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OUTLOOK: IT vendors see more revenues from maintenance services
Cautious clients holding back on deploying new systems. Bangalore, May 21 Indian IT vendors are seeing more revenues from application maintenance services as cautious customers continue to hold back investments on deploying new ...

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS: Russia earmarks over $670 m for 20% stake in Sistema Shyam
‘Sistema to invest $5.5 b in telecom venture over five years’. Kolkata, May 21 The Russian Federation has allocated over $670 million in this year’s budget to pick up around 20 per cent stake in Sistema Shyam Teleservices Ltd, ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: DoT puts 3G, TCIL stake sale on Cabinet panel’s agenda
New Delhi, May 21 The Department of Telecom has listed five issues on the agenda for the new Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs including finalising the reserve price for 3G auction and sale of stake by Telecommunications Consultant of ...

HARDWARE: We do not foresee much implication of Toshiba suit: Moser Baer
New Delhi, May 21 The Moser Baer India Chairman, Mr Deepak Puri, said Thursday that he does not foresee much implication of the Toshiba lawsuit and that as per his preliminary reading, the infringement allegations pertain to optical media ...

FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE: MphasiS Q2 net up at Rs 224 cr
Bangalore, May 21 The MphasiS Group, the Indian IT services subsidiary of Hewlett-Packard, reported a consolidated second quarter net profit of Rs 224.5 crore on revenues of Rs 1,048.5 crore aided by steady bill rates and a weak rupee. Net ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Nokia Siemens moves HC against BSNL
New Delhi, May 21 The spat between Nokia Siemens and Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd over the latter’s decision to disqualify the Finnish company’s offer for the 93-million-line GSM contract has taken a legal ...

IT TRAINING: Multimedia and animation course
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SOFTWARE: Home management software
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From eWorld

HUMAN RESOURCES: Not keen to fill ‘em up
Mid-size tech firms are not taking people on board to fill the gaps caused by attrition. Less is more, in slowdown times.. Fewer recruitment advertisements…fewer road shows in colleges…fewer announcements…By now, even ...

TECHNOLOGY: Techie's touch
The more we depend upon tech, the more we have to depend on tech support. When you do it, have you ever observed that the moment the technician steps in, the gadget or machine seems to ...

LINGUISTICS: Break the language barrier
Word for word: More on the Sampark initiative to enrich translation.. Telugus, Kannadigas and Malayalis can read Subrahmanya Bharati, the legendary Tamil poet, and relish the sweetness in his poetry. Similarly, Premchand, Tagore, M T Vasudeva ...

OUTLOOK: Infosys to focus on ‘strategic five’
COO tells eWorld how the company is gearing up to get the best out of the slowdown.. The global economic downturn that has brought to a rude halt the high growth rate of the Indian IT industry has also spurred new thoughts, ideas and vision that ...

INTERVIEW: `IT will be among the crisis winners'
Dr Gabriele Suder, Professor at CERAM Business School, France, details her reasons for optimism.. In current times, firms in ICT (information and communication technology) may well opt for cost-reductions and streamlining, and some even report ...

SECURITY: Together on the job
How do we protect our critical infrastructure effectively? The recent meet in the Estonian capital stressed joint action.. Repeated assessments of leading think-tanks in the US tell us that India can once again be subjected to a 26/11. Against ...

EVENTS: Cheer in the air
Tech.Ed 2009, the Microsoft event in Hyderabad, raised techie morale.. It could not have come at a better time. Tech.Ed 2009, the three-day Microsoft event held in Hyderabad recently, brought cheer to IT pros whose morale is at an all-time ...

LINGUISTICS: Panini to the rescue
Research team turns to the “world’s first computational grammarian!”. Panini, the legendary Sanskrit grammarian of 5th century BC, is the world’s first computational grammarian! Panini’s work, Ashtadhyayi (the ...

BOOKS: Behind the software success...
...is the management of Indian software firms, asserts this book.. Labour is usually the first reason given for Indian software export success, but it is not a sufficient explanation of the country’s performance vis-À-vis China, ...

CYBER QUEST: Quiz
1. Simple one to start with. What is the large-screen Kindle ...





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