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CIOL: iPhone is ''over priced'' in India
While iPhone is priced at $199 (Rs 8,358) in the US, in India it will be priced at Rs. 31000 to Rs. 36000, much to the displeasure of eagerly waiting mobile enthusiasts
CIOL: Data explosion increasing compliance gap: Forrester
Store and forget attitude costs millions as demand for access tohistorical data grows and business risk increases
CIOL: Mentor, Altera join hands to develop new tools
Partnering to focuses on compliance training, design methodology assessments, and consulting services
CIOL: Cable&wireless offers APM services
Deployed in stages, APM offers businesses a panoramic view of their IT infrastructure, including; how network performance is functioning, where problems lie and what changes can be made to improve network utilisation.
CIOL: No mobile clips please, we want news!
A survey conducted in nine countries shows people prefer live news and sports content on mobile phones rather than made-for-mobile clips
 ZDNet Asia: Citibank Singapore customers get identity protection service
ID Protect service helps bank customers prevent identity theft, and also provides assistance to restore customer's stolen credit record. Compare your salaryUse the IT salary benchmark wizard and know the average salary differences between different job functions. Join activeTechPros.http://www.activetechpros .com
ZDNet Asia: City Telecom drops out of S'pore NBN bid
Hong Kong-based telco has left Infinity consortium bidding for tender in Singapore's national broadband network project. Local carrier StarHub takes over as lead.
 DigiTimes: TMD and Idemitsu announce OLED panels with 60,000-hour lifetime
Toshiba Matsushita Display Technology (TMD) and Idemitsu Kosan have jointly developed a small-molecule OLED panel for mobile equipment, which they claim has one tenth the power consumption, and a lifetime of up to 30 times longer, as compared to existing TMD models.
DigiTimes: Commentary: Are China's next-generation LCD fabs really coming?
There have been talk coming out of China about Shanghai-based SVA Group planning to build its 6G LCD panel plant. But while the panel market is being hit by a price slump, as well as worries about serious over-supply emerging next year when major makers ramp up their next-generation productions, one cannot help but wonder how soon SVA will kick off construct ...
DigiTimes: Intel holds briefings on its research projects
On the eve of the Intel Developer Forum (August 19-21), Intel held a number of briefings focused on research.
Bangalore to host TIE Entrepreneurial Summit
TechTop ''08: Maharashtra students win top honours
Nokia storms Indian market with new N96
Infosys BPO restructures procurement business
Netgear to open service centers in India
NIIT among top service providers
BangaloreIT gets a ''biz'' tag
Overheated iPod nano causes fire
Where is Xtal and Oscillator content in iPhone?
Ireland investigating fake credit card reader scam
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·Citibank Singapore customers get identity protection service
ID Protect service helps bank customers prevent identity theft, and also provides assistance to restore customer's stolen credit record. Compare your salaryUse the IT salary benchmark wizard and know the average salary differences between different job functions. Join activeTechPros.http://www.activetechpros .com
·City Telecom drops out of S'pore NBN bid
Hong Kong-based telco has left Infinity consortium bidding for tender in Singapore's national broadband network project. Local carrier StarHub takes over as lead.
·Malaysia finally gets commercial WiMax
After an initial delay, local service provider Packet One Networks is first among country's four licensees to offer commercial WiMax service, targeting 100,000 subscribers within a year.
·Intel details solid-state drive plans
Chipmaker officially enters SSD market with products aimed at both enterprise and consumer markets, but stops short of putting out price tags.
·Intel gives 'turbo' boost to Nehalem
Chipmaker unveils power control feature in its new microarchitecture, which a senior executive claims will be "pretty compelling" for enterprises.
·Apple customer satisfaction scores gain
Apple extended its lead over the rest of the PC industry on the University of Michigan's American Customer Satisfaction Index, the fifth straight year it has led the scoring.
·Microsoft on search: We'll dig deeper
The software giant says it can do a better job than Google by paying closer attention to your search patterns.
·HP posts another solid quarter
Growth in notebook sales again leads the way for the computer maker, which beat Wall Street estimates for the third quarter with US$2.03 billion in earnings.
·Google outpaces search market growth
In July, U.S. searches rose 3 percent to 8 billion over the last year, according to Nielsen. But Google's searches in the United States increased faster at 16 percent.
·Ireland investigating fake credit card reader scam
Irish officials say scammers replaced credit card readers and snagged data from 10,000 or so cards.
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·TMD and Idemitsu announce OLED panels with 60,000-hour lifetime
Toshiba Matsushita Display Technology (TMD) and Idemitsu Kosan have jointly developed a small-molecule OLED panel for mobile equipment, which they claim has one tenth the power consumption, and a lifetime of up to 30 times longer, as compared to existing TMD models.
