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REGULATORY BODIES & RULINGS: More talktime on pre-paid top-ups from Sept 15
TRAI initiates a slew of customer-friendly measures. New Delhi, Sept. 1 Starting September 15, pre-paid mobile subscribers in the country will not have to pay any processing fee for the recharge vouchers they buy; they will get talk time worth ...

HUMAN RESOURCES: Attrition rate in BPOs highest in the country at 23.5%: Report
New Delhi, Sept. 1 The attrition in the Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) industry is roughly 7.8 percentage points higher than other sectors, a report by global management consulting firm Hay Group said on ...

HUMAN RESOURCES: A third of Wipro staff may soon work from home
‘Convincing customers about the model a challenge’. Chennai, Sept. 1 The work-from-home culture is spreading so fast at Wipro Technologies Ltd that the software major expects that nearly a third of its employees will in future be ...

OUTLOOK: IT vendors feel the heat as US election nears
See dip in new customer wins; Nasscom forecasts 4% lower exports. Bangalore, Sept. 1 Indian IT vendors may see a decline in new client additions in the US, their largest market, ahead of the presidential elections, as potential customers ...

INTERNET: 7Seas launches gaming portal
Game developer 7Seas Technologies on Monday announced the launch of its mobile gaming portal www.mobzill.com, which will help people to post their content and also access its features. This portal will host ...

OUTSOURCING: SatNav, RT Outsourcing in pact
SatNav Technologies has announced it has tied up with RT Outsourcing as service partner with the latter having the mandate to serve SatNav GPS device customers. RT Outsourcing, based in Okhla, New Delhi, has over 3,500 people managing a call ...

SOFTWARE: Bartronics gets new certification
Bartronics India has informed BSE that the company has received the DESFire Certification. This certification entitles Bartronics to be among select few global manufacturers to be certified by Arsenal Research for DESFire, making it eligible for ...

OFF-SHORE DEVELOPMENT: Globe7 office in San Francisco
Globe7 Americas Inc, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Honk Kong-based Globe 7 HK Ltd, and part of Northgate Technologies, has announced it has opened office in San Francisco, US. The new office is aimed at offering advertising and business ...

OUTLOOK: Patni expects to double revenues from domestic market soon
Mumbai, Sept. 1 City-based Patni Computer Systems has joined the list of IT firms aspiring to capture a major slice of the domestic IT outsourcing market. The country’s sixth largest software exporter expects revenues from servicing ...

SOFTWARE: Calsoft to divest stake in Japan co
Chennai, Sept. 1 California Software Company Ltd (Calsoft) will divest its 66 per cent equity stake in the Japan-based Codex Ltd, a trading solutions provider whose customers include Itochu Petroleum ...

INTERNET: Dialajob plans to expand operations
Bangalore, Sept. 1 Dialajob, a phone-based job search engine, which has launched its services in Mumbai, Bangalore and Hyderabad plans to extend this to Pune, Chennai, Delhi and Kolkota before the end of the year. ...

IT TRAINING: EdServ launches job-linked learning course
Chennai, Sept. 1 EdServ Softsystems Ltd, an education and placement company, has launched LAMPS (Learning, Assessment, Management, Placement System), a Web-based e-learning solution. Using the company’s HEADS (Humanware Education And ...

EVENTS: ‘Connected society’ needed for inclusive development
Chennai, Sept. 1 There is a need to integrate different sections of the society for an inclusive development of the country. A ‘connected society’ is required to facilitate focusing on different technological and social issues ...

From eWorld

E-GOVERNANCE: `Going steady, guv'
Amidst all the slowdown talk in the tech industry, one sector appears unaffected -e-governance. eWorld chats up players in this space..

E-GOVERNANCE: Of models and money
Given that e-governance deals come in all sizes and shapes, as it were, what are the models operational in this space?For mission-mode projects, deal sizes are in the Rs 200-Rs 300 crore range; they would generally be projects spread over ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: An i on this phone
Apple’s iPhone feels slim and broad in your hands and generally lives up to the hype surrounding it.. I was very sceptical at first, but now I’m totally sold on it,” confided the excited sales executive in the O2 showroom in ...

INTERNET: Happy watching


BOOKS: When three forces collide…
…and they are people, technology and economics, a lot of things start happening. Catch the action.. People, technology, and economics. When these three forces collide, the result is Groundswell, the title of a new book from ...

INTERVIEW: Do more with less...
...by using Virtualisation. VMware on the concept and its business implications.. Talk of doing more with less and the term that pops up is ‘Virtualisation.’ eWorld chatted with Ganesh Mahabala, Regional Director of VMware India and ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: No getting away from IT
Consolidated Cybernetics says its smart campus initiative taps the mobile to keep parents in the know.. Remember those heady college days when one tried to keep both parents and teachers in the dark…And proxy attendance was something ...

INTERVIEW: Open opportunity
Red Hat on trends in the open source software space.. What is hot in the open source software scene? eWorld chatted with Gery Messer, President, Red Hat Asia Pacific, for an update. Here ...

INTERVIEW: `Weekend start-up'
Sashi Chimala was probably among the first 100 engineers to be shipped from India to work onsite in the IT (information technology) industry in the US. His first assignment was with Burroughs Corporation (later renamed Unisys). This was almost ...

CYBER QUEST: Quiz
V.V. Ramanan. 1. Name the feature that Mozilla is bringing to Firefox 3.1 that would dramatically speed up programs written in ...

COMPUTER USAGE: Disk Cleanup in Windows XP
The ‘Disk Cleanup’ menu features ‘Compress Old File’. What are these files and how do they get generated? ...

CARTOON: Cartoon
“It’s scientific! We ignore the planetary positions and go by the positions of the ...






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