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HUMAN RESOURCES: IT firms resort to ‘temporary’ hiring to beat US slowdown
Short-term staffing cos see boost in biz. Mumbai, Oct. 26The US slowdown has prompted Indian IT majors to increase hiring on a temporary or contractual basis; as a result, there is boost in demand for agencies that are in the short-term staffing ...

TRENDS: IT’s wait and watch
What is the outlook for the Indian tech sector in the wake of the global slowdown? Analysts say a slow recovery can likely be seen towards the second half of 2009.. The sub-prime crisis in the US that sparked off the first signs of uncertainty ...

NEW PRODUCTS & SERVICES: IT never stops!
The Atom may be overtaken next year by Intel’s own upgrade — and some nifty competition.. The Red Queen in Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass got it right: “It takes all the running you can do, to keep it the same ...

NEW PRODUCTS & SERVICES: Indian developers embed the Atom
Intel’s Lilliputian processor for ultra mobile applications has inspired a number of innovative embedded applications.. Intel habitually gives its chip-products-in-the-pipeline weird code names that no one outside the company can ever ...

RESTRUCTURING: Bharti Airtel revamps internal IT processes through e-tize
IBM implementing project; increased automation aimed at better productivity. New Delhi, Oct. 26 In a bid to make its operations more efficient and cost effective, Bharti Airtel has undertaken a major internal IT programme — e-tize — ...

FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE: Tulip Telecom Q2 net profit rises 35%
New Delhi, Oct. 26 Tulip Telecom Ltd has reported a 35.2 per cent increase in its net profit to Rs 50.15 crore during the second quarter ended September 2008, compared to Rs 37.08 crore in the corresponding quarter last year. The ...

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SOFTWARE: IT’s wait and watch
What is the outlook for the Indian tech sector in the wake of the global slowdown? Analysts say a slow recovery can likely be seen towards the second half of 2009.. The sub-prime crisis in the US that sparked off the first signs of uncertainty ...

SECURITY: ‘Loads’ of technology
It is a breathtaking view of Chennai port and the Bay of Bengal from the ninth floor of the Chennai Port Trust chairman’s office. But the chairman, K. Suresh, has his eyes on something else — the huge LCD monitor that relays live ...

CONVERGENCE: It’s off my mobile
One of my close friends and colleagues made it a point to button-hole me after reading the last instalment of ‘Come Again’: his contention was that sending e-mails and texting are quite different from actually creating a document in ...

BOOKS: Put your e-mails in three boxes
Here are 60 solid techniques to beat chaos.. Practise triage for all e-mail messages all the time, advises Jeff Davidson in The 60 Second Organizer: Sixty solid techniques for beating chaos at home and at work (
HARDWARE: IT never stops!
The Atom may be overtaken next year by Intel’s own upgrade — and some nifty competition.. The Red Queen in Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass got it right: “It takes all the running you can do, to keep it the same ...

INTERVIEW: 5 phases of HR evolution in IT
Take up a tech job only if your heart is in it, advises this expert.. Given the current scenario, do not take up a career in the IT (information technology) sector just because you think it is a white-collar job and offers attractive ...

HARDWARE: Indian developers embed the Atom
Intel’s Lilliputian processor for ultra mobile applications has inspired a number of innovative embedded applications.. Intel habitually gives its chip-products-in-the-pipeline weird code names that no one outside the company can ever ...

CYBER QUEST: Quiz
V.V. Ramanan. 2. Name the site made by an Indian, Pratham Kumar, that helps consumers find out the general size of something based on ...

CARTOON: Cartoon
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