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OUTLOOK: Big US, European firms cut IT spend: Study
Bangalore Sept. 9 The economic slowdown in North America and Europe has made 40 per cent of the large businesses cut their overall IT budgets, but companies were expanding their services spending by taking more activist sourcing approach to ...

ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING: IT majors line up for BSNL’s Rs 500-cr deal
Foreign players may come on board as partners for ERP deployment. New Delhi, Sept. 9 IT majors including Infosys, Satyam, HCL and TCS have put in their bids for deploying ERP solutions for Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd. ...

AWARDS & HONOURS: Udyog Rattan Award

AWARDS & HONOURS: Satyam, AppLabs among India-UK biz award winners
Hyderabad, Sept. 9 Satyam Computers and AppLabs from the South were among the winners of the UK Trade & Investment (UKTI) India Business Awards 2008 announced on Tuesday in Mumbai. ...

SOFTWARE: TiVo adopts Wipro stacks

SOFTWARE: Wipro joins PFI initiative
Power Forward Initiative (PFI) said Tuesday Wipro Technologies has recently joined the initiative and is offering Common Power Format (CPF)-enabled low-power design capabilities to its design services customers.The Power Forward Initiative ...

SOFTWARE: Four Soft tool for Belgium co


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SOFTWARE: Infosys deploys Oracle’s HR tool
Infosys Technologies Ltd said it has implemented Oracle’s PeopleSoft Enterprise Human Capital Management 9.0 solution for Service Corporation International, to improve its HR operations. Service Corporation is a provider of funeral, ...

OPEN OFFERS: Idea Cellular’s revised open offer for Spice Comm from Sept 17
Our Bureau Mumbai, Sept. 9 The Aditya Birla Group-owned mobile telephony company Idea Cellular today announced a revised schedule for its open offer for acquiring 20 per cent equity shares in Spice Communications. ...

SOFTWARE: A third of Satyam staff migrate to Vista
More enterprises are migrating to Microsoft’s Windows Vista operating system and independent research reports indicate that about 70 per cent of the enterprise users will drift to Vista by next ...

ISPS: Govt issues guidelines for IPTV services
New Delhi, Sept. 9 The Ministry of Information & Broadcasting has issued guidelines for provisioning of Internet Protocol Television Services. The Union Cabinet had already given its approval to the new guidelines on August 21. ...

NEW PRODUCTS & SERVICES: Tele Atlas offers digital maps
Hyderabad, Sept. 9 Digital map and navigation services provider, Tele Atlas, have announced the availability of its digital maps for India. ...

SOFTWARE: AppLabs gets top rating
Hyderabad, Sept. 9 Advisory firm NelsonHall in its report on software testing services providers has established AppLabs as the number one pure-play testing specialist in size across the globe. ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: New players get more GSM spectrum
New Delhi, Sept. 9 The Government has released start-up GSM spectrum to new telecom players including Datacom and Unitech, in four circles of Mumbai, Maharashtra, Punjab and UP ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Vodafone announces festival offers
Vodafone Essar has announced special festival offers for its customers in Kerala. For its pre-paid customers, the company announced a special Rs 222 full talk time recharge plan, along with a validity of 365 days. This special recharge includes ...

From eWorld

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Moolah in MVN?
Is there money to be made by taking to the Mobile Virtual Network Operator route in India? eWorld sought to hear the market’s message.. What is common to supermarket firm Tesco, coffee shop Tchibo, hamburger chain Hesburger, periodical ...

SECURITY: Handle with care
The UK government is grappling with cases of careless handling of sensitive information.. It is bad times for government departments in the United Kingdom holding sensitive information and struggling to protect it from anti-national and ...

INTERVIEW: ‘iPhone poses security challenges’
Appin Security Group on what it sees as hitches.. Looks like the iPhone, which was launched recently in India with a lot of fanfare, may not be without its own set of hitches. Rajat Khare, CEO, Appin Security Group (ASG) — an ...

BOOKS: Make alliances work
Despite more than 2,000 strategic tie-ups being launched worldwide each year, this terrain is fraught with failures.. Framework, organisation, and relationships — these three have to be right if you want your alliances to work, says Steve ...

INTERVIEW: Protection against online piracy
Safenet on the steps to be taken.. Rana Gupta is business head for India and SAARC at information security firm Safenet. In an exclusive interaction with eWorld, he shares his views on online piracy and the losses that companies face on this ...

CYBER QUEST: Quiz
V.V. Ramanan. 2. Where in New York is AMD planning a $3.2-billion computer chip manufacturing ...

COMPUTER USAGE: Bandwidth Monitor
Home Internet users who have subscribed to a limited bandwidth scheme may need to track their Internet usage. To check your monthly BSNL bandwidth usage, you can look up the following URLs: ...

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