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Motorola Wins LEEDR
The Indian Green Buildings Council has awarded Motorolas manufacturing facility in Sriperumbudur near Chennai, with the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Silver certification. LEEDR is the global benchmark system for designing and constructing the worlds greenest buildings. Motorola is considered to be the first factory in India to receive the certification.

HCL Counter Bids for Axon
HCL Technologies has announced that it has made a counter bid to Infosys bid by raising the offer by 8.3% to seal the biggest overseas deal by an Indian firm in this space. HCL Technologies has made an offer of 650 pence per share compared to Infosys offer of 600 pence announced earlier. This values Axon at $810.8 mn.

IBM Leads IT Services
IBM announced recently that it has retained its leadership in the India domestic IT services market. According to a survey conducted by IDC India, IBM has registered a market share of 9.6% for calendar year 2007. The leadership was driven by significant, large-scale business transformation engagements.

SME Contribution to GDP
As per Assocham, the SMEs contribution to national GDP is projected to go up by a minimum of 5% and touch 22% share of Indias GDP by 2012. Over 55% of SMEs are aggressively upgrading themselves technologically to reduce their input costs and increase production and exports, which is a key factor for this growth. Currently, SMEs share in national GDP is measured around 17%.

Comat Secures Rs 60 cr
Comat Technologies has received an investment of Rs 60 crore from Omidyar Network and the Unitus Equity Fund. The investment will enable Comat to expand to new states, accelerate service delivery for training and financial services, strengthen management bandwidth, and enhance its brand.

Transcend Tops Market
According to the latest report by IDC India, Transcend has topped in flash memory products including USB flash drives and flash cards in 2007, followed by Kingston and Sandisk. The Indian flash drive market in particular was dominated by Transcend last year, and contributed 4% of Transcends global revenue in 2007.

Geodesic Re-christened
Geodesic Information Systems has recently announced that the companys shareholders, board of directors, and the central government approved the name change to Geodesic Limited. Its a software company focusing on content, communication, and collaboration space across desktops and mobile devices and has a strong global presence.

Avaya Leader in UC Market
Avaya GlobalConnect has topped the Unified Communications (UC) market in India. According to IDCs India Unified Communications Market Program, Avaya enjoyed a market share of 29% of the total estimated UC market in India of $ 390 mn in CY 2007. Voice (including IP telephony) contributed the maximum proportion of approximately 73% of this market, followed by conferencing, messaging, and calendaring.

ProtectDrive Receives Level-4 Certifications
SafeNet Encryption Solution Earns Common Criteria Stamp According to SafeNet, its full disk encryption solution, ProtectDrive, received Common Criteria Evaluation Assurance Level 4 certification, a security standard recognized by government agencies and industries around the world. In providing a broad range of evaluation criteria for many types of commercial and government-grade IT security products, EAL4 is the highest level commonly recognized in more than twenty countries worldwide.

Several Harassment Committee at Infotek
Venture Infotek has implemented a policy on Sexual Harassment Redress. This policy will be applied to all employees of Venture Infotek whether permanent, temporary, full-time, part-time or outsourced employees in all their offices in India. It has formed a Sexual Harassment Redressal Committee (SHRC) for their female employees to address their complaints, which will be addressed within seven working days.

Nasscom launches Social Innovation Honours
Nasscom Foundation is pioneering the Social Innovation Honors to recognize excellence and encourage innovation in social development initiatives. The annual honors aim to showcase projects that demonstrate best practices through exemplary use of ICT in areas of social transformation. The jury comprises Narayana Murthy, Jaithirth Rao, Kiran Mazumdar and Kiran Karnik. The winners of the honors will be announced at Nasscoms India Leadership Summit in February 2009.

EA Sued Over Anti-piracy Software
A Californian-based game fan has sued Electronic Arts for its controversial decision to bundle digital rights-management software in its new game, Spore. She says it would limit the number of computers on which users can be installed. As per the allegation, EA did not disclose the critical details about the anti-piracy software, SecuROM, which is secretly installed to the command and control center of the computer. Consumers cant uninstall the software without reformatting their hard drive.

YouTube Launches In My Name
YouTube, Will.i.am, and renowned nonprofit organizations like Oxfam, GCAP, Save the children and comic Relief have launched a special channel on YouTube titled In My Name. This initiative is part of its global efforts to raise awareness around the UN Millennium Development Goals. Till November 1, 2008, users can visit www.youtube.com/inmyname to upload a video stating their name, home country, and a simple message for their government about the need to meet the MDGs.

Ciscos Human Network Campaign
Cisco unveiled the second phase of its Welcome to the Human Network brand campaign, called The Human Network Effect in India. The corporate brand campaign is targeted at customers, partners and employees. Supported with a week of interactive events, marketing activities and product launches to introduce the next phase of the campaign, this is Ciscos first-ever marketing campaign in India to coincide with the global launch.

IBM Files for Patent
IBM has filed a patent application in India for its newly developed portable personal computing environment server. It has also applied for patent in some other parts of the globe. Accepting the application, the Controller General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks, has issued a notice its recent journal seeking public opinion on the application. The US authorities and the World Intellectual Property Organization have already granted patent license to IBM for it.

Aptech Starts Campus2Career
To chisel the talent of the youths who are eager to take up a challenging career and graduate into accomplished professionals, Aptech, in association with Italys Seven Rings International, has launched C2C (Campus2Career) training program. The program will be primarily focusing on the development of soft skills and essential computer knowledge to make job aspirants more employable. Seven Rings has developed the courseware for the two-month personalized training program.

Wall Street Awards TCS
Tata Consultancy Services has won award from The Wall Street Journal. The renowned publication has selected TCS mKrishi service as the winner of its 2008 Technology Innovation Award in the wireless technology category. mKrishi, a wireless Agri-advisory Service helps farmers throughout rural India to have better access to information through a cell phone application. It has been developed to provide personalized information and expert advice to rural farmers in their local language using sensor technology.

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