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IT-ENABLED SERVICES: Do Not Call Registry tastes limited success
Only 5% of mobile users registered. New Delhi, Oct 11 A year after it was launched to check unwanted telemarketing calls, the National Do Not Call Registry has received limited success. Only 18 million mobile subscribers have registered their ...

INTERNET: Some lessons from the dotcom crash
All said and done, when it comes to the stock market, it is the dotcom bubble that burst at the beginning of the new millennium that springs to mind. This fall did drive home an important tenet — valuations always matter, no matter how ...

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS: HCL Tech does not rule out new bidder for Axon
New Delhi, Oct. 11 Even as Infosys has withdrawn from the race to acquire Axon Group, HCL Technologies —currently the sole bidder for the UK-based SAP consulting firm — is still not ruling out the possibility of a third player ...

SECURITY: Satyam refutes reports on World Bank bar
Hyderabad, Oct. 11 Satyam Computer Services has refuted reports in the international media that World Bank has barred it from doing offshore work. The reports said the bank had taken this decision after noticing reported intrusions into ...

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TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Make music free — almost!
Recent initiatives may radically change the way popular music is financed and distributed. Anand Parthasarathy was in London to size up the latest in digital song downloads.. DRM is almost dead — Digital Rights Management, that is — ...

M-COMMERCE: Mobile ad: As you like it
It is not only pizzas that you can ask for to be delivered at your doorstep but also advertisements as per your choice. And hey presto! There they would be in your mobile phones, giving you all the latest information ...

INTERVIEW: ‘India was the obvious choice’
Emdeon on what it was looking for from its outsourcing vendor.. Why does a client outsource functions to India? What does he want from an Indian service provider? Quality? Inexpensive labour? How does he know the vendor qualifies? Do client ...

COMPUTER USAGE: Block annoying Ads
While browsing, don’t you wish you could simply block out all those annoying advertisements and ...

CYBER QUEST: Quiz
V.V. Ramanan. 1. In which five languages is Google Indic Transliteration ...

INTERVIEW: ‘Slowdown will last at least 3-4 quarters more’
BPO player Adventity is, however, unfazed and says it is on target to expand to 8,000 people.. Despite the hit that it has taken in the mortgage space (with contribution from mortgage business coming down from 20 per cent to 12 per cent), the ...

BOOKS: Search engines as publishers
This role throws up some ticklish legal questions too.. The conflict between making something ‘freely available’ and doing so in a way that makes it ‘free of cost’ to the user remains an issue, observes Richard Balkwill ...

INTERNET: Too big to understand
Still not get able to get a hold on the scale of the turmoil in the financial markets worldwide? Here’s a round-up of some visual and interactive representations of the crisis from around the Web. First up, here’s a late-2007 ...

SOFTWARE: ‘A move that is paying off’
Sasta roe barambar (The one who goes in for cheap services will repent umpteen times)This could very well have been in the back of Subrata Dey’s mind when he decided to rope in IBM as the partner for implementing SAP’s ...





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