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CORPORATE GOVERNANCE: ICAI President to quiz Satyam auditors
New Delhi, April 3 The two tainted partners of audit firm Price Waterhouse, who are in judicial custody at Hyderabad, will be quizzed on April 5 by the CA institute’s President, Mr Uttam Prakash ...

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS: Bidders urge Satyam to push submission deadline
Board to provide latest financial data. Mumbai/ New Delhi, April 3 Bidders eyeing a controlling stake in Satyam Computer Services have requested the Government-appointed board for an extension of the April 9 deadline for submission of financial ...

NEW BUSINESS: TCS to implement terrestrial trunked radio system in Maharashtra
Despite its status as the country’s financial capital, Mumbai has shown time and again how vulnerable it can be. During these times, be it floods or terror attacks, the need of the hour is constant communication and this is ...

ALLIANCES & JOINT VENTURES: Persistent, US varsity sign pact
Persistent Systems, player in the outsourced product development services, has partnered with Indiana University to create a research and development centre. The centre would be located at Bloomington, IN Campus, Indiana. Mr Aditya Phatak, ...

SOFTWARE: FSS plans Rs 250-cr expansion
To deploy around 5,000 ATMs, 2 lakh PoS machines. Chennai, April 3 Chennai-based Financial Software and Systems (FSS) has chalked out a $50-million (Rs 250 crore) expansion plan to deploy around 5,000 ATMs and 2 lakh point of sale (PoS) ...

HUMAN RESOURCES: Adecco arm launches outplacement services
Bangalore, April 3 Lee Hecht Harrison, a division of global HR services firm Adecco SA, has entered India’s job market with the launch of its outplacement ...

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS: Is WL Ross front-ending for Cognizant?
Cognizant Technology Solutions is believed to be one of the parties interested in acquiring Satyam Computer Services in conjunction with private equity firm Wilbur Ross ...

SOFTWARE: Euronet plans to set up centre in Pune to support operations
Mumbai, April 3 Euronet, a company into processing electronic financial transaction, intends to set up a global development centre in Pune by the second quarter of the current fiscal for supporting its global and ...

BROADBAND: BSNL launches discounted broadband plans for rural users
New Delhi, April 3 Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd announced that it will offer broadband connections to rural population at a discount rate. BSNL has launched special broadband tariff packages at 512 kbps speed at Rs 99 a month with 400 MB ...

AWARDS & HONOURS: Zensar Tech bags award
PUNE: Zensar Technologies has been awarded the Emerging Business Applications Award for 2009 at the Oracle UK Partner Awards in London. It has also seen an increase in its Enterprise Application business and has added 50 ...

From eWorld

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Which turn for telecom?
Should the licensing and regulatory structure be changed for migration to new technologies? Or is status quo better? The telecom sector is split on the route to take.. Telecom networks in India are set to undergo a major change over the next few ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: What NGN is all about
NGN is essentially a managed IP-based (i.e., packet-switched) network that supports a variety of high-speed data-intensive services including, IPTV, HDTV, videoconferencing, VoIP, Instant Messaging, e-mail, and other packet-switched ...

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY: Happy birthday!
Some years ago, I was very depressed the evening of my birthday because no one other than my parents remembered it, in spite of some not-so-subtle hints. Okay, it was unfortunate that the people I hinted to went out of town and the rest ...

SOFTWARE: More scope for efficiency
Scope International on steps it has taken to counter the slowdown.. The worst time to plan for a crisis is when you are in it: David Awcock, Group head of Technology at Standard Chartered Bank (SCB), said it all with that one sentence, to ...

TECHNOLOGY: ‘Honey, I shrunk the test time’
At Ashok Leyland’s Technical Centre, vehicles experience every bump and pothole that could be on the road, thanks to the simulator.. Nothing is constant in life — least of all customer expectations. Hence organisations across the ...

SECURITY: Connect with care
Online campaigns are on, but ? watch out for the cyber criminals?. With Lok Sabha elections just over a month away, a lot of institutional bodies have launched online campaigns to connect with the young, literate and Internet-savvy ...

INTERNET: Health-wise
TCS's portal is offering users more services.. Health is one of the most widely searched for topics, online. Now here is more news for health buffs. The TCS (Tata Consultancy Services) Health portal, WebHealthCentre (www.webhealthcentre.com) ...

INTERVIEW: ‘Outsourcing will be more widely accepted’
CEO of HCL Tech’s BPO division shares his reasons for optimism.. With the organic and linear expansion of the IT (information technology) sector, in general, coming under threat as a result of the global economic crisis, what would be ...

INTERVIEW: '800 million waiting to be connected'
Precisely why Sistema sees scope to scale up for better margins.. Vsevold Rozanov, the 37-year-old President and CEO of Sistema Shyam TeleServices Ltd, believes that he has a “joyful” task on his hands — in contrast with other ...

BOOKS: Politics and the public
New forms of participation are emerging.. New forms of public participation are viewed as a means of engaging a public that is disenchanted with formal political styles and institutions, write Janet Newman and John Clarke in Publics, Politics ...

CYBER QUEST: Quiz
V.V. Ramanan. 2. Quietube has been one of the more popular downloads recently. What ...






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