The Hindu Business Line : Monday, November 06, 2006

NEW BUSINESS
SumTotal bags $1.5 m US order
SumTotal Systems has announced it has received a $1.5 million subcontract from US Army Defence Ammunition centre for their global training initiatives, according to a release. The learning management system of SumTotal will help reach out ... More

OUTSOURCING
The action is in India
Cost arbitrage and availability of skilled human resources are advantages that India's software industry enjoys. Besides US companies, increasingly, UK-based companies have also realised the India advantage. Aveva Solutions Ltd, one of the oldest ... More

Global outsourcing market shrinks in Q3, says TPI
Decline in deals due to changing market dynamics More

INSIGHT
Discipline and the knowledge worker
Caught between the extremes of high initiative and high indiscipline, managers do not know which way to look. They are afraid that enforcing any form of disciplinary efforts may dampen the initiative and discretionary effort that they have come to de pend on in huge measure. More

POLICY
Semiconductor policy soon: Maran
The Union Government would soon announce its policy on the semiconductor industry, said the Union Minister for Communication and IT, Mr Dayanidhi Maran, on Sunday. The Ministries of Communication and IT and Finance were working together to ... More

INTERNET
Teething troubles rock e-filing of tax returns
Users dogged by glitches in portal, slow downloads and high upload time More

HUMAN RESOURCES
Keep the business going
When people go on leave suddenly, should work suffer? Citrix says its tools can help. More

Cognizant attrition levels rise to 20 pc in Q3
Cognizant Technology Solutions saw employee attrition level increase to about 20 per cent in the third quarter of this year. This was four percentage points higher than in third quarter of 2005, according to Mr Francisco D'Souza, COO. The ... More

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS
Life after a merger or an acquisition
Some strategies to help smoothen the post merger path More

TRADE & LABOUR UNIONS
Unions won't harm IT industry: Pandhe
The Centre for Indian Trade Unions (CITU), affiliated to the CPI(M), has formed trade unions in the IT sector in West Bengal, Maharashtra, Karnataka and Kerala, and unions will also be formed in other States such as Tamil Nadu, according to Mr ... More

OFF-SHORE DEVELOPMENT
Piper setting up aerospace data centre in Bangalore
First offshoring task, civil documentation for BAeHAL Software More

E-COMMERCE & E-BUSINESS
IT's in the air
Indian IT expertise is helping global airline players to grow their business. The sky's the limit, for this opportunity. More

SECURITY
Nokia to unveil network security products for small cos
To enter Unified Threat Management space next year More

Cell cos miss deadline on subscriber verification
Say five months not enough time More

BYTE BACK

Safe use of credit card

IT-ENABLED SERVICES
Smart Analyst to expand in India
Plans second research centre in Chennai More

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