research on india_it, telecom and electronics sector in india monthly update_march 2012

IT, Telecom and Electronics Sector in India

Monthly Update

March 2012

Top Story Indian railways to incorporate GPS The Centre for Railway Information systems in association with Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) has developed a GPS train tracking system. The solution is expected to provide users with real‐time based train tracking information, which in turn can be accessed through Google maps from any portable internet device or PC. This comes as a preventive measure from the government, in lines with the growing number of train ishaps. The government is keen to rollout real‐time monitoring services on all trains by m

the end of 2013. Currently, the tracking devices are worth INR 70,000 – INR 100,000 per train. Initially, the Indian Railways plans to equip about 100 trains with the solution. As of now, the solution has been integrated with Google Maps and hence can be accessed by passengers o retrieve real time based information with an accuracy of about 10 meters and a 2 min ime lag. tt ECommerce to receive security boost from govt. initiative The Government of India is expected to roll out an initiative by virtue of which it will tighten the existing online security regulations. The GoI has plans to bring in encryption norms so as to maintain higher security standards and provide an enhanced security over for the nation’s cyber space. It is expected that the GoI will increase the standard of cencryption norms from the current 40 bits to 128 bits. Inspite of the fact that the law enforcement agencies will find it difficult to carry out their nvestigations; it is the e‐Commerce vendors who will reap substantial benefits from the xtra security measures taken by the GoI. ie Airtel to be the first to launch 4G service in India India’s largest telecom operator, Bharati Airtel is all set to launch the country’s first 4G services on March 20. The service will be available initially only to Kolkata consumers but a nationwide rollout will follow soon. The telecom giant secured 4G licenses for four circles, Kolkata, Maharashtra, Punjab and Karnataka, via spectrum auction held in 2010. Rival mobile operator Reliance Communication is racing to release 4G services as well but news or speculations of its release dates are nonexistent. Although adoption of 3G ervices in India is still insignificant, introduction of 4G is essential to improve Internet onnectivity in the country on the long‐run. sc

IT, Telecom and Electronics – Monthly Update

News Update

General Nokia India R&D donates rack servers to SIEL Nokia India’s R&D cloud computing group has donated seven high configurations Rack Servers to IIIT‐H’s SIEL (Search and Information Extraction Lab). These high end servers ouse Intel Xeon 3.1 GHz Quad Core processor, 1 TB hard disk drive and 8 GB DDR3 hRandom Access Memory. SIEL basically operates as a research arm of Language Technologies Research Centre (LTRC) at IIIT‐H. It primarily focuses on information retrieval, extraction and access in the areas of cross language information access, cloud computing, computational dvertising, enterprise search, IE & NER, personalization, question and answering, rich edia search and summarization.

am Asus forays into desktop PC segment ASUS has marked its entry into the desktop PC market in India with the launch of a series of six desktop PCs under the CM and CG brand names. The company has decided a price and starting from INR 20,587 up to INR 107, 588, excluding taxes, monitors and other bperipherals. As of now, the company will distribute these devices with the aide of its channel network nd tie‐ups with LFRs and retail stores in the tier I and II cities. It has also chalked out a arketing strategy of a 25‐ city road show for channel partners.

am Server security platform launched by Trend Micro Trend Micro Inc has recently launched its server security platform under the brand name ‘Deep Security 8.0’. The platform is intended to cater to the areas of physical, virtual and cloud computing environments. The company has equipped the platform with anti alware, firewall, IDS/IPS, web application protection, application control, integrity m

monitoring and log inspection. Deep Security 8.0 is equipped with physical and virtual datacenter security platform such as automatic cloud based event white listing and configurable trusted events. The latform is expected to diminish the operational complexity of integrity monitoring and gent based anti malware on Windows and Linux operating systems. pa ClearDATA receives funds from Norwest Venture Partners Leading healthcare oriented cloud computing platform provider, ClearDATA has received funds from Norwest Venture Partners along with others. The company plans to invest the unds to enhance its product line‐up and expand its presence in order to cater to the rowing demand. fg


As of now, ClearDATA provides its services to about 10,000 clients, wherein it primarily ffers data handling and management solutions such as storage and processing through oits HIPAA compliant cloud services. The company has alliances with HP, wherein it offers healthcare‐as‐a‐service and private cloud IT infrastructure by using a range of tools and solutions including servers, storage, networking, software and services. The company operates as a HP CloudAgile Service Provider Program. Microland in association with Citrix to provide desktop virtualization Microland Ltd. a IT infrastructure, virtualization and cloud infrastructure lifecycle service provider has joined hands with Citrix, wherein they will provide desktop virtualization to medium and large enterprises. The services will comprise business value assessment, esign, deployment and management and will be delivered through Citrix’s ‘Flexcast ddelivery technology’. Together the companies will offer Citrix XenApp, XenDesktop, XenClient, Xen Server and DI‐in‐a‐box solutions of Citrix, which is compatible with any hypervisor environment in he data center (Microsoft Hyper‐V, Citrix XenServer, and VMware ESX/ESXi). Vt Sify Technologies to sell off its stake in MF Global India Recently, Sify Technologies has announced its plans to sell off its entire stake in MF lobal Sify Securities India Pvt. Ltd. for an all cash deal. It is expected that a majority Gstake will be bought by MF Global Overseas Limited and Phillip Capital Group. Sify Technologies is a leading managed enterprise, network and IT services companies in India. It primarily offers telecom data infrastructure across more than 710 cities and towns in India. The company has acquired licenses to operate National Long Distance and International Long Distance services. IIT Exelis has joined forces with Tata Advanced Systems to manufacture night vision devices IIT Exelis and Tata Advanced Systems Ltd. has entered into a strategic alliance wherein they will engage in the manufacturing of generation 3 night vision devices. The ompanies will also provide maintenance and life cycle support for these Gen3 night cvision products. Currently, Exelis will provide TASL with the latest Gen 3 vision image intensifier tubes, its and other accessories. TASL, on the other hand will primarily focus on manufacturing igh precision components and sub‐assemblies of these devices. kh


Zoho expands its mobile App product lineup Zoho has announced the expansion of its product portfolio for mobile App with the inclusion of its project management, customer relationship management and document

management solutions. The apps are compatible on Android operating system. The company is expected to launch the apps for iPhone, soon.

lable in the Android market place, wherein the mobile apps r to download an user needs to pay a subscription of

Currently, Zoho CRM is avaiare free of cost however prioINR 2.2 per user per month. Bank of India in association with TmesofMoney to deliver online money remittance Bank of India has entered into an alliance with TimesofMoney so as to deliver online money remittance solution to NRIs in the UK. Using this service, NRIs can send emittances in Great Britain Pounds (GBP) in a secured and easy manner in exchange of rreasonable charges. Bank of India has marked its overseas presence for a period of over 65 years and urrently operates offices in over 19 countries spread across 5 continents through 49 utlets, out of which 7 happen to be in the UK. co Patton announces launch of HighDensity carrier grade VoIP Media Gateway Patton has introduced its latest offering in the form of a carrier grade 2048 channel SmartNode 10200 TDM+ VoIP Gateway. This latest product is intended for the users ailing from major industry verticals including telecom, BPOs and large enterprises in hIndia. The tool offers an impressive support of up to 2048 SIP/H.248 voice or T.30/T.38 fax calls and T1E1, DS3 or STM‐1/OC3 trunks with SS7 signaling. It operates by transcoding mongst all voice codecs and signaling protocols and ensures seamless interoperation ith all major softswitches.

aw Wishtel introduces IRA and IRA Thing Mumbai based Tablet PC manufacturer, Wishtel has introduced its latest product under the brand name of IRA and IRA Thing, for the Indian market. the company intends to apture the Indian market and hence has powered the devices with a support for 23 cIndian languages. The Tablet PCs feature Google’s Android 2.2 Froyo operating system with a planned upgrade to Android 2.3. IRA comes with a 7 inch TFT LCD resistive touch screen display while the IRA Thing comes with a 7 inch capacitive touch screen display. In terms of other technological features, the devices house a 512 MB RAM, VIA WonderMedia WM8650 RM 800 MHz processor and are available with an in‐built memory of 2GB and supports 20p HD recording. A7


Intex forays in the Indian Tablet PC market Intex Technologies has marked its entry into the Tablet PC market in India with its i‐Tab. s of now, the company has priced its product at INR 11,900 and is offering additional A

products such as Intex 3G data card, a LAN Adaptor and other gift items. The Tablets feature an Android 2.3 Gingerbread OS, 1 GHz cortex A8 core processor, 512 MB DDR3 RAM. The device relies on its 8 inch capacitive two point touch screen display nd 8 GB of internal memory and a 5,000 mAh battery. Connectivity options available omprise of Wi‐Fi and 3G accessible through Intex dongle. ac Sai Infosystems in collaboration with BSNL to provide video telephony service ICT services provider Sai Infosystems India (SIS) has joined hands with BSNL to offer ideo telephony services in Pune, Maharashtra. The companies are primarily targeting vthe large enterprises segment and the international callers. SIS will engage in providing the necessary hardware which it will manufacture at its Himachal Pradesh facility, wherein it has already sold around 700‐800 such units out of the total 30,000 units manufactured so far. As of now, the cost of an individual unit ranges rom INR 3,000 to 5,000. apart from equipment costs, users shall also have to bear the froutine installation and service charge. BSNL has prepared a tariff for the plan wherein users shall have to pay a one‐time registration fee of INR 250, monthly service charge of INR 100 and other miscellaneous harges of INR 50 per month. The service can be attained at a call rate of INR 1 per inute and INR 2.5 for video calls.

