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Not too keen to pay for use? (06 October 12:00) |
| Though Software as a Service has been held up as the next big revolution in the IT industry and has indeed become prevalent to an extent, it still appears to be at a nascent stage in India... |
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Trigger for violence? (06 October 12:00) |
| Parents say our children are not out on the streets, they are not doing drugs or alcohol, they are at home and we believed they were secure. It is now the opposite, and young people are now ... |
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Serve IT hot and fast (06 October 12:00) |
| When you’ve ordered Paneer Tikka, you don’t want to settle for Paneer Pakoda, right?But why does the mix-up happen, at the restaurant? It happens because the ‘master’ (the hotel staf... |
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Pay through the mobile phone (06 October 12:00) |
| Even at a 3 per cent conversion of every mobile bill payer onto an mCommerce solution, the industry would be worth around Rs 3,000 crore, estimates Sanjay Swamy, CEO, mChek. The Bangalore-ba... |
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Debt spells no dent (06 October 12:00) |
| 3i Infotech has been aggressive in acquisitions. Its latest in a string of acquisitions is US-based Regulus, which provides bill presentment and remittance processing services, for a total p... |
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Good technology is almost half of health (06 October 12:00) |
| A healthy feeling is a happy one, as we recently saw, closer home. A few top-level statements about ‘health’ lifted the otherwise gloomy financial markets. Wish something similar could h... |
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‘Hold up one end for us’ (29 September 12:00) |
| “It is always with the best intentions that the worst work is done.” — Oscar “It is always with the best intentions that the worst work is done.” — Oscar |
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‘Discretionary IT spends down’ (29 September 12:00) |
| Niteen Tulpule, Director-Corporate Finance, KPMG, decided to play it safe when eWorld asked him about the recovery from the US slowdown. “It is still early to comment on the timeframe for... |
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‘Research interest growing in India’ (29 September 12:00) |
| Compared to a thousand doctorates in computer science that come out of American universities every year, India produces 50. But the situation here is improving, P. Anandan, Managing Directo... |
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Guard against ID thieves (29 September 12:00) |
| How often have you received unsolicited calls from credit card salesmen or insurance agents from call centres with all your personal data at their fingertips? Hardly a day goes by without o... |
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Chrome Java problem (29 September 12:00) |
| I am unable to apply Java 6 update 10 as applicable to Google Chrome. Also, very often, Java files in Internet Explorer 8 make the computer hang up. I am unable to apply Java 6 update 10 ... |
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Spywatch (29 September 12:00) |
| E-mail can bring in great news — and let in the spies too. With so much talk of security in cyberspace, eWorld caught up with Shantanu Ghosh, Vice-President, India Product Operations, Syma... |
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Try an `inside-out' approach (29 September 12:00) |
| The success of any big strategy is in the small details, says Frank Prestipino in Getting to Big the Small Way ( www.tatamcgrawhill.com). “In much The success of any big strategy is in th... |
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Going down, down, down! (29 September 12:00) |
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They join the tech tribe (29 September 12:00) |
| Twelve-year-old Mama Majhi is the first person ever in her family to go to school. The tribal girl, who belongs to the Santhal community, is a student of Class VII in the Bhubaneswar-based K... |
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Bounce back — with back-up (22 September 12:00) |
| A catastrophic computer crash on September 9 brought trading on the London Stock Exchange to a halt for seven hours. It prevented thousands of online traders from doing business on what the... |
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Perils of wireless Internet (22 September 12:00) |
| It is the same old story again. As in the case of a few past blasts, such as the series of UP explosions (November 2007) and Ahmedabad (August 2008), terrorists involved in the five explosio... |
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Astrology, online (22 September 12:00) |
| Just under a decade ago, when the online matrimonial service was being talked about as a possibility, one could not but raise an eyebrow and look at it with scepticism. The transformation on... |
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Welcome the ‘digital natives’ (22 September 12:00) |
| Soon, the world will belong to those “born after 1980, when social digital technologies, such as Usenet and bulletin board systems, came online. They all have access to networked digital... |
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MphasiS – changing to a fresher-heavy structure (22 September 12:00) |
| It’s not a great year to take over as CEO of an Indian IT services company. The US economy, from which India derives about 50 per cent of its revenues, is weak. And the Rupee’s volatilit... |
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To your health (22 September 12:00) |
| Chips designed by researchers at TI India touch our lives in more ways than one, says the company. Besides spheres such as telecommunications, electronic gadgets and devices, these chips dri... |
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Watt’s the good word! (15 September 12:00) |
| Tech players are keeping a watchful eye on the ticking energy meter so as to go ‘green with efficiency.’. Quick, how much power do you save by switching off all those unrequired systems... |
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Seal of safety (15 September 12:00) |
| A simple security tape and label on cargo moving continental distances can be a cost-effective and practical deterrent against theft and terror. Some companies in Europe, for example Tesa B... |
