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Will India Software
Inc. get caught in US-Iraq crossfire?
When US forces struck at Iraq on March 19, many analysts and
industry players shrugged it off because they felt a short,
decisive war would have little impact on India Software Inc.
But with Iraqi forces refusing to stick to the US war script,
things could get pretty messy for the US and for the Indian
IT industry. Pankaj Mishra analyses the impact of the war on
the Indian IT industry |
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Why
call centres need to be knowledge driven
If you think that the call centre industry is only about
being accessible round-the-clock and answering customer
queries, think twice. |
Information
Security: A new approach
Due to factors like globalization and directives from
regulators, certain Indian companies are now more serious
about Information Security. But the rest are complacent
and need to do a lot more than just solutions implementation.
by Brian Pereira |
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| India News |
Best bets on cordless
peripherals to increase marketshare
Infolife to expand
presence in India and overseas
Scott McNealy woos
India with Sun’s gospel
Infogain spruces
up operations
IBM markets RISC
Linux
Informatica Corporation
and Sonata enter reseller tie-up
India News Briefs |
| Skoch Summit Special |
Vision 2006 : A teacher’s
dream
Indian IT industry
poised to maintain a rising graph
Skoch predicts good
times ahead
Challengers rely on
innovation and technology
HP’s retail march
Increased IT penetration
is imperative
64-bit, the new mantra
for AMD
Daksh: Scaling up
the value chain
PCs and laser printers
to drive Samsung’s growth
SCO: Driven by customers
Enterasys: Networking
first
Canon plays challenger
Oracle India aims
high at enterprise apps space |
| Opinion |
“Individual developers
influence 60 to 70 percent of technology decisions”
“India is the second
most important market for us”
Implementing IT
on a shoestring budget |
| News Analysis |
Nasscom upholds the
industry’s interest, once again
When the news about the implications of the New Jersey bill
spread, the entire Indian IT industry, which had found a new
elixir in BPO, was stunned. But Nasscom, which has recently
been more aggressive and proactive in protecting the industry’s
interest, played its cards to perfection and managed to stall
the bill temporarily. Srikanth R P has the details |
| India Trends |
M&A: What motivates
Indian companies?
The past couple of years have seen a spate of mergers and acquisitions
by Indian IT companies. Companies have taken to M&A for different
reasons. Abhinav Singh attempts to understand the rationale
behind Indian IT companies making acquisitions and getting merged |
| India Computes! |
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Pantoto offers
cyber tools to manage knowledge online
Free Software
Foundation guru Stallman comes back for more
Bytes For All
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| TechSpace |
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