Indian PC and console game developers and publishers are gradually waking up to the potential of developing games completely in India.
With a fast-expanding pool of billionaires and millionaires, India is now an important market for pleasure-craft peddlers.
S Venkatramani, who will head the Indian operations, is already bullish about the opportunity the domestic market offers. Venkatramani takes over after the recent rejig announced by TCS in its organisational structure.
The Indian IT companies, which have been hitherto providing back office services (claims processing and others), are now planning to provide actuarial valuations. Genpact, one of the largest players in the property and casualty space has been in actuarial services since the last five years.
Reliance Retail has tied up with Microsoft to launch the concept of connected homes.
Anti-virus and anti-spyware technologies, which are packaged as 'blacklist' solutions, are gradually giving way to what security experts claim is a far more effective IT security technology based on 'whitelist' solutions.
Employees who forward office documents and emails to personal email accounts pose the greatest security risk to an organisation, according to a report by Websense.
Last week, Reliance Entertainment signed up with Manchester United for an exclusive, global three-year game development deal, which reports estimated at $100 million. Rajesh Sawhney, president, Reliance Entertainment, talked to Business Standard about the company's plans in the gaming, animation and home entertainment space.
All low-cost laptops and desktops come pre-loaded with a Linux OS or a DOS version (obsolete on desktops). The installation of a legal Microsoft operating system (OS) and office suite (for word, excel, etc) will increase the price of the desktop or laptop by 20 to 35 per cent.
Logix, a company dealing in automative e-retailing solutions, is negotiating the acquisition of a US firm.
In the last three months, attrition of the company has come down by 25 per cent. The company's attrition on an average ranges from 38 to 58 per cent annually.
The Express group is expected to get around Rs 500 crore (Rs 5 billion) from the deal.
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Nasscom estimates that the KPO industry is poised for a 45 per cent per annum growth till 2010. The current hotspots in KPO are engineering and design, basic data search, integration and management and biotech & pharma.
Online Advertising has come of age as companies realise its potential. The online advertising market is expected to see phenomenal growth in the near future.
A recent US Department of State directive to the US consular posts now requires consulting an electronic record for visa issuance in these categories.
Osim revealed its plans of opening 10 showrooms in Tier-1 and Tier-2 cities in India. They have a positive approach to operations in India.
Indian IT-BPO firms are looking at Philipines as a viable option to build outsourcing centres.
The Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas and MacWorld in San Francisco, both this January, promise to mark an exciting beginning for all those who can't get enough of gadgets.
Financial frauds in the cyber space may rise in 2008, warn online security vendors.
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