cm HP introduces ENVY 14 Spectre ultrabook HP has introduced its latest ultrabook under the brand name of ENVY 12 pectre for the Indian markets. The company has priced its product at a premium of INR S99,999. With its new product the company poses as a direct competitor for Apple in India. The ultrabook features a 14 inch LED backlit radiance display, powered by Intel Core i5 nd i7 processors with a speed of 1.6 GHz and 1.8 GHz respectively. Further, the device ouses a 4GB of expandable DDR3 RAM. ah Fujifilm expands is product portfolio in India Marking its entry in the interchangeable lens camera segment, Fujifilm launched an array of digital cameras for Indian markets. In the event it introduced its interchangeable lens rofessional camera X‐PRO 1 along with other cameras such as the HS25EXR, F660EXR, p


T350, JX500, J7100, AX550, SL260, S4200, S2980, L30 and C25. The company with its launch of new products tends to target the professional and semi‐professional camera segments in the market. The newly launched cameras feature HD video recording facilities, digital image stabilization, motion panorama, face detection,

pticture search, scene recognition, blink detection, and smile and shoot mode. As of now, he cameras are priced at range starting from INR 3,499 to INR 30,000. Infosys to strengthen its R&D facilities soon Infosys Ltd., one of the leading players in the India IT market has decided to revamp its esearch and development capabilities in an urge to drive product innovation and cater rto the ongoing changes in technology space and get hold of a better market position. As of now, the company plans to double its R&D strength to 1000 within the coming two ears. As of now, the company wishes to innovate on technologies including cloud omputing, mobility, analytics and social media space. yc Virtual desktop service from the house of Nivio coming soon Nivio, a leading cloud computing based company is about to launch its virtual desktop service for Indian SMBs, students, and consumers on April 10th, this year. Initially, the ervice will rolled out as a free trial offer for one month, wherein users can access sWindows and MS Office from any platform. As of partnerships, the company claims to have partnered with around 70 system ntegrators and value added resellers and is currently engaged in carrying out pilot iprojects with Airtel and Spectranet. Recently, Nivio had raised funds worth INR 15.81 mn from Videocon & Group companies n order to roll out its cloud services in Europe, Middle East, India and Australia. It also ends to utilize the funds for its expansion of engineering efforts in its Palo Alto office. it Amazon expected to roll out cloud services in India Post the launch of its online shopping search service under the name of Junglee.com, mazon is anticipated to launch its cloud storage services in India soon. The online retail Agiant has exhibited signs if activities in this regard. he company has been engaged in talks with Tata Communications, wherein it has leased ts IT infrastructure for the rolling out of cloud services. Ti TOMTOM introduces latest map offerings GPS navigation service provider TOMTOM has launched its latest maps for India. The map can be accessed for all TOMTOM VIA series devices upon validation. the company has overed about 5,000 cities for this update and has included minute details for providing a cbetter coverage. The new solution is brought to India with the aide of the company’s European partner ModusLink, wherein ModusLink has opened its new solution centre in Hyderabad, India. With this new office, solution centre count for ModusLink reaches 31 across 15 cities.


Nikon launches interchangeable lens cameras in India Nikon has introduced its latest offering in the form of two interchangeable lens, 4/3 range of cameras. The company has tagged its products as Nikon 1 J1 and Nikon 1 V1. The ameras feature a relatively smaller form factor, however they possess the same cfunctionality as that of any SLR camera. Nikon J1 features a 12 megapixel, hybrid AF, 1080p HD recording and is compatible with Nikon’s brand new NIKKOR lens system. On the other hand, the Nikon 1 V1 houses a 10.1 egapixel, high resolution screen and an array of other features. Currently the company as priced 1 J1 model at INR 29,950 and 1 V1 model at INR 43,950. mh MuleSoft join hands with Avalara for iApp4Tax MuleSoft in association with Avalara will provide a cloud integration application (iApp). The new product will be branded as ‘Avalara iApp4Tax’ by MuleSoft. The solution will be available as a packaged integration application on the MuleSoft Mule iON Platform as a ervice. The application is designed with an intent to facilitate seamless integration with

c e osERP and e‐ ommerc acc unting applications so as to enable connection with AvaTax. Currently, Avalara has around 170 partners and commercial software publishers, wherein it offers seamless integration into their customer’s existing workflow process such as ERP, POS, ecommerce, m commerce, compliance and CRM systems. Additionally, t also offers application programming interface and software development kit for custom olutions. is Oracle keen to drive BI and analytics strategy and target SAP customers Oracle is expected to unveil its new BI and analytics strategy, comprising of new applications, on the 4th of April. The company is eager to target existing SAP customers with its new product. This moves comes as a strategic defense to SAP’s introduction of a eries of specialized analytic applications that run on HANA and possess a serious threat sto Oracle databases. Oracle is also planning to introduce its product called Endeca Information Discovery, hich will permit users to search and explore data from any structured or unstructured ource, and facilitate quick data fetching process from any website. ws


Sabre Holdings selected HP for networking and flexible storage solutions Sabre Holdings has selected HP enterprise services for the deployment of HP’s networking and flexible storage solutions. The companies have signed a six year long deal orth INR 41.67 bn. Primarily, HP will cater to the enhancement of Sabre’s network and w

storage infrastructure so as to improve agility and resiliency and curtail down costs. It is expected that HP will upgrade Sabre’s core mainframe platform and shift a major chunk of Sabre’s data to HP 3PAR and HP networking. HP will continue to provide core nfrastructure services such as customer facing systems, end‐user interface support such s network printing and desktop technologies. ia HCL and Cisco to provide vertical solutions HCL Technologies and Cisco have joined hands to develop vertical specific solutions. It is xpected that the initial solutions will be targeted at the financial services industry,

ewherein the solutions will be intended to enhance the end‐customer experience. Together the companies will primarily focus on developing solutions which will help ndustries to attain flexibility, multi‐channel delivery, improved customer experience and lexible business models. if TCS launches centre of excellence for Oracle Exadata in Kolkata Tata Consultancy Services, one of the leading IT vendors in India has selected Kolkata for the launch of its centre of excellence for Oracle Exadata Database Machine. The centre ill primarily flaunt Oracle Exadata Database Machine for customers hailing from varied w

industry verticals and geographies. Oracle Exadata Database Machine high end performance for data warehousing as well as online data transaction processing workloads. It basically comprises of servers, storage, etworking and software. The overall solution possesses a high scalability, security and edundancy. nr Telecom links to be established in all villages across India by 2014 All villages in India are set to have telecommunication links by 2014. State‐owned, Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd. (BSNL) has undertaken this ambitious project which will cost INR 200 bn. Additionally, it also aims to take e‐governance, banking and health and other asic service to rural and remote areas of the country. As a part of National Optical Fibre etwork (NOFN) plan, all the tasks are to be completed by the next two years.

bN Nokia to launch Lumia 610 in India Finnish mobile device manufacturer, Nokia is all set to launch another device in its Lumia roduct line, called Lumia 610. Priced at INR 11,000, it will be the most inexpensive Windows Phone’ based device in the India. p‘


Lumia 610 will feature a 3.7 inch TFT touch screen with the resolution of 800×480 pixels, Qualcomm 800 MHz Snapdragon S1 processor, 256 MB of RAM and 8 GB internal storage. The device boasts of a 5 mega pixel snapper with LED flash. The phone is 3G and Wi‐Fi enabled along with modern connectivity options such as Bluetooth, A‐GPS amongst others. It runs on Windows Phone 7.5 Mango and will have apps such as Nokia Music, Nokia Maps, Nokia Drive preloaded on it. Lumia 610 will be available in four colours, White, Black, Magenta and Cyan. Google may soon introduce ‘Wallet’ in India Google Wallet service might be made available in India soon. With the introduction of ‘Airtel Money’, India has come up on Google’s raider for its e‐cash service. Google Wallet ervice is integrated with other Google products and services thus Android phone owners

