, simplifying data entry
• Template workflows that can be configured to enforce rules and policies-such as preventing service desk tickets from being generated for services that have not yet received required approvals

“As a managed services provider, CompuCom Systems is always looking for ways to help clients get the most business value from their technology investments,” said Josh Gervey, Enterprise Management practice director at CompuCom. “The new release of CA Unicenter Service Catalog r11.2 enables us to fulfill this goal by making it easier for business users to access the specific services they need-while helping IT staffs to avoid investing time and effort into activities that won’t have any substantive impact on line-of-business performance.”CA Technology Services provides CA Service Management Process Maturity Analyses and CA Unicenter Service Catalog Readiness Assessments, along with expert deployment services. These services help customers plan their implementation of service management around ITIL best practices, using Unicenter Service Catalog to automate the request process.New Release of Unicenter Service Accounting Also Support ITIL v3CA also announced a new release of Unicenter Service Accounting that enables financial accountability by providing budgeting and planning controls and costing based on actual IT service usage. Release 11.2 provides detailed metrics regarding consumption of IT resources across the enterprise and translates that consumption into accurate cost data. Enterprises can use this data to ensure the alignment of expenditures with business priorities and to implement chargebacks where appropriate. Unicenter Service Accounting r11.2 also includes support for French, German, and Simplified Chinese operating systems, along with workflow controls for financial approvals.Financial Management is a fundamental element of the Service Strategy book in ITIL v3. It requires that the financial model adopted by the IT organization be transparent to the rest of the business and that it be applied consistently throughout the service lifecycle. Unicenter Service Accounting helps fulfill these ITIL v3 requirements by enabling IT organizations to identify, budget and allocate all costs associated with any service based on a customer-defined financial model.Unicenter Service Catalog and Unicenter Service Accounting are components of CA’s Service Level Management solution which simplifies the process of negotiating, defining, managing and improving the quality of IT services.“Organizations need to ensure their IT spend is directed where it will do the most good and deliver the best returns,” said David Hurwitz, vice president of product marketing at CA. “CA’s Unicenter Service Catalog and Unicenter Service Accounting uniquely enable the business and IT staff to work cooperatively and implement best practices that optimize IT spending.”About CACA (NYSE: CA), one of the world’s largest information technology (IT) management software companies, unifies and simplifies the management of enterprise-wide IT. Founded in 1976, CA is headquartered in Islandia, N.Y., and serves customers in more than 140 countries. For more information, please visit http://ca.com.Regards__________________________Riyanka  Arora 20:20 MediaA/12, 1st Floor,Vikas Center,S.V.Road,Santacruz (West),Mumbai – 400 053Tel : 022 26601437Fax : 022 2660 1439Email :riyanka@2020india.com ____________________________

