Infosys Technologies granted two patents       
June 04, 2008
Source:  PTI

BANGALORE: Infosys Technologies on Tuesday announced that the US Patent and Trademark Office has granted it two patents in the areas of holography and mobile communications. 

Subu Goparaju, Head - SETLabs said "Innovation is imperative for growth. We are fostering a culture of innovation and investing in research through SETLabs- Infosys' Research Group. We set up an Intellectual Property (IP) cell in 2004 to leverage the power of IP for our growth and we are pleased to see results", a release said here today. 

The patent titled "Displaying holographic three dimensional (3-D) images" describes the realisation of actual 3-D communication using computer-generated holography to send and receive information and the associated optical elements required to make a lightweight handset. 

Existing technologies use high resolution LCD to give the illusion of 3-D while actually displaying a 2-D image. Actual three dimensional imaging which includes a representation of depth information along with amplitude information is not being used in these cases. This patent addresses the issue of 3-D in mobile communication. 

The patent titled "Method and system for providing reliable and fast communications with mobile entities" proposes a mobile Internet Protocol-based solution to support generic mobility over heterogeneous networks. 

There are a number of problems to be overcome to support generic mobility over heterogeneous networks today. This solution leverages a split-TCP type approach where the TCP connection between the communication entities is split at a suitable gateway,it said. 

Seagate to ship 1 bn hard drives in 5 years      
June 04 , 2008 
SOURCE: PTI

NEW DELHI: Seagate Technology on Tuesday said it plans to ship one billion hard drives globally in the next five years. 

Seagate claims to be the first hard drive manufacturer worldwide to have shipped one billion hard drives till date. 

"Although it took 29 years for us to reach the 1 billion milestone, the company will ship its next billion in less than five years," Seagate Managing Director (Asia-Pacific) Ban Seng said. 

Seagates touches the billionth mark as the demand for hard drive shipments continue to increase. 

According to Gartner Group, last year alone over 500 million drives were shipped, compared to 1990, when slightly less than 30 million were shipped. The company is also betting big on the home users. The digital content explosion creates a huge demand for storage, he added. 

Analysts estimate that there are over 1 billion digital still and phone cameras in the world and that those devices accounted for 250 billion created images in 2006. It is predicted that user-generated content sites (like Flickr and YouTube) would produce 65 billion downloads and views by 2010. 

"Digital content proliferation is a long-term phenomenon," according to John Rydning, IDCs Research Director for hard drives. "This phenomenon is pushing demand for hard drives to more than 600 million units per year by 2010 and will continue to fuel hard drive demand in the decade ahead."

MindTree announces availability of software development kit     
June 04, 2008 
SOURCE: PTI

BANGALORE: MindTree Ltd, a global IT and R and D services company and provider of Bluetooth intellectual property (IP) solutions, on announced availability of its EtherMind Bluetooth Software Development Kit (SDK) for the automotive market targeting infotainment and Personal Navigation Devices (PNDs) 

With Bluetooth technology evolving rapidly, a new generation of Bluetooth enabled automotive infotainment and PNDs is emerging, a company release said. 

Product OEMs and Tier I suppliers are facing the dual challenge of having to keep pace with the latest specifications, while also assuring interoperability with the hundreds of phone models in the field. The Mindtree Bluetooth SDK helps to address this challenge. 

Backed by the Ethermind Bluetooth stack and a range of profiles, MindTree's SDK provides a high-level, easy-to-integrate proven package for automotive products. It manages the complexities of establishing and maintaining connections with multiple devices inside a car through a thoughtfully designed, multi-profile co-existence Bluetooth manager. 

Applications can exercise the services of the SDK through simple, high-level Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). At the same time, the SDK provides sufficient hooks for the applications to control and customize to customer needs. 

Supplementing this are the well-abstracted plug-in interfaces between the application components (such as Media Players) and HMI elements such as vicoe recognition (VR) or Text to Speech (TTS) and the Bluetooth SDK, it said.