usin India will be benefited more with its introd ction. Google Wallet is a mobile payment system which enables users to safely store credit cards, loyalty cards, gift cards and other money transactional cards without the need of entering card details every time a transaction is made. The service is not limited to transactions for Google products but also for other online merchants. The service delivers hassle‐free and rapid e‐payment experience without comprising on the security of ensitive data. as 3G data card launched by MTNL Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd. (MTNL) has launched a 3G HSPA data card in Mumbai. The 3G data card has been priced at INR 1,599 and is available to both prepaid and postpaid customers in the city. MTNL 3G Data Card (LW272) will provide mobile and nstant high speed wireless internet access with the speed up to 3.6 Mbps for laptops and iother USB‐equipped mobile PCs. New customers purchasing the new product will be offered with additional 2 GB of free 3G data usage. MTNL offers postpaid and prepaid tariff plans starting from INR 22, along ith monthly and half yearly ‘True Unlimited 3G Data Plans’ costing INR 1,650 and INR ,500. w4 Flagship Android phones from HTC to hit Indian market in April HTC recently launched its flagship smart phones HTC One X, One S and One V in Mobile World Congress 2012. HTC has confirmed that One X and One V will made available to ndian market by early 2nd quarter of the year. The Taiwanese mobile device I


manufacturer might also offer the devices as a bundled with Airtel data pack. HTC One smart phones will run on HTC Sense 4.0 sitting atop Android 4.0, ‘Ice‐Cream Sandwich’. The phone owners will also enjoy 25 GB of cloud storage for 2 years via ‘Dropbox’ app. Another noteworthy feature of the smartphone series is the HTC ImageSense which has unique features which allows uses to take instant photo with the negligible lag of 0.7 seconds between photo‐shots and ‘Video Pic’ feature which enable

users to take snapshots while shooting a video without interfering with the video recording. And finally, HTC’s collaboration with Beats Audio, to offer superior quality sound and music experience, makes these devices a few in the market with such unique feature. HTC One X boasts a 4.7 inch Super‐IPS display with the resolution of 720 x 1280 pixels. It houses a 1.5 GHz Quad‐Core Tegra 3 processor and 1 GB RAM. It will also sport a 8 mega pixel snapper with LED flash, capable of 1080p full‐HD video recording. The device will have an internal memory of 32 GB and it does not come with an external memory slot for further expansion. HTC One V is a single‐core 1 GHz smartphone with 512 MB RAM and 4 GB internal memory which can be extended up to 32 GB via external memory slot. Its 3.7 inch TFT display has the resolution of 480 x 800 pixels. The camera on the device is 5 mega pixels. Broadband subscriberbase reached 13.3 mn in India, daily 5 mn unique visitors on videosharing site Indian broadband subscriber‐base has grown to 13.3 mn in 2011, with a growth rate of around 21.9%. Broadband subscriber‐base in India stood at 10.92 mn in the year 2010. Following such growth trend, the no. of subscriber in India can be expected to reach 15.9 mn by the end of 2012. In the past three year, Indian broadband market witnessed addition of 2.6 mn users on a yearly‐average, doubling the number of broadband users. Approximately 5 mn unique users access video‐sharing site, YouTube in India per day. This indicates significant potential for online media contents and related sites in India. uring Indian Premier League (IPL) 2011 alone, more than 30 mn users watched cricket atches online via YouTube and other video‐streaming sites.

Dm DoT asked to allot BWA spectrum to Qualcomm by TDSAT Telecom authority TDSAT has asked the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) to allot spectrum to Qualcomm for BWA services. It also directed Qualcomm to heed to DoT’s demand and repay the dues of INR 4.1 bn to its partner in India, Tulip Telecom, within four weeks. Earlier, DoT shared that regulatory body is willing to provide BWA ISP icense to Qualcomm, with the condition of not having to pay interest in case the amount lis to be returned, as a result of settlement with Tulip Telecom. Qualcomm won BWA license for 4 circles (Delhi, Mumbai, Haryana and Kerala) in the spectrum auction held in second quarter of 2010, for the amount of INR 49 bn pproximately. Tulip Telecom holds 13 per cent stake in the consortium which had bid or BWA spectrum along Qualcomm. af Nokia launches smartphone with 41 mega pixels capable camera Nokia has announced the arrival of a smartphone with camera that can take snaps with the details of 41 mega pixel. Nokia 808 PureView is a first of its kind smartphone in the

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market which t s to epla e the high‐ nd point‐and‐shoot digital cameras. The device is expected to be available in the Indian market by third quarter of this year. Nokia 808 will house a 1.3 GHz Single‐Core processor with 512 MB RAM and 16 GB internal memory which can be further extended to another 48 GB via micro SD card slot.

It will sport a 4 inch display with AMOLED ClearBack technology. The camera is equipped with 41 mega pixel Carl Zeiss image sensor and Xenon flash. The PureView Pro imaging technology the phone can over‐sample for crystal‐clear and noise‐less version of a basic 5 mega pixel image. Also the camera is capable of 1080p full‐HD video recording at 30 rames per second. The phone will run on Symbian Belle OS. The device is expected to ost around INR 30,000 fc Huawei shifting corporate headquarters to Mumbai Renowned Chinese telecom equipment maker, Huawei is shifting its corporate headquarters to India's financial capital, Mumbai. The prime reason for moving headquarters from Delhi is said to be that the company’s major clients are based in Mumbai. Clients such as Tata, Reliance, Vodafone and Aditya Birla’s Idea Cellular are the company’s biggest clients and are all having their headquarters in Mumbai. With bulk clients for 3G are easily available in Mumbai, the company expects similar or greater adoption of 4G network as well in the city. MindTree focusing on present and emerging mobility solutions, partners with Netbiscuits Global IT and Product Engineering Services company, MindTree Limited has entered into partnership with Netbiscuits for mobility solutions. The former aims to offer reusable obile solutions, templates and development methodologies to its customers. It will m

bring innovative and cost‐efficient mobility solutions to enterprises. Netbiscuits is world's leading cloud platform for development and delivery of next generation web apps across all connected and mobile devices, with proven capabilities in obile user interface design, mobile application architecture, software development and utomated testing. ma Agricultural mobile solution for ural population by Handygo in partnership with CABI Handygo Technologies, a MVAS company, has planned to provide mobile based agriculture solutions for rural India, in partnership with non‐profit organization CABI (Centre for Agricultural Bioscience International). While the former will provide technical platform and resources, CABI will provide region‐specific information from its ‘Direct2Farm’ agriculture knowledge repository with agricultural content, advisory and other data. The information will range from information on agriculture related health, education, finance, weather information mandi rates and other associated data including livestock and fisheries. The focus will be on providing credible, authentic and up to the inute information to the rural population. The service will be available via IVR and SMS latforms in 18 different regional languages, across the country.

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Samsung Galaxy Ace Plus now available in India Samsung India has launched the successor to its popular mid‐range Android smartphone in the ‘Galaxy Ace’ series, in India. The new device, Galaxy Ace Plus S7500, is currently

available via e‐commerce websites for pre‐orders and will start shipping in late March. It s compelling that the smartphone was unveiled only few weeks back and already it is ibeing made available to Indian consumers. Galaxy Ace Plus packs a 1 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon S1 processor, an Adreno 200 GPU, 512 MB RAM and 3 GB internal memory which is upgradable up to 32 GB via microSD card. The display of the smartphone is a 3.65 inches TFT with the resolution of 320 x 480 pixels and a pixel density of 58 PPI. It also features a 5 mega pixel camera with LED flash. The camera, however, is not capable of 720p HD video recording. The device is 3G, Wi‐Fi enabled with common connectivity options such as Bluetooth and assisted GPS. Ace Plus uns on Android 2.3 Gingerbread. The smartphone is available for the price of INR 6,750. r1 Railtel transforms Bangalore railway station with services via WiFi and BluFi RailTel Corporation of India in collaboration with TELiBrahma, has introduced Blu‐Fi and Wi‐Fi service in Bangalore railway station. BluFi is a distributed Wi‐Fi format offering Bluetooth based services. The users who desire to use the services, will require to SMS wn mobile numbers with access request and on grant of access, password will be sent ovia text message. Besides BluFi, TELiBrahma also offers, ‘intARact‘, an augmented reality app, ‘GenieTik’, a m‐commerce platform, ‘MobiLogiX’, a hosting platform, and ‘EReach’, a suite of omponents and applications providing infrastructure for transaction oriented pplications and collaboration tool. ca Nokia Siemens to build and manage 4G LTE network for Airtel Bharati Airtel, the biggest private telecom operator in India, has assigned Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) to build and operate 4G LTE network in Maharashtra. Nokia Siemens will provide system design, network integration, commissioning and optimization services via TD‐LTE (Time‐division Duplex Long Term Evolution) technology for rapid 4G network rollout, backed by essential care services including hardware, software and ompetence enhancement services. The new technology will allow data speeds of up to c100 Mbps on mobile devices via 4G LTE dongles and compatible 4G Smartphone. Bharti Airtel won Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) license for four telecom circles in India (Maharashtra, Karnataka, Kolkata and Punjab) for the amount of INR 3.31 bn pproximately. Airtel is expected to start offering 4G LTE services in India by the end of 012. a2


