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Tuesday, October 14, 2008
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Business Daily from THE HINDU group of publications Tuesday, October 14, 2008 ePaper | Mobile/PDA Version | Audio | Blogs |
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INFO-TECH OUTLOOK: Captive BPOs turning attractive for services cos More buys on the lines of TCS-Citi unit deal seen. Bangalore, Oct. 13 The next 12 to 18 months could see large Indian IT services providers making bids for captive business process outsourcing centres, the prelude to which was the recent ... ALLIANCES & JOINT VENTURES: Blue Star Info expands ties ... INTERVIEW: ‘Tech Mahindra’s bet on long-term deals paying off’ Bangalore, Oct. 13 Tech Mahindra Ltd’s focus on large, multi-year deals has begun to pay off, with the company winning over half-a-dozen large deals ranging from $250 million to a $1 billion over the past 18 ... E-GOVERNANCE: TCS bags Rs 1,000-cr Passport Seva Project Govt move to speed up process to 3 working days. New Delhi, Oct.13 In a move aimed at ending the serpentine queues and the long wait in issue of passport, the Government, on Monday, awarded the Rs 1,000-crore ‘Passport Seva Project’ ... HARDWARE: Apple’s new notebooks may mark chip course correction Intel processor with NVIDIA chip set likely. Bangalore, Oct. 13 It is an awkward acronym — but it masks an uncomfortable development for the world’s leading computer chip makers: GP-GPU stood for General Purpose Graphical Processing ... TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Telecom cos launch festive offers Chennai, Oct. 13 Tata Indicom has launched a festive offer called ‘Samsung Raaga - Go for ... INTERNET: $3.1-m funding for eYantra eYantra, an online brand merchandising and corporate gifting solutions major, has successfully concluded a $3.1-million Series A venture capital funding from Ventureast and Argonaut. “This funding will help us to consolidate our ... SOFTWARE: Harbinger Group launches presentation software tool Pune, Oct. 13 Harbinger Group, Pune-based software products and services player, on Monday added ‘Yawnburster’ to its existing line of products. The company has Raptivity, Elicitus and Teeming Pod as products in the ... TELECOMMUNICATIONS: ‘Revenue separation for 3G easily do-able’ New Delhi, Oct. 13 The Cellular Operators Association of India on Monday said that separating revenues from 3G and 2G services was a simple exercise and the issue was being blown out of proportion by vested parties to derail the 3G ... NEW BUSINESS: ZTE bags Aircel’s $400-m GSM contract New Delhi, Oct. 13 Chinese telecom gear manufacturer ZTE Corporation has bagged a $400-million contract from Maxis-controlled Aircel to expand GSM coverage in the country. This is one of the biggest contracts the Chinese company has bagged for ... EVENTS: Security norms for risks in next gen telecom networks urged New Delhi, Oct 13 The Minister of Communications and IT, Mr A. Raja, on Monday called for a cohesive domestic and international policy to deal with the security challenges posed by the Next Generation telecom Network ... E-GOVERNANCE: Winning e-Governance deal a shot in arm for TCS Expands domestic footprint for firm. TCS’ deal with the Ministry of External Affairs represents its continued penetration into the domestic e-governance spends. This helps expand its Indian footprint, which contributes 8.7 per cent of its ... NEW BUSINESS: NComputing bags AP deal US-based NComputing, a provider of shared computer technologies, will provide software and hardware for a computer education programme being implemented by the Government of Andhra Pradesh. “As per a tender we secured from the AP ...
TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Make music free — almost! Recent initiatives may radically change the way popular music is financed and distributed. Anand Parthasarathy was in London to size up the latest in digital song downloads.. DRM is almost dead — Digital Rights Management, that is — ... M-COMMERCE: Mobile ad: As you like it It is not only pizzas that you can ask for to be delivered at your doorstep but also advertisements as per your choice. And hey presto! There they would be in your mobile phones, giving you all the latest information ... INTERVIEW: ‘India was the obvious choice’ Emdeon on what it was looking for from its outsourcing vendor.. Why does a client outsource functions to India? What does he want from an Indian service provider? Quality? Inexpensive labour? How does he know the vendor qualifies? Do client ... COMPUTER USAGE: Block annoying Ads While browsing, don’t you wish you could simply block out all those annoying advertisements and ... CYBER QUEST: Quiz V.V. Ramanan. 1. In which five languages is Google Indic Transliteration ... INTERVIEW: ‘Slowdown will last at least 3-4 quarters more’ BPO player Adventity is, however, unfazed and says it is on target to expand to 8,000 people.. Despite the hit that it has taken in the mortgage space (with contribution from mortgage business coming down from 20 per cent to 12 per cent), the ... BOOKS: Search engines as publishers This role throws up some ticklish legal questions too.. The conflict between making something ‘freely available’ and doing so in a way that makes it ‘free of cost’ to the user remains an issue, observes Richard Balkwill ... INTERNET: Too big to understand Still not get able to get a hold on the scale of the turmoil in the financial markets worldwide? Here’s a round-up of some visual and interactive representations of the crisis from around the Web. First up, here’s a late-2007 ... SOFTWARE: ‘A move that is paying off’ Sasta roe barambar (The one who goes in for cheap services will repent umpteen times)This could very well have been in the back of Subrata Dey’s mind when he decided to rope in IBM as the partner for implementing SAP’s ... Comments & Letters to the Editor to: bleditor@thehindu.co.in Subscribe to: Business Line |
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