Cybercriminals use their best schemes during the holidays to steal people's money, credit card information, social security number and identity. These thieves follow seasonal trends and create holiday-related websites, scams and other convincing emails that can trick even the most cautious users, according to Jeff Green, senior vice-president of McAfee Labs.
The National Green Tribunal Bill, 2009, will be tabled tomorrow in the Lok Sabha for discussion and on December 21 in the Rajya Sabha.
The international climate change talks, which started in Copenhagen today, will see a 35-member official delegation from India. The attempt will be to negotiate a new global climate treaty to replace or extend the 1997 Kyoto Protocol beyond 2012.
HCL BPO, the business process outsourcing arm of HCL Technologies, is scouting for acquisitions in the media, publishing and entertainment (MPE) segment to enable it to grow its pre-press, ad production and editorial services to print, online and other mediums.
In a bid to reduce the risk of heart ailments from intake of trans fat (TFA) packaged foods, the government is mulling a cap of 10 per cent on TFA in partially hydrogenated vegetable oils. The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India, an autonomous statutory body administered by the ministry of health and family welfare, has come up with a draft on this that it has presented to the stakeholders. It plans to introduce the cap by January 2010.
Security analysts say they have already seen all of the major online threats - Trojan horses, viruses, worms - spreading on smartphones, often through email attachments sent to the phones.
Infosys, the country's second largest information technology exporter, plans to sharpen its focus on specific segments for select regions as part of its strategy for expansion and servicing of new markets.
The companies will have to secure a minimum of 400 points out of 1,000 to be able to participate in the rating system.
Nasscom president Som Mittal shares his view on issues such as the rise in value of the rupee against the dollar, hiring trends and the role of IT in e-governance.
Most IT companies today have multiple delivery centres, physically verifying documents is arduous and difficult to determine where the actual billing is done
More doctors and healthcare professionals are joining management schools, turned away by the limited number of seats for a post-graduate course in medicine and the prospects of a better pay package after graduating from a B-school.
The Union Ministry of Human Resource Development has indicated that it may allow the premier Indian Institutes of Technology and Indian Institutes of Management to set up campuses in foreign countries once they improve their faculty positions.
Analysts say that these programmes are not system heavy or resource intensive.
Though private labels comprise 10 to 12 per cent of the overall FMCG volumes, analysts said they were recording double-digit growth annually and could pose problems for the big players in the near future.
Globally, companies like Coca Cola, P&G and Unilever have adopted the performance-based model. In India, the trend is gradually catching on. A Coca Cola India spokesperson said the company is in the process of moving from an input-cost based compensation system for its agency partners towards a value-based one. This model is about paying agencies for results, not activity. HUL refused to comment, citing policy constraints on speaking about remuneration.
They also siphon money through 'work@home' schemes.
With malware makers aiming to create as many as 6,000 new pieces of malware per day, the growth of malicious software continues to accelerate.
The economy is yet to recover and it's evident at management institutes where the pre-placement scenario is still sluggish. It's nearing the end of July and time for Indian B-schools to start getting pre-placement offers or pre-placement interviews from companies.
Job portals like Monster.com and Naukri.com affirmed the observation.
But the fear of less-than-normal rain hitting rural demand continues to haunt the industry.
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