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PEOPLE: Satyam insider is CEO
A.S. Murty a surprise choice; Khusrokhan, Datta appointed Special Advisors. Hyderabad, Feb. 5 Ending days of speculation, the Government appointed Satyam Board has opted for Mr A.S. Murty, an insider, for the top slot to steer the embattled ...

HUMAN RESOURCES: 59 Mastek ‘benched’ staff to quit
Mumbai, Feb. 5 Fifty-nine employees of Mastek Ltd have decided to leave the company three days after the IT firm ‘benched’ 10 per cent of ...

PEOPLE: The smiling man at Satyam’s helm
Hyderabad, Feb. 5 At Satyam, ASM means, ‘Always Smiling Murty’. This ‘smiling Murty’, finds himself suddenly vested with the challenge of steering his company out of, paradoxically, a rather ...

SOFTWARE: Satyam appoints lawyers to fight class action suits
SEC team in Hyderabad, holds talks with company’s board. Hyderabad, Feb. 5 The beleaguered Satyam Computer Services has decided to fight 12 class action suits filed against it in the US by appointing Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz ...

INSIGHT: Fusing the 3G ecosystem
Operators have played a key role in driving India’s telecom ecosystem. With 3G, they have a chance to continue building a pan-India network.So far, I have shared my thoughts on how 3G technology can help transform India, and the ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: MTNL launches 3G services in Delhi
To charge a monthly rental of Rs 599. New Delhi, Feb. 5 Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd has become the first telecom operator in the country to launch third generation (3G) mobile services. But the service is on the expensive side as mobile users ...

COURTS/LEGAL ISSUES: SFIO moves court to quiz Raju brothers
Hyderabad, Feb. 5 The Serious Fraud Investigation Office (SFIO) has filed a petition in a city court on Thursday seeking permission to question the former Chairman of Satyam Computer Services, Mr B. Ramalinga Raju, in connection with the ...

HUMAN RESOURCES: ‘More Infy employees under performance lens this year’
New Delhi, Feb. 5 Admitting that the industry’s tolerance towards non-performers had come down amid the global economic crisis and slower growth, the member of the Infosys board, Mr T.V. Mohandas Pai, on Thursday said ...

PEOPLE: Khusrokhan: Always up to the challenge!
Mumbai, Feb. 5 He has always been up to the challenge, even if it meant taking on Swede tennis-ace Bjorn Borg at a match in Goa, is how Novartis India’s chief Mr Ranjit Shahani describes Mr Homi R. Khusrokhan, now appointed as ...

FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE: WNS net income drops 61.8% in Q3
Mumbai, Feb. 5 The country’s second largest pure play BPO company, WNS (Holdings) Ltd, has reported a 61.8 per cent dip in net income including minority interest for the third quarter ended December to $2.1 million (about Rs 10.3 ...

CORPORATE GOVERNANCE: I-T Dept looking at past TDS claims of Satyam
New Delhi, Feb. 5 The income-tax department is investigating into various aspects of the Satyam Computer Services scandal including the one on possible fictitious or inflated claim of tax deduction at source (TDS) relating to ...

SOFTWARE: VSoft to market cheque-imaging solutions
Hyderabad, Feb. 5 VSoft, a cheque-imaging and data management software solutions company, has completed a pilot for a public sector bank and is in the process of entering into a pact with it for offering cheque-imaging and ...

PEOPLE: New appointment at Saba Soft
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From eWorld

ECONOMIC OFFENCES: From spotlight to shadow
The man who added sheen to Madhapur, considered to be the Silicon Valley of AP, has now fallen into disrepute.. Though cliched, the best description for Madhapur, the hub of all IT activity in Andhra Pradesh, would be that it was just a ...

ELECTRONICS: The power of cause and effect
Economic crisis reports hit sales for this electronic components manufacturer — with no real dip in demand. Unravel this chain and you get the real picture.. Recently, we spent time with a group of top managers of a Japanese company, a ...

INTERVIEW: ‘Share telecom resources to deliver more value’
This is the message of the former chairman of VSNL to public and private players.. By sharing infrastructure, innovation and expertise, by avoiding duplications or re-inventing the wheel or the sliced bread, the public and private sector ...

INTERVIEW: Talk innovation
Tech Mahindra on how it is managing its BPO business in slowdown times.. Sujit Bakshi is President, Corporate Affairs, of telecom solutions provider Tech Mahindra. In an exclusive interaction with eWorld, Bakshi talks of the Mumbai-based ...

BOOKS: Switch to security metric scorecards
Some updates for security managers.. Security managers are increasingly turning to security metric scorecards, hoping to produce business cases for spending and to drive accountability outward to business units, writes Nina Godbole in ...

INTERNET: Log on to know the latest
This Web site seeks to keep students in Indian universities updated on opportunities.. “When was the last time you knew of a great opportunity — only too late?” asks Nitin Rao, founder of the portal, Let Me Know (

INTERNET: ‘Friendly’ neighbourhood
“The most interesting friend you’ve been searching for all over the Web may be just a street away. Areapal helps you find that pal,” chorus the enthusiastic Areapal team members as they explain what their recently launched ...

CYBER QUEST: Quiz
1. Which popular social media service was founded by Dalton Caldwell and Jan Jannink (formerly ...

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