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Adaptec
to ramp up in India
The $704-million Adaptec, will be more than doubling its software
research and development operations in Hyderabad by the end
of this financial year. Besides, the company is also setting
up another research centre in Bangalore.
The company plans to ramp up its Hyderabad R&D centre
to around 100 engineers, besides setting up a new centre in
Bangalore with around 25 engineers.
Adaptec currently employs around 40 engineers in its centre
in Hyderabad. The India R&D centre is the only centre
of the company outside the US.
Financial Express
Tata Consultancy lines up brand promotion plan
Tata Consultancy Services, which describes itself as one of
the fastest growing consulting companies in the world, has
drawn up a major plan to leverage its brand strength and join
the top-10 league of consulting firms by 2010. According to
TCS estimates, with revenues of $875 million in 2001-02, it
will have to grow 40 percent every year to get into the top
10 league by 2010. Last year, TCS grew 28 percent and currently
ranks 22nd among global consulting firms.
Business Standard
Satyam, IONA sign pact for Web services
Satyam
Computer Services has entered into a ‘Premier Partnership’
with the Ireland-based IONA, an e-business platform provider,
for Web services and application server platforms.
Under this arrangement, while Satyam will establish a Web
services integration practice dedicated to the implementation
of IONA Orbix E2A, both companies will initiate joint marketing
activities. The Satyam consultants will work with IONA to
implement Orbix E2A as a part of e-business integration solutions
for the telecommunications, manufacturing and financial services
sector.
Business Standard
Accenture, MphasiS BFL in talks for outsourcing pact
Global
consultancy firm Accenture is understood to be in talks with
MphasiS BFL, the IT consulting and services company, for a
potential outsourcing agreement. It is not clear at this stage
whether the outsourcing agreement is being worked out with
MsourcE, the company’s outsourcing and call centre business
arm or with any other division of MphasiS BFL. Market sources
have suggested that Accenture may also be engaged in discussions
to pick up a stake in MphasiS BFL.
Financial Express
AP to upgrade PCOs to cyber dhabas
In
a two-stage process to be completed by the end of this fiscal,
the Andhra Pradesh government has embarked on a project which
will convert about 5,000 public call offices to Internet dhabas,
and later upgrade them to serve as e-seva centres or integrated
citizen service centres. While over 1,100-odd mandals across
the state have already been networked and are now planned
to have integrated services centres, the government has charted
out moves to reach out more citizen-centric services to villages
across the state.
Business Standard
Infosys logs on to life sciences
practice
Software
major Infosys Technologies, has started a new practice in
life sciences. Its chairman and chief mentor N R Narayana
Murthy said at its annual analysts meet, “We have put
in place necessary things and we will talk about it after
a few wins; after we reach a critical mass.” Infosys
feels that marketing is its ‘biggest challenge’
in the current business environment, where corporates have
cut back heavily on technology spends. However, the firm hoped
to sustain its growth momentum even as it reiterated its earnings
guidance of a top line between Rs 3,108 crore and Rs 3,195
crore.
Business Standard
Bathina Technologies claims voice model breakthrough
Bathina
Technologies India has claimed a breakthrough in voice automation
technology by creating voice models for users with different
accents with a training of only 10 to 15 minutes, yielding
more than 92 percent initial recognition accuracy.
Business Standard
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