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OUTLOOK: Microsoft tool to break the language barrier
Key in phonetic English script to get text in 6 Indian tongues. Hyderabad, Nov. 25 Making computers accessible for those who don’t know English, Microsoft Corporation has said that it would soon release transliteration tools for six Indian ...

CORPORATE GOVERNANCE: Satyam, Tech Mahindra slump on higher fraud size
CBI indicates loss may stretch to Rs 11,875 crore. Mumbai, Nov. 25 Investors turned bearish on the counters of Tech Mahindra and Satyam Computer Services after the Central Bureau of Investigations stumbled upon evidence that could push the size ...

SOFTWARE: CM inaugurates Symbiosys centre
The Chief Minister, Mr K. Rosaiah, inaugurated the offshore development centre of Symbiosys Technologies, an IT company, in the IT special economic zone at Rushikonda on ...

ALLIANCES & JOINT VENTURES: 3Com, TCS tie up for AP project
The US-based 3Com Corporation has entered into an agreement with Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) to build the Andhra Pradesh State Wide Area Network (APSWAN) project that the latter bagged. 3Com would provide enterprise switching, routing ...

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS: Infotech zeroes in on buy
To expand geospatial, engg services. Hyderabad, Nov. 25 Infotech Enterprises, the Rs 900-crore geospatial and engineering services providers, has announced that it would acquire one company in the US or Europe this financial year at a ...

SOFTWARE: SAP solution for poultry firms breeds new opportunities
‘CHIC’ BUSINESS. The poultry farmers hope to get a higher return on whatever little investments they can afford in the times of ...

SOFTWARE: Tap Nordic market, Nasscom tells cos
The National Association of Software and Solutions Companies (Nasscom) has asked the Indian IT industry to look at the Nordic countries that offer an IT services market of $10-12 billion of the $55 billion ICT (Information and ...

HUMAN RESOURCES: Infosys plans to hire 20,000 next year
Mumbai, Nov. 25 Infosys Technologies may hire around 20,000 people at a gross level for the fiscal starting April ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Surana Tele to demerge solar biz
Surana Telecom on Wednesday proposed to de-merge its solar business into Surana Ventures, in a move to consolidate its solar business. As per the proposed de-merger scheme, the existing shareholders of Surana Telecom will be issued three new ...

From eWorld

SOFTWARE: Big Blue @ IT
The Smarter Planet initiative has taken consulting to a different level and added a layer of fat to IBM's overall profit margin in the last few years. A first-hand feel of the action at HQ.. It is difficult to believe that Armonk, where the ...

SOFTWARE: Sharp eye on the bad guys
IBM is helping New York's Police and Fire departments to anticipate and forestall trouble, through the use of predictive analytics.. If Al Capone were living in New York City today, he would do his utmost to cover the scars on the left side of ...

INTERVIEW: `Opportunity of a good recession...
...is what Cognizant would hate to miss out on, say company's top officials. More on why they think this is the best of times for consulting.. A successful consultant tends to draw the envy of the average businessman. Always slickly dressed and ...

INTERVIEW: Real promise despite `cloud washing'
Cloud computing and Software as a Service deliver tangible benefits, says OrangeScape Tech.. In Act II, scene III of King Richard III, you hear a citizen say, "When clouds appear, wise men put on their cloaks; when great leaves fall, the winter ...

INTERNET: Wave Rich
It could be a coincidence. The week after I wrote about Google Wave, I got two Waves from ...

PEOPLE: Shake-up after slowdown welcome
NVIDIA sees the market shaping up in tune with consumer needs, and that's good.. Jen-Hsun Huang, co-founder, President and Chief Executive Officer of NVIDIA, is into making visual computing technologies. Even as he is busy rolling out 3D Vision, ...

SOFTWARE: Tech is ideal prescription
Dr Reddy's Laboratories says IT is toning up the company's sales and distribution operations.. What does a medical representative do if a doctor poses a complex question on the efficacy of a drug he is trying to explain ...

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BOOKS: Success factors — more to do with people than technology
Staying involved in a project on a daily or weekly basis ensures good understanding of what is happening.. Two primary factors for the success of data warehouse are a strong partnership between the business and systems communities, and ensuring ...

NEW PRODUCTS & SERVICES: Compatibility drive
Transcend Information Inc has announced that all of its solid state drives (SSD) have passed Microsoft Windows 7 WHQL (Windows Hardware Quality Labs) testing. "Now offering full compatibility with Windows 7, Transcend SSDs ...

NEW PRODUCTS & SERVICES: Adding to the line
Cyberstar Infocom Pvt Ltd, distributor of IT peripherals, networking products and components in India and SAARC, has announced the launch of Lexmark's monochrome laser printers, Lexmark E260DN and Lexmark T650DN, catering to the SMB ...






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