R&D HUB Hyderabad Updates

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This thread will keep Info of R&D in Hyderabad

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http://www.hindu.com/2011/02/10/stor...1066652200.htm

Microsoft gearing up to launch Bing, Windows 7 phone

The team at India Development Centre is contributing to the development of Windows 7 phone

HYDERABAD: Microsoft is gearing up to formally launch its search engine Bing in the Indian market. The Information Technology giant has announced plans to introduce its much-hyped Windows 7 phone in the domestic market, but the date of the formal launch has not been finalised yet.

Microsoft India (R&D) Managing Director Amit Chatterjee said Bing would be an altogether different experience of users. “It will not just be a search engine, but will be a decision making engine, promising different experience to users. It is sure to give a different digital experience to users,” he said.

In his maiden interaction with reporters after taking over as the Managing Director of the Microsoft's largest development centre outside the U.S., Mr. Chatterjee allayed apprehensions from a section of the industry that the company could not position its product effectively in the Indian market. Microsoft was always quick, but “we do not want to rush with things” as several factors including the user experience should be considered by bringing out the product.

Strategy

The company was, therefore, factoring several issues before formally announcing the date of launch of the much-hyped Windows 7 phone although it was ready with a broad strategy to make forays into the market. “The date has not yet been finalised, but the product is sure to hit the market later this year,” he said.

The response for the Windows 7 phone in the markets where it was launched was extremely positive. Nine of the ten users were reportedly recommending the product to others as the availability of applications was the key factor that differentiates the phone.

Applications

“There is an ecosystem for the applications which number about 7,000 in addition to a 20,000 strong developers' community,” he said.

Explaining about the ongoing efforts to bring out new applications, he said almost 100 applications were being added to the App Store on a daily basis with users downloading at least one application everyday, reflecting the levels of acceptance of the product.

The mobile applications team of the India Development Centre was contributing to the development of the Windows 7 phone.

A couple of devices capable of supporting the Windows 7 phone had already been launched and the company officials claim that the new product was not for the regular mass markets.

Head count

Replying to queries, he said the IDC, with a head count of 1,600, so far participated in 270 patents and the effort had been to ensure that the products developed here offered a game changing experience to the customers.

[Babji]

nice thread! Thanks for the initiative, @rizwan3

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http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/...cle1327407.ece

Microsoft makes gaming easier

Mr Amit Chatterjee, Managing Director of Microsoft India (R&D)
Hyderabad, Feb. 10:

When 11-year-old Anindu plays games on the computer or the TV using controller and no-controller gaming devices, his 45-year-old mother is puzzled how these children can quickly grasp those complex operations.

Microsoft says people, regardless of their age and understanding of technology, can play by just gesturing with their hands, legs and head. Also, they can quickly select from a variety of entertainment options in television, Internet and video library.

“Controllers have always puzzled some people. Now they can forget about that hassle. They can watch TV and video, play games and browse Internet as we converge technologies. We are offering entertainment options in the living rooms,” Mr Amit Chatterjee, Managing Director of Microsoft India (Research and Development) Private Ltd, said citing the example of Xbox Kinetic.

“We have sold 80 lakh units of Xbox Kinetic globally in a few weeks after its launch. It is not just a gaming platform,” he said.

With regard to Microsoft's Windows 7 phone, he said the product might be introduced in India in the next few months. He, however, has not answered on the specific plan for release and the price point. “The phone has been received well with 20,000 developers from across the globe working on applications. There are about 7,000 applications,” he said.

Addressing a press conference here, Mr Chatterjee, who has taken over as the MD after Mr Srini Koppolu quit the post two months ago, said the IDC centre focussed on Office Mobile applications and Bing (the search platform).

“We would like to position Bing as a decision engine and not just the search engine,” he said.

[rizwan3]

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/c...ow/7536280.cms

AP to get two defence R&D units soon

GUNTUR: Minister of state for defence M M Pallam Raju said on Sunday that two units of defence research would come up in Visakhapatnam and Hyderabad shortly. Arms manufacturing depots would also form part of these new units.

He said the government had cleared a missile project for naval forces, which would be commissioned by September this year. He said that with the new project in place, the Indian Navy would be one of few forces in the world to possess such technology.

