The Hindu Business Line : Friday, June 26, 2009

INFO-TECH

OUTLOOK: My priority is to re-energise Mahindra Satyam: Gurnani
Hyderabad, June 25 Mr C.P. Gurnani, the newly-appointed Chief Executive Officer of Mahindra Satyam, has said that his immediate priority is to get the company re-energised and make it “the happiest place to ...

SOFTWARE: Industry lauds Nilekani’s appointment
Infosys may miss his experience, guidance, say analysts. Bangalore, June 25 The industry lauded Government’s move to appoint Mr Nandan Nilekani as head of the Unique Identification Authority, though analysts were divided on the impact of ...

HARDWARE: Intel rides on Atom to target Net-connected devices market
Chennai, June 25 Change your profile on Facebook, watch a video clip that your daughter recommends and edit your resume; all on your mobile while retaining the experience you had doing all these on your PC. The Atom, Intel’s ...

From eWorld

HARDWARE: Still a drain on the purse
The rupee’s slight recovery against the dollar raised hopes of lower PC prices. But it looks like the gain has not reached the consumer.. If you were among those who had hoped that the Rupee’s relative recovery from the March 3 ...

INTERVIEW: Tune in to this Webbcast
TCS on what clients are looking for and the gaps it fills for them.. Long after you have met Simon Webb, the one thing you’d remember about him is the consistency in his answers to your queries. One strain ran through all that Webb, ...

INTERVIEW: ‘PMO’ as part of the action
The Project Manager’s Office is now part of good corporate governance, explains this player.. Project management, as a discipline, has been around for decades. So, what has been changing in it? The core of project management (PM) ...

E-COMMERCE & E-BUSINESS: `e' or no `e'.
When I was a kid, my father used to drag me to the bank to teach me banking and how to fill up forms. We lived in a small town called Srirangam and my father seemed to know almost everyone in the bank by name. There were forms for everything, ...

INTERVIEW: Swap notes
Tune in to the music potential of the mobile, as seen by Nokia.. The mobile phone is all talk — and a lot more music too, these days. Surging digital and mobile technology has changed music forever, and how people listen to it.According ...

INTERNET: For the small guys
MyTradeBook.com says it offers a B2B tool to benefit small and medium players.. A free Web-based business-to-business (B2B) tool that allows businesses to build networks, engage in interest groups, advertise products and services to buy and ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Hand as magic wand
Gestures as gene of future phone… Nokia takes eWorld on a tour.. Taking one step closer to living in Spielberg’s Minority Report, Nokia is now working towards making your phone the “sixth sense.” Two years ago, Steve ...

NEW PRODUCTS & SERVICES: No entry for burglars
Burg-Wachter from Germany has entered the Indian market with its keyless electronic door locking system for homes and offices. Besides E-key, pin-code or biometric fingerscan, one can operate the door via mobile phone or other ...

BOOKS: Moral tone on mobile
Are the voices against ‘misuse’ of technology capturing the real picture?. Sample these news headlines from the vernacular media: ‘Cell phone revolution: Satan in palm. Tragedy caused by cell phone. Seller of cell phone memory ...

CYBER QUEST: Quiz
2. Which Google honcho made this comment on Bing’s launch: “It’s not the first entry for Microsoft. They do this about once ...

CARTOON: Cartoon
“So, you have this feeling of someone constantly following you — Hmm...I think you’re either paranoid or you’re ...