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MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS: Axon shareholders okay HCL Tech offer
650-pence/share deal awaits court nod. New Delhi, Nov. 24 HCL Technologies’ proposed mega-acquisition of UK-based SAP consulting company Axon Group is nearly ...

HUMAN RESOURCES: Accenture staff to work longer hours
COMPETITIVE PRESSURE. Bangalore, Nov. 24 In a bid to boost productivity levels at its India Delivery Centre, Accenture, management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company, plans to increase its work hours by an hour daily from ...

OUTLOOK: Firstsource cuts dollar revenue guidance to 21%
Biz slowdown telling on volumes; 38% dip in Q2 consolidated net. Mumbai, Nov. 24 The global financial crisis and the volatile foreign exchange environment have led back-office firm Firstsource Solutions to cut its forecast for full-year dollar ...

STORAGE: HP bets on storage, networking, virtualisation
‘Companies consolidating their position on servers’. Hewlett-Packard Co is betting big on services such as consolidation and virtualisation to drive growth for its storage business in fiscal 2009 as customers look to reduce their ...

OFF-SHORE DEVELOPMENT: ‘European software cos look at offshoring’
Indian BPOs can capitalise on this move: Zinnov study. Bangalore, Nov. 24 Faced with rising cost pressures in a slowing market, European software product companies are looking at offshoring their development work, which should augur well for ...

INTERNET: IDS tool for homestay sector
IDS Softwares Pvt Ltd (IDS), a global leader in providing integrated IT solutions for the hospitality industry, has helped the nascent homestay sector in India with a software solution that will help the segment increase its profile and reach ...

OFF-SHORE DEVELOPMENT: Tech Mahindra opens office in Riyadh
Telecom solutions vendor Tech Mahindra has set up a new office in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia for supporting the company’s expansion plans in the West Asian geography. This office would be headed by Mr Hassan Albrazi as Regional Director and ...

ALLIANCES & JOINT VENTURES: 7Seas Tech in pact with UK firm
Gaming solutions provider 7Seas Technologies has tied up with London-based Mobile Entertainment Distribution (MED) Ltd for distribution of its 3D mobile games in Europe. MED’s network of more than 100 channels would offer seven games ...

ALLIANCES & JOINT VENTURES: Call Genie, TCS tie up
Call Genie Inc and Tata Consultancy Services have announced a new multi-year contract regarding a major Southeast Asian telecommunications company, for the use of Call Genie’s CG InteractAgent and CG OpenAgent Search software. According to ...

SOFTWARE: ‘IT industry in Kerala not hit by recession’
Thiruvananthapuram, Nov. 24 The Chief Minister, Mr V. S. Achuthanandan, has said that the global economic crisis had not affected the IT industry in the State and no case of retrenchment directly attributable to the same has been reported ...

RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT: IIT Madras, HP Labs to work on research project
HP to provide $50,000-$70,000 annually for 3 years. Chennai, Nov. 24 Professors and students at IIT Madras will join hands with HP Labs India’s researchers in exploring newer forms of human-computer interacting, including hand gesture and ...

ALLIANCES & JOINT VENTURES: Cisco, SIDBI tie up to nurture innovation in small units
Chennai, Nov. 24 Cisco Systems Inc, the US-based supplier of networking equipment and network management for the Internet, has collaborated with Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) and Tiruchirappalli Regional Engineering ...

INTERNET: Infospace unveils two products for faster Net search
Coimbatore, Nov. 24 Within a year of establishing its research and development centre at Bangalore, the US headquartered Infospace has rolled out two products – Private Label and Domain ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Mobile user base grows by 10.4 m in Oct
New Delhi, Nov. 24 Mobile operators added 10.4 million new subscribers in October taking the total user base to 325.73 million. This includes both GSM and CDMA ...

PREFERENTIAL ALLOTMENTS: Cambridge Tech not to proceed with warrants
Hyderabad, Nov 24 Cambridge Technology Enterprises Ltd has decided not to proceed with the allotment of convertible equity warrants to Hansankit Trading Pvt Ltd, Transartica Company Ltd and Ibenstein ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: NGO moves HC against DoT on excess spectrum
New Delhi, Nov. 24 Telecom Watchdog, an NGO based in Delhi, has filed a petition in the Delhi High Court against the Government’s decision to allocate spectrum to existing mobile companies beyond what was committed in the ...

EVENTS: IEEE silver jubilee
A national conference on `Web++: Web 2.0, 3.0 and beyond’ will be held here on Friday and Saturday as part of the silver jubilee celebrations of the Kerala Section of the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers). ...

From eWorld

E-GOVERNANCE: More hurdles to cross
Are e-governance projects making life easier for the citizen? An impact study shows progress on some fronts — and a lot more work to be done.. Deploying information technology for e-governance is no longer a matter of choice. It is an ...

INTERVIEW: ‘There are no times like this’
Peter Zencke, member of the board at SAP, at his candid best in this interaction with eWorld.. German efficiency was at its best at Bangalore last fortnight, evident from the start of the press conference at sharp 2 p.m. as announced earlier. ...

SECURITY: Gotcha!
Some smart sleuthing is helping police nab criminals in cyberspace.. There is a popular saying (attributed to Abraham Lincoln) which goes something like this: “You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of ...

INTERNET: Get me a pizza!
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NEW PRODUCTS & SERVICES: Project your image
NEC India has unveiled three new ‘all-rounder’ LCD technology-based, NP projectors, the NEC NP400, NP500 and NP600 projectors. A key innovation with the projector series is the possibility to manage and control the devices ...

NEW PRODUCTS & SERVICES: Power back-up
APC by Schneider Electric has announced the launch of BR500CI-IN, its new 500VA UPS, for the Indian market. Providing affordable battery backup for home and office computers, it offers protection for data from voltage fluctuations, surges, ...

INTERVIEW: Committed to IT
West Bengal looks to put its tech drive in top gear.. A late start notwithstanding, West Bengal remains committed to success in the IT sector. The Nabadiganta Industrial Township, where IT parks were first set up in Kolkata, was indeed a new ...

BOOKS: Big Blue’s green strategy
The importance of a climate change strategy for the planet’s survival.. Generally, we all have survival strategies to handle the exigencies of weather. But, to help ensure the planet’s survival, do our organisations have a climate ...

EVENTS: Going for the buzzer — and the trophy
Small towns steal the tech show.. If an event is held for the first time in a city, be it an exhibition, a musical/star night, quiz/drawing or painting competition, the enthusiasm soars, making the event undoubtedly a memorable one.This was ...

CYBER QUEST: Quiz
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