Briefing - Asia Information Technology

An executive briefing on information technology for Nov 26, 2004, prepared by Asia Pulse (http://www.asiapulse.com), the real-time, Asia-based wire with exclusive news, commercial intelligence and business opportunities. JAPAN TO LEAD IN AUTO, ELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGIES: SURVEY
TOKYO - Japan will remain competitive in cutting-edge automobile, information and electronics technologies in 2010, according to a survey by Nihon Keizai Shimbun Inc. and Mitsubishi Research Institute.

Among the 58 advanced technologies covered in the survey, 23 were thought to be competitive or somewhat competitive in 2010 by at least 50 per cent of the respondents. MSN MESSENGER SUFFERS KOREAN-LANGUAGE INPUT GLITCH

SEOUL - U.S. software giant Microsoft Corp.'s Korean unit said Friday some customers here have been unavailable to use Korean language fonts on its MSN Messenger program because of a software problem.

The glitch has left some customers unable to input Korean characters into the instant messaging program for the past 10 days, Microsoft Korea said after first denying for several days that problems existed. LG ENTERS SERVER SEGMENT TO FUEL GROWTH IN INDIA

MUMBAI - LG Electronics India Ltd Thursday announced its foray in the country's server segment to fuel growth and achieve an over 68 per cent rise in IT segment turnover at Rs 7.6 billion(US$168.9 million) in 2004.

"We plan to corner over 10 per cent of the Indian market this year itself and our entry level servers will fuel our pace," Deputy General Manager (product group head-IT products) R Maniknandan said when unveiling servers for small and medium businesses (SMBs). ORACLE, DELL JOIN HANDS FOR ONE-STOP COMPUTING SOLUTION IN INDIA

NEW DELHI - Extending an eight-year old global alliance in India, Oracle Software and Dell on Wednesday announced their partnership for the local market to offer a single point of contact for computing requirements.

With this partnership, it will be easier and more affordable for customers in India to deploy Oracle products on Dell servers running on Linux, Dinesh Pai, GM Dell India said. INDIAN, PAKISTAN BODIES TO SIGN MOU NEXT MONTH TO BOOST IT TRADE

NEW DELHI - Apex body of the Indian IT companies Nasscom would sign an MoU with the Pakistan Software Houses Association (P@SHA) to increase bilateral IT trade during the first ever IT summit between the two countries in Islamabad next month.

A delegation of 20 Indian IT companies, led by Nasscom Chairman Jerry Rao and President Kiran Karnik, would participate in the summit on December 16, a Nasscom statement said here today.

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