Union minister of communications and information minister Dayanidhi Maran on Friday said entrepreneurs should take keen initiatives to set up IT and ITeS firms, which offer huge business and employment opportunities, in Chennai and cities like Coimbatore and Trichi.
He said that the state government is very industry-friendly and has taken a bold initiative to further improve the industrial climate in the state. He was addressing a seminar conducted on "ITeS Competitiveness: Looking Beyond", organised by Ficci on Friday in Chennai.
The minister said the government could provide infrastructure and become the catalyst to the industry. "We have globally established our space in IT and ITeS. This is the right time for entrepreneurs to take a bold initiative of setting up IT and ITeS firms, which will in turn offer ample employment opportunities."
According to Gartner, a consulting firm, the global ITeS market in 2000 was about $119 billion and has touched $ 234 billion by the end of 2005.
The market is expected to grow to $429 billion by 2008. Pointing out that China would become a great threat and take away India’ advantage in IT and ITeS in the next 10 years, as English has become a compulsory subject in the Chinese education system, he said, "We have to migrate into the high-value chain of both IT and ITeS."
Maran calls for more IT firms in Trichi and Chennai
August 26, 2006, 10:37 amMicrosoft, Mozilla fine tune Internet Explorer 7
August 26, 2006, 10:36 am
The Internet browser market is looking set to witness some action in the weeks ahead, with two of the biggest players, Microsoft and Mozilla, giving final touches to the Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) and the Firefox 2.0. Microsoft has unveiled Release Candidate 1 of IE7, which you can download from the Microsoft website.
RC1 is the last version Microsoft is expected to hand over before IE7 goes into final development later this year. Microsoft had released Beta 3 of IE7 in June. Microsoft says that while many users did not see any radical changes in the browser, its performance has been souped up substantially. "Users should definitely see a difference in performance," Margaret Cobb, group product manager for IE, was quoted as saying by TechWeb.
According to Ms Cobb, other changes to the browser include the completion of changes to IE CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) support, additional language selections, and an auto-uninstall feature in RC1’s setup that automatically removes earlier betas (betas formerly required users to manually uninstall older versions of IE 7 before installing the newest). Earlier this week, an IE7 programme manager said in a blog that the browser was "a stepping stone in our effort to improve our standards compliance, especially around CSS."
In the past, TechWeb says, Microsoft has taken heat from website designers for bugs in Internet Explorer’s support for CSS, and for developer’s hesitancy in supporting the newest version of the standard. Although Ms Cobb said that Microsoft expects RC1 to be the last publicly-released preview of the browser before the code gets the final stamp of approval (or in the company’s parlance, "release to manufacturing," or RTC), she wouldn’t rule out another update. "That depends on what the feedback is. If the developer or IT communities create a reason for us to come up with another release, we would," she told TechWeb.
Meanwhile, Mozilla will be releasing the next version of its browser, Firefox 2.0, dubbed Beta 2, next week. Microsoft has been fighting an increasingly ferocious battle with Firefox since the latter launched in November 2004.
According to some estimates, Firefox has captured over 15 per cent of the Internet browser market since its launch, while Microsoft’s IE has seen its market share decline from over 90 per cent to under 80 per cent in the past two years. Mozilla had said that Firefox 2.0’s Beta 2 was to be ready for download on August 23, but as it’s been forced to do several times already this summer, Mozilla again revised its schedule.
RC1 is the last version Microsoft is expected to hand over before IE7 goes into final development later this year. Microsoft had released Beta 3 of IE7 in June. Microsoft says that while many users did not see any radical changes in the browser, its performance has been souped up substantially. "Users should definitely see a difference in performance," Margaret Cobb, group product manager for IE, was quoted as saying by TechWeb.
According to Ms Cobb, other changes to the browser include the completion of changes to IE CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) support, additional language selections, and an auto-uninstall feature in RC1’s setup that automatically removes earlier betas (betas formerly required users to manually uninstall older versions of IE 7 before installing the newest). Earlier this week, an IE7 programme manager said in a blog that the browser was "a stepping stone in our effort to improve our standards compliance, especially around CSS."
In the past, TechWeb says, Microsoft has taken heat from website designers for bugs in Internet Explorer’s support for CSS, and for developer’s hesitancy in supporting the newest version of the standard. Although Ms Cobb said that Microsoft expects RC1 to be the last publicly-released preview of the browser before the code gets the final stamp of approval (or in the company’s parlance, "release to manufacturing," or RTC), she wouldn’t rule out another update. "That depends on what the feedback is. If the developer or IT communities create a reason for us to come up with another release, we would," she told TechWeb.
Meanwhile, Mozilla will be releasing the next version of its browser, Firefox 2.0, dubbed Beta 2, next week. Microsoft has been fighting an increasingly ferocious battle with Firefox since the latter launched in November 2004.
According to some estimates, Firefox has captured over 15 per cent of the Internet browser market since its launch, while Microsoft’s IE has seen its market share decline from over 90 per cent to under 80 per cent in the past two years. Mozilla had said that Firefox 2.0’s Beta 2 was to be ready for download on August 23, but as it’s been forced to do several times already this summer, Mozilla again revised its schedule.
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