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Mouse moves snail speed (22 March 12:00) |
| Snail's pace — there could not be a better phrase to refer to the growth of Internet penetration in India. The former Information Technology minister, Dayananidhi Maran's target of 40 mill... |
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No disconnect between IT and process (22 March 12:00) |
| The politeness of the French is evident. The future is yours, says Hubert Giraud, CEO, Capgemini Global BPO Services, as he settles down to a chat with eWorld. Giraud heads the BPO division ... |
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CSI aims to take technology to society (22 March 12:00) |
| The Indian IT industry — both domestic and software exports — is carving its next phase of growth. With renewed value proposition, the industry can expect to clock a double-digit growth,... |
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Wireless tech in energy management (22 March 12:00) |
| When you have a namesake across the table, the conversation can, at times, be eerily like talking to oneself. Which is how it was when I recently had Murali Ramalingam as my lunch-hour When... |
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Three myths in the Numerati discussion (22 March 12:00) |
| The first of the three enduring myths in the Numerati discussion is that the world is divided between word people and number people, says Stephen Baker in They've Got Your Number (www.landma... |
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Sharing the screen (15 March 12:00) |
| Rajeev Kumar is a true inhabitant of the wired world. Right from the moment he wakes up to the time his head hits the bed — whether it is to make last-minute changes to the client presenta... |
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Vertical integration of service chain is key (15 March 12:00) |
| If you were as intrigued as we were, by famed cine actor Kamal Haasan's articles on technology and media convergence a fortnight ago in these columns, you'd want to read this interview with ... |
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Think local go open (15 March 12:00) |
| Open source technologies are making significant inroads in governments around the world, avers Gopi Ganapathy, President & CEO, Essentia, US Open source technologies are making significant ... |
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India China strong for us this year (15 March 12:00) |
| Arthur Coviello, President of RSA, the Security Division of EMC, believes that cloud computing provides an opportunity to turn the way IT security is delivered, “inside out”. In his open... |
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Clicking with tickets (15 March 12:00) |
| Public sector transport organisations are generally known for poor services, including antiquated ticketing practices. But one organisation that has kept pace with the times, at least in the... |
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Enemy in the network (15 March 12:00) |
| In one of the most high-profile cases of identity theft in recent times, the Twitter accounts of the British Energy Secretary, Ed Miliband, and House of Commons Leader, Harriet Harman, were ... |
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IT growth in India and China (15 March 12:00) |
| High-tech knowledge-based industries have played an important role in the transition of Chinese and Indian economies, note S. R. Hashim and N. S. Siddharthan in High-tech Industries, Employm... |
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Upside to the downturn (08 March 12:00) |
| Cognizant reported a 16 per cent increase in its revenues of $3.28 billion for the year ended December 2009, up from an estimate of 10 per cent it gave when the year began. A company spokesp... |
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In innovating company (08 March 12:00) |
| Innovation is one of those words suffering from the lack of a clear definition, and that makes it a much-abused and overused word, concedes Sukumar Rajagopal, Senior Vice President and Head ... |
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Ad to the game (08 March 12:00) |
| The Internet ad space is witnessing a radical transformation with the advent of social networking ads and online games. With the Web helping gather likeminded people, advertisers find it eas... |
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YOU turn on the e-way (08 March 12:00) |
| The India arm of Singapore-based telecom operator Singtel has joined with the Citigroup-owned broadband services company YOU Telecom to provide international connectivity and broadband servi... |
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Jolted to life (08 March 12:00) |
| It's not easy understanding the mind of a computer or electronic gadget. Sometimes a shock treatment works wonders with It's not easy understanding the mind of a computer or electronic gadg... |
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Tackling pin points (08 March 12:00) |
| Picture this challenge that confronts most organisations today. Customer data is scattered throughout the organisation. Some organisations have data in 30 different data sources for a custom... |
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Foundation for building intangible assets… (08 March 12:00) |
| Information technology (IT) and communications enable virtual teams to function effectively; yet, human interactions continue to be important, says A. V. Vedpuriswar in Taking Your Business ... |
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Collaboration buzz at Barcelona (01 March 12:00) |
| No mind-blowing innovation as such... but mobile telephony in developed countries has really marched No mind-blowing innovation as such... but mobile telephony in developed countries has re... |
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Converging on the eye (01 March 12:00) |
| The media and entertainment industry is in the midst of a radical transformation. The twin forces of digitalisation and globalisation, which have profoundly affected other industry segments ... |
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India will become a Global Entertainment Hub (01 March 12:00) |
| Things perceived by industry pundits as yet to come are already up and running in India. Naysayers and vested interests snoozing on their archaic ways of doing business are in danger of bein... |
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Virtual Screens (01 March 12:00) |
| Excerpts from an article by me in a Tamizh film journal nearly two decades ago: “I can embolden myself to dream of a time in the near future (while I am still alive to enjoy it) when the p... |
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The job Eliminate threats (01 March 12:00) |
| Ten months after assuming charge as CEO and President of Symantec Corporation, Enrique Salem caught up with select journalists at the company's worldwide headquarters at Mountain View in the... |
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Facilitate hosting content locally (01 March 12:00) |
| Do people lose sleep, worrying about wireless connectivity (such as that it can be insecure, etc)? Shivkumar Jagannath, CTO, Wi5, Zylog Systems (India) Ltd, Chennai (www.wi5.in) concedes tha... |
