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HUMAN RESOURCES: Recession impact: BPO industry sees dip in attrition rates
Firms hire in smaller numbers to cut costs. Mumbai/New Delhi, May 11 Fewer employees are jumping jobs in the BPO industry, courtesy the ongoing global recession. As a result, attrition rates (the number of people quitting per 100 employees) for ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Reliance mobile users can watch ICC T20 tourney live
Reliance Communications has tied up with ESPN Star to provide live broadcast of International Cricket Council (ICC) T20 World Cup matches being held in June to subscribers’ ...

NEW BUSINESS: Four Soft solution for Netherlands co
Prime Cargo Netherlands BV, a Netherlands-based freight forwarding company, has decided to deploy 4S eTrans SME, an integrated freight forwarding solution, developed by Four Soft. The contract was executed through Four Soft Netherlands BV, ...

HUMAN RESOURCES: Recruitment sites woo first-time job seekers
Bangalore, May 11 The campus recruitment process, which had fallen into a pattern in the last few years, has taken a new turn this ...

SOFTWARE: Geneva-based Temenos signs pact with Cognizant
Chennai, May 11 Temenos, the Geneva-based provider of integrated core banking systems, has signed a global strategic partnership with Cognizant Technology Solutions, to enhance its service and delivery capabilities for Temenos (T24), a ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Loop launches services in TN, Orissa
New Delhi, May 11 Not withstanding the Government scrutiny on its shareholding pattern, Loop Telecom has announced launch of its mobile services in Tamil Nadu and Orissa. The services will be available under the brand name Loop ...

EVENTS: Steve Balmer to address Tech Ed
Hyderabad, May 11 Mr Steve Balmer, Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft Corp, will take part in Tech Ed 2009, an event that will showcase ‘technologies of the future’, here ...

PEOPLE: Cisco names Channel Operations head
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HUMAN RESOURCES: Back to school
Slowdown is the time to sharpen skills and tech professionals are enrolling for value-adding courses. Nothing like being ready for better times.. A good sailor, they say, won’t sit idle at home when the high seas face rough weather. ...

INTERVIEW: ‘We need a robust tech infrastructure’
Perfint on giving healthcare the IT advantage.. The benefits of IT (information technology) and computing are easily transferable from space science, defence, robotics, or the entertainment industry to healthcare, observes S. Nandakumar, CEO, ...

SECURITY: Follow the cafe code
VeriSign suggestions for safe Internet transactions. Cyber cafés are generally not considered safe for accessing social networking sites or conducting transactions online. Since systems may not be protected at such places, they are more ...

INTERNET: Behind the screen
Yahoo gives eWorld a peek into the processes set off after one hits the ‘search’ button.. If you thought Internet search was all about keying in a query and hitting the search button, a sneak-peek into Yahoo! Research is sure to make ...

BOOKS: Ceaseless mix and match
Log on for more on mashup and on setting your employees ‘free’.. Bash up, we know, and mishap, we know. But what is mashup? A sign of a different landscape of power, more or less what Cubism was one hundred years ago, describes ...

INTERNET: Voila, it’s Crayola!
This Web site offers many ideas to keep children happy inside the house while the sun blazes away.. It is testing times for parents. They have to brave the scorching summer heat outside even while keeping ever-active children on vacation ...

CYBER QUEST: Quiz
1. One of the biggest launches in its history has been scheduled by Microsoft for today, i.e. May 11. What ...

NEW PRODUCTS & SERVICES: Combo kit
Transcend Information Inc has announced the availability in India of a kit that includes a 16GB micro SDHC card and Transcend P3 compact USB card reader. According to the company, this makes “transferring data between your computer and ...

NEW PRODUCTS & SERVICES: Printer power
HP has announced the launch of its LaserJet P2030 printer, “a high-performance monochrome laser printer that offers fast print speeds, professional-quality output and flexible connectivity options at an affordable price.” The P2035 ...

SOFTWARE: Hooked!
If this piece has any resemblance to what appeared a few weeks ago in this column, it is ...

INTERVIEW: It’s a case for computerisation
New Horizons shares details on its E-Judiciary project.. At first glance it may seem all quite sci-fi. Imagine our courts swept clean of all those pages full of spidery scrawls. Imagine a judiciary free of paper where you can file a case online ...

COMPUTER USAGE: Cartoon
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