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TELECOMMUNICATIONS: ‘No loss to Govt by not auctioning spectrum’
Annual revenue share, rural roll-out offset ‘notional’ loss: Raja. New Delhi, Oct 30 The Minister for Communications and Information Technology, Mr A. Raja, has defended the decision to give out fresh telecom licences on a first-come ...

OUTLOOK: Revenues from maintenance deals up
High-end outsourcing slows as decisions get delayed. Mumbai, Oct. 30 The global financial crisis seems to have prompted client companies to outsource IT projects of a more traditional nature as is evident from the September quarter numbers of ...

FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE: Northgate Tech Q2 net at Rs 22.4 cr
Northgate Technologies has registered a 45 per cent growth in consolidated revenues at Rs 189.37 crore in the second quarter ended September 30, as against Rs 130.52 crore in the corresponding quarter last year. The net profit stood at Rs ...

NEW BUSINESS: HCL Infosystems bags order from Delhi Police
New Delhi, Oct. 30 IT company HCL Infosystems announced on Thursday that it has bagged a multi-year contract from Delhi Police to provide solutions and technologies that would enable the police force to access automated information. The ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Telecom Ministry not for revenue split
Technically not possible, says Raja. New Delhi, Oct. 30 In a blow to existing mobile service providers, the Ministry of Communication and IT is not in favour of allowing operators to split revenue between 3G and 2G ...

FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE: Megasoft Q3 net drops to Rs 2.17 cr
Hyderabad, Oct. 30 Megasoft, a telecom and IT solutions company, has registered a consolidated income of Rs 82.90 crore in the third quarter ended September 30, as against Rs 72.80 crore in the same quarter ...

FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE: MTNL net tad lower in Q2
New Delhi, Oct. 30 Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd has reported a 1.3 per cent dip in its net profit to Rs 91.86 crore during the second quarter ended September 30, 2008 compared with Rs 93.14 crore during the corresponding quarter of the ...

FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE: Bartronics PAT up by 63% in Q2
Hyderabad, Oct. 30 Bartronics India Ltd has posted net sales of Rs 160.68 crore for the quarter ended September 30, 2008, as against Rs 67.83 crore in the same quarter last year, showing a growth of 136.80 ...

EVENTS: BangaloreIT.biz from Nov 6
Bangalore Oct.30 More than 100 companies including the likes of Microsoft, IBM, Cisco, Intel, HP, Oracle, Nokia, Dell, Infosys and Wipro will participate in BangaloreIT.biz 2008, the eleventh edition of the State-sponsored annual ICT ...

FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE: Cranes Soft Q2 net up 27%
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FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE: Softpro Systems net up
Softpro Systems, an enterprise and collaborative solutions providers, posted a total income of Rs 1.70 crore in the second quarter ended September 30, 2008, as against Rs 1.61 crore in the corresponding quarter last year, showing an increase of ...

FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE: Redington net rises 6%
Redington (India) Ltd reported a 6-per cent increase in net profit to Rs 34 crore for the quarter ended September 2008, compared with Rs 32 crore for the corresponding quarter last year. Revenue increased by 23 per cent to Rs 3,268 crore (Rs ...

From eWorld

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 ...

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