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http://www.pharmabiz.com/NewsDetails...id=61712&sid=1

Seventeen cos graduate from IKP Knowledge Park, moves to own facilities
Gireesh P K, Hyderabad
Saturday, March 05, 2011, 08:00 Hrs [IST]

Seventeen companies have graduated from the IKP Knowledge Park, a joint venture between the ICICI group and Andhra Pradesh government, in Genome Valley, near Hyderabad, and moved to their own facilities, it is learnt.

The IKP Knowledge Park, a purely Research and Development (R&D) park established in 1999, has so far promoted 45 R&D based companies, 17 of which have graduated and moved into their own facilities. Currently the park has 29 companies working in various areas of pharma, biotech and chemistry. A couple of companies are expected to graduate in the next one year and move into own facilities. Several new companies have come in place of the graduated companies. Ras Life Science is latest company to occupy space in the park.

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http://www.sify.com/finance/dental-s...mb6yfheef.html

Dental stem cell bank opened
BS Reporter | 2011-03-12 01:32:00

Stemade Biotech, countrys first private dental stem cell bank, is planning to open a research and development (R&D) centre, with an investment of Rs 40-60 crore by next year.

The company was looking at Pune and Hyderabad for setting up the R&D centre, Stemade managing director Shailesh Gadre said launching its fifth dental stem cell bank here today.

The dental stem cell bank provides options to store a childs stem cells from the milk tooth and from the wisdom tooth for the adults.

Stemades dental stem cell bank service is available at 15 clinics each at Mumbai and Delhi, and at 6-8 clinics each in Pune and Bangalore. In Hyderabad, the service is available at six clinics. The cost of preservation of dental stem cells is up to Rs 1 lakh. It costs around Rs 60,000 for initial processing and additional Rs 6,000 per annum for storage.

[Prodigist]

Powerwave to add 100 staff at its Hyd R&D lab

Powerwave Technologies R&D India, a unit of California-based electronics products company of the same name, plans to recruit 100 engineers for its Indian operations by the end of 2011, to add to its existing headcount of 250.

The Hyderabad facility, which opened in June 2008, focuses on design of wireless telecom products, and recently won the 'Best Startup Indian Company' award for the year 2009 -10 awarded by ITSAP (IT and ITeS Industry Association of Andhra Pradesh) at the Advantage AP meet.

The 54,000-sft facility includes labs for advanced test instrumentation, environmental screening capabilities, and indoor antenna test range. The company said in a press release that its extensive use of simulation and analysis tools like Matlab, Solid Works and CAD tools for PCB (printed circuit board) layout delivers designs that work the first time.

Powerwave Technologies R&D India has a collaboration programme with Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), where the Powerwave Centre of Excellence is engaged in research on upcoming technologies in the wireless space. The company also runs an advanced research programme jointly with BITS to develop intellectual property with the latter’s PhD scholars.

As part of infrastructure expansion at the facility, a world-class prototype shop will be created this year to enable quick design turnaround.

According to Powerwave vice president (global engineering)Ezmarai Arbab, its products and solutions are used by operators around the globe, including AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, Sprint in North America, Vodafone, Orange, Bouygues Telecom, Raycom, Telefonica in Europe, and several in the Asia-Pacific region.

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http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/...cle1569041.ece

Communications co Polycom to step up India operations
Hyderabad, March 24:

California-based Polycom, a global leader in unified communications solutions, is sharpening focus on its Indian operations, with plans to set up an assembly unit and expanding its R&D centre in Hyderabad.

“India is an important market for us, with exciting opportunities in the video-conferencing and tele-conferencing segments. Growth for these solutions is coming from small and medium enterprises, apart from government agencies. We plan to step up our operations here,” Mr Andrew M. Miller, President and CEO of the company, told Business Line.

The company will be setting up an assembly unit to cater to the Indian and neighbouring markets soon. “We are looking at Hyderabad and a few other cities for the proposed assembly unit,” he said. He, however, did not disclose the investment that would be required for setting up the unit.

Innovation Development Centre

The Innovation Development Centre (IDC) in Hyderabad, which is one of Polycom's three R&D centres in the Asia Pacific region, is also being expanded. “The centre at present has 100 professionals on the rolls and this will be doubled by early 2012,” Mr Miller said.

The centre is engaged in development of innovative unified communication products and solutions for Polycom's portfolio of voice and video communication solutions for mobile, desktop and conferencing applications. The facility was awarded the Best Startup Offshore Development Centre at the IT & ITES Industry Association of AP meet earlier this month.

