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HUMAN RESOURCES: IT majors see red at the bottom
Chennai, New Delhi Aug. 31 Indian IT services companies, whose clients see slowing IT spends, are targeting the biggest part of their expenses – manpower – to keep costs in check. The bottom few, ranging from 0.5 per cent to 10 per ...

HUMAN RESOURCES: Govt sets fresh deadline for telecom officers
‘Get absorbed in BSNL, MTNL or move to DoT by Oct 16’. New Delhi, Aug. 31 After keeping the issue on the back burner for three years, the Government has issued fresh ultimatum to the Indian Telecom Service officers of BSNL and ...

HUMAN RESOURCES: Exit light on: IT cos sieve and churn as going gets tough
EXIT LIGHT ON. New Delhi/Chennai, Aug 31 The numbers of employees being shown the door in IT and BPO companies are flying fast and thick. ...

TECHNOLOGY: IT’s not all fun-n-games!
3D tech for real world challenges. Cutting edge 3-D visual technology created for games machines are being used for serious real world challenges in medicine, industrial design and ...

HUMAN RESOURCES: Queue for IT jobs

HUMAN RESOURCES: HTMT plans to tap travel, mortgages space
Mumbai, Aug. 31 HTMT Global Solutions, the back office firm promoted by the Hinduja Group, will more than double its overall employee base by ...

HARDWARE: Avalon putting up new facility
Chennai, Aug. 31 Avalon Technologies, part of the US-based Sienna Group, a global electronic manufacturing services (EMS) company, is expanding its capacity with a new facility at the Madras Export Processing Zone. ...

From eWorld

E-GOVERNANCE: `Going steady, guv'
Amidst all the slowdown talk in the tech industry, one sector appears unaffected -e-governance. eWorld chats up players in this space..

E-GOVERNANCE: Of models and money
Given that e-governance deals come in all sizes and shapes, as it were, what are the models operational in this space?For mission-mode projects, deal sizes are in the Rs 200-Rs 300 crore range; they would generally be projects spread over ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: An i on this phone
Apple’s iPhone feels slim and broad in your hands and generally lives up to the hype surrounding it.. I was very sceptical at first, but now I’m totally sold on it,” confided the excited sales executive in the O2 showroom in ...

INTERNET: Happy watching


BOOKS: When three forces collide…
…and they are people, technology and economics, a lot of things start happening. Catch the action.. People, technology, and economics. When these three forces collide, the result is Groundswell, the title of a new book from ...

INTERVIEW: Do more with less...
...by using Virtualisation. VMware on the concept and its business implications.. Talk of doing more with less and the term that pops up is ‘Virtualisation.’ eWorld chatted with Ganesh Mahabala, Regional Director of VMware India and ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: No getting away from IT
Consolidated Cybernetics says its smart campus initiative taps the mobile to keep parents in the know.. Remember those heady college days when one tried to keep both parents and teachers in the dark…And proxy attendance was something ...

INTERVIEW: Open opportunity
Red Hat on trends in the open source software space.. What is hot in the open source software scene? eWorld chatted with Gery Messer, President, Red Hat Asia Pacific, for an update. Here ...

INTERVIEW: `Weekend start-up'
Sashi Chimala was probably among the first 100 engineers to be shipped from India to work onsite in the IT (information technology) industry in the US. His first assignment was with Burroughs Corporation (later renamed Unisys). This was almost ...

CYBER QUEST: Quiz
V.V. Ramanan. 1. Name the feature that Mozilla is bringing to Firefox 3.1 that would dramatically speed up programs written in ...

COMPUTER USAGE: Disk Cleanup in Windows XP
The ‘Disk Cleanup’ menu features ‘Compress Old File’. What are these files and how do they get generated? ...

CARTOON: Cartoon
“It’s scientific! We ignore the planetary positions and go by the positions of the ...






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