eXample Consulting Group conducts India wide series of immensely practical and superior value SIX SIGMA GREEN BELT CERTIFICATION public workshops.

Professionals (Indian / Foreign nationals / Individual or Company sponsored) with 2+ years work experience can enroll and benefit.

Hi All,

We are a large ITES headquarter at Mumbai, urgently need C or C++ or Java developers for IVRS application development with min 1 year experience. Anyone interested please mail me.

SmartCards Expo 2007, the 9th International Conference and Exhibition of Smart Card Technology and Applications and the No. 1 Smart Card Exposition in Asia, will be held at Pragati Maidan, New Delhi, India, from September 13- 15, 2007.

SmartCards Expo 2007 is co-located with e-Security Expo 2007, RFidIndia Expo 2007, IndiaMobileForum 2007, along with a new addition BiometricsIndia Expo 2007. There is an inherent synergy between these technologies, which are being integrated for various applications world over, hence thier co-location under one roof.

Investment to create Cellcast Asia Holdings, a powerful Asian digital media powerhouse to meet huge consumer demand for interactive digital entertainment in India & South-East Asia.

Canaan Partners, a global venture capital firm specializing in early-stage technology and life sciences companies, today announced an investment of US$ 5.25 million in Cellcast Asia Holdings, a subsidiary of UK based Cellcast Plc (AIM: CLTV), one of the world's leading global interactive digital broadcasters. Cellcast Asia Holdings, an Asian digital media powerhouse with strong financials, research and expertise has been created by Cellcast Plc by injecting 100% holding in Cellcast Interactive India Pvt Limited (“Cellcast India”) and 50% holding in Cellcast SEA Limited (“Cellcast SE Asia”). Alok Mittal, Canaan’s Managing Director, India and Maha Ibrahim, General Partner at Canaan Partners, USA, have been appointed to the board of directors of the newly established Cellcast Asia Holdings.

NASSCOM HR Forum presents the first HR Event in Chandigarh. Human Resources are a key ingredient for successful IT and ITES companies. Sustainable Human Resource talent pool is a major challenge for the IT and ITES industry and to succeed a healthy ecosystem is required. The ecosystem comprising of Education Institutes supplying manpower, Industry gearing towards Best practices and using benchmarking to be industry competitive. The event brings together experts from consulting, industry and academia for an interactive session.

Who Should Attend ?

• CEOs
• COOs
• HR Managers
• HR Executives
• Academia

Hi All,
Pune IT Labs has launched its new products in area of Kiosks and Kiosks based Solutions

Pune IT Labs is an integrated kiosk solutions provider based in Pune. Pune IT Labs provides touch screen solutions for both CRT and LCD monitors. Pune IT Labs also offers Interactive Information Kiosks, Ticket Vending Kiosk as well as Bill Payment Kiosk. Our user friendly interface makes it easier for anyone WITHOUT COMPUTER KNOWLEDGE to operate. With Touch Screen Kiosks, simply touch the screen as directed and move forward or backward, even repeat or skip information.

Barcamp Bangalore 3 - Internet, Mobile, Society

BCB3 - This edition of BCB is about regular themes - Internet, Mobiles and also the impact of technology on society and our lives.

The following is the emerging draft theme :

Barcamp Bangalore 3 is going to be the same as Barcamp 1 & 2, a focal point for great ideas. At this event, we also intend to specifically share stories of technology implementations that affected society around us, and social norms that affected the course of technology. We hope to have stories like Indian copyright law and innovation in music and celluloid movies, e-governance electronic record keeping and what it means for those without access; and the resultant impact of these in shaping of society and culture. We’d love to hear more, perhaps on the application of technology to understand the human condition, or perhaps on the growing spread of personal communication technologies and the unexpected but undeniable shift in the landscape of mass media and governance.

Building on the success of the last year, we have set a date for our 2007 Mumbai Conference and Expo. As a focal point for datacenter, mission critical facility, IT infrastructure and network management end-users, consultants and solution providers, the Datacenter Dynamics Conference & Expo has quickly established itself as Mumbai's largest gathering of professionals involved in the design, build and operational management of 24/7 mission critical IT infrastructure. In 2006 over 450 senior datacenter professionals attended, this year we expect more than 600.

The systems, applications, operational requirements and infrastructure technologies coming online today and tomorrow are transforming the facility and information technology infrastructure: from soaring energy costs and demands to reduce carbon emissions, the power of bladeservers, vitualization, grids and utility computing, inherent rising thermal management problems, requests for more power per rack; and the need for intelligent racks and automation tools requiring new sensors and tools has transformed our industry and daily lives.

