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OUTLOOK: Yahoo!, Cisco eye role in unique ID project
Meetings are still at preliminary stage, says Nilekani. New Delhi, Bangalore, Nov 11 Along with a bouquet of flowers, the global CEO of Yahoo! Inc, Ms Carol Bartz, offered the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, whom she met on this morning, help ...

HUMAN RESOURCES: ‘Virtual bench’ turns into real seats at mid-size IT cos
No such luck for virtual benchers at Mahindra Satyam. Mumbai, Nov. 11 The concept of a ‘virtual bench’ for non-billable employees may soon be a thing of the past at mid-size Indian IT companies, thanks to the gradual improvement in ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: ‘India, China are like double-humped camels’
Big market for both premium and low-end devices, says Nokia. Helsinki, Nov. 11 How to sell feature-rich devices with a lot of high-end applications in a price-sensitive, ‘poor-country’ market such as India, is precisely the question ...

INFRASTRUCTURE: Karnataka plans investment region to boost IT sector
800 delegates attending the 12th edition of BangaloreIT.biz. Bangalore, Nov. 11 Karnataka proposes to set up an Information Technology Investment Region (ITIR) spread over 40 sq km near Bangalore to promote investments in sectors such as IT and ...

M-COMMERCE: Nokia keen on mobile money transfer services in India
Helsinki, Nov. 11 Nokia expects to be able to launch ‘Nokia Money’, its mobile payment service, in India, no sooner than the banks it is talking to for a partnership get approval from the Reserve Bank ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Defence Ministry objection to DoT
Even as an inter-Ministerial meeting took place on Wednesday to thrash out issues related to 3G spectrum auction, the Defence Ministry has shot-off another letter to the Department of Telecom saying that the spectrum given to Bharat Sanchar ...

SOFTWARE: Infosys-NVIDIA centre set up
...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Tool to monitor calls while on global roaming
Roamware Inc in talks with Indian operators. New Delhi, Nov. 11 International roamers could soon get relief from having to pay hefty bills while travelling ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Nokia sets great store by open innovation
Helsinki, Nov. 11 Nokia, the world’s largest mobile handset manufacturer, sets great store by ‘open innovation’ — a model in which problems faced by the company are thrown open to the public at large to come up ...

HUMAN RESOURCES: A quarter of IT workforce on national skills registry
Initiative gaining momentum: Nasscom. New Delhi, Nov. 11 Nearly three years after the National Association of Software and Services Companies (Nasscom) kicked off the initiative to build a credible database of existing and potential employees in ...

HUMAN RESOURCES: Wipro walk-in interviews over week-end
Wipro Technologies will embark on a multi-city recruitment drive over the weekend to hire lateral employees with 2 to 14 years of experience for all its business units. Wipro will hold walk-in interviews in Bangalore, Chennai, Mumbai, ...

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS: Integreon buys Grail Research of Monitor Group
Mumbai, Nov. 11 Knowledge process outsourcing (KPO) firm Integreon said that it has acquired Grail Research, the captive unit of the US-based management consulting firm Monitor group, for an undisclosed ...

INTERNET: Yahoo! not ceding search space in deal with Microsoft
AMBIGUITY CLEARED. Bangalore, Nov. 11 Yahoo! India, which is increasingly moving up the company’s value chain, will play an active role in the integration process of the Yahoo!-Microsoft search ...

EVENTS: Net gains for aam aadmi
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ALLIANCES & JOINT VENTURES: NIIT Tech partners Hitachi for cloud computing
New Delhi, Nov. 11 NIIT Technologies Ltd on Wednesday announced its partnership with Hitachi Information Systems, a provider of IT infrastructure services in Japan, to offer services in cloud ...

EVENTS: Kothagiri school students win TCS IT quiz
Coimbatore, Nov. 11 Akash Lodha and Hiren Barai of St Jude’s Public School, Kotagiri, in the Nilgiris district were the winners of the TCS IT Wiz 2009 quiz held at Coimbatore ...

From eWorld

SECURITY: More teeth and byte to IT law
Changes to the IT Act will enable it to crack down on cyber offences strongly but the law is ‘soft’ in parts, say experts.. Nearly three years after it was introduced in the Lok Sabha and almost a year after it received a green ...

INTERNET: Orkut promises new look, feel
Says it has factored in the ‘care’ factor while helping its users network.. Social networking is gearing up for a wave of evolution. Not just in terms of features and functions but in the very way it is being used, if recent ...

INTERVIEW: ‘Big role for BIOS, boss’
The basic input/output system is playing a major role in embedded intelligence, says American Megatrends.. While most people tend to stop with bland statements, such as innovation is key in the technology industry, S. Shankar, President and CEO ...

NEW PRODUCTS & SERVICES: Waiting for the Wave
I was almost consumed by a great Wave last month. It is a miracle I am ...

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY: Simplify man-machine interaction
‘Multimodal systems’ enable your computer to carry out your commands with less fuss.. Why can’t we interact with a computer as naturally as we interact with a fellow human being? Why do we have to learn to type, click, scroll ...

INTERVIEW: ‘Revival of Indian offshoring has begun’
Ashok Soota, Executive Chairman, MindTree, looks ahead at prospects for Indian IT.. I am privileged to have been given a third innings. I would like to make the most of it,” is the answer you get when you ask Ashok Soota what keeps him ...

BOOKS: Space technologies in defence
Future R&D: Space-based X-Ray lasers for dramatic capabilities in space applications and earth wars.. Outer space is internationally accepted as the common heritage of mankind, but it is increasingly getting used for military purposes, cautions ...

CYBER QUEST: Quiz
V.V. Ramanan. 2. Name the USB flash storage device developed by Microsoft along ...

NEW PRODUCTS & SERVICES: A Prodigy launch
Prodigy Electronics has announced the release of its Handheld Industrial Computer PE-HIC, powered by Samsung ARM9 processor and ported with Linux 2.6 operating system. The PE-HIC is available in two models: Basic Model and Printer Model, ...

NEW PRODUCTS & SERVICES: Solar recharge
Sanyo Energy Corporation, a subsidiary of Sanyo Electric Co Ltd, has announced the extension of the company’s eneloop series to include AA-, AAA-, C- and D-sized batteries and accompanying Universal Charger, as well as the ...






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