The Hindu Business Line : Saturday, December 06, 2008

INFO-TECH

OUTLOOK: Vendors hope to ride out the global auto crash
‘No cancellations of contracts; discretionary budget may see cuts’. Bangalore, Dec. 5 Notwithstanding the impending collapse of North American auto firms such as General Motors, Ford Motors and Chrysler, the Indian IT firms are ...

OUTSOURCING: Lots of business, but little profit for call centres here
US MORTGAGE MELTDOWN. This seems to be the common complaint among the captains of BPO firms that provide third party collections and debt recovery services for clients in the banking and financial ...

IT TRAINING: PTC appoints training partner
Product lifecycle management solutions provider, PTC, has appointed Engineers CADD Centre Pvt Ltd (ECC) as an authorised training partner to provide training in its ProEngineer software which is being used globally in product engineering ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Vodafone, Hutchison Tele transfer relates to assets in India, says HC
The subject matter of transfer as contracted between Vodafone International and Hutchison Telecom International is not actually the shares of a Cayman Islands company but the assets situated in India, a Division Bench of the Bombay High ...

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS: Infotech drops plan to buy co in auto space
Hyderabad, Dec. 5 Infotech Enterprises Ltd has decided not to go ahead with its plans to acquire a multinational, IT company servicing the automotive ...

SOFTWARE: Anna University automates examination management system
Coimbatore, Dec. 5 Anna University, Coimbatore, has taken the lead in automating Examination Management System ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Ministry says no irregularity in refund to RCom
New Delhi, Dec. 5 The Ministry of Communications and Information Technology on Friday said that no irregularity has been made in making refund to Reliance Communications Ltd. on surrendering its dual technology approval in six ...

VIRUSES: Spam lures on the rise
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OFF-SHORE DEVELOPMENT: NeST opens office in Munich
The NeST Group, engineering services and solutions provider to global markets, has opened an office in Munich, Germany, as part of its expansion plan in Europe. The Munich office, named NeSTech GmbH, will work as a front-office as well ...

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.
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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 ...