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OUTLOOK: Cos see more headroom for growth in Europe
‘Financial segment soft, but other verticals promising’. Bangalore, Oct. 24 Notwithstanding the gradual spread of economic crisis to Europe, Indian IT firms are bullish on prospects in Continental Europe that’s slowly warming ...

INTERNET: Portal for biz networking
Ohio-based GoSecure Inc has launched a portal for business networking. The portal, www.gosecure.com, is a Web 2.0 networking tool and can be downloaded free of cost, Mr Billa Bhandari, Chairman, GoSecure, ...

FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE: Ramco Systems breaks even in Q2
Chennai, Oct. 24 Ramco Systems has broken-even in the second quarter of this financial year with global net profit of $0.10 million as compared to a net loss of $2.74 million in the first quarter. It recorded global revenues of $12.86 million, ...

FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE: HCL Info consolidated net dips 8% in July-Sept
New Delhi, Oct. 24 HCL Infosystems Ltd has posted over an 8 per cent decline in its consolidated net profit for the first quarter ended September 2008 at Rs 66.09 crore, on account of foreign exchange losses. The company’s gross sales ...

SOFTWARE: Cognizant, AstraZeneca in pact
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FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE: HTMT Global Q2 net falls
Bangalore, Oct. 24 HTMT Global Solutions Ltd, an outsourcing solutions provider that is part of the Hinduja Group, reported a 27 per cent decrease in net profit for the second quarter ending September ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Unitech to offload 26-45% stake in telecom biz within a month
New Delhi, Oct. 24 Real estate developer Unitech on Friday said it would divest 26 per cent to 45 per cent stake in its telecom venture to a strategic partner, within ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: 10 m new mobile subscribers in Sept
New Delhi, Oct. 24 Mobile operators added a whopping 10.07 million subscribers in September compared with 9.16 million in ...

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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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