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TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Telecom Dept asks TRAI to expedite report on RCom
Doubts over company’s revenue reporting under ISP licence. New Delhi, Feb. 9 The Department of Telecom has asked the telecom regulator to urgently submit its report on the issue of Reliance Communication showing its income from data ...

SOFTWARE: Hyderabad police, Microsoft tie up on traffic alerts
Hyderabad, Feb. 9 Not far from now, you can subscribe to the Hyderabad police to get an SMS on traffic alerts and information on dharnas along the routes you will ...

INTERNET: Microsoft Live Search Maps gets new features
Hyderabad, Feb. 9 Microsoft India has released the second version of its India-specific Live Search Maps, providing inter- and intra-city maps of 17 cities and highways in 16 States, covering ...

BROADBAND: Tata Tele launches high-speed net access service in Chennai
Chennai, Feb. 9 Tata Teleservices Ltd has launched Photon Plus, a high-speed Internet access service, in ...

SOFTWARE: CBI inquiry into Satyam scam demanded
Hyderabad, Feb. 9 The Rs 7,136-crore Satyam Computer Services saw a heated debate in the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly on ...

SECURITY: Cos need to enhance Web security: Websense
‘2009 to see more attacks’. Coimbatore, Feb. 9 As the world economy dips and stock markets falter, the malware economy will continue to thrive, notes Websense ...

SECURITY: Web criminals, spammers step up activity, says report
Pune, Feb. 9 “In the last six months, criminals have stepped up their game in a few notable areas. Spammers are increasingly using links to malicious Web sites and spam sites in their e-mail campaigns to lure users and evade ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Handset bundling: GSM operators under DoT lens
New Delhi, Feb. 9 The Department of Telecom has sought clarification from Bharti Airtel, Vodafone Essar and Idea Cellular for not showing income from bundling handsets along with the connections, for the purpose of calculating the revenue ...

SOFTWARE: SEBI files petition to question Satyam’s former CFO
Hyderabad, Feb. 9 The Securities and Exchange Board of India has filed a petition in a city court here to record the statements of former CFO of Satyam Computer Services, Mr ...

ALLIANCES & JOINT VENTURES: Patni ties up with Hitachi
Mumbai, Feb. 9 IT solutions firm Patni Computer Systems has tied up with Tokyo-based electronics company Hitachi Ltd for jointly promoting and implementing Hitachi’s integrated systems management ‘JP1’ in emerging ...

HUMAN RESOURCES: Amtex to hike BPO headcount in India
Bangalore, Feb. 9 Amtex Systems, the New York-based IT consulting and service company, is investing Rs 6 crore in expanding its Indian subsidiary’s BPO ...

SOFTWARE: Infotech signs pact with Eurocopter
Hyderabad, Feb. 9 Infotech Enterprises Ltd, an engineering services and GIS solutions provider, has signed an agreement with German helicopter manufacturer Eurocopter. The objective is to participate in the attack helicopter programme of ...

SOFTWARE: Edserv’s IPO fully subscribed
Mumbai Feb. 9 The IPO of Edserv, which closed on Monday, was subscribed by 1.30 times. Though a small ticket issue (Rs 24 crore), it is the first IPO to sail through smoothly since October last. The Chennai-based e-learning company has ...

From eWorld

SOFTWARE: If one goes out…
What usually comes first is the contract, thinker-politician Benjamin Disraeli commented once. But that is a fair-weather situation where the party that promised to deliver exists, has the strength to honour the contractual ...

INTERVIEW: `Multi-source for reliable backup'
Instances of service providers failing to meet contractual obligations must have happened earlier. But the Satyam episode has thrown up serious questions such as: what would happen to clients who depend on such firms for vital applications ...

TECHNOLOGY: A disconnect!
I have been sitting in on some tech meetings in the last three weeks and it is striking that the “usual” tech professional doesn’t communicate very well with lay-people and the non-tech professional doesn’t communicate ...

HARDWARE: When the chips are down…
…it’s time for the Indian semiconductor sector to turn the economic meltdown into opportunity, said industry people at a recent round-table.. The topic for this year’s round-table discussion that the Indian Semiconductor ...

SECURITY: Don’t let down guard
Speakers at the Davos economic summit have stressed the need to treat cyber crime as an ever growing threat.. ‘Cyber crime’ is an often heard term on public platforms these days. It is bandied about by even those who have not touched ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Respond to change
Sasken on how it is coping with challenges.. A sense of suppressed optimism and strong resolution is reflected in Sasken’s founder and chief executive officer, Rajiv Mody, who continues to steer the company against the odds, since ...

INTERVIEW: Growing beyond silos
The Government is open to applying e-governance concept in totality, says expert.. Today, there is far more acceptability in the government corridors for undertaking an ambitious project that targets all components simultaneously, says Navin ...

OUTSOURCING: Coping continuously, at Scope
The StanChart arm kept business going during the November crisis, with smart planning and execution.. Misfortune, they say, comes in waves. And so it was, in November 2008 — literally. Even as the rest of the country was grappling with ...

BOOKS: Digital serpent swallowing its own tail
Information and consciousness are flowing in an infinite, self-fulfilling loop.. Think of the ouroboros, the ancient symbol of a serpent swallowing its own tail and forming a circle, invites Steve Hamm in The Race for Perfect: Inside the quest ...

SOFTWARE: Looking to cut costs?
Cloud computing and virtualisation can help, says Citrix.. As the global slowdown begins to pinch, how do tech companies lower costs for customers, and for themselves too, at that? The Area Vice-President of Citrix India, Souma Das, outlines ...

CYBER QUEST: Quiz
V.V. Ramanan. 1. When asked to comment about an occasion that occurred on January 24, Steve Jobs said: “If you look backward in this business, you will be crushed. You have to look forward.” What event is being ...

CARTOON: Cartoon
“That’s the advantage of having a large TV! See, this programme’s more enjoyable at the far end of ...






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