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INTERVIEW: Our priority is to win back trust: Satyam founder
Hyderabad, Dec. 19 Satyam Computer Services has begun a fire-fighting exercise to undo the damage done to its image. It says calling off the deal is a message to investors that it listens to their views and ...

HUMAN RESOURCES: MNC staff get extended Christmas break this year
India operations to remain closed till first week of January. Mumbai/Bangalore, Dec. 19 Friday was the last working day in the year for India-based employees of several multinational technology firms. Beginning next week, employees of Cisco, ...

INSIGHT: L’affaire Satyam
Maytas is a palindrome for Satyam. It has now turned out to be a syndrome for India’s corporate governance. The Satyam Computer affair is a corporate board’s attack on Indian investors, not very different from the terror attack ...

CORPORATE GOVERNANCE: Satyam: SEBI looking at corporate governance issue
Early trade of Nifty futures being studied. Mumbai, Dec. 19 The Securities and Exchange Board of India is studying the corporate governance practice in Satyam after the recent Satyam-Maytas episode, SEBI Chairman Mr C.B. Bhave said here ...

BROADBAND: Intel weighs WiMAX-related opportunities
Subsidiary in talks with telecom operators, software developers; ready to invest in bilions. Bangalore Dec. 19 Intel Capital, the investment arm of the world’s largest chip maker Intel Corp, is exploring options to invest in Indian telecom ...

SOFTWARE: IT growth story in early stages yet!
Opportunities are immense: Gopalakrishnan. No. It is just, say, in the fifth over of the first innings in an exciting 20:20 cricket match. The industry is still in the early stages of developing, holding huge promise, quipped Mr Kris ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: 3G fee may go to Cabinet
Telecom panel not for administrative charges. New Delhi, Dec. 19 The Department of Telecom may refer the issue of levying administrative charges on 3G mobile operators to the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs. The levy was proposed by the ...

HUMAN RESOURCES: Nasscom eyes tie-ups with varsities to train manpower
Ahmedabad, Dec.19 Nasscom is looking to tie up with Universities in Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and Orissa to train manpower for direct recruitment to IT firms, said Mr Ganesh Natarajan, Vice-Chairman, Nasscom, and global Chief Executive ...

OUTLOOK: KPIT Cummins sticks to guidance
Hyderabad, Dec. 19 KPIT Cummins Infosystems Ltd does not foresee a huge impact on its revenues because of the difficulties faced by US ...

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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