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OUTLOOK: Finance Ministry wants 3G revenues to be separated
New Delhi, Oct 28 The Ministry of Communications and IT has told Parliament that the decision to allow operators to pay separate spectrum charges on the revenues earned from 2G and 3G services, respectively, was based on the suggestion given ...

HUMAN RESOURCES: Hiring by top 5 cos down 36%
The financial crisis in the US continued to dampen hiring sentiments with net manpower addition by top 5 Indian IT companies combined tanking 36 per cent in July-September ...

SOFTWARE: TCS unfazed by slump in consulting, domestic business
Mumbai, Oct. 28 Despite a 15-per cent dip in sequential revenues from its consulting practice and a 2.7-per cent fall in sequential income from its domestic business for the quarter ended September 2008, Tata Consultancy Services says it ...

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS: Solar Semiconductor in reverse merger with US company
Hyderabad, Oct. 28 The US- based Trans-India Acquisition Corporation has entered into an agreement to acquire about 80 per cent of the privately held Solar ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Airtel `jobs on mobile'
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OUTLOOK: India needs to improve IT infrastructure, R&D: Study
Coimbatore, Oct. 28 India has moved down two places to the 48th position, with an overall score of 28.9, in the 2008 IT Industry competitiveness index, from its 2007 ranking of ...

SECURITY: Websense alert on spam attack
Coimbatore, Oct. 28 Internet security solutions company Websense is advising users to be ‘on guard’ considering the sudden increase in malicious spam attacks targeted at Web ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Currency futures price update on SMS
Mumbai, Oct. 28 MCX–SX, the currency futures exchange promoted by Financial Technologies and MCX, has tied up with IndiaTimes to launch real-time price update on currency futures via ...

SECURITY: Websense issues alert on spam attack
Coimbatore, Oct. 28 Internet security solutions company Websense is advising users to be ‘on guard’ considering the sudden increase in malicious spam attacks targeted at Web ...

EVENTS: Sam Santosh, Managing Director and CEO, Calsoft; VIT Business School
‘Future belongs to product development firms’. Chennai, Oct. 28 In a vote of confidence for the IT sector, Mr Sam Santosh, Managing Director and CEO, Calsoft, has encouraged students to associate themselves with software development ...

From eWorld

SOFTWARE: IT’s wait and watch
What is the outlook for the Indian tech sector in the wake of the global slowdown? Analysts say a slow recovery can likely be seen towards the second half of 2009.. The sub-prime crisis in the US that sparked off the first signs of uncertainty ...

SECURITY: ‘Loads’ of technology
It is a breathtaking view of Chennai port and the Bay of Bengal from the ninth floor of the Chennai Port Trust chairman’s office. But the chairman, K. Suresh, has his eyes on something else — the huge LCD monitor that relays live ...

CONVERGENCE: It’s off my mobile
One of my close friends and colleagues made it a point to button-hole me after reading the last instalment of ‘Come Again’: his contention was that sending e-mails and texting are quite different from actually creating a document in ...

BOOKS: Put your e-mails in three boxes
Here are 60 solid techniques to beat chaos.. Practise triage for all e-mail messages all the time, advises Jeff Davidson in The 60 Second Organizer: Sixty solid techniques for beating chaos at home and at work (
HARDWARE: IT never stops!
The Atom may be overtaken next year by Intel’s own upgrade — and some nifty competition.. The Red Queen in Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass got it right: “It takes all the running you can do, to keep it the same ...

INTERVIEW: 5 phases of HR evolution in IT
Take up a tech job only if your heart is in it, advises this expert.. Given the current scenario, do not take up a career in the IT (information technology) sector just because you think it is a white-collar job and offers attractive ...

HARDWARE: Indian developers embed the Atom
Intel’s Lilliputian processor for ultra mobile applications has inspired a number of innovative embedded applications.. Intel habitually gives its chip-products-in-the-pipeline weird code names that no one outside the company can ever ...

CYBER QUEST: Quiz
V.V. Ramanan. 2. Name the site made by an Indian, Pratham Kumar, that helps consumers find out the general size of something based on ...

CARTOON: Cartoon
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