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IBM's New Health Tool
IBM has announced that it has made available an advanced software technology (Spatio-Temporal Epidemiological Modeler software) that can help predict the transmission of diseases across countries and around the globe to the open source community.

CDI's Q4 Net Up
Compact Disc India (CDI), the largest animation film outsourcing company in South Asia, has declared its results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year ended 2007. CDI's consolidated fourth quarter net profit surges by 515% to Rs 817.63 lakh, revenue increases by 49% to Rs 5029.09 lakh.

Thinksoft Certified
Thinksoft Global Services has received the ISO 27001:2005 Certification for its information security management system from UL India. As part of its commitment to client satisfaction, TGS had been practicing stringent security practices compliant to International standards.

The Lord of PCs
Exfinity, a leading architect of specialized high-end machines, has announced that a Gaming PC designed by the company has been judged as 'The Lord of PCs' in a contest organized by Intel and DIGIT. As per the rules of the contest, Exfinity built a Spiderman themed Gaming PC using Intel Core 2 Duo processor.

PC Market in India
The India client personal computer (PC) market witnessed a 20% y-o-y growth in unit shipments (FY '07 over FY '06), according to IDC's India Quarterly PC Tracker, 1Q 2007 release. With this the total installed base of PCs in India grew to more than 22 mn, that is, a PC for approximately every fifty Indians.

'IT should stand for India and Taiwan'

At a MAIT luncheon, MaYing-Jeou, presidential candidate from KMT (Kuomintang), the largest political party in Taiwan, for the 2008 elections in Taiwan, says that the two countries must bring together their strengths in hardware and software.

With a population of 23 mn, the island nation of Taiwan is about as large as Delhi, with one-hundredth the land area of India. Yet Taiwan-based companies account for 90% of the production of the world's PCs (including laptops). And the listed ICT companies in Taiwan account for revenues of $269 bn.

With the manufacturing base for these Taiwanese companies largely being Mainland China, the tiny country has $100 bn of trade with China, 80% of which is exports; this despite the strained relationship of the two countries.

(L-R) Taiwan's KMT party presidential candidate Ma Ying-Jeou with MAIT chairman Gopal Srinivasan in Delhi

"It's an interesting relationship and a tight balance," says Ma. "They have 900 missiles aimed at us. Our politics are very different...but the economics are the same!" He was speaking on the sidelines of a luncheon hosted by MAIT, the Manufacturers' Association for Information Technology. MAIT chairman, Gopal Srinivasan (of TVSE), has been very active in Indo-Taiwanese business interaction.

China (including Hong Kong) is Taiwan's largest trading partner, accounting for 40% of its trade, with the US a distant second at 14%. Taiwanese companies have more than $300 bn in investment in the Mainland.

Now, says Ma, Taiwan is very interested in expanding its base, one of his reasons for visiting India and Singapore.

Chip design is an area that's gathered momentum in India in the past year, and is a likely area of cooperation given that fabless chip design firms in India tend to go to Taiwan for ATM (testing) or manufacturing.

Ma says, "From upstream to downstream, Indian companies could leverage the expertise of Taiwan in manufacturing, and Taiwan could draw on India's strengths in software."

The 56-year-old MaYing-Jeou is one of Taiwan's most popular politicians with a strong following, particularly among women, and businessmen. He was on his second visit to India-the first was 10 years ago-and he hopes for more conducive policies for improved India-Taiwan trade.

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