For 2007 we have expanded the focus and content of our Mumbai Conference in addition to the Facility to include the IT Infrastructure and the impact that IT has on the mission critical datacenter and infrastructure. Many IT specialists have learned that they must attend and their participation has improved their understanding of the interrelationships between the two departments and in fact led to speedier problem solving in live situations. This year again we aim to highlight the commonalities, and help build a common language.

VIEW ALL THE NEW INFRASTRUCTURE TECHNOLOGIES FOR 2007

The different technologies areas that will be represented will include:

• HVAC and cooling solutions – the latest in Open and Closed Architectures
• IT and FM integration technologies including Operational Support Systems (OSS)
• Network, Cabling and cable management systems
• Communication and Security systems
• Rack and enclosure systems: from the LAN Closet to the Datacenter
• Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery
• Application and Data Resource Service Management Systems and Tools
• Energy Efficiency, Power Management and Distribution Systems
• Datacenter and IT Infrastructure Planning, Designing and Building, including modelling techniques and technologies
• Environmental monitoring, measuring and management systems
• Building automation and management systems
• Physical and Logical Security Systems and Solutions

The programme includes presentations from a selection of acclaimed guest speakers.

Delegates have a choice to move between multiple content streams throughout the day. Each stream offers various perspectives on a topic area. We end the day with our Industry Panel and forward looking Datacenter Transformation sessions; with perspectives and insights from your own colleagues into the strategies and lessons learned that can help you cut costs, deliver unparalleled business services, and solve tomorrow's problems.

Datacenter Dynamics was Spot-On in 2006 with its focus on the key Hotspots and Issues of our industry. This year our main focus areas develop again as we demystify the challenges, present solutions and alternatives, while asking our experts and partners to present and exhibit the technologies and products shaping our industry. In 2007 we will be looking at:

• Engineering Energy Efficiency – Understanding the challenges and delivering real cost savings by taking control of ‘The Power Gap' through solutions, technologies and design alternatives. Going ‘Green' and build for LEED Certification.
• Open and Closed Cooling Architectures: Cool the load and not the room as we plan and implement thermal management solutions from the cabinet to the closet through adaptive air and liquid cooling in supporting higher-density power and cooling loads.
• High Performance Networks and Cabling: Capitalise on intelligent fiber and cable management standards and best practices while improving cost performance, speed, reliability and bandwidth/reach at the physical layer.
• The Solution Oriented Network Architecture: Optimize your IT infrastructure and data center facilities for the application aware enterprise while increasing availability, reliability and service assurance from the DC server to the desktop.
• Consolidation, Virtualistion and Server Resource Maximisation: Learn the value from the Chip to the BladeServer in making Grid and Utility Computing, Virtualisation and Consolidation turn your DC from a custom-built infrastructure to a plug-and-play environment designed to bring flexibility to IT and agility to the business units.
• Modular Value Engineering and Capacity Planning: Manage the demand design modelling paradox of space, capacity and time of your facility with new concepts and best practices in design, modular build and deployments and CFD to a new level.
• DC Automation: Mastering the 4M's - Monitoring, Measuring, Modelling and Managing the Mission Critical IT Infrastructure. ‘You can't manage what you can't measure.'
• Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery: From the processes and best practices required to working with facility, IT and business managers to determine which parts of a facility, systems, and applications should be restored first after a disaster.
• End-to-End Mission Critical Application and IT Resource Service Management: The need for system and application management software in today's complex mission critical environment from Service Provisioning Systems to bringing application awareness to the datacenter.

Directly before and after the buffet lunch (which is served in the main expo salon), there are Solution seminars running concurrently. These sessions are run by leading industry solution product and service providers, and have been devised in order to give delegates an opportunity to gain valuable insight into new technologies and services that will be available in 2007. Delegates can move freely between these informative sessions.

The Datacenter Dynamics Conference and Expo is designed for the following attendees:

• Chief Information and Technology Officers
• Datacenter facilities managers and engineers
• Information Technology and Infrastructure Managers
• Network, Cabling and Communication Engineers and Integrators
• Architects, Design Build Consultants, and MEP Professionals
• Datacenter, Commercial Office Space and Operations Staff
• NOC, SOC and DOC Staff and Managers
• Server, Storage and Application Administrators

Programme Schedule for Mumbai 2007

Venture Intelligence has organized "Internet & Mobile Connect", a Roundtable focused on Venture Capital investing in the Internet-based Services and Mobile Value Added Services sectors.

