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HARDWARE: PC, laptop prices go up 4-8% as rupee slumps
Peripherals too become costlier due to dollar sting. New Delhi, Oct. 12 Those looking to buy PCs and laptops should prepare to fork out roughly Rs 1,500 to Rs 2,000 ...

INTERVIEW: Acquisition is a responsibility, not a victory: HCL chief
New Delhi, Oct. 12 For a man who is scripting the largest and one of the most talked-about acquisition in the history of Indian IT industry, Mr Vineet Nayar, the CEO of HCL Technologies, appears relatively relaxed as he sits in his office a ...

OUTSOURCING: ‘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 ...

SECURITY: Experts predict surge in spam during festival season
CYBER CRACKERS. New Delhi, Oct. 12 Cyber-security experts foresee nearly 20 per cent spike in spam messages in the run-up to Diwali, as spammers attempt to cash-in on the festival season to clutter inboxes with spams embedded with trojans, ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: ByCell may look for new Indian partner
New Delhi, Oct. 12 Russian firm ByCell may look for a new Indian partner for rolling out telecom services after it receives the licences from the Department of ...

INTERNET: Naukri eyes educational fairs
Naukri.com, a leading job portal, is planning to organise exclusive expos across the country for its educational initiative Shiksha. “We have launched this portal a few months ago. The response has been quite good. We will organise ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Nokia ropes in Priyanka Chopra
Nokia India has announced its association with Bollywood actor Ms Priyanka Chopra. As a part of this association, Ms Chopra will be seen in the company’s new ad campaign with the tagline, “It’s not just a phone; it’s who ...

From eWorld

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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