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http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/...cle1692183.ece

R&D arm continues to pay rich dividends to BHEL

Hyderabad April 12:

State-owned Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd's (BHEL) corporate R&D efforts continue to bring home rich dividends for the company, both in the form of contribution to its turnover and development of new components that enhance operational efficiencies.

Its corporate R&D division, headquartered in Hyderabad, with a chain of smaller facilities across the country, contributed about Rs 7,758 crore to the company's total turnover of Rs 43,451 crore last fiscal.

Now, the division is in the process of rolling out new equipment for power plants, including nuclear, solar and wind power units, apart from getting full-fledged into developing components using nano technology that will help enhance operational efficiency of the Indian power sector.

“Our corporate R&D expenditure last year was Rs 1,005 crore, up from Rs 900 crore in the previous fiscal. We filed a total of 303 Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) applications and came out with 62 developments last fiscal,” Dr H.S. Jain, Executive Director, said.

The division is in the process of setting up two new Centres of Excellence, dealing with advanced transmission system and advanced energy material, in Hyderabad at a cost of Rs 20 crore this fiscal.

It is stepping up its activities in the nano technology sector, with a specialised Centre for Nano Technology (CNT) coming up in Hyderabad at a cost of Rs 8.30 crore. “We will be working on new components using nano technology that provides better conductivity. The CNT will have facilities for nano fabrication and nano power synthesis, which will impart ‘future ready' status to BHEL in the areas of ultra supercritical and renewable power,” Dr Jain told press persons here.

Solar power

In the solar power sector, the division is developing a new Solar Thermal Sun Tracker, as an alternative to the currently used electro-magnetic devices. “The new component can ensure that solar panels see the sun throughout the day automatically. The system for 20 watt PV modules automatically tracks the sun from east to west in a single axis and again turns to east in the next morning. This will significantly increase efficiency of solar panels,” Dr Jain said.

In the nuclear power sector, the division is developing nuclear steam generator (NSG) of 700 MWe rating that will improve operational efficiency and reduce the overall height of the steam generator. “Our efforts recently resulted in us getting orders from NPCIL for supply of eight 700 MWe NSGs,” according to Dr Jain.

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http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/...ow/8366640.cms

16 May, 2011, 04.15PM IST,PTI
MSN Laboratories to foray into pain management market with launch of painkiller 'Tapentadol'


HYDERABAD: MSN Laboratories Limited, a city- based research oriented pharma company, today said it will foray into the pain management market with the launch of 'Tapentadol' a pain killer under brand name Tapal in Indian market, a top company executive said today.

According to MSN Reddy, chairman MSN Labs , the drug was developed by the company for the first time in India and the results of phase-III trials of the drug have shown that it would work better than the current acute pain relieving drugs.

"We expect to clock revenues of up to Rs 100 crore in the next 3-4 years from Tapal," Reddy told media persons here.

He said the market for pain killers in the country is around Rs 3,500 crore.

Reddy said currently 10 to 12 drugs are under research and development and the company will centralise R&D activities in a new facility being developed near Hyderabad with an investment of Rs 100 crore.

MSN currently has five manufacturing units, one facility for finished dosage and a dedicated R&D centre. The company so far has filed over 100 Indian and over 40 international patents.

The company has also filed nearly 80 drug master files for the USA, Canada and European markets, Reddy said.

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GlobalLogic Inc has acquired Hyderabad-based Rofous Software Private Limited, a product and content engineering company.

The deal will help GlobalLogix to expand its presence in India and will add content engineering to its portfolio. The deal will take GlobalLogic's global workforce from about 4,000 employees to more than 5,500.

http://www.dealcurry.com/20110525-Gl...s-Software.htm

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Researchers at the Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), Hyderabad, have developed an automated evaluation system that makes it possible for computers to assess “long and subjective-type” answers.

Till now, automated evaluation has been limited to assessing only objective-type answers.

The technology, which uses the Natural Language Processing (NLP) method to understand if a sentence makes sense, is capable of assessing essay-type answers within a few seconds with up to 99 per cent accuracy.

