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Traditional Indian weddings go high-tech with Shaadi-e-Khas November 18, 2013 By V. Ganesh The Indian wedding is often an ostentatious affair where, in haste to display their wealth, some people are quick to forget the value of a rupee. With the economic boom of the past decade, India’s wedding industry has been on a bull […]
Agony aunt for your computer
December 21, 2012 By V. Ganesh How many times have you fought with a schizophrenic computer, only to lose the battle due to lack of tech support? In Bangalore, employees in red and white t-shirts can be seen resolving laptops complaints of every stripe. eTechies.in, launched in April 2010 by Rohit Chaudhry (CEO), Siddharth Bhatia […]
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 […]
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 […]
Birla Sun Life Insurance adopts IBM solution
July 3, 2012 By V. Ganesh Birla Sun Life Insurance has deployed IBM’s Cognos analytics software solution for planning and forecasting its internal business operations. This would help Birla Sun Life integrate operational and financial planning functions, which would give its internal teams flexibility in business functions and help to determine resource requirements and forecasting […]
Moily claims big ticket reforms coming soon
June 29, 2012 By V. Ganesh The Corporate Affairs Minister, Veerappa Moily, on Friday said that with the Prime Minister taking over the Finance portfolio, he expects passage of big ticket reforms soon. Speaking on the sidelines of an Assocham conference, he said that reforms such as FDI in retail will get priority of the […]
Bangalore babus ban midnight munching
June 25, 2012 By V. Ganesh With the IT sector suffering a somewhat extended slowdown, Bangalore tech workers encounter another unnecessary pang: Dinner curfew! Sounds insane but it’s true. As if the pollution, neglected infrastructure and increasingly dangerous commutes weren’t enough to make life miserable, Bangaloreans are now prohibited from shopping, eating, drinking and availing […]
Elcina, Vittal Innovation to launch design cluster
June 23, 2012 By V. Ganesh Industry body Elcina has partnered with Vittal Innovation City (VIC) to launch India’s first Electronic Systems Design and Manufacturing cluster in Karnataka. This cluster will be established in Ananthpur district, which is 117 km from Bangalore’s airport. This cluster will cover over 100 acres, out of a total 300 […]
Germans keen on Karnataka
June 19, 2012 By V. Ganesh German companies would like to increase their investments in Karnataka. According to Dr. Ingo Karsten, Consul General of the Federal Republic of Germany, companies such as Siemens, Bosch, Bayer, Airbus, Metro and SAP are looking to invest in the State across various sectors including IT, manufacturing, aerospace, automotive components […]
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