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INFO-TECH
REGULATORY BODIES & RULINGS:
ISPs dial up competition panel on Net telephony
Irked by DoT delays. New Delhi, Nov. 2 With the Department of Telecom showing no signs of allowing unrestricted Internet telephony, the Internet Service Providers have filed a petition with the Competition Commission of India seeking a direction ...
SOFTWARE:
IT majors go to ECGC for credit risk insurance cover
Fall out of failures in US financial services sector. Bangalore, Nov. 2 A clutch of IT majors, including Wipro, have approached the Export Credit Guarantee Corporation (ECGC) for credit risk ...
FINANCIAL SERVICES:
Financial services’ share in revenues of IT cos rises
Analysts divided over whether it indicates a revival in the vertical. New Delhi, Nov. 2 Indian IT vendors’ revenues from the financial services industry are growing, as is evident from the IT majors’ September quarter ...
FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE:
Take Solutions net drops 55%
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FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE:
Tanla Solutions net profit down
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FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE:
Mold-Tek Tech net falls 62%
Mold-Tek Technologies Ltd’s net profit declined 62 per cent to Rs 98 lakh in the second quarter ended September 30, 2009 compared with Rs 2.62 crore in the corresponding quarter of the previous financial year. The total revenue were down ...
IT-ENABLED SERVICES:
India is top offshore choice for European firms: Report
India has become the top offshore destination for European enterprises traditionally thought to be shy of sending work to the country, a recent report by Forrester ...
TELECOMMUNICATIONS:
Sparsh lowest bidder for BSNL’s BPO deal
The BSE-listed Sparsh BPO is understood to have quoted the lowest amount for a five-year business process outsourcing contract from the state-owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam ...
TELECOMMUNICATIONS:
Vodafone per second billing in Kerala
Kochi, Nov. 2 Vodafone has announced that its prepaid customers will now be able to get 1 paisa per second tariff for all local and STD calls made to ...
INFRASTRUCTURE:
‘Madurai IT Park will be ready next Aug’
Madurai, Nov. 2 The Information Technology Park promoted by the Electronics Corporation of Tamil Nadu (Elcot) at Ilandaikulam, one of the two coming up in Madurai, will be ready by August next year, according to Dr Santosh Babu, ...
FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE:
Patni net profit dips 6.5%
Mumbai, Nov. 2 Mid-size IT solutions company Patni Computer Systems has reported a 6.5 per cent dip in its net profit for the quarter ended September 30 to Rs 168.5 crore from Rs 180.2 crore reported in the same quarter a ...
VIRUSES:
Phishing attacks on Facebook users
Coimbatore, Nov. 2 While it is not unusual for hackers to target social networks, they have this time targeted Facebook users with not just one, but two attacks — a phishing scheme and a banking Trojan to steal information and log ...
EVENTS:
Coimbatore to host TCS IT Wiz quiz on Nov 10
The 2009 edition of TCS IT Wiz – tech quiz for schools is slated for November 10 at the Corporation Kalai Arangam in R.S. ...
ALLIANCES & JOINT VENTURES:
RCom ties up with Moko.mobi for value-added services
Chennai, Nov. 2 Global mobile chat and share services provider Moko.mobi is planning to enter the Indian market through an alliance with Reliance ...
INTERVIEW:
Wipro explores non-linear initiatives to boost growth
Bangalore, Nov. 2 Wipro Technologies is more optimistic about the outlook for the year ahead and forecast a revenue growth of up to 4.5 per cent for the December quarter. The company grew its revenue 10.2 per cent sequentially, while ...
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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Cartoon
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