The event will be held on March 15 in Mumbai.

The key themes to be addressed include;

“Internet Businesses: Is the boom for real this time?”,
“Mobile VAS: Time to look beyond Ring Tones and Wallpapers?”
“Raising & Leveraging Venture Capital”.

We have landed quite a few leading VC investors and top executives from Online Services and Mobile VAS companies as speakers at the event, including:

• Murugavel Janakiraman, Bharatmatrimony.com
• Alok Mittal, Canaan Partners
• Alok Kejriwal, Contests2win.com
• Ashish Gupta, Helion VC
• Manik Arora, IDG Ventures India
• Anurag Dod, Guruji.com
• Avnish Bajaj, Matrix Partners
• Sanjay Swamy, mChek
• Nitish Mittersain, Nazara Tech
• Sandeep Singhal, Nexus India Capital
• Arvind Rao, OnMobile
• Probir Roy, Paymate
• Rajesh Sawhney, Reliance Entertainment
• Ravi Adusumalli, SAIF Partners
• Mahesh Murthy, Seed Fund
• Sandeep Murthy, Sherpalo Ventures
• Ashwin Damera, Travelguru

The Online Services and Mobile VAS sectors have emerged as the favorite sectors among Venture Capitalists. However, there are several significant challenges facing these sectors – including business models, valuations, quality of management, etc. In this context, leading VC investors and top executives from Online Services and Mobile VAS companies will come together at Venture Intelligence Internet & Mobile Connect to network, discuss and share best practices.

The panels at Internet & Mobile Connect will feature discussions between investing and operating executives on the following issues:

• How are these sectors going to shape in the next few years?
• What are the business models that have worked in other markets? Will they work in India?
• What are some of the India-specific opportunities?
• How can investors differentiate the winners from the crowd?
• What are the challenges for investors in these sectors?
• Where are the exit opportunities?

Who Should Attend ?

• Venture Capital funds looking to invest in Internet and Mobile Services companies
• Internet-based Services and Mobile VAS companies planning to raise VC financing
• Service Providers

Dear Members,

Here's the 21st meeting of NCR companies on 9th March 2007 (Friday) on "Ensuring Global Collaborations Work - The cultural challenge of M&As, JV's and Corporate Partnerships" by Dr. Zareen Karani Araoz, President, Managing Across Cultures.

This session is for companies involved in global collaborations, be they Outsourcing ventures, Joint Ventures, Acquisitions or R&D Centers. The session will help identify some critical cultural pitfalls that can be avoided, to ensure the success of these operations and enhance productivity. It will help participants understand some of the challenges when partnering across borders, and address issues of Cultural Due Diligence and post-merger cultural integration, since it has been found that 80% of Acquisitions do not meet their financial targets in the first two years due to cultural challenges.

Participants will understand the perception of partner companies, their expectations and optimal ways of communicating, negotiating and building trusted partnerships and effective teams across cultures.

Who should attend ?

• CEO's
• Marketing Team
• Business Strategists, IT and ITES Professionals

Schedule

Dear Friends,

Fujitsu is planning to release a 300GB SATA hard drive for notebooks.,

The vendor argues that the capacity of these kind of drives is now so high that they can replace the need for 3.5-inch desktop PC hard drives, which traditionally have offered greater storage capabilities.

Fujitsu will utilize perpendicular recording to achieve the new level of 300GB. Its 2.5-inch drive, called the MHX2300BT, is scheduled for release in February 2007.

Dear Members,

Second free service pack for SQL Server 2005 database application released by Microsoft

SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2--a large, recommended bundle of tweaks--aims to make the database software compatible with Microsoft's new Windows Vista operating system and Office 2007 suite. The update, released Monday, also adds a number of data compression, manageability and interoperability enhancements.

Hello Friend,

Intel has confirmed plans to ship its next-generation wireless chips ahead of its previous schedule for bringing 802.11n wireless to its Centrino program.

The Next-Gen Wireless-N product will appear in notebooks from companies such as Acer, Gateway and Toshiba by the end of this month, Dave Hofer, director of wireless marketing for the company, said Tuesday.

The new Wi-Fi chip is based on the draft 802.11n wireless standard, which is on track to be finalized later this year. It will become the newest piece of Intel's Centrino package of chips, which includes the Core 2 Duo processor, a mobile chipset and a wireless chip.