“This new technology is unique as it will assess long and subjective answers. It has been put to trial test and found to be successful. The marks or grades granted under automated evaluation is 95 to 99 per cent close to the marks or grades granted by human evaluation,” Vasudeva Verma, a member of the computer science faculty at IIIT Hyderabad who developed the technology with 20 researchers, told The Telegraph.

Evaluating subjective-type questions through computers has always been a challenge. The reason is computers fail to read and comprehend texts, Verma said. With the new technology, however, computers will be able to read and understand typed texts.

After understanding the texts, the computers will compare their “essence” with certain model answers and award marks accordingly.

“Instead of just matching the answer by words, the technology will help computers get the essence of the essay-type answers. The computers will have certain model answers (programmed in). They will then award marks or grades on the basis of how the essence conveyed in the answers is close to the model answers,” Verma said.

But a key part of evaluating content is syntax. While computers do have tools to correct spelling and grammar, they cannot differentiate between a sentence that makes sense and one that doesn’t. The NLP method takes care of this problem.

“(Using this method), the computer can pinpoint wrong words and meaningless sentences. If a text has a sentence like ‘banana ate my room’, the computer will recognise the fault in the sentence,” Verma said.

Verma said the technology had been tested on a trial basis at the Enhanced Education Centre of IIIT Hyderabad and been found “95 to 99 per cent” accurate.

“The technology cannot give 100 per cent accuracy in evaluation. But there is a very high degree of correlation with human evaluation. Its agreement with human evaluation is 95 to 99 per cent,” he said.

A big plus-point of the technology is that if it fails to comprehend a sentence, it will flash a question mark, seeking human intervention.

Verma said the technology had been commercialised recently by Setu Software, an incubating company of IIIT Hyderabad, which has approached several universities and school boards to adopt the method.

“This technology will save time, cost and effort. If you use multiple computers, the answer papers of lakhs of students can be assessed in a day and the results can be published in a short time,” Verma said.

He said school boards spend between Rs 100 and Rs 500 to evaluate a subjective answer paper and this cost could be reduced by using the new technology. Universities offering distance learning can also use this method for timely publication of results, Verma added.

Verma said the researchers took seven years to develop the technology, which will be made available in other Indian languages too.

An HRD ministry official said the development was a “significant step forward” in India’s plans to launch a virtual university in the next two years. “For starting a virtual university, we need to develop a system under which we can hold examinations online, evaluate automatically and publish results quickly. This automated evaluation technology is a significant step forward in starting a virtual university,” the official said.

The researchers at IIIT Hyderabad are now working on how the automated evaluation technology can be used to assess handwritten, essay-type answers. “It is possible to translate handwritten text to digital format. Now we are exploring whether handwritten answer papers can be translated to digital format and evaluated by this technology,” Verma said.

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Freescale opens R&D center in Hyderabad's Special Economic Zone

US basedFreescale Semiconductor has set up its India research and development centre in Hyderabad to drive innovation and development of solutions for the company's new platforms.

The company has established its centre here to take advantage of India's cost advantage and easy availability of technically skilled manpower.

Activity at the new facility is expected to deliver solutions that enhance Freescale's platform for applications including data center, security appliances, mobile wireless infrastructure and small business networking among other leading edge technologies.

"This new R&D center underscores our commitment to extending Freescale's market and
technology leadership in the networking space by delivering comprehensive, scalable and
secure solutions that help speed time-to-market and optimize the performance and cost
efficient advantages of our highly advanced Q or IQ and Power QUICC product families," said Senior Vice President & General Manager Dr. Lisa Su.

For more than a decade, Freescale has been driving innovation from its India Design Center. "The R&D in Hyderabad SEZ will continue to power innovative ideas and help foster connected intelligence engineered to change the world," said Ganesh Guruswamy, vice president and country manager, Freescale Semiconductor India Pvt. Ltd.

Freescale Semiconductor designs and manufactures embeddedsemiconductors for the automotive, consumer, industrial and networking markets. The company is based in Austin, Texas, and has design, research and development, manufacturing and sales operations around the world.

[rags123]

This proves Hyd is still a preferred IT destination after B'lore! I guess if Telangana issue is resolved it will bounce back and will show a better growth..

[sohail_Modern_indian]

Originally Posted by rags123

This proves Hyd is still a preferred IT destination after B'lore! I guess if Telangana issue is resolved it will bounce back and will show a better growth..

off coz, if telengana issue is resolved so many companies wants to enter city coz of the improving infrastructure in hyderabad, waitin for that day!!!!!!!!!

