Munich - German electronics company Siemens AG Tuesday finalized plans to quit computer producer Fujitsu Siemens Computers.
Joint venture partner Fujitsu will take over Siemens' 50-per-cent share for a price of 450 million euros (567 million dollars), the company formally announced.
Fujitsu Siemens Computers was founded in 1999 to integrate the firms9 personal computer and server businesses in Europe. The joint-venture contract was due to run out next year.
The government has decided to enact a legislation relating to the protection and utilization of Intellectual Property in the Public Funded Research and Development.
The bill titled ‘Protection and Utilisation of Public Funded Intellectual Property Bill 2008’, intends to allow public sector R&D organizations to commercialize their inventions and share their profits with the inventor.
The draft Bill, similar to the United States’ Bayh-Dole Act in the US, will encourage research in state-funded laboratories.
HCL Infosystems, India's premier information enabler and leading ICT System Integrator, has received a multi-year contract from Delhi Police to provide solutions and technologies that would enable the police force to access automated information.
The company quoted that it has modernized the police control room through ICT as part of the contract.
The control room consists of multimedia contact centre, and has the ability to track all PCR vans fitted with GPS devices and to coordinate their movements.
Indian IT hub, Bangalore is also facing the heat of the global recession. The IT industry of state of Karnataka has suffered 5 percent decline in manpower utilization.
Technology moving at supersonic speed is making possible what was once considered impossible. How about a computer which is based on your ideas and concepts. Well, Intel and Asus are making it happen.
The companies are working on a site WePC.com, which is based on the concept of "world's first community-Designed PCs."
Big TV, the Direct-to-Home (DTH) service of Anil Ambani's Reliance Communications (RCom), claimed that it has become the fastest growing DTH player in the country, as it has crossed the magic figure of 500,000 subscribers within two months of its launch.
According to the company's CEO Arun Kapoor, crossing the 5-lakh customer milestone within two months is indeed a testimony to the superior value proposition offered by BIG TV, and its success in accelerating the growth momentum of DTH sector in India.”