DigiVive launches mobile TV application in India DigiVive, a Gurgaon based startup, has launched a mobile application, nexGTv that allow users access to live TV channels and Video‐On‐Demand (VOD) service on the go. The app can be downloaded free of cost and available for major mobile platforms such as Symbian, Android, Blackberry, iOS. It offers a range of national and regional channels

including news, entertainment, devotional, music and movies. The TV channels available o viewers at this moment include STAR TV bouquet, Aaj Tak, DD, India TV, CNEB, tFashion One, Aastha, NDTV 24X7, NDTV Profit and NDTV Goodtimes amongst others. DigiVive offers information technology products such as ‘Vmotion’ video IVR solution, ‘3G Video Ad Call’ video Ad‐RBT, ‘3G EYE’ video surveillance solution, ‘Wapper’ mobile Web and client application publishing and management solution to enterprises and media ompanies, ‘NUMEROvive’ MSISDN Provisioning System, and Web & Mobile App Store olutions. cS Maharashtra houses the largest internet subscriber base in India According to the state economic survey, Maharashtra has the largest internet (less than 256 kbps) subscriber base in the country, with 1.49 mn internet users as on 31st Mar 2011. The number of broadband users stood at 2.29 mn. The telecom sector is growing apidly in the state due to private sector contribution which holds 91.7% of the wireless arket.

rm Ericsson approaches telecom operators g wholesale networksharingmodel introduction in India Wireless equipment manufacturer, Ericsson might introduce its wholesale network‐sharing model in India. Currently the company is in talks with telecom operators regarding the same. The implementation of such model will enable telecom operators to unlock added value. For example, in 4G network scenario, a 4G spectrum belonging to one operator can be shared by a number of operators. Ericsson predicts that markets where spectrum and license shortages exist or operators facing financial pressure will be the first ones to adopt the sharing model. As compared to a traditional sharing model, up to 0% of asset reductions can be achieved along with increased cash flow of around 8% oints by the telecom operators by deploying this sharing model.

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2p Vodafone India revives its BlackBerry Boys promotional adcampaign ‘BlackBerry Boys’ advertising campaign by the Vodafone India is back, promoting BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) at significantly lower costs. The advertisement campaign was first introduced in 2010, to increase market share of BlackBerry to a larger audience nd the youth. The company had launched low‐cost BBM plans priced at INR 5 a day to NR 129 a month with several service providers including Vodafone and Bharti Airtel. aI Motorla Atrix 2 hits the Indian market Motorola has launched its dual‐core smartphone Atrix 2 in India. The android 2.3 Gingerbread device was first released in mid 2011 but was not made officially available to ndian consumers until now. The smartphone has been competitively priced at INR I


22,990 and is available for online pre‐order on Indian e‐commerce sites. Atrix 2 boasts of a 4.3‐inch qHD TFT touch screen with the resolution of 960×540 pixels. It is powered by 1GHz dual‐core Cortex‐A9 processor and 1GB RAM. The internal

memory of the device is of 8GB capacity and can be expanded up to 32 GB via microSD card slot. Atrix 2 houses an 8 mega pixel camera with LED flash which is capable of shooting videos in full‐HD at 1080p. It offers connectivity options of 3G and Wi‐Fi for network and data connectivity, and HDMI port for media connectivity. It runs on 1,785 mAh battery which claims to provide around 9 hours of talk‐time. New network chips, baseband and reference design launched by Broadcom Broadcom has brought 5th generation of Wi‐Fi based IEEE 802.11ac chip series in India. The chips will enable users with more robust and efficient wireless network environment which are high in demand in enterprises, carrier access and wireless cloud networks. Also new 1Ghz 3G baseband and reference design for smartphones were introduce by the company, which include baseband, RF, and InConcert connectivity suit. This will equip smartphones with features such as advanced navigation, Wi‐Fi direct, low energy bluetooth, and NFC. The new product‐line of 3G platforms will ensure that the mobile evice manufacturers can deliver Android 4.0 experience with advance connectivity eatures on various smartphones at affordable price. df New Angry Birds mobile game launched, attains top spot in app store Mobile app company Rovio has launched a new version of its widely popular game, Angry Birds called ‘Angry Birds Space’, following one of the biggest and probably costliest mobile game promotional campaigns ever. Within few hours of its release, the new game reached No.1 position in the Apple's App Store charts, in the categories of ‘top paid app’ nd ‘top grossing app’. It is now No.1 in nearly 30 countries including US, China, Germany, aFrance, India and UK. Angry Birds Space features revised game engine adding an element of physics, termed as ‘gravitational fields’ in the game, which manipulates trajectory of the birds, as well as ow they fly through space. The game is available for iOS, Android in free and paid ‘ad‐ree’ format. hf Nokia adds three new devices to the ‘Asha’ productline Nokia has decided to bring three new feature phones to the Symbian S40 based ‘Asha’ series. The new devices, Nokia Asha 202, Asha 203 and Asha 302, were announced in the enowned trade show, Mobile World Congress 2012 in Barcelona. The devices will be ravailable in India from April onwards. Nokia Asha 302 sports a 2.4 inch display above the QWERTY keypad. The device will run on 1 GHz processor and offers connectivity of both 3G and Wi‐Fi. It boasts of a 3.2 mega pixel camera. Asha 302 is expected to be priced around INR 6,300. Nokia Asha 202 and 203 sport 2.4 inch touch screen and traditional alpha‐numerical keypad. Common features of the two phones are 2 mega pixel camera, Nokia Browser and expandability of up to 32 GB via memory cards. These two phones will come with complementary 2 months access to exclusive games from Electronic Arts such as Tetris, Need for Speed:


TIhe Run and Bejeweled amongst others. Asha 203 and 202 are expected to cost around NR 4,000. World's smallest 3G router launched in India by Edimax Edimax has launched Edimax 3G‐6200nL 3G compact router in India. Priced at INR 3,999, it is believed to be the smallest 3G router in the world. It can provide Wi‐Fi speeds of up to 150Mbps when connected to IEEE 802.11n wireless connection. It also features the atest wireless MIMO (Multiple‐Input and Multiple‐Output) technology to expand its Wi‐

lFi coverage area and eliminate dead spots within the signal range. The router supports internet sharing via 3G/3.5G SIM cards with connection speeds till 7.2 Mbps. It also features a built‐in Ethernet WAN port allowing xDSL or cable modem connection. Other features include connection fail‐over function, Wi‐Fi Protected Setup WPS) button, USB 2.0 port for UMTS/HSDPA/CDMA mobile Internet services and print erver functionality. (s Air India introduces airticket booking on mobile via app Air India has introduced air‐ticket booking for domestic flights via mobile phone. The service will be available via the Ngpay mobile app which caters to various m‐commerce services. The service was launched focusing on the passengers from tier‐II and tier‐III cities, busy executives and tech‐savvy generation. Users can make payments using a credit or debit card or net banking facility at the comfort of their mobile phones. Once the ransaction is complete, customer gets a SMS and an e‐mail with details such as flight umber, PNR and Itinerary Ticket Receipt (ITR). tn Lava announces India’s first Intelpowered smartphone, ‘XOLO’ Renowned computing chip and processor manufacturer Intel has partnered with Lava obile (Lava International Ltd.) to release India’s first Intel processor based smartphone

imcalled Lava XOLO X900. The dev ce is expected to cost around INR 25,000. Lava XOLO will house a 1.6 GHz processor with 400 MHz dedicated to graphics processing via the GPU. It boasts of a 4.03 inch display and a 8 mega pixel camera. Apart from modern connectivity option, the device will come enabled for NFC (Near Field Communication) transactions and HDMI connectivity. The smartphone will run on ndroid. The device is expected to be available in the market by early second quarter of he year. At


New Mobile Wallet Service, YPayCash, to be launched by eMudhra eMudhra Consumer Services Ltd, is all set to launch a mobile wallet service in India under the brand name YPayCash. The service will be available in two variations, with the account balance limit of INR 1,000 and 5,000 respectively. Users will be able to recharge either through official website using quick recharge option, or by logging into their account. The service will be based on a Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) supported communication layer which is likely to require cryptographic key or digital signature

during transaction by both the users and merchants. The service is expected to commence by the end of April. Mudhra, which is an Indian digital signature certificate issuing authority, has recently cquired license from Reserve Bank of India for its mobile wallet service. ea BigFlix movieondemand service via app in partnership with Sony India Reliance ADA Group owned video content service provider, BigFlix has entered into a partnership with Sony India, to offer movie‐on‐demand service via mobile application. The service will be available under the brand name ‘BigFlix Plus’ to not only on Sony’s Android Tablet PCs, but also on its Internet enabled ‘Bravia’ HDTVs. Sony will provide subscription based movie‐on‐demand service with Bollywood and other regional Indian movies. Sony has assured that the app will be offered to its ‘VAIO’ Notebook and ‘Xperia’ Smartphone product line soon. BigFlix, which claims to offer nearly 600 movie titles, ffers similar service with the monthly rate of INR 249 that allows users to watch as any Indian movies as they wish.