[sohail_Modern_indian]

Infotech Enter*prises Ltd, a global engineering services company, has signed a memorandum of und*e*rstan*ding (MoU) with Indian Instit*ute of Technology, Hyder*abad (IIT-H). The MoU was sign*ed by B Ashok Reddy, president – global HR and corporate affairs, Infotech Enter*prises Limited and Prof U B Desai, Director, IIT-H at Infotech’s facility in Mani*konda on Wednesday.

Infotech will undertake joint research and development (R&D) and consultancy projects with the involvement of faculty members of IIT-H.

Through this MoU, students of IIT-H would gain industrial exposure, internships, industrial visits and they can get engaged in live projects at Infotech. The company will also nominate its experts as adjunct faculty and in organizing special technical lectures at IIT-H campus. Besides, Infotech will extend its support in designing the curriculum for under-graduate and post-graduate programmes in order to enable the institute align with industry requirements.

B.V.R. Mohan Reddy, Chair*man and Managing Director, Infotech Enterprises Ltd, said that strong R&D capabilities and quality technical talent would be the key differentiators for success of the Indian engineering services industry in the competitive global arena.

[ygvjs2000]

agreed because Hyderabad is build with strong fundamentals.


off coz, if telengana issue is resolved so many companies wants to enter city coz of the improving infrastructure in hyderabad, waitin for that day!!!!!!!!![/QUOTE]

[Prodigist]

Now, an app that writes articles in a jiffy

Source: Business Line

Hyderabad, Sept. 20:
Imagine this. You have a 400-page annual report that you have to read and write a small report for investors but you have several other important things on hand to do. How about feeding that information to a cloud-based IT application and getting a concise summary of a few hundreds of words in a jiffy?

The auto text summarisation solution would scan documents, analyse content, find clusters of information and figure out meaning from these clusters before preparing an article, Mr Srini Koppolu, who joined Chairman of the start-up, SETU Software Systems, after quitting Microsoft India Development Centre as Managing Director, said.

“The automatic content generation solution has applications in education, healthcare and media industries,” Mr Srini, who also invested in this firm, said. There can be two variants of articles – abstractive one that gives a gist of documents with no verbatim quotes and extractive one that contains verbatim quotes. The engine learns tricks as use increases and fine-tunes output. The start-up, which was incubated and spun off at International Institute for Information Technology (IIIT-Hyderabad) works in the area of information access technologies. The firm, which reported a turnover of Rs 1 crore annually with 20 people working for it, has lined up 10 patent claims in this area.

It also developed a Semantifier (semantics is understanding meaning of words) that powers Enterprise Search solution. It can scan internal documents, which include PowerPoint, .doc, HTML and XL sheets, and pop up relevant answers,” Mr Prasad Pingali, co-founder and Chief Executive Officer, said. “It understands queries even if the content doesn't contain them. For example, companies can pose a query on employees who worked for MNCs. Even if their profiles do not contain the word, the engine understands the query and gives answers,” he said.
It also developed a local language search solution that helps people pick up answers in 70 languages, including several Indian languages.
Social media search

It built a Social Media Monitoring Platform that could mine opinions of consumers and summerise feedback on products and services of corporations. Companies such as Samsung, Rediff and Manipal Universal Learning have already started some of these solutions.

This is the second investment by Koppolu in his personal capacity, with the first being $350,000 (Rs 1.6 crore now) in Hyderabad-based, location-based mobile gaming startup, Mojostreet, in April.

[Prodigist]

Microsemi sees scope in space, Defence sectors

Source: Business Line

The US-based semiconductor firm Microsemi Corporation says lack of fab (chip fabrication) facilities in India is not a deterrent for development of the industry.

“Fab is good for ecosystem and will help fables firms. But it is not a deterrent,” Mr Esam Elashmawi, Vice-President of the US-based firm said.
Addressing a press conference here on Tuesday, he said several semiconductor companies in the US were fabless (which do not have fab facilities). He said the Indian market offered good promise for Microsemi.

“We see good opportunities in the space and Defence sectors.”
The Indian arm employed 110 at Hyderabad facility. It announced compliance of AS9100 Rev C tag, a quality system required for aviation, space, and Defence markets.