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INFO-TECH
REGULATORY BODIES & RULINGS:
Reliance Comm revenue reporting comes under Central vigilance scanner
ALLEGED IRREGULARITY. New Delhi, Dec. 1 The Central Vigilance Commission has asked the Department of Telecom to investigate alleged irregular revenue reporting by Reliance ...
INTERVIEW:
Rupee swings more worrisome than slowdown for Infosys
Bangalore, Dec. 1 The mid-September meltdown, that spelt doom for some of the largest financial institutions, has in a single unanticipated stroke changed the way the world is, but much of the impact on the large Indian IT services providers ...
HUMAN RESOURCES:
Rising wage costs eroding competitive edge: Satyam
Company eyes SEZs as STPI regime is set to end. Hyderabad, Dec. 1 Satyam Computer Services, the fourth largest IT services and solutions provider in the country, has said that it might witness an increase in costs of personnel, particularly ...
TELECOMMUNICATIONS:
ID verification: Erring telecom operators fined
DoT seeks monthly checks to address security concerns. New Delhi, Dec. 1 The Department of Telecom has finally started imposing penalty on telecom operators violating subscriber verification ...
TELECOMMUNICATIONS:
Sales of high-end mobiles decline
Mumbai, Dec. 1 Consumers seem to be holding onto their mobile phones a little longer, not upgrading to high-end gizmos as often as they use to, because of the liquidity-crunch-caused strain on their ...
VENTURE CAPITAL:
Blackstone takes majority stake in CMS unit
Private equity firm Blackstone Group on Monday agreed to buy a majority stake in the outsourcing unit of IT firm CMS Computers Ltd. This unit, which manages Card Solutions, Transaction Printing Solutions and ATM Cash Management, will be spun ...
HUMAN RESOURCES:
40 sacked for fudging travel bills
Hyderabad, Dec. 1Close on the heels of giving pink slips to a few hundred of its associates, Satyam Computer Services has sacked 40 employees on the allegations that they fudged ...
REGULATORY BODIES & RULINGS:
TRAI seeks quality norms for non-CAS cable TV
New Delhi, Dec 1 In a bid to make available better services to consumers, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has issued a consultation paper on quality of service for DTH services and cable TV services in non-CAS ...
ALLIANCES & JOINT VENTURES:
A&T ties up with R.L.Institute
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INTERVIEW:
‘Hire like a homemaker’
A prescription for slower times. News of layoffs abounds. Travel costs are being cut. The IT and BPO industries, being export driven, are probably feeling the pinch more than other sectors.So, by inference, the recruitment firms that help these ...
INTERVIEW:
Tickets, please
A portal where airlines, and customers, can head to for unsold tickets. Meet Ananth Narasimhan, CEO, Atyourprice.in, who is happy that several of his online customers get tickets which are cheaper than the market price by 40-50 per cent. ...
IT-ENABLED SERVICES:
Welcome ‘cloud’
The shape of cloud computing to come. While the term ‘cloud computing’ has been used in many contradictory ways, it is heralding an evolution of business — no less influential than the era of e-business — in positive and ...
INTERVIEW:
‘Let’s not psyche ourselves’
Insulating against slowing demand with business in ‘defensive’ sectors, the HCL Infosystems way. If the depreciating rupee is aiding the export-oriented software and IT services industry, it is having a dramatically contrary effect ...
BOOKS:
For the stressed techie
Roadmap for software project management. Are you busy delivering an IT project in-budget though it was grossly under-quoted by the marketing team to clinch the deal? Or, are you feverishly learning a new technology on-the-job while already being ...
INTERNET:
Know your Co.
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SPORTS:
Let’s race
Your friendly correspondent had a chance to be in a race car recently and now understands why motor racing and video games have such great ...
INTERNET:
Delhi m@p
Ever travelled to Delhi and struggled to find your way around the Capital? Or wished you could strike better bargains on your shopping trips? You may find help at Zoomtra.com. Set up by two young entrepreneurs — Vikas Jawa, ...
CARTOON:
Cartoon
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CYBER QUEST:
Quiz
1. The WANK Worm is considered by many to be the first major worm to have a political message. ...
COMPUTER USAGE:
Check hard disk errors
When I boot my PC, sometimes there is a message that says my hard disk needs to be checked for consistency. This is followed by scan disk runs, after which many files are shown to be deleted. The PC works OK after that. Then it shows many ...
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