The Hindu Business Line : Saturday, September 05, 2009

INFO-TECH

OUTLOOK: Non-wireless income may be taken out of spectrum charges
DoT examining financial, legal implications. New Delhi, Sept. 4 The Department of Telecom is considering allowing telecom operators to exclude revenues from non-wireless services for the purpose of calculating ...

OUTLOOK: Wipro Tech may wind up centre in France
Talking to employees in line with French laws. Wipro Technologies, global IT arm of Wipro Ltd, is exploring options to wind up its development centre in Sophia Antipolis, ...

SECURITY: Home Ministry cracks the whip on SIM cards
DoT asked to ensure Security Accreditation compliance. After cracking down on telecom equipment vendors, the Ministry of Home Affairs has now asked the Department of Telecom to ensure that mobile operators strictly follow the Security ...

PEOPLE: Chandrasekaran to succeed Ramadorai
Mumbai, Sept. 4 Mr N. Chandrasekaran will take over as the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Tata Consultancy Services effective ...

SOFTWARE: Saksoft opens Mumbai office
Software services company Saksoft has set up an office in Mumbai to expand its service offerings to a larger group of clientele. The company aims to double its revenues in three years. “We have a strong client base in this part of the ...

SOFTWARE: B.K. Modi outfit to vend products of Dubai firm
Ahmedabad, Sept. 4 The Dubai-based technology player Research and Innovation Technologies (RIT) on Friday launched a range of four mobile telephony software products that help detect theft of the handset, track a person precisely on the ...

E-MAIL: Over 90% of e-mails categorised as spam
Coimbatore, Sept. 43 Over the years, spam has gone from being the most common Internet menace to being the most dangerous weapon in the cyber criminals’ tool ...

SOFTWARE: Tech that could see a downside
GARTNER’S LIST. Mumbai, Sept. 4 Technologies such as service orientated architecture (SOA), customer relationship management (CRM) and business intelligence (BI) tools have tipped over the peak of “inflated expectations”, ...

PIRACY: Piracy costs industry $2.8 b
Hyderabad, Sept. 4 The Indian IT industry has lost about $2.8 billion due to piracy of business software solutions in ...

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS: Axis IT&T completes buy of Cades Digi
New Delhi, Sept. 4 Axis IT&T announced on Friday that it had completed the acquisition of Bangalore-based Cades Digitech Pvt Ltd. In a filing to the Bombay Stock Exchange, the company said that the board had finalised and approved ...

EVENTS: ICC programme for small IT units
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IT-ENABLED SERVICES: Way2SMS’ subscriber base
Way2SMS, free Net-based SMS service provider, has claimed that it has crossed a subscriber base of 50 lakh. “On an average, we register 25,000 subscriptions a day. It took two years and seven months for us to reach the 50-lakh ...

From eWorld

SOFTWARE: You take over from here
Shrinking R&D budgets are forcing software makers to hive off dedicated centres, or captives, and these find ready buyers in outsourced product development companies. What’s the financial logic?. Like any other sector, Indian IT ...

INTERVIEW: The silver lining
HP is working to make cloud computing secure.. Balu Doraisamy is the Senior Vice-President and Managing Director (Asia-Pacific & Japan) of technology multi-major Hewlett-Packard. Based in Singapore, he is responsible for driving overall ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: The heart and eyes of AT&T
Inside the network giant’s operations centre, which works round the clock to keep its cables humming without stop.. The name ‘GNOC’, for the global network operations centre of America’s largest telecom service provider, ...

INTERNET: Doctor is online
A local developer helps a Coimbatore hospital host an interactive site on interventional radiology.. Even when she was in college, pursuing her Masters in Software Engineering, Kavitha started earning in dollars by taking up small projects for ...

INTERVIEW: All for fun, fun for all
Microsoft sees the future in connected entertainment.. For a long time nothing seemed to happen in Microsoft, though one did occasionally hear about some research or the other. This year you can see many things coming out of Microsoft research ...

SOFTWARE: Play from a `cloud'
Gaming reaches for the sky.. With most of us living our second lives in virtual worlds, chatting with virtual people or even flying to thousands of exciting virtual 3D locations, the `cloud' definitely looks like the way to the future. It has ...

INTERNET: In network we trust
AT&T's security chief on trusting service providers to save you from online attacks.. If you knew that the water you received at home was contaminated, what would be the first thing you would do about it? Get the provider, the water board or ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Beyond the network
AT&T is a network company. It also does research in data analysis. Where could these skills come in handy? Chris Volinsky, who heads the data warehousing unit at AT&T Labs, answers this. “We see more than one billion transactions ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: mvno — on the go
AT&T is in talks with major telecom carriers in India to offer MVNO services to enterprise customers. Typically, Mobile Virtual Network Operators (MVNO) use a partner’s backbone to offer services. V.S. Gopinath, Chairman and CEO ...

CYBER QUEST: Cyber quest
V.V. Ramanan. 2. In what way is the contribution of Armas Clifford “Mike” Markkula Jr. important in the history of ...