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Smart learning (15 September 12:00) |
| Valued Epistemics says it uses technology to make the teaching process more productive.. Chennai-based learning and mobile technology company Valued Epistemics Private Ltd (VEPL), through Wi... |
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Share data seamlessly (15 September 12:00) |
| Enabling the police and passport office to share information makes e-governance effective.. The NeGP (National e-Governance Programme) is a huge initiative, but there has been much duplicat... |
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Keen to catch `em young (15 September 12:00) |
| Virgin Mobile India? on how business is taking off and why it is targeting youth.. Virgin Mobile, part of Sir Richard Branson's $24-billion diversified Virgin Group, has over 15 million su... |
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More chrome for your reading pleasure (15 September 12:00) |
| Are your eyes blinded by all that chrome? Yes, I mean the Google Chrome browser. ... Are your eyes blinded by all that chrome? Yes, I mean the Google Chrome browser. ... |
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Do all PCs lead to Chrome? (15 September 12:00) |
| Google’s new browser is a breeze, by and large, despite some niggles.. I have been playing with Google Chrome for some days now and am quite happy with it, except for a few niggles here an... |
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Moolah in MVN? (08 September 12:00) |
| Is there money to be made by taking to the Mobile Virtual Network Operator route in India? eWorld sought to hear the market’s message.. What is common to supermarket firm Tesco, coffee sh... |
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Handle with care (08 September 12:00) |
| The UK government is grappling with cases of careless handling of sensitive information.. It is bad times for government departments in the United Kingdom holding sensitive information and ... |
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‘iPhone poses security challenges’ (08 September 12:00) |
| Appin Security Group on what it sees as hitches.. Looks like the iPhone, which was launched recently in India with a lot of fanfare, may not be without its own set of hitches. Rajat Khare, ... |
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Make alliances work (08 September 12:00) |
| Despite more than 2,000 strategic tie-ups being launched worldwide each year, this terrain is fraught with failures.. Framework, organisation, and relationships — these three have to be r... |
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Protection against online piracy (08 September 12:00) |
| Safenet on the steps to be taken.. Rana Gupta is business head for India and SAARC at information security firm Safenet. In an exclusive interaction with eWorld, he shares his views on onl... |
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Bandwidth Monitor (08 September 12:00) |
| Home Internet users who have subscribed to a limited bandwidth scheme may need to track their Internet usage. To check your monthly BSNL bandwidth usage, you can look up the following URLs:... |
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So much more (08 September 12:00) |
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`Going steady, guv' (01 September 12:00) |
| Amidst all the slowdown talk in the tech industry, one sector appears unaffected -e-governance. eWorld chats up players in this space.. Amidst all the slowdown talk in the tech industry, on... |
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Of models and money (01 September 12:00) |
| 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 ra... |
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An i on this phone (01 September 12:00) |
| 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 exci... |
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Happy watching (01 September 12:00) |
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When three forces collide… (01 September 12:00) |
| …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 Groun... |
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Do more with less... (01 September 12:00) |
| ...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 M... |
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No getting away from IT (01 September 12:00) |
| 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 ... |
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Open opportunity (01 September 12:00) |
| 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 ...... |
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`Weekend start-up' (01 September 12:00) |
| 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 Burrough... |
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Disk Cleanup in Windows XP (01 September 12:00) |
| The ‘Disk Cleanup’ menu features ‘Compress Old File’. What are these files and how do they get generated? ... The ‘Disk Cleanup’ menu features ‘Compress Old File’. What ... |
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Hello… it’s your call (25 August 12:00) |
| The Government’s move to allow agents of ‘Other Service Providers’ to work from home throws open the ITES employment scene to more people, young and old.. Talk of good news coming down... |
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A classic cyber war? (25 August 12:00) |
| The Russia-Georgia clashes bring cyberspace issues to the fore.. It is again eventful times in cyberspace. It all started earlier this month with the entry of Russian troops into neighbouri... |
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The transforming BPO landscape (25 August 12:00) |
| Infosys BPO is bullish on growth prospects, never mind the US slowdown.. The last few years have seen the Indian BPO (business process outsourcing) industry ride the offshore wave to its adv... |
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Europe beckons (25 August 12:00) |
| With Europe eager more than ever to walk the India path, opportunities to get business out of the continent are growing for Indian IT ... With Europe eager more than ever to walk the India ... |
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On convergence track (25 August 12:00) |
| The four aspects of software quality are converging into one quality definition.. Four aspects of software quality are converging, and these are business excellence, service excellence, sec... |
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