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  • Bangalore gears up for Infovision 2005

    BANGALORE: Infovision 2005, the two-day annual global event, will start in Bangalore from 15 September. In it’s current avatar, the event is devoted to theme based panels on IT & Content Management, Knowledge Management, E-Publishing, Search Engines & Data Mining, E-Learning & Digital Libraries, Intellectual Property Rights.

    The event will witness several international and national speakers sharing their views. Over 500 delegates are expected to participate. Prominent personalities attending the seminar will include Council of Scientific & Industrial Research DG R. A. Mashelkar, Microsoft Research India MD P. Anandan, School of Information Science and University of Pittsburg, USA dean Ronald Larsen, states an official release.

    The seminar will conclude with its recommendations on Policy Framework for Information Society. The proceedings of InfoVision Summit will be brought out as a well edited White paper on “Information Sciences & Industry in India and the growth opportunities in the global mainstream”.

    India’s share in the global information market place which is estimated at over US$ 200 billion annually (textual and multimedia content for education and general information; excludes music and broadcast media) has not yet been assessed.

    This first ever event is organised by the International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT-B), Bangalore and, Informatics (India) Limited, Bangalore. Partnering with this event are several leading Government and corporate organizations such as – the Technology Information Programme, a unit of DSIR, Govt. of India, Dept. of Culture, Govt. of India, Cyber Media Services, International Data Corporation (IDG), Springer Science + Business Media, Germany and Blackwell Publishers, UK.

    The vision of this summit is to serve as a platform for the industry and academia to meet and shape the needs of the new information society. As the society transits towards the knowledge economy, information and knowledge become critical assets. Content becomes the key resource and, the hardware and software industries act as the backbone. India’s share in the global trade has doubled over the last decade. India’s spending on, education and knowledge creation is continuously growing corporate and academia leaders will provide insights into trends and developments for the Indian industry for developing a roadmap for content development for the global knowledge economy as per the official release for the event.

  • Cable in US gears up for multiple broadband services

    MUMBAI: The cable industry in the US is making massive investments to upgrade a nationwide broadband infrastructure for offering new interactive digital services.

    The sector has pumped in a capital expenditure of $10.13 billion in 2004, according to a report by National Cable & Telecommunications Association (NCTA). And in the period between 1996 and mid-2005 nearly $100 billion was invested, enabling cable operators to offer multiple broadband services including digital video, high-speed Internet, Video-on-Demand (VoD) and digital voice services.

    Supported by the infrastructure, the cable industry in the US is seeing a fast phase of growth. Cable’s high-speed Internet service attracted 22.2 million customers at the end of the first quarter of 2005, even as they faced stiff competition from digital subscriber line (DSL) services offered by telephone companies. Stepping up high-speed Internet access, operators are now offering downstream speeds of 5 mbps on their cable modems.

    “More than one-quarter of all cable households today subscribe to cable’s high-speed data service, and among those cable households with Internet access, nearly 30 per cent are cable modem customers,” says the NCTA report.

    “More than one-quarter of all cable households today subscribe to cable’s high-speed data service, and among those cable households with Internet access, nearly 30 per cent are cable modem customers,” says the NCTA report.

    As value add to cable Internet, operators are also offering features like integrated security suites, pop-up blocking and spam filtering, video e-mail, and specialised content.

    Digital cable customers have grown to 26 million while 3.5 million subscribers were taking telephone service from their local cable operators at the first quarter end of 2005. This included traditional circuit-switched telephone and more of Cable VoIP (Voice over Internet protocol) service. Kagan Research says VoIP subscribers increased from 587,000 in the fourth quarter of 2004 to 921,000 in the first quarter of 2005.

    Broadband services are offering wide diversity in choice and personalisation. “Cable in 2005 is seeking to perpetuate those benefits by swiftly bringing to market broadband-empowered and affordable services in a consumer friendly and socially responsible way,” the report says.