·Commentary: Are China's next-generation LCD fabs really coming?
There have been talk coming out of China about Shanghai-based SVA Group planning to build its 6G LCD panel plant. But while the panel market is being hit by a price slump, as well as worries about serious over-supply emerging next year when major makers ramp up their next-generation productions, one cannot help but wonder how soon SVA will kick off construction of its 6G plant, if it ever materializes at all.
·Intel holds briefings on its research projects
On the eve of the Intel Developer Forum (August 19-21), Intel held a number of briefings focused on research.
·Taiwan market: External slim DVD burners selling due to fast growing sales of low-cost notebooks
External slim-type DVD burners offered by Sony, Pioneer, LG, Asustek, BenQ and other international brands have been selling in the Taiwan market since the second quarter of 2008 due to hot sales of low-cost notebooks, especially Asustek Computer's Eee PC, according to sources in the retail channel.
·UMC said to also have MEMS devices production in-house
While most industry watchers regard Asia Pacific Microsystems (APM), an United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) affiliate, as the pure-play foundry's micro electro-mechanical system (MEMS) partner, industry sources noted that UMC is preparing to install equipment for in-house MEMS devices production.
·Neo Solar Power eyes 20% solar cell conversion rate with Centrotherm partnership
Neo Solar Power signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with equipment vendor Centrotherm Photovoltaics on August 19, aiming to form a partnership that will boost the power conversion efficiency of its solar cell by one percentage point per year over the next three years.
·LCD driver IC design houses feeling the pain of panel makers
Taiwan TFT-LCD panel makers believe falling price for panels will be end by the end of August. However, the panel makers are looking to reduce average prices on their components, placing pressure on Taiwan LCD driver IC suppliers, which are seeing disappointing order visibility, casting a shadow on their sales growth and margin expectations for analog IC design houses this quarter, according to market watchers.
·Phison: NAND flash industry trough may last another quarter
High inventory of NAND flash among leading NAND flash players has led to a series of price cuts from August but demand is still expected to be suppressed through the entire third quarter, said Khein-Seng Pau, general manager of Phison Electronics. Amid an unclear outlook, he said the present industry trough may last at least for another quarter.
·Taiwan optical lens maker Largan Precision earned more than capital in 1H08
Largan Precision, a Taiwan-based maker of optical lens kits, generated net profits of NT$1.306 billion for the first half of 2008, more than its current paid-in capital of NT$1.257 billion, according to the company.
·Netronix ramping electronic book shipments
Network-equipment and POS (point-of-sale) system provider Netronix has boosted shipments of its electronic books to 2,000-3,000 units a month since the third quarter of this year, compared to 1,000-2,000 units per month in the first half, according to company sources.
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·Bangalore to host TIE Entrepreneurial Summit
Over 1400 delegates and 100 eminent speakers to outline the directions of entrepreneurship
·TechTop ''08: Maharashtra students win top honours
Such competitions would help spot and nurture young talent, says Techopark CEO
·Nokia storms Indian market with new N96
The surprise launch comes ahead of the launch of the revolutionary iPhone
·iPhone is ''over priced'' in India
While iPhone is priced at $199 (Rs 8,358) in the US, in India it will be priced at Rs. 31000 to Rs. 36000, much to the displeasure of eagerly waiting mobile enthusiasts
·Data explosion increasing compliance gap: Forrester
Store and forget attitude costs millions as demand for access tohistorical data grows and business risk increases
·Infosys BPO restructures procurement business
To provide end-to-end solutions across the entire ''Source-to-Pay'' cycle
·Netgear to open service centers in India
To support the entire range of Netgear products sold in India
·Mentor, Altera join hands to develop new tools
Partnering to focuses on compliance training, design methodology assessments, and consulting services
·Cable&wireless offers APM services
Deployed in stages, APM offers businesses a panoramic view of their IT infrastructure, including; how network performance is functioning, where problems lie and what changes can be made to improve network utilisation.
·No mobile clips please, we want news!
A survey conducted in nine countries shows people prefer live news and sports content on mobile phones rather than made-for-mobile clips
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·An international success
THE annual Tech.Ed SEA conference attracted 3,200 attendees with a marked increase in foreign participants.
·Helping technoprenuers to think differently
TECHNOPRENEURS Association of Malaysia and the custodian of the MSC-Malaysia initiative, the Multimedia Development Corp will work together to help technopreneurs hone their soft business skillls.
·Software giant expands IHL programme
Software giant Microsoft has enhanced its IT academy programme at 22 institutes of higher learning (IHLs) in the country.
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