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Wednesday, October 15, 2008
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INFO-TECH MARKETING RESEARCH: Gartner sees cut in IT budgets in 2009 Lowers growth forecast by more than half in the wake of global crisis. Bangalore, Oct. 14 Research firm Gartner Inc said global economic problems could impact next year’s IT budgets while lowering growth forecast by more than half from its ... NEW PRODUCTS & SERVICES: TidalData storage products ... OUTLOOK: Growth in India strong, says Oracle Adds 1,200 mid-size cos in 2 years. The Indian market continues to be strong for Oracle, the US-based software ... BROADBAND: WiMAX to be $13-b market in India by 2012 New Delhi, Oct. 14 India’s broadband usage is set to improve sharply with as many as 27.5 million WiMAX users expected by 2012, according to projections made by industry body, WiMAX ... SOFTWARE: VST Ind into SAP consultancy VST Industries Ltd has set up a separate division to offer consultancy for the implementation of enterprise resource planning (ERP) and SAP. “SAP is a niche area and VST gathered considerable business process knowledge over a period of ... OUTLOOK: SAP eyeing small biz in tier-II cities Business solutions software provider SAP will focus on tier-II cities to expand its small and medium enterprise (SME) customers. “We have over 2,500 SME customers in the country, who account for 28 per cent market share. By focusing more ... TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Virgin Mobile cuts STD rates Virgin Mobile, the youth focussed mobile services brand from Tata Teleservices, on Tuesday slashed STD rates for its pre-paid subscribers by 50 per cent to 50 paise a minute. The offer will allow Virgin Mobile’s customers to make STD and ... NEW PROJECTS: CA plans $30-m expansion of Hyderabad centre 60 patent ideas developed. Hyderabad, Oct. 14 CA, a global leader in IT management services, has hinted that the slowdown in the US economy might not have a major impact on ... HARDWARE: Atom processors on embedded platform Bangalore, Oct. 14 Intel India said on Tuesday its Atom processors would be available on its embedded roadmap. In India, the Atom processor family on the embedded roadmap includes the Intel Atom Z5xx family of processors as well as the Intel ... SECURITY: More virus attacks main cause for virtual defence review: Study Pune, Oct. 14 Symantec, a player in the security, storage and systems management solutions, on Tuesday unveiled India-specific findings of its disaster recovery survey, a global research initiative that surveyed 1,000 enterprises ... FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE: Sonata Q2 net rises 81% Bangalore, Oct 14 Sonata Software Ltd reported a 81 per cent rise in consolidated net profits at Rs 21.63 crore for the quarter-ended September 2008 as compared to Rs 11.93 crore in corresponding period last year. Consolidated revenues for ...
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 ... Comments & Letters to the Editor to: bleditor@thehindu.co.in Subscribe to: Business Line |
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