The Hindu Business Line : Sunday, December 21, 2008

INFO-TECH

OUTSOURCING: Undersea cable damage: BPOs switch to back-up
Disruption in Europe, W. Asia and parts of Asia. New Delhi, Dec. 20 Business process outsourcing (BPOs) companies in India switched to back-up routes and circuits to serve overseas clients, after three undersea cables damaged in the ...

CORPORATE GOVERNANCE: RoC report on Satyam Computers to be ready in 3 weeks: Gupta
‘Corporate India must keep larger interest of stakeholders in mind’. New Delhi, Dec. 20 The Corporate Affairs Minister, Mr Prem Chand Gupta, on Saturday promised that a report on the alleged corporate governance failure by the ...

OUTSOURCING: FDI, not outsourcing, preferred in knowledge sectors
Bangalore, Dec. 20 When a multinational is to set up shop in a country, it will either establish a subsidiary or outsource operations. How will it choose between the two ...

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 ...

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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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