TCS sets its sights on becoming a world leader for

TCS sets its sights on becoming a world leader for business applications in BFSI Product Specialists to play key part in
TCS Financial Solutions leadership team  New Delhi, August 6, 2007: TCS Financial Solutions, a strategic business unit of Tata Consultancy Services, a leading IT services, business solutions and outsourcing firm, unveiled a new executive team made up of product specialists from the financial services domain. TCS Financial Solutions has appointed Robert U. Mullen as Head of Global Sales and Dennis Roman as Chief Marketing Officer. Reporting to the President of TCS Financial Solutions, Mr. N. G. Subramaniam, Mr. Mullen will be responsible for driving global sales for the TCS BαNCS suite of products and Mr. Roman will drive the branding and positioning of TCS BαNCS’ products through a global marketing and communications strategy. The new appointments complete a product-centric team for TCS Financial Solutions. Earlier this year, TCS Financial Solutions had appointed Krishnan Ramanujam as Chief Operating Officer, Glenn Stafford as Head of Product Management and Frederick Szto as Chief Financial Officer.Commenting on his new team, Mr. N. G. Subramaniam said: “The members of this leadership team have both outstanding experience and extraordinary track records in building and running highly successful organizations that focus on customer success and consistent delivery of best-in-class, client-focused solutions. Their knowledge, experience and commitment to success will impact positively on the global growth of TCS BαNCS’ product range and the performance of our clients. Mr Mullen and Mr Roman said: “Given TCS BαNCS’ exceptional reputation and advanced functionality and architecture, we believe TCS Financial Solutions can make a significant impact on the solutions marketplace for financial institutions.”  Prior to joining TCS Financial Solutions, Robert U. Mullen was President of Worldwide Field Operations at Chordiant Software Inc. As a member of Chordiant’s Board Strategy Committee, he was responsible for sales, pre-sales, marketing and delivery activities world-wide. He has also held a number of executive positions during his eight years with IBM in the Financial Services Sector. Immediately before joining TCS Financial Solutions, Dennis Roman led the marketing and communications efforts for i-flex solutions for a period of five years. Dennis has also worked as Hewlett Packard’s Worldwide Director of Banking and Financial Markets and helped define and execute the firm’s worldwide solutions and go-to-market strategies for banks and capital markets. About TCS Financial Solutions TCS Financial Solutions is a strategic business unit of Tata Consultancy Services. Dedicated to providing business application solutions to financial institutions globally, TCS Financial Solutions has compiled a comprehensive product portfolio under the brand name of TCS BαNCS. Our mission is to provide best of breed solutions that will drive growth, reduce costs, mitigate risk and offer a faster speed to market for our clients. With a global customer base in excess of 200 institutions operating in over 80 countries, TCS Financial Solutions delivers state-of-the-art software solutions for the banking, insurance and capital markets industries worldwide.About Tata Consultancy Services Ltd (TCS) Tata Consultancy Services is an IT services, business solutions and outsourcing organization that delivers real results to global businesses, ensuring a level of certainty no other firm can match. TCS offers a consulting-led, integrated portfolio of IT and IT-enabled services delivered through its unique Global Network Delivery Model, recognized as the benchmark of excellence in software development. A part of the Tata Group, India’s largest industrial conglomerate, TCS has over 95,000 of the world’s best trained IT consultants in 47 countries. The Company generated consolidated revenues of US $4.3 billion for fiscal year ended 31 March, 2007 and is listed on the National Stock Exchange and Bombay Stock Exchange in India. For more information, visit us at www.tcs.com. Media contacts:
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Toshiba & HCL Reaffirm Commitment to working together

Toshiba & HCL Reaffirm Commitment to working together

New Delhi, August 2, 2007: Toshiba India Pvt. Ltd and HCL Infosystems Limited today issued a joint statement reaffirming their commitment to working together in growing their presence in the Indian market.

According to an official spokesperson from Toshiba India, “We have a long standing and constantly growing relationship with HCL as our trusted partner into the Indian market. HCL as a partner brings unique synergy to Toshiba products through their unparalleled strengths in pan-Indian distribution and support infrastructure. We are delighted to note that the notebook relationship that was initiated with HCL in 1996 has helped Toshiba notebooks to emerge as the preferred choice in mobile computing for customers across the country.”

Echoing the commitment to working together toward greater strength, HCL Infosystems spokesperson said, “The three decade old relationship between Toshiba and HCL has gone from strength to strength and achieved market leadership in all the chosen segments. We are presently working with Toshiba for bringing new products and technologies to the Indian market. We will be shortly introducing new notebook models in Indian market, in line with Toshiba’s world-wide launch programs.”

The joint efforts of Toshiba and HCL Infosystems have resulted in Toshiba photocopiers getting rated as #1 brand in India. HCL is consistently working with Toshiba to enhance its market share in other office automation products as well.

About Toshiba India Private Limited:

Toshiba India Private Limited (TIPL), set up in 2002, is successor to liaison office which was set up in 1985. Toshiba India is a wholly owned subsidiary of Toshiba Corporation, Japan and our business domains encompass power & industry, semiconductor, electronic imaging, PC business, home appliances & consumer products business.

