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REGULATORY BODIES & RULINGS: Try something else
Protecting customer choice is the most important mandate of any regulator, and it is a task that the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has taken all too seriously as it outlined this week guidelines for preventing any one ...

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS: L&T appoints investment bankers for Satyam
Mumbai, Feb. 27 Larsen & Toubro is believed to have appointed investment bankers Citigroup and Nomura to advise a possible deal with the scam-tainted Satyam Computer ...

SOFTWARE: Tech Mahindra expands portfolio
Sees growth in 6 areas of focus. Bangalore, Feb. 27 Tech Mahindra Ltd, provider of IT services to the telecom sector, has expanded its offerings, a move that the company hopes would provide a ...

HUMAN RESOURCES: ‘Product development cos freezing salaries’
Trend likely to intensify in coming months: Study. A study of 30 software product development companies across Bangalore, Pune and Chennai has found that 27 per cent of the organisations had announced a salary freeze across the ...

OUTLOOK: IT sector to grow at 15-20%: Infosys
The IT industry is expected to grow at the rate of 15-20 per cent, said Mr N.R. Narayana Murthy, Chief Mentor, Infosys, at the Chameli Devi Institute of Technology and Management, Indore, according to a press release. “Indore has an ...

ALLIANCES & JOINT VENTURES: Matrimony portal, Idea in pact
BharatMatrimony.com, a matrimony portal with over 15 million registered members, has partnered with Idea Cellular, a mobile operator with over 40 million subscribers, to launch customised matrimony services for mobile users. Idea subscribers ...

PEOPLE: AOL India MD quits
The AOL India Managing Director and AOL International Executive Vice-President in Asia, Europe and the Americas, Mr Maneesh Dhir, has put in his papers and is likely to pursue an entrepreneurial career. AOL sources confirmed that Mr Dhir had put ...

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Visual effects co selects HP tool
Hewlett-Packard Co said visual effects company Paprikaas has selected HP blade server technology to increase production of computer-generated imagery and drive cost-saving data centre initiatives. Paprikaas is using HP ProLiant BL460c G5 ...

OUTSOURCING: India in talks with US for clarity on outsourcing
Bangalore, Feb.27 Mr Kris Gopalakrishnan, CEO & Managing Director of Infosys Technologies, on Friday said that the US President, Mr Barrak Obama’s announcement on curtailing outsourcing to other countries needed clarification on ...

HUMAN RESOURCES: Robert Bosch Engg offers to work with colleges
Coimbatore, Feb. 27 Unless Coimbatore plans for providing social and cultural infrastructure to attract techies from outside, it would lose out to competition, said Mr F. Pickhard, Managing Director & CEO, Robert Bosch Engineering ...

BROADBAND: Huawei, Telsima lowest bidders for BSNL’s WiMax deal
New Delhi, Feb. 27 Chinese telecom gear manufacturer Huawei and US-based Telsima have emerged as the front runners to bag a contract from Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd for deploying WiMax-based high speed broadband ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: BSNL’s 3G services in 11 cities
New Delhi, Feb 27 Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited on Friday launched 3G mobile services on commercial basis from 11 ...

FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE: MphasiS posts 270% rise in Q1 net
Bangalore, Feb. 27 MphasiS Ltd, an EDS company, reported a 270. 4 per cent increase in net profit for the first quarter ended January 31, 2008, while revenue grew 58.1 ...

SOFTWARE: Software Paradigms opens centre in Mangalore
Mangalore, Feb. 27 The Mysore-based Software Paradigms Infotech (SPI) Pvt Ltd has opened its new IT development and BPO centre in ...

ALLIANCES & JOINT VENTURES: Amar Chitra Katha, Vodafone Essar tie up
Ahmedabad, Feb. 27 Vodafone Essar, in association with ACK Media, has launched the classic comic series Amar Chitra ...

From eWorld

SOFTWARE: Best foot forward
The tech industry is taking the recession in stride, going by the mood at the recent Nasscom meet.. The word ‘recession’ (a household term these days) has probably made its impact felt on the Indian IT sector and all its dependents ...

PIRACY: File sharing or stealing?
A thin line divides ethical moves from piracy. More on the buzz over the Pirate Bay trial.. There is great interest among millions of Internet users across continents in a trial that is going on in Stockholm. It is over alleged copyright ...

TECHNOLOGY: Special effects
Print technology from HP gives that colourful touch to festive occasions.. We got together after very many years, to celebrate the fiftieth wedding anniversary of my parents.As we settled ourselves in one of the rooms and turned the leaves of ...

INTERVIEW: ‘The problem is the cut in spending…’
…as well as the surprises that you are going to see in the existing clients,” says the COO of TCS.. “We will have to wait and watch” is what the Indian IT industry has been saying for the past few quarters, citing ...

INTERVIEW: ‘Customers now want more value for money’
Infosys chief on the slowdown scenario and how his company is tackling the uncertainty.. Waiting for the CEO and MD of Infosys, S Gopalakrishnan, in the lobby of Infosys’ Sholinganallur Campus near Chennai, is much like sitting at The ...

INTERVIEW: ‘Focus is on untapped markets’
Software association going in for tie-ups with Nasscom-like entities.. Ameet Nivsarkar is Vice-President and part of the leadership team at Nasscom, where he is responsible for its research, trade development, international affairs and ...

INTERVIEW: Leverage ERP in slowdown
SAP on how IT helps the bottom line.. In what ways can enterprises leverage their ERP systems during a period of economic crisis such as what is currently being experienced? When I pose this question to Ranjan Das, Managing Director, SAP, ...

BOOKS: Why system implementation fails
Check, first, whether project managers have leadership skills.. Why do system failures occur? Here is an answer to this question from Michael J. Kavanagh and Mohan Thite: “Increasingly, the failure to successfully implement information ...

CYBER QUEST: Cyber quest
1. Which planet and which earth-feature has the recently unveiled Google Earth ...

CARTOON: Cartoon
“No, I did win the game of chess; I’m trying to fix an ...






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