om News Update

Regulatory National ewaste norms coming this May Ministry of Environment and Forest will bring forth national electronic waste rules from ay 1, this year. The set of new rules are intended to create and maintain a sustainable M

environment in the country. It is anticipated that the new rules will require producers of electronic goods to spread awareness regarding hazardous components amongst users. Further, the rule will make it a mandate for recyclers registered under the Central Control Board, to extract and refine precious and other metals from e‐waste. E‐wastes generated will be allowed to be stored or a maximum of 3 months unless otherwise specified by the State Pollution Control oard. fB TRAI revises draft telecom policy Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has revised the draft telecom policy which was earlier sent to Department of Technology (DoT). TRAI has excluded any activities and targets as it can be better captured in action plan format and alternatively, can also be prepared by DoT. The prime focus areas illuminated in the draft report are, licensing framework, convergent networks, spectrum management, broadband services, cloud ervices, deployment of telecom infrastructure, rural telephony and universal service, ecurity, quality of service, emergency response services and, environment & health. ss


Planning Commission's rural mobile bill subsidy proposal rejected by DoT The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has rejected mobile bill subsidy proposal for rural users made by the Planning Commission. The latter proposed government to subsidize rural mobile subscribers by paying 20% of all mobile bills which were valued less than 300 per month. Planning Commission urged the government to utilize the Universal Service Obligation Fund (USOF) in which all telcom operators submit 5% of their annual revenues, aimed at subsidizing rural telecom infrastructure. DoT turned own the proposal with the view that urban users may take wireless connections from ural areas to misuse this facility and monitoring such illicit usage will not be possible. dr DoT asked to allot BWA spectrum to Qualcomm by TDSAT Telecom authority TDSAT has asked the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) to allot spectrum to Qualcomm for BWA services. It also directed Qualcomm to heed to DoT’s demand and repay the dues of INR 4.1 bn to its partner in India, Tulip Telecom, within four weeks. Earlier, DoT shared that regulatory body is willing to provide BWA ISP

mlicense to Qualcomm, with the condition of not having to pay interest in case the a ount is to be returned, as a result of settlement with Tulip Telecom. Qualcomm won BWA license for 4 circles (Delhi, Mumbai, Haryana and Kerala) in the spectrum auction held in second quarter of 2010, for the amount of INR 49 bn pproximately. Tulip Telecom holds 13 per cent stake in the consortium which had bid or BWA spectrum along Qualcomm. af News Update

Expansion Plans Dell selects Orissa for expansion The large presence of about 16,000 small and medium businesses (SMBs) across Bhubaneswar and Cuttack has attracted Dell by a large extent. The company now plans to arget the manufacturing, banking and construction vendors and garner a better foothold tin this region. As of now, the company has decided to roll out offerings in the areas of storage, server, networking and cloud computing dedicated for SMBs. The company will also collaborate with Microsoft and SAP to facilitate this expansion spree. Additionally, it also plans to ake the help of the local chamber of commerce so as to convince SMB vendors to opt for enterprise focused IT services’. t‘ Happiest Minds setting up in UK Happiest Minds Technologies, a recently established Indian IT company has decided to mark its presence internationally through its UK office, in Reading. As of now, the


company has selected fourteen of its employees to work in UK. Gradually, by the end of this year the company wishes to take the employee strength at around 50. Happiest Minds Technologies currently engages itself in providing cloud computing, ocial media, mobility, security and analytics. Additionally, it also offers IT services, nfrastructure support, security and software engineering. si Bharati Airtel extends service in Nigeria with 3.75G network Airtel Nigeria, a subsidiary of Bharati Airtel, introduced 3.75G services in Nigeria as a forward iteration adoption towards 4G. At primary phase the service will be available in 36 Nigerian states. The move will enable Airtel Nigeria to offer services such as mobile broadband at the speed of up to 42 MBPS, mobile live TV and video call facility amongst thers. In 2010, Airtel invested around INR 29 bn in Nigerian mobile market and ever ince it has crossed the mark of 50 mn subscriber‐base in the country. os Mauj to expand mobile games offering in India, partners with Digital Chocolate Mauj Mobile has entered into an exclusive partnership with Digital Chocolate, one of the prominent leaders in cross‐platform social games. This strategic move was made by Mauj with the objective of bringing over a ton of award‐winning games published by Digital Chocolate to the Indian market. Popular games including Tower Bloxx, Zombie Lane, Army Attack and Millionaire City will be soon available as premium content in India via obile operators. The games will also be available on its app store Mobango, which m

caters to consumers in India, United States, United Kingdom and South Asia. Mauj Mobile distributes premium mobile content such as videos, applications and games o mobile users through mobile operators. Its Mobango apps store has more than 7 mn egistered users and over 1.5 mn contents optimized for moe than 2,000 mobile phones. tr Industry Expert Speak Indian SMBs are the focal points today – Adil Doctor, Director SMB Sales India and SAARC, Avaya IP Office “Indian SMBs are the focal points today. As per a study, 95% of the enterprise units are SMBs and 40% of the industrial output is driven by them. This is the sector, which is responsible for 70% of industrial employment. Last but not the least, 35% of exports are done by these companies that represent various vertical industries including, auto ancillaries, infrastructure, pharmaceuticals, textiles, retail, engineering, logistics, Software and IT services, handicraft, travel and tourism etc. Given this fact, penetration of T is very low at only 15‐18% in this sector, which gives us a huge opportunity to reach ut to customers and provide the right solutions and ensure better RoIs for them.” Io


Value added solution selling for a health bottom line – Sudesh Prabhu, Director, Services and Presales, Sybase “Today, channel partners are moving away from primarily box‐pushing towards value added solution selling. Our partners showcase forward‐looking and smart uses of our technologies and applications to make them work in the real world. Our technology is not such that it is a finished product that somebody can take to market and sell it. When we look at a partner, what we try to do is to note their domain expertise, what kind of core kills they have and if the partner has been selling or helping enterprises with their ositions around technology.”

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sp RIM services will be the growth path for offs ore delivery – Kamal Sharma, Group CIO, Mindlance “Remote Infrastructure Management services will be the next growth path for the offshore services industry. Development in technology, changes in customer mindset and demand and developments in vendor capabilities are pointing towards a shift that nables the remote management of companies’ critical IT infrastructure. India has an pportunity to establish leadership in a large and strategic way in this space.”

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eo Changing perceptions about IT – Ramanan Balakrishnan, VP, Prism Informatics Ltd. “People expect that the IT department does a job of only maintaining the users and allocating data usage. However, we believe that the IT department spawns ransformation. Implementing a new system is as good as suggesting that the old system tof working was wrong. As a major partner to companies, we have been hugely successful in implementing a change. We have been successful in helping clients deal better with issues ranging from ead generation, reconciling huge amounts of data, renovating cost centers to profit lcenters etc. At Prism, we have been doing a fairly commendable job. Be it implementing an SAP olution or helping our clients with a new application development, or bridging an sexisting application to SAP, we have organically developed each solution. In a nutshell, Prism has altogether changed how organizations look at their IT epartments, from being a passive unit of the business to a point where businesses look t strategizing with the help of IT.” da


Testing Flexibility is of Prime Importance Stephen Hire, General Manager, Aeroflex AsiaIndia “From a commercial market technology perspective, one can witness a lot of energy being invested within LTE, LTE‐A, and consumer‐compelling smart devices, applications, and higher demands on quality of service. This trend will affect the entire supply chain of the market, the respective technologies, and the product investments made. The market dynamics bring specific challenges for a T&M company, as its customers' product

lifecycles are shortening and are typically upgraded much more frequently, and the current economic climate is affecting costs. To respond to these issues, test equipment ncreasingly needs to be flexible enough to meet multiple customer applications, be easy o upgrade as technology moves forward and help customers reduce their costs.” it

IT: Transactions (January – March 2012)

Date Buyer Target Size

(USD mn) % stake Deal Status Type of

Transaction

14th Mar 2012 Dell Inc SonicWall NA NA Expected M&A

16th Feb 2012 Norwest Venture

Partners Manthan Systems 15 NA Completed PE Funding

10th Feb 2012 Videocon and AEC

Partners Nivio 21 NA Completed PE Funding

10th Feb 2012 Mahindra Satyam

Computer Services Ltd.

Dion Global Solutions Ltd.

7 16 Expected M&A

9th Feb 2012 Flipkart.com Letsbuy.com NA NA Completed M&A

9th Feb 2012 Flipkart.com Letsbuy.com NA NA Completed M&A

9th Feb 2012 Tiger Global and

Others Myntra.com 20 NA Completed PE Funding

6th Feb 2012 Persistent Systems

Openwave Systems Inc

NA NA Completed M&A

24th Jan 2012 IMS Health PharmARC NA NA Completed M&A

19th Jan 2012 Sequoia Capital Knowlarity 7.06 NA Completed M&A

4th Jan 2012 IBM Green Hat NA NA Completed M&A


Transactions (January 2012 – March 2012)

Date Buyer Target Deal Size (INR mn) % stake Deal Status

Type of Transaction

12th to 18th Mar 2012

Spreadtrum Communications

Inc. Micromax Ltd. 512 NA Complete PE

13th to 26th Feb 2012

Komli Media India Pvt. Ltd. Admax Network NA NA Complete M&A

5th to 12th Feb 2012 NA

Tulip Telecom Ltd. 2,500 NA Complete PE

2nd to 8th Jan 2012

Way2Online Interactive Media 160by2.com NA 100 Expected M&A

IT: Annual Financial Results – Revenue (INR mn)

Companies FY ‘08 FY ‘09 FY ‘10 FY ‘11

3i Infotech Ltd. 12,052.6 22,856.4 24,485.4 25,697.5

Accenture Plc * 1,106,226.9 1,134,103.0 1,084,959.8 1,254,814.9

Alcatel‐Lucent, S.A. * 1,153,637.6 1,008,149.6 956,757.1 N.A.

