News for 'Computer Engineering'

L&T sells 2.42% in Mahindra Satyam for Rs 295 cr

L&T sells 2.42% in Mahindra Satyam for Rs 295 cr

Rediff.com4 Oct 2010

Larsen & Toubro (L&T), the technology, engineering, construction and manufacturing company, has scaled down its stake in Mahindra Satyam, the erstwhile Satyam Computer Services, to a little over two per cent.

Microsoft rushes out fix to prevent attacks on Office PCs

Microsoft rushes out fix to prevent attacks on Office PCs

Rediff.com6 Nov 2013

The vulnerability affects customers using Office 2003 and Office 2007 as well as those running Office 2010 on Windows XP and Server 2003.

Google gets Bangalored

Google gets Bangalored

Rediff.com14 Oct 2004

The real issue with Electronic Voting Machines

The real issue with Electronic Voting Machines

Rediff.com2 Sep 2010

Rajeev Srinivasan on how EVM problems are much bigger than technology or politics.

Choose a dream worthy of yourself, says Murthy

Choose a dream worthy of yourself, says Murthy

Rediff.com23 Jun 2009

Concordia University confers honorary doctorate on Infosys founder N R Narayana Murthy.

Making electricity from wasted energy

Making electricity from wasted energy

Rediff.com19 Nov 2009

American scientists claim to have developed a technology that would allow conversion of waste heat into electricity efficiently.

Wipro Technologies gets IEEE award

Wipro Technologies gets IEEE award

Rediff.com4 Jun 2003

Wipro Technologies, the IT services division of Wipro Ltd, said on Wednesday that it has become the first company outside the US to be conferred with Software Process Achievement

Satyam settles row with Caterpillar

Satyam settles row with Caterpillar

Rediff.com10 Jun 2009

On April 21, 2008, Satyam announced its plans to acquire the market research and customer analytics business unit from CAT for a total consideration of $60 million (approximately Rs 300 crore), comprising an initial payment of $10 million (Rs 50 crore), which Satyam paid to the seller on August 6, 2008, besides issuing a $50-million (Rs 250 crore) promissory note.

Only 18% Indian tech graduates fit for a job, claims survey

Only 18% Indian tech graduates fit for a job, claims survey

Rediff.com18 Aug 2010

As per the study of over 40,000 technical graduates by assessment technology company Aspiring Minds, a majority of fresh engineering graduates require additional training to be eligible for any job in the IT/ITeS sector.

How India's IT majors are becoming more customer-friendly

How India's IT majors are becoming more customer-friendly

Rediff.com15 May 2017

As Indian IT service entities mature into multi-billion dollar organisations employing thousands, the pressure has increased on them from clients to identify and solve customer problems than working on predefined parameters.

Interested in an MTech, PhD degree?

Interested in an MTech, PhD degree?

Rediff.com11 Jun 2008

S V National Institute of Technology (Surat) announces admissions to MTech, MTech (Research) and PhD programmes for 2008.

Why Sergey Brin and Larry Page created their own Alphabet

Why Sergey Brin and Larry Page created their own Alphabet

Rediff.com14 Aug 2015

Keeping a company on the cutting edge is about more than making workers happy.

6 smart tips to make secure payments online

6 smart tips to make secure payments online

Rediff.com4 Sep 2020

Do not trust any incoming phone calls or mails that ask you to install any file or programme, warns Niranjan Upadhye, general manager-fraud risk management, Worldline India.

'For 1,400 years India led the world in science'

'For 1,400 years India led the world in science'

Rediff.com15 Dec 2020

'Some Indians take the extreme view that everything was known to our ancients, but others go to the opposite extreme and consider everything Indian was superstition and rubbish.' 'Indian science was perhaps more rational than the European science of the time.'

The BEST Indian Films of 2021

The BEST Indian Films of 2021

Rediff.com29 Dec 2021

Aseem Chhabra lists his favourite Indian films of 2021.

Videos, sex, porn top kids' Internet searches

Videos, sex, porn top kids' Internet searches

Rediff.com12 Aug 2009

A new survey has revealed that watching YouTube videos, looking up 'sex', socialising and searching for search engines are the popular activities children perform on the Internet.

Pinarayi Vijayan: The CM as crisis manager

Pinarayi Vijayan: The CM as crisis manager

Rediff.com24 Jun 2020

The Kerala chief minister's four years in office may well be remembered for the way he handled Cyclone Ockhi, two floods, Nipah, and now COVID-19, reports Shine Jacob.

Satyam has kept shareholders in the dark: L&T

Satyam has kept shareholders in the dark: L&T

Rediff.com18 May 2010

Engineering and construction major L&T on Tuesday said Satyam Computer Services, which is rebranded as Mahindra Satyam, has kept its shareholders in the dark about it's performance.s

Why Indian IT is staring at an uncertain future

Why Indian IT is staring at an uncertain future

Rediff.com8 Jun 2018

NITI Aayog recommendations cite the need for greater industry-academia collaboration to meet skill demand

PIA flight to Medina flew with 7 people standing on aisle!

PIA flight to Medina flew with 7 people standing on aisle!

Rediff.com26 Feb 2017

As many as seven passengers aboard the Boeing 777 Pakistan International Airlines flight PK-743 (Karachi-Madina) on January 20 were forced to stand throughout the over three-hour flight after the airline boarded excess passengers, Dawn newspaper reported.

Barack Obama is a big fan of Prateek Kuhad

Barack Obama is a big fan of Prateek Kuhad

Rediff.com27 Jan 2020

'We all live very intense lives. S*** goes down all the time.' 'This 'eureka moment' doesn't really happen.' 'The discipline of writing and polishing a song is way harder,' Prateek Kuhad, the singing sensation, tells Veer Arjun Singh.

