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The Urban Makeover
A host of e-governance initiatives are changing the face of urban local bodies across India

Editorial

Just Note it
The notebook could change the fortune of Indian IT

May the Bank be with You

Columns

Old Values for a New World
There is a lot to be gained in the IT industry by building a new spirit of cooperation and camaraderie

Shifting Roads
Its not as easy a time as it was a few months ago. The domestic IT market could see tougher times ahead

Q&A

'Kerala will emerge as the Silicon Coast
Ajay Kumar secretary IT, DIT, Government of Kerala

We expect all thirty-three SWANs to be operational by March 2009
Ashis Sanyal, senior director, ministry of Communications and Information Technology, Government of India

'Our focus is to go after big retail chains
Bill Gonzales, GM, Worldwide Retail and Hospitality Industries, Microsoft

'Education has always been high on our agenda
Ramesh Narasimhan, director, General Business, IBM India/South Asia

'Video is among the greenest technologies that exist
Odd Johnny Winge, executive VP, Products, Tandberg

'Were thinking of having a manufacturing unit in India
Patrick Lo, chairman and CEO, Netgear

'We want to provide engaging experience to customers
Sandeep Mehrotra, director, Sales, Adobe Systems India

"We want to link click with brick

'The government is not very supportive of the BPO industry
S Nagarajan, co-founder and chief people officer, 24x7 BPO

'Well provide a place to go shopping for outsourcing services
Pawan Agarwal, head, Lime Spot India

Focus

India@Heart of Britain
British Midlands provides a progressive environment and an excellent growth opportunity for Indian companies

Girls Wanna Have Some Fun
Cyberspace seems to be luring the womankind in India with everything from home jobs to online gaming and everything in between

For Your Eyes Only
Last year, India witnessed what is termed as visual revolutiondisplay became the focal point for accessing information and entertainment, and computing progressed from being PC centric to display centric

VFXing its Way...
Bollywood has finally come to terms with the power of computers. Indian filmmakers are jumping on the VFX bandwagon to cut cost and give some, if not tough, competition to Hollywood

The Virtual Edge
Server virtualization offers a panacea to arrive at homogenous utilization of hardware resources out of a complicated heterogeneous and distributed environment

Encashing Despite Roadblock
In the face of the new RBI guideline that makes cash and non-cash transaction free of charge, many banks are re-working cost models and changing inter-bank fees on ATM transactions

Financials

Software Corner : Moving Upward

3i Infotech : Acquisitions Pay Dividend
As 3i Infotech matures as a global player, the company has seen immense growth through acquisitions

Management

Netting Jobs
With a young population and high career aspirations, Indians are embracing online recruitment like never before

Building a Global Workforce
Global companies now have to build a strong and globally deployable workforce for effective execution of their business goals and to remain globally competitive

Communicating Differently
MphasiS-supported Project Communicate is a small beginning but more needs to be done to tap the hidden talent of differently abled population across the country

Managing Talent

News Analysis

EXPANSION

E-BIZ

Partnership

Products

Datamine

Datamine

Spotlight

Officially Open
Microsofts Open XML now joins the ranks of HTML, PDF and ODF as an ISO recognized open document format standards

Banking@the Grocers
Leveraging the ubiquitous mobile phone, Eko strives to deliver banking services sans a branch and ATM

Half-filled or Half-empty?
The taking over of AOLs offshore facilities by Aegis is an example of the much-discussed sellouts of captive BPOs. But why are such deals not happening at the pace they should be?

E-GOVERNANCE

Yehi Hai Right Choice...
Enabling citizens to obtain information not previously accessible, through the Internet, is the main idea behind Chhattisgarh governments CHOiCE project

Domestic News

People

People

People