Allied Digital Services Ltd. 2,970.4 5,557.5 6,730.5 7,149.3

Amazon.com, Inc * 931,668.9 1,137,462.7 1,525,669.4 N.A.

ASUSTeK Computer Inc. * 984,494.9 884,975.9 657,499.0 N.A.

Avast Software B.V. * 727.7 1,174.6 2,163.1 N.A.

AVG Technologies N.V. * 5,533.9 8,445.1 9,689.0 N.A.

Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. * 39,301.1 42,902.2 48,970.4 66,171.3


CISCO Systems Inc * 1,672,087.3 1,740,839.4 1,857,856.0 1,908,723.0

Citrix Systems Inc * 76,967.6 74,909.8 83,619.3 117,082.2

Cognizant Technology Solutions * 136,901.9 152,162.8 204,843.5 N.A.

D Link Corp * 48,984.3 44,989.0 51,793.5 N.A.

Epicor Software Corporation * 23,716.0 19,010.7 19,638.8 N.A.

F‐Secure Oyj * 7,673.8 8,323.8 7,782.7 N.A.

Google Inc * 1,059,514.5 1,097,642.9 1,307,863.2 2,011,428.8

HCL Technologies Ltd. * 75,627.8 102,294.1 121,362.9 157,304.3

Hewlett‐Packard Company * 5,849,371.3 5,381,653.1 5,599,646.2 6,194,286.7

iGate Corporation * 10,635.9 8,961.7 12,516.0 41,371.9

Infosys Ltd. 166,987.8 236,369.8 215,747.6 269,277.6

International Business Machines Corp * 5,037,506.2 4,444,128.9 4,454,701.4 5,673,497.5

JDA Software Group Inc * 18,974.2 17,905.0 27,530.6 N.A.

McAfee Inc * 77,780.0 89,447.5 92,100.7 N.A.

Microsoft Corporation * 2,594,465.0 2,815,202.5 2,901,444.5 3,126,452.1

MicroStrategy Inc * 17,518.9 17,533.1 20,276.4 N.A.

Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc * 831,190.9 512,830.5 511,173.3 693,241.2

Mphasis Ltd. * 32,683.2 42,638.8 50,365.2 50,677.0

Netgear Inc * 36,134.3 31,864.9 40,236.0 N.A.

NetSuite Inc * 7,411.9 7,729.1 8,615.4 N.A.

Oracle Corporation * 952,456.3 1,097,610.6 1,243,509.3 1,609,402.0


Qlik Technologies * 5,748.9 7,303.0 10,104.0 N.A.

Ramco Systems Ltd. 2,030.988 1,876.5 1,730.001 2,092.353

Salesforce.com * 29,440.8 52,579.2 60,298.3 76,087.5

Samsung Electronics Ltd. * 4,668,021.5 5,426,752.7 6,153,179.1 6,630,125.5

SAP AG * 786,231.5 709,835.2 745,500.1 981,125.1

Sify Technologies Ltd. 6,006.2 6,162.2 6,710.2 6,886.6

Sonata Software Ltd. 14,330.0 15,981.2 13,893.7 14,049.5

Sybase Inc * 55,023.7 54,326.1 N.A. N.A.

Symantec Corporation * 233,142.0 307,146.4 267,170.4 275,331.2

Tata Consultancy Services 228,001.9 281,539.7 304,885.1 379,620.2

Teradata Corporation * 85,651.7 79,314.7 86,355.3 N.A.

Trend Micro Inc * 54,530.7 48,035.9 52,442.4 N.A.

TVS Electronics Ltd. 2,149.307 1,950.14 1,996.19 1,828.515

VMware Inc * 91,437.7 93,930.9 127,451.8 199,900.9

Wipro Ltd. 197,428.0 255,837.0 271,115.0 309,535.0

Zenith Infotech Ltd. 1,307.4 2,229.7 3,130.2 3,670.1

Zensar Technologies Ltd. 7,857.2 9,080.8 9,527.6 11,382.9

* Change in Financial Year Ending * Financials of Zenith Infotech Ltd. for FY 11, exhibit figures as of 30th September 2011


IT: Annual Financial Results – Income (INR mn)


3i Infotech Ltd. 1,765.7 2,820.1 334.6 2,525.1

Accenture Plc * 73,930.4 77,820.7 83,655.2 104,488.4

Alcatel‐Lucent S.A. * (354,228.7) (34,853.2) (19,977.3) N.A.

Allied Digital Services Ltd. 435.6 769.1 966.0 466.8

Amazon.com Inc * 31,353.8 41,861.8 51,385.0 N.A.

ASUSTeK Computer Inc * 24,390.9 18,100.8 25,223.4 N.A.

Avast Software B.V. * 274.0 405.2 767.6 N.A.

AVG Technologies N.V. * 1,427.6 2,435.8 2,583.2 N.A.

Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. *

15,748.1 16,592.6 20,198.3 28,865.6

CISCO Systems Inc * 340,507.0 295,658.8 360,388.8 286,630.8

Citrix Systems Inc * 8,666.1 8,865.1 12,358.5 18,908.2

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation *

20,943.6 24,827.6 32,719.6 N.A.

D‐Link Corp * 1,779.2 742.0 1,868.7 N.A.

Epicor Software Corporation * (167.8) (57.5) (269.1) N.A.

F‐Secure Oyj * 1,328.1 1,246.9 912.0 N.A.

Google Inc * 205,476.6 302,593.2 379,365.5 516,693.9

HCL Technologies Ltd. * 10,514.1 13,196.3 12,591.9 16,465.1

Hewlett‐Packard Company * 411,606.7 359,866.8 389,251.2 344,362.3

iGATE Corporation * 1,502.3 1,326.2 2,308.5 2,731.1


Infosys Ltd. 46,505.5 64,934.5 58,966.8 66,817.9

International Business Machines Corp *

599,561.9 623,054.3 661,626.0 841,345.6

JDA Software Group Inc * 151.9 1,222.4 790.3 N.A.

McAfee Inc * 8,371.2 8,048.4 8,212.3 N.A.

Microsoft Corporation * 759,231.0 701,861.6 871,120.6 1,034,805.0

MicroStrategy Inc * 2,033.5 3,473.2 1,953.3 N.A.

Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc * (144,324.6) (62,282.2) (3,836.0) (13,213.2)

Mphasis Ltd. * 5,064.6 9,086.8 10,907.5 8,218.0

Netgear Inc * 877.4 433.1 2,270.8 N.A.

NetSuite Inc * (771.2) (1,081.5) (1,225.1) N.A.

Oracle Corporation * 234,441.0 264,017.6 284,449.3 386,153.5

Qlik Technologies * 145.6 318.4 602.9 N.A.

Ramco Systems Ltd. 104.883 20.208 18.784 23.076

Salesforce.com * 721.8 2,120.6 3,728.0 2,960.3

Samsung Electronics Ltd. * 212,664.9 381,024.8 628,688.4 N.A.

SAP AG * 125,457.4 116,266.1 108,320.0 237,146.6

Sify Technologies Ltd. (4.7) (900.6) 17.0 (519.5)

Sonata Software Ltd. 585.2 765.7 798.7 856.1

Sybase Inc * 6,233.7 7,612.0 N.A. N.A.

Symantec Corporation * 16,273.1 (338,909.8) 31,873.0 26,554.6

Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. 50,260.2 52,564.2 70,006.4 90,680.4


Teradata Corporation * 12,152.6 11,788.1 13,426.1 N.A.

Trend Micro Inc * 10,319.4 8,793.9 6,993.0 N.A.

