The Hindu Business Line : Tuesday, April 07, 2009

INFO-TECH

NEW BUSINESS: HCL Tech bags $100-m Xerox deal
New Delhi, April 6 HCL Technologies on Monday announced that it has bagged $100 million multi-regional data centre services, and transformation contract from Xerox ...

INFRASTRUCTURE: Tidel Park cuts lease rents by 10%
Due to SEZ competition, slowdown. Chennai, April 6 Tidel Park Ltd has announced a 10 per cent reduction in lease rents to take on the competition posed by the Special Economic Zones and the slowdown in ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Gemini Comm to demerge biz
Gemini Communications Ltd plans to demerge its system integration business comprising enterprise convergence group, wireless and telecom and 4S divisions to a separate company. It will retain the technical services division to the telecom ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: DoT to tighten revenue reporting norms for telcos
Dishnet Wireless latest to come under scanner. New Delhi, April 6 In a bid to crack down on operators violating revenue reporting norms, the Department of Telecom is all set to ask companies with multiple licences to report income from various ...

SOFTWARE: Spice Group seeks meeting with Bharucha on Satyam
New Delhi, April 6 Spice Group has sought a meeting with the former Chief Justice of India, Mr S.P. Bharucha, to put forth the Group’s ‘concerns’ over the Satyam bidding process. The move comes just days after ...

SOFTWARE: ‘Satyam sale brings in fresh phase of uncertainty’
Accelerate finalisation of Plan B, Forrester tells clients. Hyderabad, April 6 Forrester Research Inc has advised the clients of Satyam Computer Services to firm up their Plan-Bs, as the Satyam sale opens up a fresh phase of uncertainty ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: 2.6 lakh PCO booths shut in Sept-Dec ’08
Business losing sheen on mobiles’ reach. New Delhi, April 6 The once lucrative PCO telephone booth business seems to be losing its sheen with mobile phones beginning to reach the hinterlands. About 2.6 lakh PCO booths in the country have ...

PEOPLE: New CA India chairman
IT major CA today announced that Mr Saurabh Srivastava will join as the Chairman of CA India effective April 6, 2009. Mr Srivastava will lead and mentor CA's India sales and development operations. Mr Srivastava began his career with IBM in ...

SOFTWARE: 3 more Satyam employees arrested
Hyderabad, April 6 The 14th Additional Chief Metropolitan Court, the designated court for CBI cases, has remanded Mr G. Ramakrishna, Vice-President (Finance) of Satyam Computer Services, and two others to judicial custody till ...

SOFTWARE: ‘Economic slowdown to end by Oct-Dec’
Bangalore April 6 Two-thirds of the 467 Chief Information Officers (CIOs) surveyed by IDC India have said they expect the economic slowdown to end by October-December 2009, while shifting their focus to better management of existing ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Motorola unveils handset for Rs 1,099
New Delhi, April 6 Motorola on Monday launched two new entry level mobile handsets for as low as Rs 1099 and Rs 1,299. Launched under the MOTOYUVA portfolio, the handsets come with built in FM radio, speakers and preloaded games. This is ...

PEOPLE: New Sonata Soft SAP biz head
BANGALORE: Sonata Software has appointed Mr Ramachandra Subramanya as the head of its SAP business. Mr Subramanya, who till recently was with Satyam Computer as SAP delivery head for a food major, would oversee the SAP ...

From eWorld

HUMAN RESOURCES: Sharing news makes IT better
Tech companies are handling slowdown trauma by keeping employees — and their families — in the information loop. To know what’s happening is reassuring.. At 24, Samir (name changed) has just taken a hard knock — ...

SOFTWARE: A code for safety
Software companies can hedge against risks, with insurance cover.. Company directors and chief information officers walk on the razor’s edge, as it were, accountable for any steps they take — and the risks and losses triggered by ...

TECHNOLOGY: Robot vs robot
Welding work, and its inspection, are carried out by robots in this plant.. Robotics has held the layman in awe ever since artificial intelligence became a buzzword. So, it is natural for us to assume that anything done without the intervention ...

SECURITY: Attacks in cyberspace
Security breach reports reinforce need for vigilance.. If the latest report about the mischief emanating from Chinese soil is true, we can expect major happenings in the days to come that should keep every security expert on his feet. This is ...

SOFTWARE: ‘Logica’lly speaking
Continental Europe is open to IT spending, avers this software player.. It isn’t just the Queen’s English from Craig Boundy that sounds like music to your ears. His comments on outsourcing opportunities in Continental Europe could ...

INTERVIEW: Fight marketing fatigue
Squeeze more analytics out of data, says Dexterity.. Do you fret that mass marketing, mass campaigns and mass mailing are turning to be increasingly ineffective, even as consumers turn away bored? Alas, this is a worldwide phenomenon, observes ...

HARDWARE: Time again?
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COMPUTER USAGE: Put mouse in snooze mode
Go for keyboard shortcuts to ease strain on wrist and shoulder.. Do you really want to reduce the strain on your hand and wrist? Then give some rest to your overworked mouse and start using keyboard shortcuts. Keyboard shortcuts are a big ...

CONVERGENCE: By hook or by Zook
How Ziva Software helps the mobile user access the Internet.. Looks like you can have your cake and eat it too, going by what the Bangalore-based Ziva Software, a provider of mobile search solutions, is doing.The company enables Internet access ...

CYBER QUEST: Quiz
V.V.Ramanan. 3. According to tagline, which two cyber giants ‘bring the Internet to Television’ with its ...

BOOKS: Action in the auction arena
How the Chinese crafted competition, with `eBay ...

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