The Hindu Business Line : Monday, January 19, 2009

INFO-TECH

ECONOMIC OFFENCES: Ramalinga Raju sold 4.4 crore shares in 2001-08 period
Raju’s stake fell from 22.78% to 8.63% over seven years. Chennai, Jan.18 Satyam Computer Services’ ex-Chairman, Mr Ramalinga Raju, sold a little under four-and- a-half crore shares in the company over a seven-year period since ...

SOFTWARE: Satyam accounts: Clear picture only after final probe report, says Gupta
New Delhi, Jan. 18 The Corporate Affairs Minister, Mr P.C. Gupta, on Sunday said that it was too early to come to the conclusion that there had been a diversion of funds from ...

COURTS/LEGAL ISSUES: Rajus, Vadlamani in police custody
The Crime Investigation Department (CID) sleuths have taken Mr B. Ramalinga Raju (former Chairman of Satyam Computer Services), Mr Rama Raju (former Managing Director), and Mr Vadlamani (former Chief Financial Officer) into custody ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Blocks on reform
Barely ten years ago, who would have thought that nearly a third of India’s population would be connected to one another through a palm-sized mobile handset? Certainly not the sizeable numbers who still remember the harrowing experience ...

BROADBAND: Going nowhere
New telecom operators sounded the bugle after being awarded licence around a year ago. But they are yet to hit the road.. On February 26, 2008, the Communication and IT Minister, Andimuthu Raja, gave his permission to issue licences to new ...

INSIGHT: `Cloud computing is silver lining'
When budgets are being slashed, Cloud offerings help companies think IT as opex rather than capex, says Ranjith Ramakrishnan of Cumulux.. At a time when organisations are frantically trying to cut costs and trim budgets, Ranjith Ramakrishnan, ...

TRENDS: The scene behind the screen
Is the slowdown hitting the media and entertainment sector’s IT spend? HCL on the status of the show.. In these times of recession, are media and entertainment players cutting back on tech spending? Karan Puri, Senior Vice-President, ...

SOFTWARE: SBI to raise tech upgradation spend
State Bank of India proposes to step up spending on technology upgradation by around 25 per cent in 2009-10, according to Mr R.P. Sinha, Deputy Managing Director (Information Technology), SBI. “The target for the current fiscal (2008-09) is ...

SECURITY: Seminar on cyber security
Gitarattan International Business School organised a national seminar on cyber security at its campus on January 17. The innovation in information technology arena has made the world a click economy. “The IT enabled world is still not able ...

PEOPLE: Dr Rao quits Moschip board
Dr M. Rammohan Rao, former Dean of Indian School of Business, has resigned from the board of directors of Moschip Semiconductor Technology Ltd, the company informed the BSE. — ...

SOFTWARE: Appointment of CEO, CFO high on Jan 23 meet agenda
New Delhi, Jan. 18 The newly constituted board of the embattled Satyam Computer Services will take up for deliberation the critical issue of appointing a CEO and a CFO at its forthcoming meeting, slated for Friday, January 23 ...

FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE: Sasken Q3 net at Rs 14.4 cr; Vinod Dham quits board
Bangalore Jan. 18 Sasken Communication Technologies Ltd said its December quarter profits grew by more than a third and announced that Mr Vinod K. Dham, inventor of Pentium chip, resigned from its board ...

OUTLOOK: Lull temporary, says ITC Info
Coimbatore, Jan. 18 ITC Infotech’s revenue mix was focused on Europe (including UK and continental Europe). “One-third is from the US and the rest from India,” the Managing Director of ITC Infotech, Mr Sanjiv ...

ECONOMIC OFFENCES: Satyam episode
Satyam had its board packed with the so-called independent directors who when it came to the crunch proved to be as supine as the so-called non-independent directors. In fact, this is the worldwide experience — one cannot be ...

From eWorld

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Going nowhere
New telecom operators sounded the bugle after being awarded licence around a year ago. But they are yet to hit the road.. On February 26, 2008, the Communication and IT Minister, Andimuthu Raja, gave his permission to issue licences to new ...

INTERVIEW: `Cloud computing is silver lining'
When budgets are being slashed, Cloud offerings help companies think IT as opex rather than capex, says Ranjith Ramakrishnan of Cumulux.. At a time when organisations are frantically trying to cut costs and trim budgets, Ranjith Ramakrishnan, ...

INTERVIEW: The scene behind the screen
Is the slowdown hitting the media and entertainment sector’s IT spend? HCL on the status of the show.. In these times of recession, are media and entertainment players cutting back on tech spending? Karan Puri, Senior Vice-President, ...

INTERNET: Add sizzle to your site
For stay-at-home people or small entrepreneurs, the Internet offers a quick start of business and convenience to work at one’s pace and time. But small doesn’t always mean easy. Bigger Web sites, backed by larger investments, often ...

HARDWARE: Pet peeves and whimsies
Okay, this instalment is going to be on pet laptop peeves. First up, why can’t the laptop remember that I wanted to shut it down before I closed the lid? Why does it still go into standby or sleep mode even after I have shut it down ...

INTERNET: Sweet downloads
This portal dishes up hot news — and some Tirunelvi halwa too at your doorstep.. It is not unusual for someone visiting you from another city to ask, “Can I get you anything from my end”?Most of us would likely reply ...

E-COMMERCE & E-BUSINESS: Tickets at a click
How often have you missed that movie or favourite play simply because you didn’t have the time to book the tickets? Bookmyshow.com says it is a concept that is designed to put your social life on track again. Bookmyshow.com has ...

CYBER QUEST: Quiz
V.V. Ramanan.