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Kavveri Telecom acquires wireless systems division of WPCS
July 26, 2012 By V. Ganesh The next time someone in the US dials 911 during an emergency, an Indian company may be providing the technology at the backend. Kavveri Telecom, a Bangalore-based telecom products manufacturer, has bought US-based WPCS International’s wireless communications division, which makes wireless systems used by police officers, firemen and other emergency services providers. […]
Infosys whistleblower case going to trial
July 25, 2012 By V. Ganesh The lawsuit filed against Infosys by Mr. Jack Palmer is going to trial next month. On July 6th a US District Court Judge, Myron H. Thompson, had ordered Mr. Palmer and Infosys to engage in mediation, to attempt an out of court settlement. However, mediation talks held earlier in the […]
Infosys opens US development centre
July 24, 2012 By V. Ganesh In part of the company’s strategy to stay closer to clients, Infosys has opened a new development centre in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (USA), which will be a training centre, in addition to providing its global clients with access to its system integration and consulting business. Infosys currently gets around 70% […]
K Raheja chooses IBM’s ECM solution
July 23, 2012 By V. Ganesh K Raheja Corp has selected IBM’s Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solution to manage data for internal and external stakeholders. IBM will manage various types of data existing across Raheja’s different locations. The real estate group has an employee base in excess of 1,000 and wants to implement an enterprise-wide […]
TCS overshadows Infy across the board
July 19, 2012 By V. Ganesh TCS has surpassed Infosys over the last few quarters across nearly all parameters. These include higher employee utilisation, volume growth, strong client pipeline, more opportunities in discretionary projects and growth in ‘troubled’ sectors such as telecom and BFSI. Employee utilisation, which refers to the number of employees working […]
Educational institutions might gain access to super-computing research
July 19, 2012 By V. Ganesh India’s Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) in conjunction with the National Informatics Centre (NIC) plan to use their Garuda initiative to extend grid computing from the current 65 educational institutes to 200 in the next couple of years. Due to high costs and maintenance of hardware and […]
Rape is bad for business
July 18, 2012 By V. Ganesh Yes, I know, I’m stating the bloody obvious. But some people are too mentally handicapped to see the obvious and need the rest of us to point it out for them. Let’s do that now, here goes: Hey STUPID! Yeah, you, old fat bastard with the obnoxious mustache, listen up… […]
TCS flying high with deal from Scandinavian Airlines
July 17, 2012 By V. Ganesh Tata Consultancy Services has won again, this time a multi-year outsourcing deal from Scandinavian Airlines (SAS), which is the Scandinavian region’s largest airline and is considered the most punctual airline in Europe. SAS will implement a finance and accounting (F&A) platform fromTCS for its operations across 30 countries. This […]
Microsoft releases Office 2013
July 17, 2012 By V. Ganesh At a press conference in San Francisco Microsoft CEO, Steve Ballmer, unveiled Microsoft Office 2013. Touting this as “the most ambitious release of Office that the company has ever done,” Mr. Ballmer then demonstrated some of the product’s new features. While the full line-up of offerings and pricing plans […]
MindTree profits double on forex gains, vertical focus
July 16, 2012 By V. Ganesh Bangalore-based IT exporter, MindTree, enjoyed superb quarterly results as it more than doubled its net profits to Rs 89 crore in the first quarter of this fiscal on a sequential basis. Revenues increased 36.2% to Rs 563 crore during the same period last year. The company gained Rs 8.6 […]
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