The Hindu Business Line : Tuesday, November 11, 2008

INFO-TECH

OUTLOOK: Tech spend to depend on pace of recovery
Vendors do not see surge in projects in current quarter. Bangalore, Nov. 10 US companies are now seen better placed to chart their outsourcing strategy with the completion of the Presidential polls, but technology spending in calendar 2009 could ...

HUMAN RESOURCES: Cos in wait and watch mode, go slow
CAMPUS CONCERNS. Hyderabad, Nov. 10 This Diwali brought no cheer to Mr Sridhar (name changed), a final year BE student at Gayatri Vidyarthi Parishad college in Visakhapatnam, who is among the 59 students selected for Infosys a few ...

ALLIANCES & JOINT VENTURES: GPS-related venture with Chinese partners blocked
FIPB rejects GELD Consultancy’s proposal. New Delhi, Nov. 10 The Foreign Investment Promotion Board has turned down a proposal by Mumbai-based GELD Consultancy Services to set-up a joint venture with two Chinese companies, for Global ...

INTERVIEW: Mindteck bets on deals from SMEs abroad
Bangalore, Nov. 10 Mr Pankaj Agarwal, Group Chief Executive Officer of Bangalore-based technology and IT services company Mindteck, during a recent visit to Bangalore spoke about the integration of the company’s recent ...

OUTSOURCING: ‘Immediate slowdown in US outsourcing to India unlikely’
Kolkata, Nov. 10 There might not be any immediate slowdown or curb in the US outsourcing to India, according to Mr Adrian P Kendall, Honorary Consul of the Federal Republic ...

SECURITY: ‘Spam volumes set to peak in this quarter’
Coimbatore, Nov. 10 Enterprise gateway security company, Secure Computing Corporation, has predicted a new record for mails and spam volumes this quarter compared to the first three quarters of ...

INDUSTRY ASSOCIATIONS: Nasscom sounds upbeat
New Delhi, Nov. 10 The Natioanl Association of Software and Services Companies (Nasscom) on Monday said while the industry’s growth may possibly come at the lower end of the targeted range of 21-24 per cent for the financial year 2009, ...

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS: Hikes stake in Subex
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SOFTWARE: Microsoft products reseller
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MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS: Satyam buys Motorola’s Malaysian centre
Satyam Computer Services has acquired Motorola’s captive software development centre (SDC) in Malaysia for an ...

From eWorld

SOFTWARE: Develop a yen for Japan
With US and European markets facing a slump, now is the time for the Indian tech sector to target Japan in right earnest, say industry watchers.. With the financial hurricane pounding US and European shores — the cornerstone of the ...

INTERVIEW: Mobile users as content creators
That is the role Tunespray wants them to play.. Sample these observations: Out of 200 students, only one of them did not have a mobile phone, and he too was planning to buy one during Durga Puja. Over 60 per cent of the students currently use ...

E-COMMERCE & E-BUSINESS: Platform 9³/₄
JK Rowling readers know of this platform’s magical properties. Can the Indian tech sector climb aboard Platform BPO?. If there is one thing Indian BPO can never be accused of, it is the inability to come up with new buzzwords. Having seen ...

INTERNET: Visualise it!
A picture can tell a thousand words. An animation can tell you more, maybe? I have always been fascinated by infographics and have been a great fan of good work done by Gapminder (
BOOKS: Risks of offshore outsourcing
Decline in employee morale tops the list. Decline in employee morale tops the list of ‘risks of offshore outsourcing’ in Information Systems Project Management by David Avison and Gholamreza Torkzadeh ( ...

CYBER QUEST: Quiz
1. Which Web server software is used the most to deliver Web pages to ...

INTERNET: Your bit for your teacher
Isn’t it true that teachers who lay the foundation for what you achieve in the future rarely get any prizes for their efforts? It’s never too late to make up. If you have school-going children then here’s a way for them to ...