About HCL Infosystems Limited:

HCL Infosystems, with revenues (TTM) of US$ 2.6 billion (Rs. 11,897 crores), is India’s premier information enabling and system integration company. HCL offers products and infrastructure solutions in the fields of computing, communication, networking, office automation, broadcasting and imaging. It has partnerships with leading global players like Intel, AMD, Toshiba, Bull, Ericsson, Cisco, Microsoft, Nokia, Apple, Computer Associates, Casio, Symantec and Konica Minolta among others.

HCL has a direct sales, channel sales and retail sales network pan India. HCL has a support of 360+ customer service centers and four ISO 9001 certified state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities. HCL Infosystems has pan India presence across metros and non-metros. With a mission to provide world-class information technology solutions and services to enable its customers to serve their customers better, HCL Infosystems is forever setting new standards of IT in the country. For more information please visit us at www.hclinfosystems.in

For more information, please contact:

Sanjay Chaudhary/Rishi Seth/ Prerna Khanna

Vaishnavi Corporate Communications

011-42393500

sanjayc@vccpl.com / rseth@vccpl.com

98102 03810/ 98717 41875

MAUJ Mobile Joins BREW Developer Community

MAUJ Mobile Joins BREW Developer CommunityMauj Extends Innovative Suite of Applications to QUALCOMM’s BREW NEW DELHI, INDIA — July 6, 2007 — MAUJ, a leading wireless solutions provider and the flagship brand of People Infocom, today announced that the company has signed on to develop mobile content for QUALCOMM’s BREW^®.  As part of this agreement, MAUJ will develop BREW applications such as video ringtones and location based services, as well as ‘m-Premiere,’ an application that allows users to preview and buy mobile content through a rich user interface.  As part of this initiative, MAUJ will also introduce some of its popular games to BREW, including Super Cricket 2007, Jurassic Adventure and Airy Tales.  “People Infocom and MAUJ have always believed in innovating with products and services catering to the mobile value added services space.  This relationship with QUALCOMM is a yet another step in the right direction,” said Manoj Dawane, CEO, People Infocom. “In launching our services for the CDMA platform, we hope to foster a deep and long lasting relationship with QUALCOMM in developing cutting edge content on BREW.” “It is an exciting time for the VAS industry in India.  To create a healthy and profitable wireless ecosystem QUALCOMM has consistently provided solutions that enable developers to innovate and explore new concepts while creating compelling content for mobile users,” said Rakesh Godhwani, manager, mobile content and applications, QUALCOMM India and SAARC.  “We are delighted to welcome MAUJ to the BREW community and we look forward to them leveraging the flexibility of the BREW solution to further enhance the look and feel of their applications and make them available for a larger audience.” BREW solutions change the way people relate to wireless data services. By enabling the discovery and delivery of high-value content, BREW creates opportunities for the wireless industry to enhance consumers’ mobile data experience. QUALCOMM’s comprehensive and targeted BREW Signature Solutions offer reduced time to market and lower capital investment for companies providing mobile products and services. Customers also can benefit from several modular BREW offerings, including uiOne^™, deliveryOne^™ and QPoint^™, which provide the foundation for customer-differentiated wireless data capabilities.

About People Infocom People Infocom is a Managed Services Provider to Telecom Operators, Media & Entertainment Companies and Consumer Brands.  The company develops and distributes unique platforms & applications in diverse areas such as Portal Management (GPRS, SMS, Voice), Mobile Entertainment (music, videos, gaming), Mobile Communities (dating, matrimonials, real-estate) and Mobile Commerce (advertising, fulfillment).  It also extends its services in managing these applications and facilitating content on them through MAUJ Mobile.  The company develops services on all leading platforms including J2ME, Smartphone, BREW, Symbian, SS7 and I-Mode. People Infocom was awarded the Nokia and Singtel Multiplayer Game Quest 2006 Award and has also won the Red Herring Asia 2006 Top 100 Awards recently.  People Infocom is a Sequoia Capital and Intel Capital backed company and is part of Anupam Mittal led People Group.

