The Hindu Business Line : Monday, February 20, 2006

Will software gobble up the accountant?
"TAX as a profession has no future," said Jerry participating in a corporate training programme. TP, one of India's foremost tax professionals, smiled. He had made a bundle out of tax practice, but now a ... More

INFRASTRUCTURE

The die is cast
India's decision to locate its maiden semiconductor fabrication plant in Hyderabad signals its entry into the manufacturing league. Is this the right moment to go for the `Made in India' tag? Team eWorld gets cracking on the questions and answ ers thrown up by the move. More

Flextronics Chennai park to be ready by Aug — In talks with about 25 suppliers for setting up units
FLEXTRONICS has said that the industrial park in Chennai, for which it had announced plans last year, will begin operations by August 2006. Speaking to an Indian media contingent after a tour of its manufacturing facilities in Doumen, China, ... More

SOFTWARE

Tata Elxsi unit played key role in Hindi blockbuster
THE Bangalore-based Tata Elxsi's animation division, Visual Computing Labs, played a key role in providing computer-generated imagery for the Hindi film, Rang de Basanti. From the beginning scene of a diary, where a character's ... More

INTERNET

NowPos unveils voicemail service
NOWPOS Online Services, a Hyderabad-based technology start-up, has announced the launch of what it claimed was the first voicemail service in the world. Just as one registers for e-mail from an e-mail service provider, one has to register at More

HUMAN RESOURCES

Horses that pull the plough of economic progress
HOW TO get better performance from knowledge workers? This is the question that Thomas H. Davenport answers in Thinking for a Living, from Harvard Business School Press (www.HBSPress.org). Knowledge workers have been around us as ... More

Now, campus hiring starts a year ahead
THEY come calling earlier and earlier. IT companies, whose mainstay talent comes from campus recruits (almost 50-60 per cent in biggies such as Infosys, Wipro and TCS), are landing in colleges in March-April this year to recruit students from the ... More

ISPS

Magnum International applies for ISP licence
MAGNUM International Ltd, a group company of Magnum Steel, is all set to enter the Internet service provider (ISP) business. The company has applied for an ISP licence and hopes to start its operations around the beginning of next financial ... More

EVENTS

Drawing on software
Do those words ring a bell? Sure, they should, coming from Star Trek. How simple it was to transport human beings from one spot to another in a TV soap. To do that even today remains in the realm of science fiction. Recently, according ... More

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