SOFTWARE
Newgen Soft to focus on marketing
NEWGEN Software Technologies Ltd said it has earmarked an investment of Rs 15 crore this year towards marketing activities and building up delivery capabilities. "Earlier this year, we had 450 professionals, and since then we have recruited 100 ... More

IPR
Consultancy firm to help infotech cos deal with IPR issues
WITH Indian software services companies going global and transnationals expanding operations here calling for increased focus on patents, complexities associated with Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) related to IT and allied areas have ... More

HUMAN RESOURCES
`Cos have to chart HR retention strategies'
WITH technology companies scaling up operations and expanding the scope of work out of India, they are faced with the challenge of low supply of employable talent, calling for a paradigm shift in their approach to manage and retain the exiting ... More

ALLIANCES & JOINT VENTURES
UshaComm ties up with Sun Micro
USHACOMM the London-headquartered, telecom software solutions company promoted by the Usha Martin group, on Thursday announced a strategic technology alliance with the $ 12-billion turnover global network computing major Sun ... More

CyberMedia in venture with Dice
INSPIRED by the Rs 90 crore Indian online job board market, CyberMedia has entered into a joint venture with US-based Dice Inc to form CyberMedia Dice Careers Ltd. The new entity will focus on the technology-recruiting sector, Mr Pradeep Gupta, ... More

OFF-SHORE DEVELOPMENT
Irish grant for HCL Tech unit
HCL Technologies BPO, a wholly owned subsidiary of HCL Technologies, has announced that Invest Northern Ireland (Invest NI) located at Belfast has sanctioned a grant of £920,000 to its Belfast operations. In line with its plan to expand ... More

M-COMMERCE
Reliance Mobile Office wins 12 corporate clients
Reliance Infocomm officials see the Reliance IndiaMobile replacing the cumbersome laptop for mobile corporate employees. More

SECURITY
India-US info security summit on Oct 12-13
THE National Association of Software and Services Association (Nasscom) and Information Technology Association of America (ITAA) would organise India-US Information Security Summit in the Capital on October 12-13 to explore possible joint ... More

TRENDS
`Telecom, entertainment sectors poised to be big online spenders'
COLD calls of Internet advertising in India seem to be paying off, with observations of the Internet and Online Association suggesting that telecom and entertainment companies will soon join the financial sector in utilising cyberspace as a ... More