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OUTLOOK: Tech sector growth to drop sharply: Forrester
Equipment vendors may fare better than software, services peers. Bangalore, Oct. 17 Technology purchases in the US would see a sharper decline for the next several quarters with little or no growth in late 2008 and early 2009 due to the recent ...

OUTLOOK: ‘ERP segment to do well’
Hyderabad, Oct. 17 Satyam Computer Services says the worst is over and the economic crisis has begun a downhill journey. “But the question is how long it will take (to complete the downhill journey),” Mr V. Srinivas, Chief ...

PEOPLE: Quits MphasiS board
MphasiS Ltd, an EDS company, said in a notice to the Bombay Stock Exchange Ltd that Mr Jeroen Tas, Director, has resigned from the board of the company, effective October 13. — ...

HUMAN RESOURCES: Satyam trims hiring plans by a third
Hyderabad, Oct. 17 Though Satyam COmputer added 1,814 employees, including 221 trainees in the second quarter, the global economic slowdown seems to have had a telling effect on its hiring plans ...

OUTSOURCING: Satyam BPO cuts losses on biz growth
Hyderabad, Oct. 17 Satyam Computer Services hopes that Satyam BPO (formally known as Nipuna) will be out of the red and begin to make profits in the next two years. “The scope for the BPO business is quite huge. We (the industry) have ...

SOFTWARE: It’s business as usual with HBOS: HCL Tech
IT services company HCL Technologies’ dialogue with the beleaguered HBOS Plc has not revealed any change in the latter’s business outflow, so far. The Delhi-headquartered IT services firm — which is eyeing acquisition of ...

VENTURE CAPITAL: Investcorp Gulf to invest $98 m in Redington
Chennai, Oct. 17 Investcorp Gulf Opportunity Fund Company, a global private equity group, will invest $98 million for a 36 per cent stake in Redington’s Middle East and African (MEA) business. This values Redington’s MEA business ...

OUTLOOK: ‘20 large deals in the pipeline’
Hyderabad, Oct. 17 Satyam Computer Services has 20 ‘large deals’ in the pipeline which may materialise soon, according to Mr B. Ramalinga Raju, ...

ALLIANCES & JOINT VENTURES: MindTree to partner Murex
IT and R&D services provider MindTree Ltd said on Friday it has become a preferred system integration partner for Murex, a maker of software for trading, risk management and processing. MindTree would help Murex’s clients migrate to ...

NEW PRODUCTS & SERVICES: New tracking device from SatNav
SatNav Technologies has launched a recording device which when installed in a vehicle will help one trace back the route which the vehicle has travelled at the end of the journey. Christened, ‘SatGuide Logger’, the device would ...

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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