Expansion

Canon Opens Professional Center at Chennai

Canon India has announced the launch of Canon Professional Center at
Chennai. Canon has tied up with a leading photography training institute,
Ambitions 4 Photography, in Chennai to provide training facilities for two hours
every first and third Saturday to the Digital Compact camera customers and for
four hours every second Saturday to the Canon Edge members purchasing Canon DSLR
cameras respectively.

BT Opens Global Operations Center in India

BT has announced the opening of its global operations center at Gurgaon. The
center will execute processes for various BT lines of business in addition to
providing functional support to group functions such as procurement, legal,
finance, and human resources. The center will employ up to 300 professionals. BT
accounts for 2% of Indias $50 bn IT and BPO exports, and is planning to source
more over the years.

PacNet to Address Bandwidth Demand in India

PacNet, a leading telecom services provider, formed by the operational merger of
Asia Netcom and Pacific Internet, has reiterated its commitment to address the
bandwidth requirement of India and Asia as a whole. In India, PacNet has applied
for ILD and NLD licenses. The company plans to expand its coverage and enhance
capacity through strategic alliances with key partners. PacNet will also deploy
IP and IPVPN nodes across the country.

Livemocha Adopts Social Networking Approach

Livemocha, a Seattle-based next generation language learning company makes entry
into India by offering a host of foreign and English language services for
individual and corporate users. Livemocha, backed by Maveron, is a unique
Web-based language learning solution, integrating online instructional content
with a global community of language learners. The portal is based on the social
networking/user community concept that provides an ideal platform to learn
English and other foreign languages through the help of native language speakers
all over the world.

TCS Inaugurates North America Delivery Center

TCS has announced the opening of its North America delivery center called TCS
Seven Hills Park. Located in Milford, the facility sits on 220 wooded acres and
is the largest TCS facility in North America. TCS hosted a grand opening of the
new facility, which includes 200,000 sq ft of office space and can accommodate
up to 1,000 TCS associates. The facility will serve as the primary software
development and delivery center for North American customers.

Sahara Computers Focuses on Eastern India

Sahara Computers, a South African PC giant and one of the leading players in
the IT and hardware sectors, is looking at further strengthening its focus on
the eastern market. The company has some rigorous plans for carrying out
activities like carnivals, road shows, and service camps to further penetrate
the market and bring PC awareness. Sahara Computers will focus on the all the B,
C and D class cities and towns in eastern India. The company has already
organized carnivals in Kolkatta and adjoining areas and the response for the
same was magnificent.

InfoVision in Chennai

Delhi-based InfoVision has opened its new facility in Chennai and plans to
invest Rs 50-100 crore in the southern region by 2010. The company plans to
expand into tier-2 and 3 cities like Mysore, Coimbatore, and Kochi. The new
facility is spread across 50,000 sq ft and would accommodate over 1,000
employees by 2008-end.

ECI Opens New RBU

ECI Telecom, a provider of networking infrastructure, has created a new regional
business unit (RBU) to encompass India, Sri Lanka, and Nepal. Kiran Pande, the
current manager of the Indian country office, will head the new unit. ECI said
that the companys operations in the region have been growing steadily for the
past few years and this move reflects the growing importance of these countries
for the company.

SIS Opens US Subsidiary

Stellar Information Systems (SIS), the industrys leading and most-advanced
provider of data recovery products and services, is now setting up its
subsidiary office in New Jersey, in the east coast of the US. Stellar is the
first Indian data recovery company to open an office in the US. The company will
also set up a Class 100 Clean Room at this location.

Jivox to Operate in India

California-based Jivox has announced the commencement of its Indian
operationsJivox Software Indiathrough a sales and development office in
Bangalore. The company is now all set to launch its unique online video
advertising service for the Indian market. Headed by Naren Nachiappan, MD,
India, the Bangalore center would house the core sales and marketing team as
well as the development team.