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To each his own (01 March 12:00) |
| I had always wanted to own a compass. Please don't ask me why. I don't like travelling or trekking. I hardly move out of the city, but I still felt I wanted to own one. Two years ago, I boug... |
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Forty hours to literacy (01 March 12:00) |
| How long will it take for India to become completely literate? Thirty-odd years, say some. No, it may need just about a sixth of that time, Faqir Chand Kohli, a prophet of India's software r... |
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Refreshing read (01 March 12:00) |
| I've just finished reading `Migrating to Windows 7' by T.E. Raja Simhan in eWorld dated February 22, which I found by chance while searching the Web for the subject matter. Since our product... |
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Leapfrog to 4G (22 February 12:00) |
| Back in the mid-1990s, when mobile services were launched in India — more than 10 years after the first generation (1G) cellular network was rolled out by NTT in Japan — cellular operato... |
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Migrating to Windows 7 (22 February 12:00) |
| Desikan isn't too keen to migrate to Windows 7 from Windows XP, an operating system that he loves to work on. Come 2012 end, though, the youngster pursuing his under graduate studies will ha... |
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Whatever you do dont break it (22 February 12:00) |
| Whatever you do, do not break it. Trimming costs and achieving process efficiency are all fine but, with economies going back to growth, it's IT operations that are going to win the game for... |
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On a smart drive (22 February 12:00) |
| Travellers jumping into a call taxi just outside the railway station or a mofussil bus stand or even the airport is a common sight, especially during wee hours. Most presume that the service... |
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Sustaining ITs competitive edge (22 February 12:00) |
| Keeping the battering of economic downturn in 2009 at bay, Indian IT (information technology) companies are quite optimistic about the business outlook in 2010 and are banking on sustained r... |
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Reality of cyber warfare (22 February 12:00) |
| A very recent assessment by a highly reputed London-based think-tank that cyber warfare between nations is a reality and cannot be brushed aside as fanciful should make us sit up and take no... |
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Will Budget respond… (22 February 12:00) |
| In the telecom space, the most prominent fact that grabs the attention of N. Madhan, Tax Partner, Ernst & Young, is that mobile phones have assumed the position of absolute necessity in view... |
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Explore Google! (22 February 12:00) |
| You have used Google for search and Gmail for e-mail. Of course, you would have also used Picasa (photos) and GTalk (chat). But many are not aware that Google has a service called Latitude, ... |
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Help yourself get going (22 February 12:00) |
| If you are a frequent traveller or a techie, you will probably dismiss what I have to say here as “oh! It's quite common.” However, this is only to caution those who find technology taki... |
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Anxious signals from telecom (22 February 12:00) |
| From a tax perspective, what the telecom sector expects from Budget 2010 is a simplified tax regime, says Naveen Aggarwal, Executive Director, From a tax perspective, what the telecom secto... |
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Emerging from the shadows (15 February 12:00) |
| The Indian IT-BPO industry has got back its swagger, with a growth outlook to match the confident stride. The $50-billion export industry is headed for a 13-15 per cent growth in FY11 and, a... |
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Cutting-edge technology! (15 February 12:00) |
| The phrase ‘stitch in time' has less to do with rips in the fabric and is more about a timely effort to prevent more problems at a later stage. For the Hong Kong-based Master Tailor Joe He... |
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Indian mobile market in its infancy (15 February 12:00) |
| It is the third week of January and ear-pads seem to be a common sight on Chennai roads. Not for listening to music, but as a protection against the ‘chill' weather. At 26 degrees Celsius,... |
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Pools filling up (15 February 12:00) |
| The PC revolution might have begun 25 years ago but there are many out there saying “computers are still hard to The PC revolution might have begun 25 years ago but there are many out the... |
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Buzz biz (15 February 12:00) |
| Google has been steadily losing its grip on the social networking space. Orkut, which it bought long ago, is not exactly doing well compared with Facebook and Twitter. So, Buzz is Google's a... |
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4 elements of professionalism (15 February 12:00) |
| Computers take numerous tasks off our hands — such as tasks of calculation, processing, storage, and transmission; and technology undoubtedly increases our capabilities, acknowledges Atul ... |
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Fill in the blanks (01 February 12:00) |
| Kishori Lal Yadav, who hails from a tiny village in Uttar Pradesh, is quite technology-savvy when it comes to handling money. With a whistle on his lips, he withdraws money from the teller m... |
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Lead the way (01 February 12:00) |
| Maps have always scared me. While in school I had no clue why on earth I should mark unheard of places in maps. And no two map sheets or workbooks were alike. Making things worse, maps in th... |
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Uptick in MA activities on the cards (01 February 12:00) |
| Jürgen Bauer looks every bit the consultant he is: Suave, elegant in the way he carries himself, measured but sure of what he Jürgen Bauer looks every bit the consultant he is: Suave, ele... |
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White-Fi making waves (01 February 12:00) |
| On October 22, 2009, high-level executives from Microsoft Corporation met officials of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India, including the Chairman, J S Sarma, to demonstrate how vacant... |
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Where has the trust gone (01 February 12:00) |
| Rarely does a bureaucrat speak his mind in public. Even rarer is the quality to say something unpleasant but have the targeted audience agree with you. Recently, PWC Davidar, IT Secretary to... |
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Connecting guarantors to small entrepreneurs (01 February 12:00) |
| Rekha Devi earns a living by stitching clothes. As she has only one sewing machine, she is unable to meet the growing demands of her customers… Kajal Devi runs a small hotel with her husba... |
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