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MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS: Satyam to buy Maytas Infra, Maytas Properties for $1.6 b
Part of its plan to de-risk the core IT business in times of recession, says Raju. Hyderabad, Dec. 16 Satyam Computer Services, India’s fourth largest IT services provider, has proposed to acquire Maytas Properties and 51 per cent stake in ...

OUTLOOK: ‘Outlook uncertain for next 4-6 quarters’
Considerable slowdown in decision making by clients: Nasscom. Bangalore Dec.16 The National Association of Software and Services Companies (Nasscom) expects business uncertainty for the Indian outsourcers to continue for the next four to six ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Explain roaming deal with Swan Telecom, BSNL told
DoT move follows PMO query on charges of favouritism. New Delhi, Dec. 16 The Department of Telecom has asked Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd to explain why it had got into an agreement with Swan Telecom for roaming services even though the PSU had ...

HUMAN RESOURCES: Motorola cuts 100 jobs in India
In what could be termed as the first instance of job cuts in the Indian telecom space, US mobile phones maker Motorola is learned to have issued pink slips to at least 100 of its 4,000 employees ...

SOFTWARE: MS India sales ‘impacted’
Bangalore, Dec. 16 Microsoft said its sales in India have been impacted as large customers postpone their buying decisions in a slowing economy, but the software giant is confident of achieving the targeted billion dollar revenues ...

EVENTS: Pursue ideas with passion, not money: Premji
Bangalore, Dec. 16 The Wipro chairman, Mr Azim Premji, told budding entrepreneurs to work towards the success of their ideas with passion and commitment, without thinking about making money ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Telecom players seek changes in 3G auction rules
New Delhi, Dec. 16 With just one month left for the proposed auction of 3G spectrum, telecom operators have sought further concessions from the ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Rural telephony: TRAI sees no need for bidding
New Delhi, Dec. 16 The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India on Tuesday suggested that the bidding process under the Universal Services Obligation Fund (USOF) to select operators to offer services in rural areas should be done away with as ...

From eWorld

SOFTWARE: IT’s opening up
Continental Europe is now sending more tech business abroad. An opportune thaw for India.. The hitherto elusive Continental Europe, which has for long been on the radar of Indian IT outsourcers, is gradually warming up to the concepts of ...

SECURITY: Tamper-proof key
NXP Semiconductors on the trends shaping the high-tech car ride.. Compare the ‘Ambi’ (Ambassador car) of yesteryears with the new generation passenger cars of today. While some still swear by the Ambi as being the best car for ...

SECURITY: Don’t let the link snap
Symantec says data loss prevention can keep the business chain going.. Information has become a company’s most valuable — and vulnerable — asset in today’s competitive times. According to the IT Policy Compliance Group, ...

INTERVIEW: ‘Create a risk-aware IT behaviour’
Secude on the fundamental steps to play safe in the physical and cyber worlds.. India, the emerging economic superpower, is waking up to certain hard realities, observes Jagan Nathan Vaman, CEO, Secude Solutions India Private Ltd (
INTERNET: Elusive search
I am in the market for a netbook — one of those small laptop computers that usually have a small screen and a low-speed and power-efficient processor — that I’d like to buy for my ...

NEW PRODUCTS & SERVICES: Netbook for you
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TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Mobile matters
Checking out what the MobileRediff application offers.. E-mail on your mobile phone isn’t anything very new, for sure. But the recently launched MobileRediff application seeks to make e-mail, news and updates more seamlessly accessible ...

CYBER QUEST: Quiz
V. V. Ramanan. 1. Which new top-level domain, that could attract the interests of telecom entities, was made available on ...

BOOKS: Reform potential of e-governance
What is required is full-hearted effort, not half measures.. In isolated pockets, innovative e-government applications are on, but the real challenge is to achieve a wide-scale impact, says Subhash C. Bhatnagar in one of the essays included in ...






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