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OUTLOOK: Vendors likely to see stunted growth on Lehman, Merrill woes
Expect more short-term weakness as financial industry consolidates. Bangalore Sept. 15 Beleaguered Indian IT vendors are expected to see a stunted growth as banking crisis worsened in the US with Lehman Brothers declaring bankruptcy, while ...

IT TRAINING: Educomp teams up with Intel, Dell, Acer to drive tech revolution
Bids for educational projects at 9,000 Govt schools. New Delhi, Sept. 15 Educomp Solutions Ltd has partnered with Intel, Dell and Acer to drive up the use of technology into classroom teaching and learning in schools across India. The company ...

HARDWARE: Notebooks, servers record robust growth: MAIT
Desktop sales sluggish in first quarter. New Delhi, Sept. 15 Personal computer sales, including desktops and notebooks, have crossed 2 million units during April-June quarter this fiscal, registering a growth of 70 per cent over the same period ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: BSNL in pact with C&W for infrastructure sharing
New Delhi, Sept. 15 Cable&Wireless India has announced that it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd for sharing each others long distance ...

OUTSOURCING: HCL in talks to buy captive BPOs
Mumbai, Sept. 15 HCL Technologies has plans to acquire three or four captive BPOs in the banking and financial services space in the Asia-Pacific region, a senior official with the company ...

OFF-SHORE DEVELOPMENT: Jetking plans training centres in China, Nigeria
Mumbai, Sept. 15 Jetking Infotrain, the city-based computer hardware and networking institution, is expanding its wings to China ...

SOFTWARE: MindTree sets up excellence centre for testing services
IT and R&D services provider MindTree Technologies Ltd said it has set up a new Centre of Excellence (COE) for its testing services using Hewlett-Packard’s application quality management tools at an initial investment ...

ALLIANCES & JOINT VENTURES: Atom Tech ties up with BPO firm
Mumbai, Sept. 15 Atom Technologies, the digital retail unit of the city based Financial Technologies Group, and BPO firm Plat 5 have joined hands for offering loyalty programmes to the credit card holders of various ...

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SOFTWARE: Watt’s the good word!
Tech players are keeping a watchful eye on the ticking energy meter so as to go ‘green with efficiency.’. Quick, how much power do you save by switching off all those unrequired systems? Enough to keep the computer plus two servers ...

SECURITY: Seal of safety
A simple security tape and label on cargo moving continental distances can be a cost-effective and practical deterrent against theft and terror. Some companies in Europe, for example Tesa Bandfix AG, have developed such a package tape and ...

INTERVIEW: Smart learning
Valued Epistemics says it uses technology to make the teaching process more productive.. Chennai-based learning and mobile technology company Valued Epistemics Private Ltd (VEPL), through Wizdom.in, offers online learning programmes to develop ...

BOOKS: Share data seamlessly
Enabling the police and passport office to share information makes e-governance effective.. The NeGP (National e-Governance Programme) is a huge initiative, but there has been much duplication and several interoperability issues, observes one ...

INTERVIEW: Keen to catch `em young
Virgin Mobile India? on how business is taking off and why it is targeting youth.. Virgin Mobile, part of Sir Richard Branson's $24-billion diversified Virgin Group, has over 15 million subscribers globally and is looking at garnering 10 per ...

INTERNET: More chrome for your reading pleasure
Are your eyes blinded by all that chrome? Yes, I mean the Google Chrome ...

INTERNET: Do all PCs lead to Chrome?
Google’s new browser is a breeze, by and large, despite some niggles.. I have been playing with Google Chrome for some days now and am quite happy with it, except for a few niggles here and there, which makes me go back to Firefox every ...

CYBER QUEST: Quiz
1. What had its genesis at #232, Santa Margarita Avenue, Menlo ...

CARTOON: Cartoon
“Rao, Murthy and Kumar are all busy. But you may have Bach, Beethoven or Mozart as I put you ...






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