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TRENDS: The grip’s tightening
Tech firms are pruning spending and the heat is on recruitment companies to keep the hiring going.. As the global economic crisis shaves off nearly $3 billion from India’s annual IT and BPO export target and a lower tech spending by ...

TAXATION: Extend tax holiday for IT-ITeS
The information technology (IT) and information technology enabled services (ITeS) industry has performed splendidly well over the past decade. Availability of high quality skilled labour, low cost base and increasing advantage accruing from ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: DoT asked to clarify on 2G spectrum allocation
Response to earlier query ‘vague’: CVC. New Delhi, Feb. 15 The Central Vigilance Commission has expressed dissatisfaction with the response of the Department of Telecom on the policy of allocating 2G spectrum on a ...

SECURITY: Keep your eyes open
In times like these when you have no job or no more furniture to sell, what do you do? Sell sensitive information from your company, if you are the unscrupulous kind! The McAfee Unsecured Economies report, conducted ...

SOFTWARE: Syntel to invest $35 m this year
To expand capacity in Chennai, Pune. Chennai, Feb. 15 Syntel Inc, the US-based software company with offshore centres in India, plans to invest $30-35 million in 2009 on capacity expansion in Chennai and Pune, according to its President and ...

OUTLOOK: ‘Impact of Obama’s action to set the tone’
The impact of the US President, Mr Barack Obama’s action will set the tone the software industry will take, Mr Nandan M. Nilekani, Co-Chairman, Infosys Technologies, said. He was in the city to receive KG Foundation’s ...

SOFTWARE: Now that Satyam’s survival is assured, I thought it fit to move on: Subu D.
Hyderabad, Feb. 15 The quitting of one of the top honchos at the beleagured Satyam Computer Services, Mr Subu D. Subramanian, has come as a setback to the company, seen to be on the road to stability, after being hit by the Rs ...

E-GOVERNANCE: ‘GIS must be integrated with national e-governance’
Hyderabad, Feb. 11 The Union Government has been urged to look at integrating geographic information system (GIS) with the national ...

ECONOMIC OFFENCES: ‘110 cos floated by Raju holding 1,817 acres’
Hyderabad, Feb. 15 Officials investigating the landholdings of benami companies floated by Mr B. Ramalinga Raju, the former Chairman of Satyam Computer Services, and his family members, have found that these firms hold ...

OUTSOURCING: 3 Indian cities among KPMG’s top emerging IT locations
Ahmedabad, Feb. 15 As the favourite locations for shared services and outsourcing start to become saturated, newer cities are emerging, offering new and improved incentive packages and talent that are better geared for IT and ...

CORPORATE GOVERNANCE: ‘Peer pressure can help raise corporate governance bar’
The embezzlement of funds by Satyam Founder and former Chairman, Mr Ramalinga Raju, is making the apex industry chambers re-think the role it can play to up the compliance bar among its ...

ECONOMIC OFFENCES: SFIO team grills Raju brothers, ex-CFO of Satyam
Hyderabad, Feb. 15 A 12-member team from Serious Fraud Investigation Office (SFIO) which is probing the Satyam fraud has grilled the Raju brothers and ex-CFO of Satyam, Mr V. Srinivas at Chenchalguda jail here ...

From eWorld

HUMAN RESOURCES: The grip’s tightening
Tech firms are pruning spending and the heat is on recruitment companies to keep the hiring going.. As the global economic crisis shaves off nearly $3 billion from India’s annual IT and BPO export target and a lower tech spending by ...

HUMAN RESOURCES: Missing the opportunity
I have been writing about sitting in on tech meetings in the last couple of weeks and here’s another instalment that is based on some observations: if you want people to listen to you when you are talking, it is better they don’t ...

SOFTWARE: A case for software
Technology can help bring more efficiency into the working of legal firms, says Uberall.. Law firms might have answers to difficult legal questions but when it comes to how they manage their own data and employee teams, technology holds the ...

BOOKS: HR issues in Indian BPO industry
‘Workers see their work in call centres as transient and are in constant search of opportunities for more fulfilling work.’. Despite technological advancements, the attitude and commitment of the CSRs (customer service ...

INTERVIEW: Keep your eyes open
In times like these when you have no job or no more furniture to sell, what do you do? Sell sensitive information from your company, if you are the unscrupulous kind! The McAfee Unsecured Economies report, conducted ...

INTERVIEW: Online space beckons
A key lesson to be learned from this recession is to really understand the use of forward-looking metrics and to be able to relocate scarce resources to the most potentially profitable clients as opposed to the clients who have been ...

INTERNET: Practise for the real thing
How many times have conversations revolving around stocks, shares and trade left you ...

CYBER QUEST: Quiz

1. Fill in the blank: According to a new study from McAfee, cyber-crime has cost firms ______ globally ...

NEW PRODUCTS & SERVICES: The all-seeing eye
Mistral Solutions has announced the availability in India of the Smartvue® product line, a surveillance system based on the 802.11n WLAN technology. The camera and NVR were engineered by Mistral for Smartvue®. The solution ...






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