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REGULATORY BODIES & RULINGS: Govt slow in acting on key reform proposals: TRAI
Recommendations made in 2005 still awaiting DoT decision: Misra. New Delhi, Jan. 16 The outgoing Chairman of Telecom Regulatory Authority of India, Mr Nripendra Misra, on Friday said that some of its key policy recommendations on next generation ...

PEOPLE: LIC nominee appointment on Satyam board lifts co’s stock
Lazard Asset, Swiss Finance sell stake. Mumbai, Jan. 16 Satyam shares gained close to 40 per cent in intra-day trade on Friday after closing 32 per cent down on ...

OUTLOOK: Tough to hit $10-b target by 2010: TCS
Consumer confidence at its lowest in ‘peculiar’ downturn: Ramadorai. Mumbai, Jan. 16 Will the country’s largest software exporter, Tata Consultancy Services, achieve its target of $10 billion in revenues by 2010 ...

ECONOMIC OFFENCES: Ramalinga Raju’s bail plea hearing put off to Jan 19
CB-CID seeks 7-day police custody for all accused. Hyderabad, Jan 16 Exactly a month after his bid to push through the $1.6-billion acquisition of Maytas twins failed, the former Chairman of Satyam Computers, Mr B. Ramalinga Raju, finds ...

HUMAN RESOURCES: Staff utilisation rate at 79%
Mumbai, Jan. 16 Tata Consultancy Services made a gross addition of 11,773 employees during the third quarter of the ...

SOFTWARE: RBI gets data on Satyam exposure
Hyderabad, Jan. 16 The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has received complete data on banks’ exposure to Satyam Computer Services Ltd and ...

SOFTWARE: Finacle ‘diversity’ helping Infosys clinch global deals
Bangalore, Jan. 16 Infosys said diversity in offerings of its banking product Finacle is helping the company clinch new deals in Asia-Pacific and Europe, West Asia and Africa, even as the decision-making cycle in large banks in the US and ...

HUMAN RESOURCES: Job switch hard for Satyamites in US
Firm may invoke legal provisions to retain talent. Hyderabad, Jan. 16 Job-change may not be easy for Satyamites working in the US as the beleaguered IT giant could invoke legal provisions to retain staff to avoid any problem for ...

TAXATION: Software sops
The Department of Electronics (DoE) Secretary, Nagarajan Vittal, Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Commerce, K. Roy Paul, and Economic Advisor, Pronab Sen, were the three individuals who changed the outlook of the DoE, writes Dinesh C. Sharma ...

SOFTWARE: HP Labs to focus on revenue generation
Bangalore, Jan. 16 HP Labs, the central research lab of Hewlett-Packard Co, said two years from now it would launch one high impact product or service every fiscal, which would add to the ...

HUMAN RESOURCES: Questions over health cover renewal
Hyderabad, Jan. 16 Will the crisis-ridden Satyam Computer Services be able to renew premium on health insurance to thousands of its employees, before January ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: IMEI number: DoT insists on compliance
New Delhi, Jan. 16 The Department of Telecom has asked GSM operators to comply with its earlier order to stop offering mobile services to subscribers with handsets without an international mobile equipment identity (IMEI) ...

SOFTWARE: Misys-HCL tool for banks
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FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE: Zensar Tech revenues up
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FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE: Sonata Software net up 27%
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ACCOUNTING STANDARDS: Meet on financial standards
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SOFTWARE: Tell-tale banner
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HUMAN RESOURCES: Another round of job cuts at Motorola India
Mumbai, Jan. 16 In another round of job cuts, beleaguered mobile phone maker Motorola is learned to have issued pink slips to nearly 400 employees ...

SOFTWARE: Satyam Board to meet today
Hyderabad, Jan. 16 The six members on the new board of Satyam Computer Services, appointed by the Union Government, would meet here on Saturday to discuss both the short-term and long-term strategies to put the crisis-ridden company back ...

From eWorld

HARDWARE: A new stream of revenue
Hardware players are wooing clients with new fare — virtualisation and consolidation are lures, for sure.. As the ripple effects of the global economic slowdown reach Indian shores, hardware giants such as Hewlett Packard, Sun ...

INTERVIEW: Your mobile number — for keeps
Indian mobile users will soon get the benefit of Mobile Number Portability (MNP), which will allow them to change their operator without having to give up their phone number. Navin Suri, Vice-President, Telcordia, one of the companies ...

SOFTWARE: Shot in the arm for patients
One patient at home is task enough so you can imagine how hospitals manage. Healthcare management software helps smoothen the work of both doctors and patients. In a burgeoning healthcare market, the iSOFT eHIS is an interesting ...

STOCK MARKETS: When every second counts
9:57 a.m.: “Your order is currently being ...

INTERVIEW: Falling short on security
There are serious gaps in information security, warns Teknotrends Software.. Many security aspects are being discussed threadbare in the context of the recent Mumbai terror attack. From an information technology (IT) perspective, the most ...

INTERVIEW: ‘Satyam case unlikely to slow offshoring rate’
Even given Satyam’s shocking disclosures last week, there still is no alternative to India as a location, says Value Leadership Group.. Satyam Computer Services’ pricing has been more aggressive causing its services to cost less than ...

BOOKS: Smart on the job
Who is better at work and multi-tasking — Net Geners or the older?. Who are better at work — the young or the older? To see whether young people really can multitask more effectively than older people, the Oxford Future of the Mind ...

HARDWARE: Visibility sells
If you are looking for a better return on your advertisement budget, or are considering newer channels of reaching out to customers, search engine marketing could be your answer.The medium, which is still relatively small in India, is ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: A little more privacy, please
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CYBER QUEST: Quiz
V.V. Ramanan. 1. Name the first World Wide Web browser written for Windows PCs that debuted on June ...

CARTOON: Cartoon
“Can you call back a little later? He’s on the ...






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