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MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS: HCL ties up £400-m loan for Axon offer at 6.5%
New Delhi, Sept. 28 HCL Technologies, which rivaled Infosys’ bid for Axon Group, has tied up the £400-million loan component to fund its offer, at an attractive interest rate of about 6.5 per cent per annum, based on the current ...

HUMAN RESOURCES: US meltdown prompts LPOs to step up hiring
Several cos plan to double headcount to meet demands. Mumbai, Sept 28 At a time when the off-shoring industry is plagued with instances of employee lay-offs, companies providing legal process outsourcing (LPO) services are on a hiring spree as ...

INFRASTRUCTURE: ‘Hold up one end for us’
“It is always with the best intentions that the worst work is done.” — ...

INTERVIEW: US crisis has not hit contract renewals, says TPI
Bangalore, Sept. 28 The US financial crisis is having an adverse impact on the Indian IT sector as customers reduce or delay their spending on deploying new technology applications. TPI Inc, the largest sourcing data and advisory firm ...

SOFTWARE: ‘Discretionary IT spends down’
But, given that the European market is relatively under-penetrated, the slowdown may be positive for Indian vendors, says Niteen Tulpule of KPMG.. Niteen Tulpule, Director-Corporate Finance, KPMG, decided to play it safe when eWorld asked him ...

RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT: ‘Research interest growing in India’
Microsoft Research India on the trends shaping the scene.. Compared to a thousand doctorates in computer science that come out of American universities every year, India produces 50. But the situation here is improving, P. Anandan, Managing ...

SECURITY: Spywatch
Symantec on how it seeks to protect computer users, systems.. E-mail can bring in great news — and let in the spies too. With so much talk of security in cyberspace, eWorld caught up with Shantanu Ghosh, Vice-President, India Product ...

SECURITY: Security solutions sector sees big growth on terror threats
New Delhi, Sept. 28 With terror threats looming large in every sphere, Government and private agencies are tightening their grip on security measures. The security solutions’ industry is seeing a four-fold growth backed by awareness ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Reliance begins soft launch of GSM network
Mumbai, Sept. 28 Reliance Communications (RCom) has commenced the soft launch of its GSM network across major cities, company sources ...

AWARDS & HONOURS: Award for customer service
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From eWorld

SOFTWARE: ‘Hold up one end for us’
“It is always with the best intentions that the worst work is done.” — ...

INTERVIEW: ‘Discretionary IT spends down’
But, given that the European market is relatively under-penetrated, the slowdown may be positive for Indian vendors, says Niteen Tulpule of KPMG.. Niteen Tulpule, Director-Corporate Finance, KPMG, decided to play it safe when eWorld asked him ...

INTERVIEW: ‘Research interest growing in India’
Microsoft Research India on the trends shaping the scene.. Compared to a thousand doctorates in computer science that come out of American universities every year, India produces 50. But the situation here is improving, P. Anandan, Managing ...

SECURITY: Guard against ID thieves
How often have you received unsolicited calls from credit card salesmen or insurance agents from call centres with all your personal data at their fingertips? Hardly a day goes by without our hearing of someone becoming a victim of identity ...

COMPUTER USAGE: Chrome Java problem
I am unable to apply Java 6 update 10 as applicable to Google Chrome. Also, very often, Java files in Internet Explorer 8 make the computer hang ...

CYBER QUEST: Quiz
2. Yahoo India’s newly launched social network for the 16-24 age group ...

INTERVIEW: Spywatch
Symantec on how it seeks to protect computer users, systems.. E-mail can bring in great news — and let in the spies too. With so much talk of security in cyberspace, eWorld caught up with Shantanu Ghosh, Vice-President, India Product ...

BOOKS: Try an `inside-out' approach
The success of any big strategy is in the small details, says Frank Prestipino in Getting to Big the Small Way ( www.tatamcgrawhill.com). “In ...

INTERNET: Going down, down, down!
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IT TRAINING: They join the tech tribe
The largest residential tribal school in the world is empowering its students with IT education.. Twelve-year-old Mama Majhi is the first person ever in her family to go to school. The tribal girl, who belongs to the Santhal community, is a ...

CARTOON: Cartoon
"Hi, we're very much at home. But please leave a message as we've just bought an ...






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