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Domestic information technology services majors Tata Consultancy Services, Wipro Technologies and Tech Mahindra and global players like IBM and Japan-based NEC are among the 10 shortlisted companies for the Nandan Nilekani-headed Unique Identification Authority of India biometrics job.
Sites like Facebook and Orkut may be great for connecting with others, but they also provide a sure-fire way for broadcasting intimate details about you.
Peter Gartenberg, SAP India Managing Director tells about the changes taking place at SAP globally
People tend to think that online means access to information on the fly. But that does not mean that any individual can access the data, says Sunil Chandiramani.
Japan's leading information technology services and solutions provider, NTT Data Corporation, has emerged as the most aggressive suitor for Indian software services firm Patni Computer Systems. NTT is in advanced talks with the promoters of Patni Computer to buy their combined 46.5 per cent stake, investment banking sources said.
MindTree, the Bangalore-based information technology services provider, has bagged the application development services segment of the Nandan Nilekani-headed Unique Identification (UID) project, renamed as 'Aadhaar'. This is the first of the many IT projects that has come up for bidding till date.
India's second-largest software services company, Infosys Technologies, for instance, plans to hire close to 30,000 this financial year.
Infosys, India's second-largest information technology services provider, believes winning two to five 'transformational' deals in the range of $30-80 million for the company every quarter could become a norm.
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Infosys Technologies and Wipro were eliminated from the selection process for the project on technical grounds. Another IT major, HCL Technologies, was also rejected. The size of the project is not yet known.
Polaris gets over 90 per cent of its revenue from exports. Till financial year 2009-10, the company did not actively think about a strategy to buy space in a special economic zone.
CanvasM, a joint venture between Tech Mahindra and Motorola, is planning to launch 6,000 new indigenously developed applications for mobile phones.
Players slash prices to leverage the popularity of IPL matches on the internet.
Imagine this scenario. Pyarelal Shankar a grocery store owner in Haryana is not computer literate. Yet, he manages to regularly update his inventory online.
Bangalore-based information technology services firm MindTree has set up an ambitious target of becoming a $1-billion (around Rs 4,600-crore) company over the next five years.
The recent case of embezzlement by a Wipro insider, believe industry experts and analysts, would have little impact on the company's business or image. However, they simultaneously caution that the issue yet again highlights the need for better measures on corporate governance and fraud.
The plethora of new pricing schemes from telecom companies, like 'one paisa per second' billing, has squeezed the margins of their business process outsourcing partners.
The proportion of women to men falls radically after the mid-management level.
Professional services firm Ernst & Young bagged the contract from UIDAI to become consulting partner for the project.
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