The Hindu Business Line : Friday, December 19, 2008

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SOFTWARE: TCS on F1 lane, to ride on Ferrari
Logo to be featured on racing car. Mumbai, Dec. 18 The Formula One car of Italian auto giant Ferrari will for the first time feature the logo of an Indian corporate- ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: TRAI seeks overhaul of USO fund management
Proposes independent body to push rural communication. New Delhi, Dec. 18 The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India has proposed to spin off the Universal Services Obligation fund administrator as an independent body to make it more effective in ...

SECURITY: ‘Indian cos do better on security’
Better monitoring of employees’ use of Net, data: Study. New Delhi, Dec. 18 In a clear indication that security in Indian organisations has evolved rapidly, Indian organisations have fared better than global counterparts in information ...

CORPORATE GOVERNANCE: ‘Satyam’s independent directors had raised concerns over the deal’
Hyderabad, Dec. 18 How independently did the independent directors act on the board of Satyam Computers in the now highly questioned and failed decision by the IT major to acquire two ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: TRAI proposes tighter norms for quality of service
New Delhi, Dec. 18 The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India has proposed to tighten the quality of service norms for telecom companies. According to existing benchmarks, operators are supposed to keep the call drop rate to less than 3 per ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Telephonic employment information service launched
Gramadootha targeting Tier II and III cities, non-IT job seekers. Hyderabad, Dec. 18 Hyderabad-based Gramadootha Technical Services Pvt Ltd announced the launch of a telephonic employment vacancy information service — ...

OUTSOURCING: Silverline may put Canadian arm on the block
Mumbai, Dec. 18 City-based IT services firm Silverline Technologies may put its Canada-based subsidiary, OMDR Inc, on the block. OMDR has been specialising in outbound calls; due to the current meltdown, the business of outsourcing to ...

BUYBACK: Satyam plans buyback; board meet on Dec 29
Hyderabad, Dec. 18 As part of its plan to restore the investor confidence, Satyam Computer Services has decided to go for a buyback later ...

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS: Yahoo picks 30% stake in Chennai co
Bangalore, Dec. 18 Internet firm Yahoo has picked up a 30 per cent stake in the Chennai-based Info Network Management Company Pvt Ltd (INMAC), which runs telephone directory search service - Call Ezee, for an undisclosed ...

PEOPLE: Wipro Consulting global head
Bangalore, Dec. 18 Mr Kirk Strawser has been appointed as the new global head of Wipro Consulting Services (WCS). Before joining Wipro, Mr Strawser was the President of Consulting Services of Capgemini Americas. WCS, with over 1200 experts ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: DoT to decide on 3G fee today
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PEOPLE: Patni ropes in Jeya Kumar as CEO
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OUTSOURCING: Red Herring award for Cross-Tab
Knowledge process outsourcing firm Cross-Tab has been recognised as one of the 100 most promising Asia companies at the Red Herring 100 Asia Awards 2008. CEOs of the winning start-ups presented their innovative ideas and technologies to an ...

From eWorld

SOFTWARE: IT’s opening up
Continental Europe is now sending more tech business abroad. An opportune thaw for India.. The hitherto elusive Continental Europe, which has for long been on the radar of Indian IT outsourcers, is gradually warming up to the concepts of ...

SECURITY: Tamper-proof key
NXP Semiconductors on the trends shaping the high-tech car ride.. Compare the ‘Ambi’ (Ambassador car) of yesteryears with the new generation passenger cars of today. While some still swear by the Ambi as being the best car for ...

SECURITY: Don’t let the link snap
Symantec says data loss prevention can keep the business chain going.. Information has become a company’s most valuable — and vulnerable — asset in today’s competitive times. According to the IT Policy Compliance Group, ...

INTERVIEW: ‘Create a risk-aware IT behaviour’
Secude on the fundamental steps to play safe in the physical and cyber worlds.. India, the emerging economic superpower, is waking up to certain hard realities, observes Jagan Nathan Vaman, CEO, Secude Solutions India Private Ltd (
INTERNET: Elusive search
I am in the market for a netbook — one of those small laptop computers that usually have a small screen and a low-speed and power-efficient processor — that I’d like to buy for my ...

NEW PRODUCTS & SERVICES: Netbook for you
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TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Mobile matters
Checking out what the MobileRediff application offers.. E-mail on your mobile phone isn’t anything very new, for sure. But the recently launched MobileRediff application seeks to make e-mail, news and updates more seamlessly accessible ...

CYBER QUEST: Quiz
V. V. Ramanan. 1. Which new top-level domain, that could attract the interests of telecom entities, was made available on ...

BOOKS: Reform potential of e-governance
What is required is full-hearted effort, not half measures.. In isolated pockets, innovative e-government applications are on, but the real challenge is to achieve a wide-scale impact, says Subhash C. Bhatnagar in one of the essays included in ...

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