The Hindu Business Line : Wednesday, September 03, 2008

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HUMAN RESOURCES: Nasscom plans to prepare ‘career guide’
To help students know what the industry needs. Hyderabad, Sept. 2 The National Association of Software and Services Companies (Nasscom) announced that it plans to come up with a comprehensive career guide to assist students and professionals ...

NEW PROJECTS: Wipro sets up centre for Harman
To develop product, technologies. Bangalore, Sept. 2 Wipro Ltd has set up an embedded engineering centre for US-based Harman International Industries Inc, to jointly develop products and technologies for the maker of audio and infotainment ...

VENTURE CAPITAL: Nivio to raise $12-15 m to fund growth
Hyderabad, Sept. 2 Nivio SA, promoters of Nivio, a service that allows subscribers to rent software applications from companies including Microsoft and Adobe, is looking at raising $12-15 million to fund its expansion ...

NEW BUSINESS: UTStarcom gets IPTV contract
UTStarcom has bagged a contract from Aksh Optifibre Ltd. to deploy Internet Protocol TV (IPTV) solution in 20 cities on Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd's broadband network. The IPTV offering which will be made available to more than 250,000 BSNL ...

SOFTWARE: Realisation to improve for IT companies
Re depreciation to help in dollar-denominated revenues. The depreciation of the rupee to Rs 44.5 levels, by 13.2 per cent since January this year, against the dollar might improve realisations for Indian IT companies. ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Idea’s Onam offer
Idea Cellular Ltd has launched a special recharge offer for its prepaid customers as part of the Onam celebration in Kerala. In addition to lifelong validity, all existing and new prepaid customers recharging for Rs 296 will get Rs 100 free as ...

SOFTWARE: Convergys mulls biz rejig
Convergys Corporation has announced that its board of directors and senior management team are evaluating a potential separation of the company’s Information Management business from the remaining streams of ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Tata Tele, least congested network
The Tata Teleservices’ mobile network is the least congested among pan India operators, according to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India’s report. In the report for the April-June quarter, Tata Teleservices network has only 5 ...

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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