TVS Electronics Ltd. 378.892 (78.096) (1.12) 14.897

VMware Inc * 14,103.5 9,147.3 15,943.6 38,415.7

Wipro Ltd. 32,241.0 38,761.0 45,931.0 52,977.0

Zenith Infotech Ltd. 400.5 496.2 39.0 141.2

Zensar Technologies Ltd. 640.3 865.6 1,275.6 1,317.3

Change in Financial Year Ending Financials of Zenith Infotech Ltd. for FY 11, exhibit figures as of 30th September 2011 ** IT: Quarterly Financial Results – Revenue (INR mn)

Companies JanMar 2011

AprJun 2011

JulSep 2011

OctDec 2011

3i Infotech Ltd. 6,516.10 4,793.90 4,977.00 3,501.50

Accenture Plc * 293867.3 325,492.80 329,110.60 395,999.70

Alcatel‐Lucent S.A. 236,418.50 253,305.40 250,571.90 286,092.60

Allied Digital Services Ltd. 1,400.10 1,442.40 1,416.50 1,368.70

Amazon.com Inc 439,375.80 443,111.10 533,739.70 924,976.00

ASUSTeK Computer Inc 124,035.00 123,982.40 178,042.40 NA

Avast Software B.V. 847.8 846.5 NA NA

AVG Technologies N.V. NA NA 3,492.70 NA

Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. 12,537.80 13,438.80 15,130.30 18,931.40



Citrix Systems Inc 21,881.30 23,726.30 27,744.50 32,866.70

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation 61,123.60 66,390.30 78,566.80 88,284.60

D‐Link Corp 11,800.80 12,429.60 13,756.20 NA

Epicor Software Corporation 5,005.10 NA NA NA

F‐Secure Oyj 2,155.60 2,291.00 2,415.30 2,757.50

Google Inc 382,230.60 403,462.20 477,009.00 561,586.90

HCL Technologies Ltd. 40,779.00 41,784.30 49,183.00 52,452.00

Hewlett‐Packard Company * 1,399,557.80 1,377,462.20 1,563,699.00 1,485,430.40

iGATE Corporation 3,393.50 7,617.60 13,040.40 14,205.90

Infosys Ltd. 71,409.10 74,693.70 85,685.00 95,835.40

International Business Machines Corp 1,096,857.00 1,191,970.20 1,283,654.80 1,564,674.60

JDA Software Group Inc 7,292.70 7,259.70 8,419.50 9,242.50

McAfee Inc NA NA NA NA

Microsoft Corporation 732,278.10 776,304.90 852,530.90 1,108,262.50

MicroStrategy Inc 5,439.40 6,175.30 6,954.10 8,504.50

Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc * 134,863.40 148,579.90 159,935.40 182,331.30

Mphasis Ltd. * 12,335.00 12,570.60 12,936.30 12,835.00

Netgear Inc 12,402.00 12,967.50 14,810.80 16,405.30

NetSuite Inc 2,382.10 2,585.10 2,991.60 3,401.10



Qlik Technologies 2,809.10 3,309.70 3,705.40 5,733.90

Ramco Systems Ltd. 598.2 547.2 519.8 653.4

Salesforce.com * 22,315.60 24,114.20 28,441.80 31,251.30

Samsung Electronics Ltd. 1,505,563.60 1,651,135.50 1,714,942.80 2,162,648.90

SAP AG 191,157.60 214,170.60 224,967.00 310,083.00


Sonata Software Ltd. 3,324.90 3,340.00 3,849.20 5,262.50

Sybase Inc NA NA NA NA



Teradata Corporation 22,554.90 25,970.70 29,543.20 35,712.70

Trend Micro Inc 12,899.40 13,487.30 15,285.80 16,596.80

TVS Electronics Ltd. 476.208 NA NA NA

VMware Inc 37,608.90 41,178.10 46,221.90 56,264.90

Wipro Ltd. 82,455.00 84,673.00 89,769.00 98,488.00

Zenith Infotech Ltd. * 1,119.50 931.9 849.4 467.7

Zensar Technologies Ltd. 3,742.60 3,987.80 4,089.60 4,808.30

* Change in quarter


IT: Quarterly Financial Results – Income (INR mn)


AprJun 2011

JulSep 2011

OctDec 2011

3i Infotech Ltd. 630.90 460.30 252.40 ‐1,375.20

Accenture Plc * 22,721.30 28,373.60 28,072.40 33,504.00

Alcatel‐Lucent S.A. ‐632.1 2,790.70 12,802.50 59,838.20

Allied Digital Services Ltd. ‐362.90 51 54.2 46.4

Amazon.com Inc 8,959.60 8,537.70 3,091.70 9,392.50

ASUSTeK Computer Inc 5,174.40 5,571.00 7,531.40 NA

Avast Software B.V. 514.3 513.4 NA NA

AVG Technologies N.V. NA NA 326.8 NA

Check Point Software Technologies Ltd.

5,442.20 5,721.20 6,579.70 8,480.40


Citrix Systems Inc 3,276.40 3,662.90 4,523.50 5,768.10

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation

9,286.20 9,299.60 11,145.90 12,742.30

D‐Link Corp 375.2 429 370.7 NA

Epicor Software Corporation ‐81 NA NA NA

F‐Secure Oyj 240.2 194.7 323.4 317.1

Google Inc 80,145.80 111,973.50 133,925.70 143,487.80

HCL Technologies Ltd. 4,613.00 4,657.10 5,251.00 5,727.00

Hewlett‐Packard Company * 101,940.50 85,061.80 11,634.50 72,599.90

iGATE Corporation 803.1 178.8 699.5 810.7


Infosys Ltd. 17,919.10 17,164.80 20,169.80 24,303.80

International Business Machines Corp

127,618.20 163,780.80 188,398.90 291,326.80

JDA Software Group Inc 2,029.40 452.3 824.6 ‐75.9

McAfee Inc NA NA NA NA

Microsoft Corporation 233,216.40 262,567.80 281,592.40 351,502.60

MicroStrategy Inc 50.5 129 241.5 477.6

Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc * ‐3,602.90 ‐2,493.40 ‐1,570.40 ‐4,245.20

Mphasis Ltd. * 2,266.70 2,173.20 1,948.00 1,830.10

Netgear Inc 942.5 917.1 1,312.60 1,211.70

NetSuite Inc ‐342 ‐437.7 ‐340 ‐404.1


Qlik Technologies ‐203.8 ‐97 111.6 829

Ramco Systems Ltd. 9.8 5.4 ‐35.7 14.3

Salesforce.com * 23.4 ‐188.5 ‐182.8 ‐201.7

Samsung Electronics Ltd. 110,506.10 144,727.90 137,122.30 182,931.80

SAP AG 25,475.00 38,096.40 82,556.10 82,656.60

Sify Technologies Ltd. ‐131.7 ‐85.4 ‐68.2 ‐73

Sonata Software Ltd. 230.5 88.4 90.8 ‐68.7

Sybase Inc NA NA NA NA




Teradata Corporation 2,897.40 4,604.10 4,269.50 5,200.40

Trend Micro Inc 2,149.00 2,180.50 3,526.30 2,669.80

TVS Electronics Ltd. 7.099 NA NA NA

VMware Inc 5,608.10 9,841.10 8,712.70 10,635.70

Wipro Ltd. 13,755.00 13,349.00 13,009.00 14,564.00

Zenith Infotech Ltd. * 7.3 49.7 53.4 0.8

Zensar Technologies Ltd. 378.2 270.7 400.5 522.9

* Change in quarter Telecom: Annual Financial Results – Revenue (INR mn)


2ergo Group plc 2,591.9 1,808.5 1,544.9 1,318.7

Advanced Micronic Devices Ltd. 524.2 585.8 660.0 718.2

Aksh OptiFibre Ltd. NA 1,600.1 1,355.1 1,316.0

American Tower Corporation 77,461.0 80,016.1 88,555.9 114,736.1

Apple Inc. 1,742,338.0 2,057,080.2 2,946,865.6 5,346,418.0

Avaya Inc. 240,177.6 199,656.5 227,775.9 272,219.0

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd. 328,423.0 301,694.2 279,134.4 NA

Bharti Airtel 270,249.3 369,615.5 418,472.0 594,672.0

BS TransComm Ltd. NA 3,372.6 5,149.0 8,702.8

Compucom Software Ltd. 255.2 565.5 636.1 744.5

Dell Inc. 2,392,164.9 2,983,592.4 2,443,278.8 2,817,962.6

Encore Software Ltd. 45.0 11.1 83.6 51.5


Garmin Ltd. 165,987.9 137,038.9 121,436.0 1 32,693.1

GTL Infrastructure Ltd. 1,245.8 2,208.4 3,479.5 10,075.7

Hathway Cable & Datacom Ltd. 4,145.6 6,630.2 7,331.8 8,826.1

HTC Corporation 2 25,808.8 209,585.5 426,440.3 753,508.9

Idea Cellular Ltd. 67,199.9 101,312.9 123,978.8 154,384.0

IOL Netcom Ltd. 209.5 371.3 88.0 8.7

LG Electronics Inc. 2,435,350.8 2,208,983.8 2,218,601.9 2,291,078.0

Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd. 47,757.1 41,837.0 35,513.0 36,778.0

Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. 8 31,190.9 512,830.5 511,173.3 693,241.2

Navteq Corporation 36,431.4 NA NA NA

Net 4 India Ltd. 1,351.6 1,606.7 1,951.4 3,035.7

Nokia Corporation 3,444,474.9 2,726,001.4 2,538,791.6 2,665,072.9

Northgate Technologies Ltd. 5,512.5 5,603.4 744.6 1,296.7

Palm Inc. 55,996.2 34,736.8 49,193.8 NA

Reliance Communications Ltd. 1 88,273.9 225,245.4 214,963.8 224,303.5

Reliance Infratel Ltd. 14,566.2 49,198.2 NA NA

Research in Motion Ltd. 240,300.7 564,929.1 686,866.1 901,787.1

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd 4,668,021.5 5,426,752.7 6,153,179.1 6,630,125.5