India ’s top news portal IBNLive.com re-launched

Chennai, July 5, 2007: IBNLive.com, India’s top news portal was re-launched on Saturday, June 30, 2007. The launch of the new site, a venture of Web18 Software Services Ltd, marks IBNLive’s aggressive move from a position of strength into the news Webspace with new content offerings spanning across genres and categories. In Internet terms, IBNLive has gone horizontal, offering the reader a rich aggregation of varied content upfront on the homepage without having to navigate deeper into sections. For the discerning users, there are multilevel sections, sub-sections and archives to delve into.

 

New Look

The new easy-to-the-eye and de-cluttered user interface of IBNLive makes reading news on the site a new experience. Designed and constructed in accordance to W3C and Web 2.0 standards, the various web pages and it’s easy-to-use functionalities takes user experience to new heights.

 

Non-News Content

The new IBNLive content caters to users of all age groups and interests. A leader in news space – IBNLive was chosen India’s Best News Portal by PC World – backed by a 1000 strong news professionals of the TV18 and Web18 Group, current affairs on the site remains what it was – the best.

 

And in its new avatar, IBNLive expands its content offering in non-news categories with innovative and eye-catching content in sections such as Art, Auto, Books, Fashion, Food, Fitness, Relationship, Travel and Health. Under these categories, every article/feature will be displayed in a novel format, complete with audio, video, images and interactive elements. In short, every article/feature on IBNLive will be a new multimedia experience.

 

 

News our Forte

For the regular news consumers IBNLive news experience gets richer with improvised Web 2.0 features in Ajax such as the ‘Most Read’, ‘Most Commented’ and an innovative feature, ‘Most Curious’, which indicates the most popular stories climbing up the headlines chart. A new feature on the site is a Highlights band just below the top headlines, which offers the user four prominent stories, a mix of features, videos, slideshows and specials – a refreshing break from the hard news lineup. For those short on time, the Must Watch and Must Read sections offer an aggregation of best audio-video and text content from across the site – a one stop shop for the latest buzz on the website. And for those hooked to technology, IBNLive offers a wide selection of RSS headlines, podcasts and audio bulletins.

 

Participatory Journalism

A pioneer in inclusive journalism, CNN-IBN’s Citizen Journalist Initiative gets a new impetus with the new CJ section on IBNLive. With an easy-to-upload interface, a Citizen Journalists can file stories, pictures and videos on the site. After due editorial vetting the content will be aired on CNN-IBN or reside on IBNlive Citizen Journalist section. IBNLive also facilitates Web2TV migration of users and user-generated content. Various interactives on the site engage CNN-IBN viewers and IBNLive users on a common platform, offering them the chance to participate in on-air discussions and studio shows, taking forward to the channel’s spirit of participatory journalism.

 

Audio,Video
IBNLive has also launched a new, ‘cool-looking’ broadband section and player. All broadband content from IBNlive has been aggregated under various categories for convenient browsing, such as CNN-IBN Shows, Interviews, Investigations and more. With an eye on providing the best of broadband experience, the IBNLive video player page aggregates content from across the Web18 sites, including Tech2.com, Moneycontrol.com, CricketNext.com, IndiWo.com and upcoming entertainment site.

User is the King

IBNLive believes the User is the King. Keeping this in mind IBNLive has consciously worked towards creating content for ease of use. For example, the new photogallery section features slide shows in Flash format. But for users who may find Flash too heavy, the site offers an HTML option for the slide shows as well. With an aim to provide the user with the best of web content, IBNLive also showcases premium content from Web18’s network sites, including Tech2.com, Moneycontrol.com, CricketNext.com and IndiWo.com.

 

With the features mentioned above IBNLive has moved away from the clutter in the newspace, forging its way to being the news destination for the Thinking Man and raising the bar for Internet journalism in India.