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OUTLOOK: Adobe touts ‘Creative Suite’ for converging visual applications
HP workstations, NVIDIA graphics showcased as a complete ecosystem. Bangalore, Nov. 21 Adobe, came to India’s Silicon City on Friday, to unveil to the local design community, the latest edition of its flagship product for the visual ...

E-GOVERNANCE: E-governance product
Digiblitz Technologies, an US-based company having a research and development centre in IT park Chandigarh, on Thursday announced the launch of technology product by the name ‘eBlitz’. The product is mainly targeted at serving the ...

IT TRAINING: IT training institutes take a hit on slowdown
Hyderabad, Nov. 21 SAP ECC 6.0 (FI/CO, SD, HR, ABAP) .NET 3.5, Sharepoint 2007, Oracle Apps. Technical, SQL Ser.2005. These are the names of a plethora of job-oriented, information technology (IT) courses that promised the moon and most ...

PERFORMANCE: Dell India revenue up 48%
Cost cutting in Asia Pacific to be relatively minimal. New Delhi, Nov. 21 Even as its revenue fell three per cent globally on slower IT spending, PC giant Dell Inc on Friday reported a 77 per cent growth year-on-year in units and 48 per cent ...

SOFTWARE: Karnataka, BSA in pact to ‘make industry secure’
Coimbatore, Nov. 21 A campaign has been launched in Karnataka to recognise small and medium IT and ITeS companies as leaders in Software Asset Management (SAM) and promote the importance of corporate governance and intellectual property ...

OUTLOOK: Sierra Atlantic bets on New Oracle Economy
Hyderabad, Nov. 21 With Oracle Corporation pursuing aggressive acquisition strategy, Sierra Atlantic, an enterprise integration solutions company, sees a huge opportunity to become a leading player in what it called ‘New ...

ALLIANCES & JOINT VENTURES: RCom partners gaming co
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IT TRAINING: Catura into education vertical
Backed by a private equity infusion of $3 million (Rs 15 crore), Catura Broadband Systems is looking to enter the education vertical. The company, which introduced education resource portal TopChalks.com, said students can access the content ...

From eWorld

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Unified rivalry
When you are battling for the global unified communications market, what is more likely to swing it for you — voice or email?. They have been fighting a pitched battle for a larger share of the global unified communications market for over ...

INTERVIEW: In animated discussion
Is a downturn good for entertainment business? If yes, is the industry up and ready for this?. Wikipedia tells us that the Golden Age of movie animation is said to be the period 1930-1940. Coincidentally, that decade was preceded by economic ...

PEOPLE: A tale of two strangers…
… who found a home, and opportunities, in India. It is not uncommon to see Americans, and people from other countries as well, attending IT conferences in India. But Joseph Cairns and Erhardt Christopher Otto were a surprise duo. The two ...

ENTERTAINMENT & LEISURE: Learning to build fantasy worlds
A peek inside an animation school. You get this surreal feeling in the green room. We are led in there quietly, and then the lights come on. Here, the ‘green’ room is not backstage where actors put on their pancake, away from public ...

SOFTWARE: Game for more art
His work involves adding excitement to your game. eWorld draws him out to dwell on his career highs, past and present.. This software writer developed his first ever game while still in high school because, as he puts it, “Well, I ...

INTERVIEW: The silver lining
More growth opportunities for IT-BPO sector. A search for ‘outsourcing’ in Google News predictably yields many sob tales. Sample these: ‘Hiring slows for Indian IT services and call centres,’ announces PC World. ...

E-MAIL: What’s the connection?
About ten years ago, I’d get calls from friends, colleagues in other cities and well-wishers if I hadn’t sent them an email, service message or letters in a week or two. You know, the usual I-was-wondering-what-happened-to-you ...

CYBER QUEST: Quiz
1. The largest acquisition in Microsoft’s history was worth $6 billion. Which company ...

COMPUTER USAGE: Internet through TV cable
I want to access the Internet through TV cable. How do I go about doing it? Do I need any particular channel, interface cards or special ...

CARTOON: Cartoon
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