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TELECOMMUNICATIONS: What 3G means to you and me
Qualcomm explains the technology in terms of the services it would offer the mobile user.. Everyone and anyone related to the telecom industry these days talks only about third generation or 3G services. But what does 3G really mean for the end ...

OFF-SHORE DEVELOPMENT: Offshoring R&D services to India on the upswing
Cost is no longer a key driver; cos seek talent pool. Pune, Oct. 19 Research and Development offshoring to India by international IT players, a $9.35 billion industry, is estimated to touch $21.4 billion ...

TRENDS: Don’t lose grip
Forrester on what India needs to do to raise the global competitiveness of its tech economy.. With India slipping further in the global IT industry competitiveness index this year despite its offshore IT prowess, Forrester has said that stepping ...

EVENTS: Google makes ‘open offer’ to Indian developers
First ever Developer Day attracts 400-plus prospective solution creators. Bangalore, Oct. 19 Having a great idea for a ‘cool’ Web-based application, is the easy ...

OFF-SHORE DEVELOPMENT: ‘Cos must focus on innovation’
Bangalore, Oct. 19 With traditional value propositions associated with offshoring such as cost arbitrage or increase in efficiency gradually losing importance, it is time for the Indian IT industry to focus on innovation that would change ...

PEOPLE: AirTel names new COO for AP circle
Mr Rajnish Kaul has been appointed as the new Chief Operating Officer (COO), Mobile Services for the Andhra Pradesh Circle by Bharti Airtel Ltd. Prior to this, Mr Kaul was the Chief Marketing Officer (Mobility) for south hub of the ...

SOFTWARE: KPIT Cummins in pact with VaST
IT services to auto sector. Pune, Oct 19 VaST, a player in electronics virtualisation, and KPIT Cummins Infosystems Ltd, product engineering partner to the automotive industry, have announced a partnership to deliver electronic virtualisation ...

SOFTWARE: Symphony on expansion mode
Bangalore Oct. 19 Notwithstanding the current market conditions, Symphony Services is expanding its delivery capabilities in Bangalore, Pune and Beijing to cater to the rising demand for product engineering ...

HUMAN RESOURCES: Cisco talent initiative
Bangalore, Oct. 19 Global Talent Acceleration programme (GTAP), Cisco’s initiative to create networking talent in emerging countries has been launched in India. Cisco already has GTAP running in Amman in Jordan and Johannesburg in ...

NEW PRODUCTS & SERVICES: ‘Lifetime Jaadu’ from RCom
Reliance Communications has launched a ‘lifetime plan’ which will enable its pre-paid subscribers to make local calls at Rs 50 paise per minute and STD calls for Re 1 by making a one-time payment of Rs 550. Called ‘Lifetime ...

From eWorld

M-COMMERCE: This one is no easy call
Imagine using your mobile phone to pay for your groceries at the supermarket using your credit card facility, transfer funds from your bank account to your parents’ account in their village, buy travel and movie tickets and, perhaps, even ...

SECURITY: Fight child pornography
Nothing short of an obsession to root out this menace will work, if we are to make the world a safer place.. Every instance of child pornography, wherever it comes from, reinforces my uneasy feeling that it is one crime that is under-reported ...

INTERVIEW: `Made for each other? Not always'
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BOOKS: Alternatives to downsizing
How about cutting back on hours of work per week, or reduced salaries?. Downsizing does not solve an organisation’s problems, says Donald W. Huffmire in Handbook of Effective Management (
INTERVIEW: What 3G means to you and me
Qualcomm explains the technology in terms of the services it would offer the mobile user.. Everyone and anyone related to the telecom industry these days talks only about third generation or 3G services. But what does 3G really mean for the end ...

HARDWARE: Different strokes
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CYBER QUEST: Quiz
V.V.Ramanan. 1. Name Google’s new feature, as CNET describes, “designed to prevent you from sending stupid e-mails in the small hours, when you’re most likely to be inebriated and at risk of making a complete idiot ...

COMPUTER USAGE: Spike buster and UPS load
Are spike buster and surge suppressor the same devices or different? I also would like to know why laser printers should not be connected to the UPS. The literature that comes with the UPS cautions against using surge suppressors and ...

SOFTWARE: Don’t lose grip
Forrester on what India needs to do to raise the global competitiveness of its tech economy.. With India slipping further in the global IT industry competitiveness index this year despite its offshore IT prowess, Forrester has said that stepping ...

CARTOON: Cartoon
“Go back home — His Highness gets enough jokes on ...

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