The Marriott International Inc, promoters of JW Marriott and Ritz Carlton, which is set to triple its brand portfolio in India by 2010, will now focus its attention on the growing business class traveller,through its brand of Courtyard hotels.
Of the 15 properties coming up, the company is setting up eight hotels under it Courtyard brand to cater to growing consumer base in the tier I cities like Gurgaon, Noida, Pune, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad etc.
Geoff Garside, executive vice president – Asia Pacific, Marriot told Express News Service , “We feel eventually, we will have a lot more Courtyards than 5 star properties in India. With the growing number of middle management and senior executive travelling in India, we see substantial demand for business hotels in future especially in the IT and BPO hubs.”
Courtesy: Expressindia.com
Marriott sets up hotel in Ahmedabad
June 30, 2007, 10:14 amIBM is 'Overall Best' US company in India
June 30, 2007, 10:09 am
Technology major IBM India said it has been recognised as the 'Overall Best' US company in India by Indo American Chambers of Commerce (IACC).
The award will be presented to IBM India-South Asia Managing Director Shanker Annaswamy during India-American Corporate Excellence Awards Function in Mumbai on Saturday, IBM said in a statement.
The IACE awards are conferred on companies fulfilling parameters such as contribution to Indo-US trade, financial performance, corporate social responsibility and human capital management.
IBM was evaluated against other organisations which have operated in India for a minimum of two years and are a subsidiary of a US company or are managed by a US firm.
With headquarters in Bangalore, IBM India has offices across 14 cities in the country and employs 53,000 people.
It had also announced an investment of 6 billion dollar in India in 2006 over next three years.
Courtesy: Expressindia.com
The award will be presented to IBM India-South Asia Managing Director Shanker Annaswamy during India-American Corporate Excellence Awards Function in Mumbai on Saturday, IBM said in a statement.
The IACE awards are conferred on companies fulfilling parameters such as contribution to Indo-US trade, financial performance, corporate social responsibility and human capital management.
IBM was evaluated against other organisations which have operated in India for a minimum of two years and are a subsidiary of a US company or are managed by a US firm.
With headquarters in Bangalore, IBM India has offices across 14 cities in the country and employs 53,000 people.
It had also announced an investment of 6 billion dollar in India in 2006 over next three years.
Courtesy: Expressindia.com
Microsoft goes to school
June 29, 2007, 10:05 am
Microsoft has launched a major initiative termed ‘Unlimited Potential’ to improve educational opportunities for poor students in India and to give them easier access to computers. To achieve this, the company will launch an ‘IQ’ programme, which will involve the setting up of an education channel an-d the marketing of a low-cost personal co-mputer for students. It will be priced at Rs 21,000. The education channel will of-fer online coaching, tests and counselling along with ‘edutainment’. The IQ PC is being marketed in pa-rtnership with local companies. MS will launch the channel and the IQ PC as a pilot project in Pune and Bangalore on July 1. By November, they will be accessible throughout the country. Apart from this, an employability portal will also be launched by the company to help engineering graduates im-prove their communication and technology skills.
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Browser battles
The Net is abuzz with reports abo-ut the ongoing battle between Apple’s new version of its Safari browser and Micr-osoft’s Internet Exp-lorer for lordship on the desktop. However, there is a hidden agenda behind this war, says Mozilla, which developed the popular open source Firefox browser. Ac-cording to Mozilla Chief Operating Officer John Lily, Apple wanted to carve the browser terrain into two—one chunk for Safari and one for IE. There was no space in Apple’s scheme of things for other bro-wsers and this was evident from its CEO Steve Jobs’ speech while launching the Safari version for Wi-ndows. Lily lambasted Apple in his blog for this ‘world view’ and said that it reeked of ‘duopolism’. He added that Mozilla was not too obsessed about market share. "We just want to keep the Web an open and public resource," said Lily.
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Malware beware
Anchiva, a security provider, has created a record of sorts by identifying and including over seven lakh ‘signatures’ of malicious software and viruses in its web security appliances. Anchiva’s appliances can now protect ent-erprises during online transactions from ev-ery enemy out there in the Web. Its security programmes have the power to store more than one million signatures and An-chiva’s research unit, Rapid RxLabs, is co-nstantly scouring the Net and updating ma-lware signatures ev-ery day.
It uses a global network of ‘honey pots’ for this, luring malware and viruses to get their signatures.
Courtesy : Asianage.com
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Browser battles
The Net is abuzz with reports abo-ut the ongoing battle between Apple’s new version of its Safari browser and Micr-osoft’s Internet Exp-lorer for lordship on the desktop. However, there is a hidden agenda behind this war, says Mozilla, which developed the popular open source Firefox browser. Ac-cording to Mozilla Chief Operating Officer John Lily, Apple wanted to carve the browser terrain into two—one chunk for Safari and one for IE. There was no space in Apple’s scheme of things for other bro-wsers and this was evident from its CEO Steve Jobs’ speech while launching the Safari version for Wi-ndows. Lily lambasted Apple in his blog for this ‘world view’ and said that it reeked of ‘duopolism’. He added that Mozilla was not too obsessed about market share. "We just want to keep the Web an open and public resource," said Lily.
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Malware beware
Anchiva, a security provider, has created a record of sorts by identifying and including over seven lakh ‘signatures’ of malicious software and viruses in its web security appliances. Anchiva’s appliances can now protect ent-erprises during online transactions from ev-ery enemy out there in the Web. Its security programmes have the power to store more than one million signatures and An-chiva’s research unit, Rapid RxLabs, is co-nstantly scouring the Net and updating ma-lware signatures ev-ery day.
It uses a global network of ‘honey pots’ for this, luring malware and viruses to get their signatures.
Courtesy : Asianage.com