Menlo Park, California, United States, Friday, Draper Fisher Jurvetson ("DFJ"), a leading international high-technology venture capital firm, has announced that Don Wood has joined the firm as Managing Director. Mr. Wood is a seasoned entrepreneur, operating executive, strategy consultant, and venture capital investor. He spent the last eight years at Vanguard Ventures where he led numerous successful investments such as ZipRealty, Vocera, and Sylantro. His investment and operating experience spans the Internet, communication, consumer, and energy industries. Read more

With the Chinese government's emphasis on the application of green technologies, manufacturing industries are realizing the need for energy-efficient electric drives. This is significantly enhancing the growth of the electric drives market in China. Read more

The Microsoft Contradiction

Synchronization between thought, word and deed. Or if that sounds too much at least some commonality between word and deed. Microsoft definitely doesn’t believe in that. Ignorant they can’t be. They are the biggest organization on earth. Or maybe it’s a part of their corporate communication strategy to say something and do something else to ward off competitor threat. I can give many examples right from the time they started. A few gems being “the internet is a passing fad” and “640K ought to be enough for anybody.” For the sake of freshness let’s forget history and look at what was said in May this year by their own founder Bill Gates. Read more

Inching into the Microsoft Empire but yet far from it

An invasion every now and then

Around two months ago I had written a column titled “The Encroaching Tiger”. Now again Google is keeping the heat on Microsoft. Google is bent on invading right into the heart of Microsoft heads on. No guerilla tactics, no behind the back strategies or even remote diplomacy. Pure war, heads on. The war of desktop supremacy has been on for three years now. But the attacks got direct only recently when Google acquired Writely a direct competitor of MS Word. It’s then took the war further by the overnight launch of Google Spreadsheet. Read more

Benefiting from the continued trend toward voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) deployments, the global VoIP monitoring/management market developed significantly over the year 2005. One of the most notable developments in the world VoIP monitoring solution markets over the past 12 months has been the final acceptance of the technology not only by service providers and carriers, but also by large and medium enterprises. With respect to revenue opportunities, although all end-users segment hold considerable potential, it is the telecom and cable end-user segments that are likely to offer the maximum opportunities in the future. Read more

Rapid industrialization, increasing public health concerns and shortage of fresh water are some of the key factors driving change within the Chinese municipal water and wastewater treatment equipment market. In response to growing health fears following the SARS crisis, the Tenth Five-Year Plan has set out new and considerably stricter drinking water standards that are likely to create immense opportunities for the development of this market. Read more

In a first of its kind initiative, US Technology Resources, the California based IT Services Provider, hosted the NASSCOM Emerging Companies Forum centred around the topic: 'Creating a Client Centric Delivery Organization'. The event took place on the afternoon of 6th October 2006 at Technopark, Trivandrum, Kerala, South India. Read more

3i Infotech, a global provider of IT solutions and the fourth largest Indian Software Product company*, today announced that it has successfully launched and priced a Foreign Currency Convertible Bonds (FCCB) offering of € 15 million convertible over a four and a half year period at a 1.5% coupon. The FCCB will be listed on the Singapore Stock Exchange. Read more

QUALCOMM Incorporated (Nasdaq: QCOM), a leading developer and innovator of CDMA2000®, WCDMA and other advanced wireless technologies, today announced the establishment of a QUALCOMM Chair at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras. This is the first academic donation by QUALCOMM in India and is endowed by a grant of USD$175,000.00.

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Mobile data services are the next wave of growth for the mobile communications industry amid the increasingly saturated subscriber base. While messaging will continue to be the main revenue contributor in most emerging and developing mobile data markets, much of the growth potential also lies in premium content. Greater 3G (third generation) coverage and deployment, expanding regional subscriber base, declining cost of advanced multimedia handsets, and the race to secure a continuous stream of content through partnerships are likely to drive growth of mobile data revenues. Read more