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DIVIDEND ANNOUNCEMENT: IT majors hike dividends, but reduce payout
Frontline IT companies have steadily ramped up dividends paid to investors over the past three ...

HUMAN RESOURCES: Wipro offers campus recruits job switch
Demand in BPO space, not much in IT services. Bangalore, Dec. 2 Wipro Technologies, the third largest software exporter, has given an option for engineering recruits to join its business process outsourcing (BPO) division to offer technical ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: ‘Tough to verify identity of all mobile subscribers’
Operators want Govt to provide unique ID number for all citizens. New Delhi, Dec. 2 Mobile companies are finding it difficult to verify the identity of all their subscribers in the absence of a fool-proof identification document from the ...

SECURITY: ‘A wake-up call’
Next threat could be in virtual space: Nasscom. Hyderabad, Dec. 2: The National Association of Software and Services Companies (Nasscom), the apex body of Indian IT and ITES companies, has said that the Mumbai tragedy is a kind of wake-up call ...

SOFTWARE: New unit of Tech Mahindra
Telecom solutions vendor Tech Mahindra has set up a new division that will address the contract recruitment needs of clients across Europe. Christened Tech Talenta, the unit will offer recruitment and ongoing management of local contract ...

SECURITY: ‘Friend of courts’
Hyderabad, Dec. 2 Keeping in mind growing number of cyber crimes and absence of adequate information, Data Security Council of India (DSCI) has decided to act as ‘amicus curiae’ to provide ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: ZTE reviewing manufacturing plans
Bangalore, Dec 2 Chinese telecom firm ZTE Corporation is reconsidering plans to manufacture CDMA equipment in India with local partner ITI Ltd, but said would scale up its R&D operations for developing new products to cater to the ...

HUMAN RESOURCES: ‘Skill Registry to cover more sectors’
Hyderabad, Dec. 2 The National Skill Registry, being developed by Nasscom with the help of NSDL Database Management for IT and ITES sector, may soon cover financial and insurance ...

STANDARDS & BENCHMARKS: Service quality: TRAI poser to mobile cos
New Delhi, Dec 2 The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India has told the private mobile operators that they were not doing enough to improve their quality of service by augmenting interconnection with State-owned ...

EVENTS: NeST conference
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EVENTS: Workshop on EDSA Software application
Hyderabad, Dec. 2 A two-day workshop on EDSA software application to power systems under TEQIP is being organised at Department of Electrical Engineering, University College of Engineering, Osmania University, Hyderabad during ...

From eWorld

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.
A database of feedback from employers and employees. Want insider information on the company of your choice? Employed for a while and want to change but don’t know what the fine print really says? Log on to Talent Equity (
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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