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NEW BUSINESS: TCS bags outsourcing deal from Volkswagen
5-year deal to combine onshore, offshore services. Mumbai, May 13 Tata Consultancy Services has bagged a five-year IT outsourcing deal with Volkswagen (VW) Group UK which for the first time will use a mixture of onshore and offshore services for ...

TEXTILES: DoT mulls uniform licence fee for all types of telecom services
Move aimed at stopping revenue leakage for the Government. New Delhi, May 13 The Department of Telecom is considering doing away with the existing variable licence fee structure for telecom operators and replacing it with a uniform rate for all ...

OUTLOOK: IT vendors face severe pricing pressure
Clients intensify negotiations, seek higher discounts. Bangalore, May 13 Indian IT firms are under pressure to cut high profit margins as cross border customers bargain hard to ...

NEW BUSINESS: Educomp bags Rs 84-cr Gujarat order
Educomp Solutions has bagged Rs 83.82-crore order from the Gujarat Government to introduce computer-aided learning in schools in the State. This will cover around 8.5 lakh students in class 9th to 12th. Mr Soumya Kanti, President, ...

EVENTS: Economy in process of resetting: Ballmer
Hyderabad, May 13 Mr Steve A Ballmer, Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft Corp, has shrugged off the slowdown and sounded ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: DoT panel moots spectrum transfer fee for M&A
Operators to pay Rs 570 cr/Mhz for pan-Indian acquisition. New Delhi, May 13 Merger and acquisition in the Indian telecom space could become expensive. A mobile operator acquiring spectrum from another pan-Indian mobile player will have to pay ...

REGULATORY BODIES & RULINGS: DoT to revoke ByCell’s licences
New Delhi, May 13 The Department of Telecommunications has taken a decision to revoke the licences issued to Russian venture ByCell. The move follows concerns raised by the Home Ministry about the company’s shareholding and source of ...

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FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE: Hinduja Global Q4 net rises 49% on strong biz growth
Bangalore, May 13 Outsourcing services provider Hinduja Global Solutions reported a 49.5 per cent increase in net profit for the fourth quarter helped by strong ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: GSM operators add 8.9 m users in April
New Delhi, May 13 GSM operators added a total of 8.9 million new users in April compared with 11.2 million new subscribers in March, according to numbers released by the Cellular Operators Association of ...

CORPORATE GOVERNANCE: Rajus’ bail plea rejected
A city court has dismissed the bail applications of Mr B. Ramalinga Raju, the former Chairman of Satyam Computer Services, his brother, Mr Rama Raju, and Mr V. Srinivas, the former Chief Financial Officer, on Wednesday. A separate court, ...

From eWorld

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 ...

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