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OUTLOOK: Satyam CEO favours IT-focussed partner
‘We have a complete set of service offerings’. Singapore, March 3 The “process” of scouting for “a strategic partner” to stabilise and foster the crisis-hit Satyam Computer Services Ltd. “is about to ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Qualcomm looking at 3G handset licensing
New Delhi, March 3 US-based technology major Qualcomm is looking at the possibility of giving out licences to local companies in India for manufacturing handsets for 3G mobile ...

ALLIANCES & JOINT VENTURES: Patni partners SAP in Japan
IT services company Patni Computer Systems has formed a local services partnership with SAP Japan. As SAP`s Japan partner, Patni will take an active part in the support, customisation and deployment of SAP solution-based systems for customers ...

SOFTWARE: HCL Tech inks deal with National Insurance
New Delhi, March 3 HCL Technologies has signed a multi-crore end-to-end IT services deal with National Insurance Company Ltd (NIC) for a period of seven ...

INTERVIEW: ‘More firms will adopt service oriented architecture in 2009’
Coimbatore, March 3 With businesses scaling new heights and processes spanning boundaries, enterprises are under pressure to respond promptly to market demands, remain competitive. A flexible and agile IT system landscape has, therefore, ...

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS: ‘Bidding norms in 15 days’
New Delhi, March 3 The Corporate Affairs Minister, Mr Prem Chand Gupta, on Tuesday indicated that the bidding guidelines for inducting a strategic investor in Satyam Computer Services Ltd should be ready in ...

SOFTWARE: CheckPoint tool
Mumbai, March 3 Check Point® Software Technologies has launched its software blade architecture in India. It also launched Check Point R70, a new version of its security gateway and ...

NEW BUSINESS: Alcatel bags Tata Tele deal
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From eWorld

E-COMMERCE & E-BUSINESS: Screen presence
The e-publishing space offers scope despite the slowdown, say market watchers. More on the e-word.. What's the good word? It could well be e-publishing! In these times of recession, when everybody is talking of the slowdown's impact on the ...

SOFTWARE: The ‘drop’ can only get bigger
Polaris shares its reasons for optimism with eWorld.. As you start talking about the economic gloom and its impact on IT spending, you catch a look of triumph brighten the face of chairman and MD of Polaris Software Labs, Arun Jain. Not used to ...

INTERVIEW: ‘Use CRM to build customer intelligence’
Be it a simple notebook or sophisticated software.. The downturn should be looked at as an opportunity to re-evaluate all the internal processes including the most important one, which is CRM (customer relationship management), says Rajendra C. ...

INTERNET: On and off
I was having some difficulty with my multiple social networks when I remembered a piece I wrote last December ( http://www.blsmartbuy.com/?p=2001) predicting that social networking will lose ...

BOOKS: 5 ways to automate internal controls
Recommended read for security professionals.. SCARF and EAM, snapshots, audit hooks, ITF and CIS. Quite an alphabet soup, but these are the five types of automated evaluation techniques discussed in Technical Guide on Information System Audit ...

OUTSOURCING: ‘Companies taking a new look at captives’
Outsourcing advisory TPI on the slowdown scene and its impact on Indian players.. The economic downturn has impacted the growth rates of Indian IT service providers, whose customers, reeling under the crisis, have shelved or delayed plans to ...

ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING: Costly drain
Automation can help companies avoid fraud in attendance marking or leave management chores, says Kronos.. Companies generally look at chores such as employee attendance or leave requisition as tasks that need to be automated so as to save on ...

CYBER QUEST: Quiz
V.V. Ramanan. 1. Apple recently said no to which TV show’s iPhone App because it might be ...

CARTOON: Cartoon
“Come on, you don’t have to Google it! I just asked, ...





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