Smartlink Network Systems Ltd. 3,204.7 1,588.9 1,681.5 1,926.6

Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB 7 63,737.4 451,505.8 376,445.4 359,304.7

Tata Communications Limited 84,150.0 100,718.9 110,255.6 1 19,319.9

Tata Teleservices Ltd. 17,748.8 20,469.4 22,395.6 22,724.6

Tejora Technologies Ltd. 81.8 48.2 219.5 350.2

Tulip Telecom Ltd. 12,189.8 16,144.0 19,664.0 23,510.5


Vodafone Group Plc 2,818,469.3 2,985,386.3 3,030,479.5 3,282,688.8

Vonage Holdings Corporation 43,755.3 41,262.2 39,477.3 46,183.7

*Change in financial year

Telecom: Annual Financial Results – Income (INR mn)

Companies F Y ‘08 F Y ‘09 F Y ‘10 F Y ‘11

2ergo Group plc 201.8 ‐14.7 ‐35.6 ‐191.4

Advanced Micronic Devices Ltd. 10.4 14.9 2.6 17.4

Aksh OptiFibre Ltd. NA ‐320.8 ‐131.4 ‐489.8

American Tower Corporation 16,879.8 11,444.5 16,634.8 13,489.0

Apple Inc. 284,371.3 394,827.1 633,107.4 1,280,287.6

Avaya Inc. ‐64,818.7 ‐40,749.2 ‐39,343.1 ‐42,351.7

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd. 30,093.9 5,748.5 ‐18,226.5 NA

Bharti Airtel 67,008.2 84,699.1 89,768.0 60,467.0

BS TransComm Ltd. NA 123.7 235.4 509.6

Compucom Software Ltd. 48.7 85.2 93.5 120.4

Dell Inc. 115,317.6 121,002.0 66,183.1 120,748.9

Encore Software Ltd. ‐37.8 ‐63.2 3.8 ‐25.8

Garmin Ltd. 34,814.3 32,740.7 26,391.9 24,114.5

GTL Infrastructure Ltd. ‐594.7 28.1 ‐25.8 ‐3,780.2

Hathway Cable & Datacom Ltd. ‐668.1 ‐916.1 ‐801.0 ‐312.7

HTC Corporation 42,441.6 32,794.1 60,477.3 105,902.4

Idea Cellular Ltd. 10,423.1 8,815.8 9,539.4 8 ,987.1

IOL Netcom Ltd. ‐246.8 ‐140.5 ‐216.6 ‐125.4

LG Electronics Inc. 16,877.1 91,059.9 48,824.3 ‐25,605.2


Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd. 5,664.0 ‐1,430.0 ‐25,553.0 ‐32,895.0

Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. ‐144,324.6 ‐62,282.2 ‐3,836.0 ‐13,213.2

Navteq Corporation 6,969.0 NA NA NA

Net 4 India Ltd. 94.8 84.0 115.0 211.3

Nokia Corporation 270,884.8 59,263.8 110,652.7 ‐80,243.8

Northgate Technologies Ltd. 728.5 ‐2,954.4 ‐1,469.8 10.5

Palm Inc. ‐4,476.5 ‐34,562.9 ‐9,177.8 NA

Reliance Communications Ltd. 54,011.4 60,449.3 46,550.0 13,456.5

Reliance Infratel Ltd. 4,212.6 15,850.2 NA NA


Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd 212,664.9 381,024.8 628,688.4 530,649.8

Sify Technologies Ltd. ‐4.7 ‐900.6 17.0 ‐519.5

Smartlink Network Systems Ltd. 291.4 69.3 178.7 159.1

Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB ‐4,951.1 ‐55,594.0 5,411.1 ‐17,027.7

Tata Communications Limited 103.0 3,158.0 ‐5,977.4 ‐7,769.0

Tata Teleservices Ltd. ‐1,257.4 ‐1,699.4 ‐3,180.0 802.3

Tejora Technologies Ltd. 6.5 ‐0.5 7.1 24.8


Vodafone Group Plc 529,088.6 224,029.5 589,100.9 5 70,056.3

Vonage Holdings Corporation ‐3,139.1 ‐1,977.0 ‐3,731.9 21,705.9



Telecom: Quarterly Financial Results – Revenue (INR mn)


AprJun 2011

JulSep 2011

OctDec 2011

2ergo Group plc 402.6 250.3 NA NA

Advanced Micronic Devices Ltd. 277.4 114.3 130.0 NA

Aksh OptiFibre Ltd. NA NA 653.2 647.4

American Tower Corporation NA 25,082.1 26,696.4 30,937.0

Apple Inc. 1,100,518.2 1,285,837.9 1,396,255.3 2,458,660.6

Avaya Inc. 61,959.2 61,328.4 69,637.4 73,601.2

Bharti Airtel 162,654.0 169,749.0 172,698.0 184,767.0

BS TransComm Ltd. 3,359.9 2,449.9 2,804.2 2,670.2

Compucom Software Ltd. 180.1 NA NA 169.4

Dell Inc. 6 64,427.2 691,535.6 747,660.9 NA

Garmin Ltd. 22,657.0 30,337.8 32,942.8 NA

GTL Infrastructure Ltd. 3,902.5 1,405.2 1,342.3 1,359.8

Hathway Cable & Datacom Ltd. NA NA NA 1,276.6

HTC Corporation 1 57,542.6 192,774.9 218,502.4 1 58,908.7


IOL Netcom Ltd. 2.0 ‐4.6 1.9 1.9

LG Electronics Inc. 535,452.7 602,241.4 535,882.8 631,549.8

Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd. NA 8,131.8 NA 8,521.0

Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. 134,863.4 148,579.9 159,935.4 182,331.3

Net 4 India Ltd. 916.6 761.9 1,167.2 NA

Nokia Corporation 657,357.2 601,949.2 592,608.8 689,724.4

Northgate Technologies Ltd. 821.6 1,764.8 1,536.1 7.3




Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd 1,505,563.6 1,651,135.5 1,714,942.8 2,162,648.9


Smartlink Network Systems Ltd. 550.3 191.3 NA 186.1

Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB 72,379.5 77,425.9 104,663.4 88,792.1

Tata Communications Limited 30,688.3 32,570.6 33,736.1 36,041.0

Tata Teleservices Ltd. 5,778.5 5,899.6 NA 6,305.5


Vodafone Group Plc 832,798.8 844,249.6 902,387.6 NA

Vonage Holdings Corporation 9,799.4 9,757.3 10,625.1 11,445.6


Telecom: Quarterly Financial Results – Income (INR mn)


AprJun 2011

JulSep 2011

OctDec 2011

2ergo Group plc ‐3.1 ‐92.5 NA NA

Advanced Micronic Devices Ltd. NA 8.9 1.7 0.6

Aksh OptiFibre Ltd. NA NA 1.2 49.5

American Tower Corporation NA 4,093.9 5,149.9 ‐770.5

Apple Inc. 267,110.0 328,896.5 327,110.0 693,241.2

Avaya Inc. ‐19,256.4 ‐6,794.4 ‐4,858.4 ‐1,379.7

Bharti Airtel 14,006.0 12,152.0 10,270.0 10,113.0

BS TransComm Ltd. ‐88.7 142.4 134.9 115.8

Compucom Software Ltd. 30.3 NA NA 20.6


Dell Inc. 41,811.5 39,306.8 43,453.4 NA

Garmin Ltd. 4,259.9 4,927.0 7,427.3 NA

GTL Infrastructure Ltd. ‐1,712.6 ‐839.5 ‐2,084.8 ‐14.3

Hathway Cable & Datacom Ltd. NA NA NA ‐182.8

HTC Corporation 22,435.5 27,156.4 30,043.8 19,172.7


IOL Netcom Ltd. ‐28.1 ‐3.9 ‐28.4 ‐28.4

LG Electronics Inc. ‐1,224.5 4,094.6 ‐17,624.5 ‐5,166.1

Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd. NA ‐8,500.4 NA ‐9,297.7

Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. ‐3,602.9 ‐2,493.4 ‐1,570.4 ‐4,245.2

Net 4 India Ltd. 58.9 55.0 95.3 NA

Nokia Corporation 21,745.4 ‐23,883.3 ‐4,487.5 ‐73,901.5

Northgate Technologies Ltd. 13.7 8.5 8.9 1.0



Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd 110,506.1 144,727.9 137,122.3 182,931.8

Sify Technologies Ltd. ‐131.7 ‐85.4 ‐68.2 ‐73.0

Smartlink Network Systems Ltd. 48.2 3,663.8 NA 5.8

Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB 695.3 ‐3,245.0 0.0 ‐14,270.2

Tata Communications Limited ‐846.0 ‐2,182.3 ‐1,652.0 ‐1,530.6

Tata Teleservices Ltd. ‐1,898.8 ‐1,193.2 NA ‐1,446.2

Tulip Telecom Ltd. 816.0 772.2 870.7 772.6

Vodafone Group Plc 15,238.7 239,742.5 256,252.0 NA

Vonage Holdings Corporation 941.1 972.1 787.0 18,580.5


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