INFO-TECH
AWARDS & HONOURS
Tejas Networks gets tech award
Tejas Networks, a next-generation optical networking products company, has received the TEMA (Telecom Equipment Manufacturer's Association) Award for Excellence in Innovation 2007. The award, given for outstanding technological innovation, is ...
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TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Reliance close to deal with Alcatel Lucent
Supply of CDMA equipment for mobile services
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Making the mobile phone a tool that teaches
In a wide-ranging chat, Anand Kannan and Yogish Lavanis shared more on Valued Epistemics' plans. Excerpts: What about capital requirements? We need more capital for scalability. We are definitely capital-hungry. The basics are in ...
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Uncertain world
Service blackouts and crime make cyberspace an unpredictable experience.
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Mobiles versus plastic cards
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Idea lifetime pre-paid at Rs 495
Idea Cellular, an Aditya Birla Group Company, has announced the launch of a pre-paid offering for Rs 495 with the unlimited validity for new and existing customers. This comes packed with an initial talk time of Rs 10, offering ...
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Idea breaches 30-lakh mark
Idea Cellular Ltd has crossed the 30-lakh mark in its subscriber-base in the Maharashtra and Goa circle, and is the first cellular service operator in the circle to achieve this target. Mr Lakshminarayana, Circle head, said the ...
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INSIGHT
Banking on foreign markets
Is it economically sustainable for industries, such as Information Technology, to bank predominantly on overseas markets for revenues? Rajesh Puri It could be economically sustainable for the IT industry to bank on the overseas ...
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Offbeat outsourcing from Europe
Some, if not all West European Governments are gradually realising that offshoring/outsourcing is not a choice for Europe. It is a reality that they have to come to terms with, not only for their survival, but to improve their bottomlines.
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SOFTWARE
Tavant tool for First Horizon
Tavant Technologies, a specialised IT solutions and services provider, has been selected by First Horizon Home Loans, First Horizon National Corp company, to provide Point of Sale (PoS) mortgage solution as FHN's universal home financing sales ...
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Microsoft enters security scene with Forefront, System Center
Who better to secure a Windows environment but Microsoft: Hauger
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IBM India setting up virtual business centre
IBM India will set up a virtual business centre for its customers in India by the end of the year. This would enable the customers to buy its hardware, software or any service by interacting with IBM's sales executives on this virtual platform. ...
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HUMAN RESOURCES
IT majors firm up hike in entry-level salaries
Offers to fresh engineering graduates cross Rs 3-lakh mark
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Healthcare BPO sector looking for freshers
Over 5,000 freshers are needed in the healthcare BPO sector across the Southern cities. Healthcare BPOs, which offer jobs in transcription, billing, coding and clinical trials currently employ close to15,000 people now in Chennai, Bangalore and ...
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Xansa plans to double headcount, again
`Xansa to double headcount in India' was the headline of a news story that appeared in this newspaper in July 2004. Xansa, a BPO company, had wanted to raise the headcount to 4,000. History has a habit of repeating itself - the company is ...
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ALLIANCES & JOINT VENTURES
KPIT Cummins forays into South Africa
KPIT Cummins Infosystems Ltd has announced a strategic partnership with South Africa-based Business Connexion. It hopes to capitalise on the early mover advantage, since only a few Indian IT providers have an established presence in that ...
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CONVERGENCE
Receive M-gyan
GRE coaching on the mobile - that's what this player offers, tapping the mobile as an adaptive learning tool. eWorld tunes in.
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EVENTS
`Open Season' for Java
Sun says Java technology will now be available as Open Source software. But have they really gone all the way — and what does this mean for the next big push expected in mobile devices? Anand Parthasarathy had his ear to the ground at the JavaO ne developer conference in San Francisco.
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VENTURE CAPITAL
`Create more product development companies'
BroVis Wireless Networks, upbeat on action in Chennai, shares its take of the tech scene at large.
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ECONOMIC OFFENCES
Losses due to cyber crime can be as high as $40 billion
Expert feels that only a tiny proportion of cyber crime incidents are actually reported world over. Individual users are more exposed to computer crime than ever, due to the growth in identity theft.
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