BRIEFING - ASIA INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY - APRIL 6, 2011.

An executive briefing on information technology for April 6, 2011, prepared by Asia Pulse (http://www.asiapulse.com), the real-time, Asia-based wire with exclusive news, commercial intelligence and business opportunities.

S.KOREA'S DAISHIN SECURITIES SIGNS ONLINE DEAL WITH INDON BROKER

SEOUL - Daishin Securities Co. (KSE:003540), a South Korean brokerage firm, said Wednesday that it forged a partnership on online stock trading with the brokerage unit of Indonesia's largest state-run bank.

Under the deal with Mandiri Sekuritas, Daishin Securities will set up an online stock trading system for the Indonesian firm and also provide maintenance and consulting services, the brokerage said in an e-mailed statement.

CHINA'S ELEC, IT PRODUCTS IMPORT, EXPORT VALUE UP 22% IN JAN-FEB

BEIJING - China's import and export value of electronics and IT products reached US$152 billion in the first two months of 2011, posting an increase of 22 per cent year on year and representing 30.7 per cent of the nation's total foreign trade value, according to statistics from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT).

However, the growth rates of the imports and exports retreated remarkably, due mainly to the seven-day holiday of traditional Chinese New Year (Feb. 2-8).

CHINA'S SOFTWARE INDUSTRY SEES JAN-FEB REVENUES RISE 23.8%

BEIJING - China's software industry's revenue climbed 23.8 per cent year on year to 216.7 billion yuan (US$33.14 billion) in the first two months of 2011. The growth marked a 0.4-percentage point expansion from the same period of last year.

Meanwhile, the industry created profits of 27.15 billion yuan, up 31 per cent year on year, and the growth rate was 20.1 percentage points higher than the same period of 2010.

S. KOREA'S SK C&C EYES US$5.5 BLN IN SALES IN 2020

SEOUL - SK C&C Co. (KSE:034730), South Korea's third-largest provider of technology service, said Wednesday that it is aiming to post 6 trillion won (US$5.5 billion) in sales and 1 trillion won in operating profit in 2020.

The company also is targeting 1.75 trillion won in revenue this year, up about 18 per cent from a year ago and 2.1 trillion won in sales in 2012, it said.

TURKEY'S INDEX GROUP GROWS 10.3 % IN 2010

ISTANBUL - Turkey's Index Group, working on informatics sector, grew 10.3 per cent and posted an annual turnover of US$1.1 billion in 2010.

Index Computer, Datagate, Neotech, Neteks, Homend and Artim Computer are operating under the auspices of the Index Group, which has a total of 382 personnel.

N. KOREA MASTERMINDED MARCH CYBER ATTACKS: S. KOREAN POLICE

SEOUL - South Korean police said Wednesday that North Korea was behind the massive cyber attacks that severely slowed and disrupted dozens of South Korean government and business Web sites last month.

The Web sites of about 30 key South Korean government agencies, including the presidential office Cheong Wa Dae, and financial institutions came under a so-called distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on March 4, with about 100,000 "zombie" computers swamping sites by simultaneously seeking access to them.

CHINA TABLET COMPUTER MARKET TO SEE HEATED COMPETITION

BEIJING - China's tablet computer market is expected to see increasingly fierce competition as more players, particularly global giants, enter the field.

Among the new players are Motorola, who launched its XOOM tablet in China on March 31.

JAPAN'S ASAHI NET TO SELL CLOUD-BASED LEARNING SYSTEM IN U.S.

TOKYO - Asahi Net Inc. (TSE:3834) will market to U.S. universities its education support system that uses cloud computing as a teaching tool.

Dubbed manaba, the system enables teachers to set up networking forums for each course, conduct quizzes, receive reports and post grades through Internet-linked remote servers.

S.KOREA TO LAUNCH ONLINE EDUCATION PROGRAM ON DOKDO ISLETS

SEOUL - South Korea will launch an online education program next week to inform teachers about the country's easternmost islets of Dokdo, a countermeasure against Japan's renewed territorial claims, a Seoul ministry said Tuesday.

The Ministry of Education, Science and Technology said it has recently developed the program intended to provide teachers with detailed information about Dokdo for use in classrooms such as the origin of its name, history, natural environment, resources, Japan's territorial claims and related international law.

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