IBM has announced the availability of the new version of Lotus Sametime instant messaging and collaboration software, which will include real-time point-to-point video for expanded communication capabilities. The shipping begins in early second quarter 2007.
This release will also include integration with Microsoft Outlook and Office applications and support for Linux servers and Macintosh clients.
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The rollout of HSPA has just started, yet the next step toward 4th-generation mobile radio is already waiting in the wings.
The purpose of UMTS long-term evolution (LTE) is to ensure the future of UMTS by providing higher data rates and shorter access times. Rohde & Schwarz, a pioneer in developing new technologies, will again showcase [...]
Finally! A mobile that’s made in India.
Bangalore-based Digibee Microsystems (Digibee) is all set to take this pioneering step in the next few weeks.
Announcing the investment of $8.5 million (about Rs 38 crore) by Clearstone Venture Partners and SIDBI in the firm, Mr Vijay Balakrishnan, Vice-President of Marketing, Digibee, said the amount would be used to [...]
India’s largest software exporter $2.97-billion TCS plans to achieve over 10% of its revenue from its e-governance vertical by 2010. Overall, the company has set itself a target of $10 billion by 2010. This translates into e-governance revenues of over $1 billion.
“We project at least 10% contribution to TCS’ overall revenues through e-governance by fiscal [...]
US President George W Bush’s reported comments on the US looking at the possibility of increasing the number of HI-B visas — granted to Indian professionals to work in the US — has received an enthusiastic response from Nasscom.
The Nasscom President, Mr Kiran Karnik, told Business Line, ” We welcome such an initiative. This step [...]
Shedding its image of a brick-and-mortar organisation, the Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) is all set venture into the digital era.
The corporation is close to signing a Rs 1100 crore Electronic Data Management System (EDMS) contract with a consortium-led by global IT major Hewlett-Packard (HP) that will transfer it to the paperless world by [...]
India’s top IT firm Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) is planning to set up an offshore development centre in South Karnataka. The company will invest nearly Rs 1,000 crore to set up the centre, which will house close to 2,000 people, sources close to the development told HT.
This would be one of the largest centres of [...]
IT bellwethers Infosys and Wipro are participating in the World Economic Forum (WEF) at Davos in Switzerland in a big way to showcase India’s technology prowess and its expertise in handling socio-economic issues to global leaders.
In separate statements here, both the Bangalore-based tech firms said their head honchos — Nandan M. Nilekani of Infosys and [...]
Kumar Mahadeva, founder of US based software services company Cognizant Technologies, has raised a $225-million fund to invest in Indian companies.
Kumar has teamed up with Ramanan Raghavendran, who had earlier raised a fund called Connect Capital, to raise this fund under Kubera Partners on the London Stock Exchange (LSE). Mr Raghavendran is an experienced private [...]
Wipro, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) and Suzlon are planning expand their network to Dakshina Kannada and Udupi districts “in a big way” as per assurances given by the companies to Minister for Industries Katta Subramanya Naidu at an investors’ meeting, here on Monday.
According to Mr. Naidu Wipro had assured to set up an information technology [...]