Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
Search kingpin Google is planning to set up back-office operations at a special economic zone in Andhra Pradesh in India and the investment could go as high as $1 billion, government officials say.
The company’s proposal has been cleared by the Indian government’s Board of Approvals.
The company is said to be planning a server farm in the country. This
is the second attempt by the company, after infrastructure-related
problems forced it to locate its server farm elsewhere earlier this
year.
Though no further details of the project are available, industry
sources say that the Indian centre will be the company's second such
facility in Asia and seventh globally.
Google will store all the data from its users – right form e-mails,
blogs, photos, documents and chat records, and make it available to
users when they demand it. A local server will allow users to access
the internet faster and also save on access costs from international
locations when volumes are likely to increase.
According to Juxt Consulting, Google is still behind when it comes to
brand recall when compared to Yahoo! but has been rapidly catching up
when it comes to its email user base.
Today, storage capabilities of software firms has become a major issue
and individual data centre operators and giants like Microsoft and
Yahoo are investing billions in building bigger and faster datacenters.
Other investments cleared by the Board of Approvals
Other foreign investments cleared included Dell’s and Accenture’s.
Dell’s investment is also likely to be made in Andhra Pradesh, while
Accenture is looking at Karnataka. While Dell has 12,000 people
currently in its four centers in India (this is likely to increase to
over 20,000 in the next two and a half years), Accenture has a huge
workforce of around 20,000 people across India.
The others in the list includes Cisco, SAP, Intel, AMD and Microsoft committing over $1 billion-plus investments.
The proposals of several large Indian IT firms for setting up SEZs
which were also cleared, included two zones of Infosys in Pune and
Mysore, and proposals of Wipro, HCL, Cognizant and NIIT.
A knowledge city being set up by technocrats in Bangalore was also approved.
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