The Hindu Business Line : Monday, September 22, 2008

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INVESTMENTS: Semiconductor sector sees Rs 55,000-cr fresh investments
Total commitment now put at Rs 1.36 lakh crore. New Delhi, Sept. 21 In the last two months, the Government’s policy for semiconductor fabs and eco-system units has attracted three new solar photovoltaic (PV) proposals together worth nearly ...

HUMAN RESOURCES: Back office workers keeping their fingers crossed
FINANCIAL CRISIS. Mumbai, Sept 21 Employees at the Indian back offices of high profile overseas banks used to change jobs on the year with quantum jumps in their salaries. However, the collapse of Lehman Brothers and the situation in the ...

STORAGE: Bounce back — with back-up
A computer glitch in a global marketplace this month highlights the vulnerability of large data systems — even as system and storage security players join to even the odds of recurrence.. A catastrophic computer crash on September 9 ...

INTERNET: Perils of wireless Internet
Recent blasts expose the safety gaps in cyberspace and underscore the need for smart vigilance.. It is the same old story again. As in the case of a few past blasts, such as the series of UP explosions (November 2007) and Ahmedabad (August ...

OUTLOOK: Kerala betting big on IT
By 2015, Rs 15,000 cr will be spent on IT infrastructure. Chennai, Sept 21 If it was the catchy phrase “God’s Own Country” associated to wooing tourists to Kerala, it is now “God’s Own e-State” to attract ...

OUTLOOK: Zebra Tech eyeing Tier-II,-III cities
Zebra Technologies Corporation, a global leader in specialty printing and automatic identification solutions, is now looking at reaching out to the Tier-II and Tier-III cities in ...

OVERSEAS INVESTMENTS: British Midlands seeks investment from Indian IT, ITeS sectors
Mumbai, Sept. 21 The British Midlands region, which has been always favoured by Indian manufacturing, engineering and automotive companies, is now putting out the red carpet for Indian IT and IT enabled companies, related to engineering ...

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS: Freescale pact to buy Intoto
Hyderabad, Sept. 21 Freescale Semiconductor has signed an agreement to purchase Intoto Inc, a provider of software platform products for networking and communications equipment ...

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SECURITY: Bounce back — with back-up
A computer glitch in a global marketplace this month highlights the vulnerability of large data systems — even as system and storage security players join to even the odds of recurrence.. A catastrophic computer crash on September 9 ...

SECURITY: Perils of wireless Internet
Recent blasts expose the safety gaps in cyberspace and underscore the need for smart vigilance.. It is the same old story again. As in the case of a few past blasts, such as the series of UP explosions (November 2007) and Ahmedabad (August ...

INTERVIEW: Astrology, online
GaneshaSpeaks.com says this space, though at a nascent stage, is opening up.. Just under a decade ago, when the online matrimonial service was being talked about as a possibility, one could not but raise an eyebrow and look at it with ...

BOOKS: Welcome the ‘digital natives’
The world belongs to those born after 1980, so get tech savvy if you don’t want to be left out.. Soon, the world will belong to those “born after 1980, when social digital technologies, such as Usenet and bulletin board systems, ...

INTERVIEW: MphasiS – changing to a fresher-heavy structure
New CEO at the helm explains why the move makes sense in these times of slowdown.. It’s not a great year to take over as CEO of an Indian IT services company. The US economy, from which India derives about 50 per cent of its revenues, is ...

INTERVIEW: To your health
Texas Instruments on how chips are making a difference in healthcare.. Chips designed by researchers at TI India touch our lives in more ways than one, says the company. Besides spheres such as telecommunications, electronic gadgets and ...

CYBER QUEST: Quiz
V.V. Ramanan. 2. With which company would one associate the new enterprise desktop client called ...

CARTOON: Cartoon
“The way it’s going, we’ll buy your software only if it comes bundled with a technical ...

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