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RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT: R&D offshoring set to pick up, says Zinnov
Indian service providers rank high in advisory firm’s list. Bangalore, Sept. 16 The offshoring of R&D services to emerging countries such as India, China and Eastern Europe is expected to pick up in 2010 tracking the global economic ...

OUTLOOK: TCS eyes $700-m outsourcing deals in Latam
Mumbai, Sept. 16 Tata Consultancy Services is working on seven IT outsourcing deals worth over $100 million each in Latin America, a top company official said ...

OUTLOOK: Sapient to focus on digital marketing biz
Targets global clients with India presence. New Delhi, Sept. 16 In a move that would see the Nasdaq-listed services firm move into high gear in the domestic market, Sapient is planning to focus on the digital marketing business in ...

HARDWARE: Envy is the fastest notebook from HP
Singapore, Sept. 16 Hewlett-Packard has launched a slew of personal computers and notebooks, including HP Envy (13, 15), the premium notebook, ProBook 5310 and HP Mini by Studio ...

INFRASTRUCTURE: ‘Q-City’ project in Hyderabad
The Quinn Group, Ireland-based € 2.2 billion business conglomerate, has unveiled its ‘Q-City’ project, with over 1.2 lakh sq. ft of commercial space in Hyderabad. Located in Gachibowli, the $100-million project, has ...

ALLIANCES & JOINT VENTURES: SunTec, SeaChange in IPTV pact
SunTec Business Solutions is partnering with US-based SeaChange International to offer television service providers globally automated provisioning of IPTV consumers and accounts in ‘near real time’. The partnership also ...

INTERVIEW: ‘Cloud computing, the next big growth wave’
IT sector growth rate to be in 2-3% range: Patni CEO. New Delhi, Sept. 16 According to Mr Jeya Kumar, CEO of Patni Computer Systems, the global financial crisis would force the sector to adjust to a lower growth rate. In an interview to Business ...

HARDWARE: Communication sector is top hardware user
Mobile phones, DTH equipment drive growth; consumer electronics a close second. Chennai, Sept. 16 For the first time, the communication and broadcasting sector has overtaken ‘consumer electronics’ as the largest segment (in value) ...

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS: BSNL bids for Lanka business of Millicom
New Delhi, Sept 16 Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd has put in a bid for the Sri Lankan operations of Luxembourg-based Millicom International Cellular ...

ALLIANCES & JOINT VENTURES: InfoPrint joins hands with Bhavish Graphics
Chennai, Sept 16 InfoPrint Solutions Company, the 49:51 joint venture between IBM and Ricoh, has announced its partnership with commercial printing company Bhavish Graphics to implement automated printing ...

HARDWARE: Moser Baer has 11% of USB flash drive market
New Delhi, Sept. 16 Moser Baer India, manufacturer of optical storage media such as CDs and DVDs, claims it has captured 11 per cent of the USB flash drive market in its first four months of ...

From eWorld

SOFTWARE: Defensive play
Wary of taking a long-term view of the rupee’s value, IT companies are shortening hedges on it to limit forex risk in a volatile market.. Being the Chief Financial Officer of an Indian IT services company in these times is no easy ...

INTERVIEW: ‘Gold mine’ in the verticals
Infosys shares with eWorld the path it is charting to tap opportunities.. As customers in key markets such as the US and Europe cancel or hold back investments on deploying new technology applications, Indian IT vendors are being forced to ...

INTERNET: Getting hooked
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BOOKS: You need 500 trees to offset one computer's emissions
And LCD monitors are considered `vampire energy ...

INTERNET: Health-wise
Now take your health records where ever you go. If the portal Healthizen.com is to be believed, uploading your health details online will be as easy as social networking. Explains Anand Anupam, Co-founder, Healthizen.com, “The ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Let the traffic flow
If mobile service providers restrict the services that flow through their networks, mobile broadband service is of little value to subscribers.. On July 14, Apple announced that the number of downloaded applications from its App Store exceeded ...

INTERVIEW: “We are not outsourcing low-value jobs”
VMware says the India team is being used for vital and high-profile work.. VMware, Inc, a provider of business infrastructure virtualisation solutions, decided to scale up its India-based Research and Development (R&D) operations in ...

EVENTS: Cloud-seeding the network
A preview of the upcoming meet on ‘climate change’ in the IT world.. Over the past few years, there has been a sea change in the way we compute. Much of it represents a transfer of traditional IT services to the new ...

CARTOON: Cartoon
“When I started using a phone, I never realised that I’d have such a big contacts ...

CYBER QUEST: Quiz
V.V. Ramanan. 1. What first did Professor Leonard Kleinrock of UCLA achieve on September ...






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