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OUTLOOK: `Restatement of Satyam accounts to take time'
Instilling confidence in all stakeholders is top priority, says A.S. Murty. Mr A.S. Murty, Chief Executive Officer of Satyam Computer Services, has said that the restatement of accounts would take ...

OUTLOOK: Satyam board to outline long-term roadmap soon
Karnik confident on February salary payment. Mumbai, Feb. 11 Just a day ahead of Satyam Computer’s board meeting in Mumbai, its Chairman, Mr Kiran Karnik, on Wednesday exuded confidence that the company would be able to pay the February ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Many-in-one
Beetel has launched DB 7401, a feature-rich phone, with in-built temperature measurement and record feature. The room temperature is displayed on the phone. The large 16-digit LCD display also features an analogue clock with five different ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Hear, hear!
Logitech has introduced the Pure-Fi mobile speaker system to transform low-fidelity mobile phone audio into high-fidelity, stereophonic sound wirelessly. The user can listen to her favourite tunes on the mobile phone without earphones. It is ...

OUTLOOK: ‘IT vendors may see very few mega deals till economy recovers’
Mumbai, Feb. 11 IT vendors may have to be content with the increasing number of smaller deals as large contracts above a billion dollars seem to have vanished from the market place with customers expecting a prolonged recovery from the ...

OUTLOOK: Europe presents new opportunity for vendors
Mumbai, Feb. 11 Indian IT vendors could find a strong market in continental Europe but would have to change their modus operandi to find a foothold. The continent has always been hard to crack for the Indian vendors who have been looking ...

SOFTWARE: Kamal Nath asks IT sector to tap domestic markets
Mumbai, Feb. 11 The Union Commerce and Industry Minister, Mr Kamal Nath, on Wednesday urged the export-led Indian IT industry to tap opportunities in the domestic market as a mantra to overcome the slowdown being witnessed in the ...

ACCOUNTING STANDARDS: ICAI may move court for permission to question Satyam brass
Mumbai, Feb. 11 The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India on Wednesday said it has decided to move to court to ask for permission to interrogate Mr B. Ramalinga Raju and other persons associated with the financial scandal at Satyam ...

OUTLOOK: WNS Global eyes Asia-Pacific
Mumbai, Feb. 11 Back-office services firm WNS Global is now eyeing the Asia-Pacific market as part of its diversification strategy and is exploring options to set up a delivery centre ...

SOFTWARE: SNG college partners with HP for DSpace Solution
Kochi, Feb. 11 Sree Narayana Gurukulam College of Engineering (SNGCE), Kolenchery, has announced its selection of Hewlett-Packard (HP) to help power its DSpace ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Tata Tele arm, Unitech sign tower sharing deal
New Delhi, Feb. 11 Unitech Wireless has signed an infrastructure sharing deal with Wireless-TT Infoservices Ltd (WTTIL), the tower arm of Tata Teleservices Ltd, and Quippo Telecom Infrastructure Ltd ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Reliance Mobile's new GSM offers
...

CORPORATE GOVERNANCE: ‘I sold shares to buy house’
Hyderabad, Feb. 11 Mr A.S. Murty, Chief Executive Officer of Satyam Computer Services, has said he sold shares in December to pool finances required for the construction of ...

ALLIANCES & JOINT VENTURES: Nasscom, Colombian software body tie up
Mumbai, Feb. 11 Nasscom on Wednesday inked a memorandum of understanding with the Colombian Federation of Software and ...

From eWorld

SOFTWARE: If one goes out…
What usually comes first is the contract, thinker-politician Benjamin Disraeli commented once. But that is a fair-weather situation where the party that promised to deliver exists, has the strength to honour the contractual ...

INTERVIEW: `Multi-source for reliable backup'
Instances of service providers failing to meet contractual obligations must have happened earlier. But the Satyam episode has thrown up serious questions such as: what would happen to clients who depend on such firms for vital applications ...

TECHNOLOGY: A disconnect!
I have been sitting in on some tech meetings in the last three weeks and it is striking that the “usual” tech professional doesn’t communicate very well with lay-people and the non-tech professional doesn’t communicate ...

HARDWARE: When the chips are down…
…it’s time for the Indian semiconductor sector to turn the economic meltdown into opportunity, said industry people at a recent round-table.. The topic for this year’s round-table discussion that the Indian Semiconductor ...

SECURITY: Don’t let down guard
Speakers at the Davos economic summit have stressed the need to treat cyber crime as an ever growing threat.. ‘Cyber crime’ is an often heard term on public platforms these days. It is bandied about by even those who have not touched ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Respond to change
Sasken on how it is coping with challenges.. A sense of suppressed optimism and strong resolution is reflected in Sasken’s founder and chief executive officer, Rajiv Mody, who continues to steer the company against the odds, since ...

INTERVIEW: Growing beyond silos
The Government is open to applying e-governance concept in totality, says expert.. Today, there is far more acceptability in the government corridors for undertaking an ambitious project that targets all components simultaneously, says Navin ...

OUTSOURCING: Coping continuously, at Scope
The StanChart arm kept business going during the November crisis, with smart planning and execution.. Misfortune, they say, comes in waves. And so it was, in November 2008 — literally. Even as the rest of the country was grappling with ...

BOOKS: Digital serpent swallowing its own tail
Information and consciousness are flowing in an infinite, self-fulfilling loop.. Think of the ouroboros, the ancient symbol of a serpent swallowing its own tail and forming a circle, invites Steve Hamm in The Race for Perfect: Inside the quest ...

SOFTWARE: Looking to cut costs?
Cloud computing and virtualisation can help, says Citrix.. As the global slowdown begins to pinch, how do tech companies lower costs for customers, and for themselves too, at that? The Area Vice-President of Citrix India, Souma Das, outlines ...

CYBER QUEST: Quiz
V.V. Ramanan. 1. When asked to comment about an occasion that occurred on January 24, Steve Jobs said: “If you look backward in this business, you will be crushed. You have to look forward.” What event is being ...

CARTOON: Cartoon
“That’s the advantage of having a large TV! See, this programme’s more enjoyable at the far end of ...






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