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MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS:
Fishing for small deals
The tech M&A scene is stirring to life again but vendors are looking for a modest catch.. If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?” posed the English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. The oft-quoted line underlines humanity’s ...
SECURITY:
An eye for security
How Microsoft keeps a protective eye on its employees and premises.. It was a Friday evening and it being the last working day of the week all but one employee had left the Colombo office of Microsoft Corporation. The woman staffer had to ...
SECURITY:
eLife after death
Suppose I kick the bucket now, what happens to my data in all the social networks, e-mail sites and photo and video sharing sites? How will the sites know I am dead? How long will they keep my data? What if some hacker gets access to my ...
SECURITY:
Positive step forward
The IT Amendment Act 2008 will fill many lacunae in the law as it stood.. Close observers of the cyber crime scene in India had, for long, carried on a strident campaign in favour of making penalties under the IT Act 2000 very stringent. The ...
STORAGE:
Efficiency in store
A feel of the action at the automated distribution centre of Redington.. A warehouse is no longer a dumping place with large volumes of goods scattered all over. It is now an efficient storage place with technology at the core ...
INTERVIEW:
‘Wrong technology can mean poor ROI’
Sybase explains why databases need to support superior performance.. Currently, the absence of a 3G/4G next generation network within India has slowed down the process of adopting mobile applications, feels Sunil Jose, Managing Director, India ...
INTERVIEW:
Services Computing in spotlight
IBM’s research official explains why it is key for future growth.. Services Computing is gaining importance in the Indian IT sector as the country increases its share in the global services sector. IEEE, the world’s leading ...
BOOKS:
Transforming data into insight, profitable decisions
That is the challenge where IT will be a critical contributor to success.. As principles-based enforcement takes hold, senior management in capital market firms will have to develop the capability to demonstrate accountability over the outcomes ...
NEW PRODUCTS & SERVICES:
It’s for ‘ME’
HCL Infosystems Ltd has launched its new series of Notebooks and Netbooks under the brand name ‘ME’ i.e. ‘Mobile Excitement’. HCL’s new range comes with features such as ‘Split Me’ where one can ...
NEW PRODUCTS & SERVICES:
Wireless router
Netgear has announced the availability of its “RangeMax Dual Band Wireless-N Gigabit Router WNDR3700.” The latest wireless router has features such as “ReadyShare for high-speed access to a USB hard drive from any device on ...
CYBER QUEST:
Quiz
V.V. Ramanan. 1. Which European nation has become the first country in the world to declare Internet broadband access a ...
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