Wipro ranked leader among global R&D service providers

Wipro ranked leader among global R&D service providers

Rediff.com28 Oct 2013

IT major Wipro on Monday said it has been ranked as a leader in the global R&D service provider survey by Zinnov Management Consulting for the fourth successive year.

Revealed: Why the navy seeks 57 fighter aircraft

Revealed: Why the navy seeks 57 fighter aircraft

Rediff.com6 Feb 2017

>The Indian Navy wants 'day and night capable, all weather multi-role deck based combat aircraft which can be used for air defence, air-to-surface operations, buddy refuelling, reconnaissance, electronic warfare missions' from its aircraft carriers.

Samtel cockpit displays for Sukhoi-30MKI

Samtel cockpit displays for Sukhoi-30MKI

Rediff.com12 Nov 2009

The Indian Air Force's Sukhoi-30MKI fighter is a beast that is tamed only by technology. The aircraft's giant AL-31FP turbofan engines, which allow manoeuvres that no other fighter can dream of, are monitored by its pilots on high-tech computer screens called multi-function displays, or MFDs. A quick glance across the MFDs also provides information about on-board weapons and sensors, telling the pilots everything about how the aircraft is flying and fighting.

CEOs raking in 129 times their 'ideal salaries'

CEOs raking in 129 times their 'ideal salaries'

Rediff.com4 Nov 2009

Chief executives in 35 of the top Fortune 500 companies were overpaid by about 129 times their 'ideal salaries' in 2008, according to a researcher at Purdue University. Venkat Venkatasubramanian, a professor of chemical engineering, wanted to know if CEOs in top-notch multinational companies are being fairly paid or not.

When India's 10,000 brightest techies unite

When India's 10,000 brightest techies unite

Rediff.com3 Apr 2017

Smart India Hackathon 2017 saw them build computer programmes or smartphone applications for 598 problems identified by different government departments.

'Photography is to capture the times we live in'

'Photography is to capture the times we live in'

Rediff.com24 Jul 2021

'If journalism is the first draft of history, then photojournalism is the first draft of its evidence,' Raghu Rai, arguably India's finest living photojournalist, tells Pavan Lall.

Google working with Intel, Sony on TV project

Google working with Intel, Sony on TV project

Rediff.com18 Mar 2010

Internet search engine giant Google has teamed with Intel and Sony to develop Google TV, a platform for bringing the web into the living room via televisions and set-top boxes

NMIMS admissions to MTech, PhD programmes

NMIMS admissions to MTech, PhD programmes

Rediff.com25 May 2009

SVKM's NMIMS University invites applications for the year 2009-10.

Review: Pyaar Ka Punchnama 2 is too immature to be funny

Review: Pyaar Ka Punchnama 2 is too immature to be funny

Rediff.com16 Oct 2015

Pyaar Ka Punchnama 2 contains some genuine belly laughs, and would have been perfect were it not for its feature-length running time, writes Raja Sen.

Get your MBA at AVB-IIITM

Get your MBA at AVB-IIITM

Rediff.com11 May 2009

Atal Bihari Vajpayee Indian Institute of Information Technology & Management, Gwalior announces admissions to MBA programme for academic session 2009-11.

How Google's India projects will ease our lives

How Google's India projects will ease our lives

Rediff.com28 Dec 2015

Though India is a low-bandwidth geography with relatively low Internet penetration, it has a very large number of sophisticated surfers and skilled computer users

Pursue degrees in engg, healthcare: US execs

Pursue degrees in engg, healthcare: US execs

Rediff.com26 Aug 2009

With approximately 2.9 million young men and women ready to begin their undergraduate and post graduate courses, 'many are pondering ways they might be able to avoid the high unemployment and underemployment rate facing the most recent crop of graduates,' global outplacement consultancy Challenger Gray & Christmas said in Chicago on Wednesday.

Economic crisis? Indian IT can survive it

Economic crisis? Indian IT can survive it

Rediff.com17 Mar 2009

Indian IT companies, which participated in the CeBIT 2009 in Hannover, expressed confidence that innovative skills of the software engineers and IT professionals along with their ability to adapt to the rapidly changing situation in the markets around the world will help cushion the impact of the global economic meltdown on the industry in India.

The mastermind behind India's Star Wars

The mastermind behind India's Star Wars

Rediff.com5 Apr 2019

DRDO chief G Satheesh Reddy Reddy is the first Indian to be appointed Fellow of the Royal Institute of Navigation and of the Royal Aeronautical Society.

CAT topper: I prepared only via mock tests

CAT topper: I prepared only via mock tests

Rediff.com13 May 2010

He took the CAT three times. Third time lucky, he finally got a call from IIM Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Calcutta and Lucknow.

Want to study business management?

Want to study business management?

Rediff.com5 Feb 2009

ABV Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management, Gwalior opens applications for admission to the MBA Programme for 2009-2010.

Scholarships for young men and women

Scholarships for young men and women

Rediff.com19 Jan 2009

Inlaks Shivdasani Foundation's scholarships, awards and grants to young men and women under 30 years of age with talent and ability and a desire to transform their lives.

Now, a vehicle that is half-car, half-scooter!

Now, a vehicle that is half-car, half-scooter!

Rediff.com5 Apr 2010

Automobile engineers at car giant Nissan have designed the groundbreaking vehicle for the future, Land Glider, which has four wheels, but is little more than half the width of a family car and is designed with busy city streets in mind.