No more, water scarcity in Chennai

No more, water scarcity in Chennai city. National Institute of Ocean Technology developed world's first floating desalination plant off the chennai coastline.

This plant will produce fresh drinking water from Ocean water and handle the water shortage in costal India.

Desalination Plant will be live in 2008 with a capacity of one million litres per day.

Google to acquire DoubleClick

Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) announced on 13 Apr 2007, a definitive agreement to acquire DoubleClick Inc., a global leader in digital marketing technology and services, for $3.1 billion in cash from San Francisco-based private equity firm Hellman & Friedman along with JMI Equity and management. The acquisition will combine DoubleClick's expertise in ad management technology for media buyers and sellers with Google's leading advertising platform and publisher monetization services.

High Definition Video Company

LifeSize, the high definitions video communication company become a fast growing company is HDVC space.

LifeSize has Bangalore Design Center with focus on software development and contribution to engineering efforts across the company’s high definition video product line.

I guess communication is a notable space for a constant growth in following years

Cisco has seen accolades go to Google in recent years, and the company is bent on changing that

Cisco’s pace of investment is kicking back into ’90s-style high gear again - as said by an analyst

Cisco bought web app hosting firm Reactivity; two social networking software firms, Five Across and Utah Street Networks; and an on-demand app firm, Webex.

On the global front, Cisco invested an undisclosed sum in Ozon, Russia’s Amazon.com, and last December invested $50 million in China Communications Services Corporation Limited, a state-run telecom firm.

“India is both a compelling end market and a compelling source market,” - Hilton Romanski, Head Global Investment Strategy - CISCO

eReveMax set to sell their products in Indian market

eRevMax Technologies has become a pioneer in hotel industries most popular online distribution management tools, RateTiger. With its international client base eRevMax is undertaking a spirited and ambitious challenge this year:

According to Udai Singh Solanki, CIO, "With the help of our international exposure and dynamic local talents, we are putting India on the map and within the perspective of revenue management. We are showing international firms today that India has the potential to provide not only product development and support services, but world-class leading solutions as well"

Joost : Something to watch

Joost is a new way of watching TV on the internet. With Joost, you get all the things you love about TV, including a high-quality full-screen picture, hundreds of full-length shows and easy channel-flipping.

Joost is started by the founders of Skype

China dominates in manufacturing

China's superior infrastructure led to India losing its bid to build Intel's new $2.5 billion factory.

A decision by Intel to build a $2.5 billion chip factory in China represents a key loss for India, which won't likely see any chip factory projects from major companies this year due to its poor infrastructure.

India, which is best known for its research and development prowess and focus on outsourced services, has been trying to attract chip factory investments to build up its manufacturing talent

The Indian government needs to take more proactive measures on its infrastructure if it hopes to win major companies manufacturing factory projects over the next few years.

Indian ISV's promotes Oracle Fusion Middleware in global market

Oracle has announced that leading Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) across India and Asia Pacific have deployed more than 200 solutions on Oracle Fusion Middleware

Google Developer Day

Google Developer Day is a chance for programmers around the world to meet Google’s developer product teams conduct Workshops in 10 countries could be aimed at find new revenue streams in addition to new developers.

Google woo more developers to its Web services software platform with a 27-hour-long "Developer Day" on May 31.

Webby Nominations Announced

2007 Webby Nominees Announced. Vote for Your Favorites.

The Nominees and Official Honorees for the 11th Annual Webby Awards have been announced. See them all and vote for your favorite Nominees in the People's Voice until April, 27th.

Symphony Technology Group

Symphony Technology Group is planning to expand in India.

Symphony Technology Group companies are CAPCO, ImmediateFX, IRI, Lawson, Symphony Metreo and Symphony Services

Yahoo's tailor search

http://au.alpha.yahoo.com - customizable search engine

proto.in

proto.in is a premier event to showcase new products, technologies and companies to a selected gathering.

proto.in is planned for July 21st - 22nd at Chennai.

Venue yet to be confirmed.

India's Business Franchise Directory

www.franchisebusiness.in a franchise business directory which helps the potential users to find, research, and apply to franchise directly.

This is part of Catch is specialist online division of Reed Business Information

Bangalore's new mobile service provider

There is a good news for fellow bangaloreans, We have all the major mobile service providers like AIRTEL, HUTCH, SPICE TELECOM, BSNL and now there is one more new player AIRCEL is going to be added in near future.

AIRCEL is first mobile communication company to provide 3G service in India. As you know HUTCH is taken over by VODAFONE

I am sure this going to create more options and high competition between existing players

A recent Largest SOA player

Software AG (TecDAX, ISIN DE 0003304002 / SOW), Europe's largest systems software and Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) provider, and webMethods, Inc. (Nasdaq: WEBM), a leading business integration and optimization software company, today announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement for Software AG to acquire webMethods in a cash tender offer for $9.15 per share or approximately $546 million.