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INTERNET: Airlines told to give fare break-up on Web sites
New Delhi, Feb. 12 Domestic air travelers making bookings on airline Web sites may soon not have to worry about how much more they will have to pay in the form of surcharges in addition to the basic fare being charged by ...

OUTLOOK: ‘Top brass should be first to take pay cut, if needed’
Mumbai, Feb. 12 Infosys seems to believe in effecting salary cuts rather than firing people, while vouching for supportive measures to small IT companies by the Government to fight the ...

OUTLOOK: ‘We’ve put out the fire, ensured financial stability’
Our job now is to find a home for Satyam, says Karnik. Mumbai/ New Delhi, Feb. 12 The cash-strapped Satyam Computer Services board may pledge its land holding to raise funds. The company is reported to be holding lands worth Rs 1,500-1,700 ...

HUMAN RESOURCES: IT cos look to push campus hiring closer to pass-out date
Mumbai, Feb. 12 Students of the country’s best engineering colleges may now have to wait till their final year for clinching a job with an IT firm. In a bid to get greater visibility of the business environment while hiring, IT ...

SOFTWARE: Hexaware says promoters have not sold or pledged any stake
Citigroup offloads 11 lakh shares thru bulk deals. Mumbai, Feb. 12 Hexaware Technologies Ltd on Thursday said that neither its promoters nor the two large shareholders in the company have sold any stake, even as the share price of the company ...

SOFTWARE: Perot to move more work to India
Scouting for acquisitions in healthcare, engg services. Mumbai, Feb. 12 IT provider Perot Systems said on Wednesday that it expects to have nearly half of its global workforce at offshore locations such as India over the next five years. The ...

SOFTWARE: Infotech, Mitsubishi Heavy sign pact
Infotech Enterprises Japan KK, a subsidiary of Infotech Enterprises Ltd, has signed an agreement with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI), a leading heavy machinery manufacturer, to provide engineering services support. “This is the ...

OUTSOURCING: Egyptian outsourcing cos keen to set up base in India
Mumbai, Feb. 12 Several Egyptian IT and BPO firms are keen to set up shop in India as they seek to tap into the country’s talent pool and jointly partner with companies ...

CORPORATE GOVERNANCE: ‘Adverse fallout of one company must not impact entire IT industry’
New Delhi, Feb. 12 The External Affairs and Finance Minister, Mr Pranab Mukherjee, has stated that the Government will spare no effort in getting to the bottom of the Satyam scam and take the necessary measures on the basis of the ...

ECONOMIC OFFENCES: ‘Raju’s second brother too has big role in Satyam fraud’
CID says custodial interrogation is required. Hyderabad, Feb. 12 Key documents pertaining to siphoning of funds by disgraced ex-chairman of Satyam Computer Services Ltd, Mr B. Ramalinga Raju, were kept in a Toyota Innova which was ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Rupee depreciation increases Tata Comm’s indebtedness
New Delhi, Feb. 12 Depreciation of the rupee since April 2008 has resulted in an increase in Tata Communication’s indebtedness by about Rs 500 crore. This has been disclosed by the Department of Telecom in a proposal considering ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Tata Comm to invest $430 m in Asia Pacific
Mumbai, Feb. 12 Tata Communications on Thursday announced a $430-million strategic investment plan for the Asia-Pacific region to set up a new Internet Data Centre in Singapore and complete the main segments of its TGN Asia ...

SOFTWARE: IBS launches new iFly suite for global airline sector
Thiruvananthapuram, Feb. 12 City-based IBS Software has formally launched its iFly suite of software solutions for the global airline ...

SOFTWARE: Cisco to continue relationship with Satyam
Bangalore, Feb. 12 The Cisco Chairman, Mr John Chambers, reiterated on Thursday that the company would continue its relationship with Satyam Computer and would not pull out its resources as “we believe in long-term ...

OFF-SHORE DEVELOPMENT: ‘Expansion by MNCs could fuel IT deals in short term’
Mumbai, Feb.12 Even as uncertainty persists on when technology budgets would see an uptake, analysts feel that global expansion by multinationals could fuel deals in ...

SOFTWARE: Cisco security initiative for Bangalore
Bangalore, Feb. 12 As part of its global initiative on Intelligent Urbanisation of cities, Cisco launched a pilot project for security and surveillance in Bangalore ...

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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