NASSCOM, the premier trade body and voice of the software and services industry in India and The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) today announced that they are conducting a joint study titled ‘Developing an Innovation Ecosystem in the Indian IT Industry’. The study is aimed at addressing some gaps that exist in the Indian ecosystem for making innovation flourish and realize its true potential. A series of workshops and roundtables involving stakeholders of an Indian innovation ecosystem are being conducted during the course of the study to iterate findings and take inputs from the various stakeholders before publishing the final set of recommendations. The first workshop of this series is being conducted on February 8, 2007 on the sidelines of the NASSCOM 2007 India Leadership Forum. Read more

IBM and the Indian School of Business (ISB) today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for joint research to develop a first-of-its-kind ‘Research on Service Science, Management and Engineering” (SSME) in India. As part of this initiative, ISB and IBM will create cutting edge research and develop case studies to streamline service processes and replicate them across industries. Read more

The concept of providing television services on a mobile device is generating much enthusiasm among the wireless industry, in turn driving the growth and development of digital video broadcasting-handheld (DVB-H) technology. Overwhelming support from the wireless industry is likely to be one of the major drivers for the growth of the technology, as will be the increasing demand for content on the move. In short, DVB-H could well become a global standard similar to Global System for Mobile Communication (GSM), creating an altogether new market for television viewership. Read more

Mobile Film Awards. Yes it’s a reality now. Nokia Nseries today announced a first of its kind Nokia Nseries Mobile Film Awards in association with Subhash Ghai’s Whistling Woods International, the renowned film training institute and Mediamatics Entertainment Private Limited. Aimed at unleashing the ‘movie maker in everyone’, the initiative is targeted at young, up-and-coming filmmakers in the country.
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As the five-year initiative to double National Institutes of Health’s (NIH’s) budget was completed only in 2003, there was no hike in the 2006 drug discovery budget over 2005. This lack of growth is likely to last for the next two to three years, affecting academic and government research spending. Read more

San Francisco, United States, Thursday, - Raza Microelectronics, Inc. (RMI(R)), a leading supplier of processors for communications and consumer applications, has announced the XLS Processor Family, a mid range to entry level, price optimized family positioned below the XLR processor family. The XLS is a general purpose processor, with a high level of programmability, scalability, intelligent packet management and the ability to combine control plane, data plane and security operations into a System-on-a-Chip (SoC) Processor. Read more

Microsoft Vista - Stepping into the future

Codenamed Longhorn, five years in the making, packed with hundreds of new features, Microsoft’s latest labor was released on January 30th 2007. A rather special day for the software giant which has probably given it all it can. First about Vista and after that if it’s really worth the upgrade.

Stepping into the Digital Lifestyle

Windows Vista represents the highest-quality and most responsive Microsoft operating system release ever.

According to Microsoft, Vista has been a collaboration between Microsoft and its customers and industry partners. Windows Vista is the focal point for a huge wave of new PCs, applications, hardware and devices. Users can tap into this ecosystem and experience personal computing like never before.
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