News.com recently reported more information about Yahoo entering Google’s AdSense territory.
Yahoo is already building an opt-in notification list for publishers that are interested in their “upcoming programs.” Get on the list NOW to be notified when Yahoo rolls out their own AdSense-like program.
Wow, an opt-in notification list. I wonder if Yahoo watched the Traffic Secrets roll-out. 😉
Christmas is near and you can expect a cool gift from Santa (Google) this time. Google is planning to launch PCs for markets in India and China. According to the report by India’s leading newspaper, Hindustan Times, (Report not available online) Google will be launching the PCs with California based Wyse technology.
The PCs won’t have CPU; they will be bundled with Keyboard, Mouse and Monitor. The PC will connect to the hosted system on their server and the remote OS will manage storage and functioning of the PC. This will keep PC away from virus and also provide secure solution for storage of the user data.
The PC will run on software created by Google; hardware and other technicalities will be managed by Wyse technology.
The PCs will be available for Rs. 9,000 (INR) i.e. approximately $200
This opens door for much talked Google OS, GBrowser and Google’s office application.
Ack : ~ TechBulletin
Airtel has introduced the “Lifetime” prepaid card with life time validity. This plan allows users to take a pre-paid connection with lifetime validity for a one time payment of Rs 999. The user can then continue to receive calls throughout their life without having to recharge.
The move is reportedly aimed at stopping the churn in the pre-paid subscriber base – once a subscriber takes this plan, he will remain an Airtel subscriber whether the mobile is in use or not. The “Lifetime” prepaid card also offers the user full talk time on every future recharge of any denomination and can be availed by all existing and potential mobile users.
Airtel aims to take affordability to a whole new level and maintains that this offer will open up new segments of the market. There is no change though in the airtime charges. All local calls will be charged at Rs 1.99 a minute and all STD calls will be charged at Rs 2.99 a minute.
In October, Tata Teleservices unveiled the “Non-Stop Mobile” for its prepaid customers wherein the scheme enabled users to get incoming calls for two years without re-charging. This scheme won the service provider one million new subscribers in November alone.
Source : ~ TechTree
NEW DELHI, Dec 23 Asia Pulse – Software giant Infosys (BSE:500179) on Thursday once again toppled Tata Consultancy Services (NSI:TCS) (TCS) from the top spot among Indian IT companies in terms of market capitalisation.
Though stock markets closed on a firm note after witnessing choppy trade, buying was seen in heavyweights stocks from the IT sectors.
Taking advantage of favourable conditions prevailing in the bourses, Infosys moved ahead of TCS with a market capitalisation of Rs 811.72 billion (US$17.9 billion) compared to Tata group entity’s Rs 808.32 billion.
Infosys now occupies the fourth position in terms of overall market capitalisation after Oil and Natural Gas Company (NSI:ONGC), Reliance Industries (NSI:RELIANC) and National Thermal Power Corporation (NSI:NTPC) in that order.Share price of Infosys gained 0.34 per cent to end at Rs 2,982.75 while TCS bucked the trend in the market losing 0.15 per cent to end the day at Rs 1,750.85.
Barring TCS and Patni Computer (BSE:532517), all the top IT companies ended in positive territory at the close of trading hours on the BSE and NSE.
TCS lost ground on profit taking after recent sharp surge in the stock which had pushed up on December 14
IBM that offers end-to-end solutions from hardware to software, services and consulting, is planning to start its operations in Gandhinagar in Gujarat. Interestingly, some 200 odd native Gujarati employees of the company located at IBM Pune establishment, have requested IBM management to consider their plea to start operations in Gujarat.
Its not the company, but employees who are eager to work in Gujarat and employees are none other but more than 200 Gujaratis working with IBM in other parts of country, informed company sources
According to Anupam Saxena, director of Infocity, Gandhinagar, IBM officials have initiated talks with the Infocity officials for the proposed shift of operations to Gandhinagar.
“We were trying to bring IBM in Gujarat since couple of years but company was never so keen to start its operations in Gujarat and now a strength of more than 200 employees wants to come back to their motherland for which company has decided to meet our officials,” claimed Saxena.
He added that negotiations are going on and very soon concrete decisions will be taken.
Similar to IBM, another Pune based company Cybage Software Private Limited, has more than 40 per cent Gujarati employees.
“Talks with Cybage are under process. Around 1200 people are working in the company and out of them around 400 are Gujaratis who are eager to shift to Gujarat,” said Saxena.
Even IT companies are seeing that in Gandhinagar infrastructure is available at low cost compared to Banglore, Pune and Gurgaon where the power failure is a major problem.
“In other cities Gujaratis have to hire a flat on rent and savings are almost zero but if they shift back to Gujarat, they can stay with their family and can save money,” explained Saxena.
While talking about other companies, Saxena said that recently MphasiS opened its BPO based on domestic call center in Ahmedabad and for international call center they are planning to start their operations Infocity after March 2006.
“By next fiscal they have plan to start 1,000 seating capacity office at Infocity. They will be starting international call center over here,” he added.
Source: Buisness Standard
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India is in race with china , but this moment china is leading us may be after few years we will be at top
Lets hope this doesnt happens
BS Corporate Bureau in Mumbai
Infosys Technologies is planning to increase its headcount at its Orissa development centre at Bhubaneswar to 4,500 personnel and invest Rs 100 crore (Rs 1 billion) over the next few years.
The increased focus for the centre is under the company’s expectations of tier-II cities becoming growth engines for the IT industry in the country.
“Tier-II cities such as Bhubaneswar will be the growth engines for the IT Industry in India. We have taken a lead in this direction by investing more than Rs 135 crore (Rs 1.35 billion) at our Bhubaneswar centre. Realising the potential of the city, we plan to increase our headcount to over 4,500 over the next few years with an added investment of Rs 100 crore (Rs 1 billion),” Infosys Technologies chairman and chief mentor N R Narayana Murthy said.
At present, the development centre employs over 1,720 personnel and contributes about 80 per cent of software exports from Orissa, making it the largest exporter from the Bhubaneswar Software Technology Park of India (STPI).
The Bhubaneswar centre entertains multi-million dollar clients from Canada, Europe and North America. With a total built-up area of over 46 acre, the centre has the capacity to accommodate over 3,300 software professionals.
The centre, which has entered into its tenth year of operations, had also spend over Rs 5.5 crore (Rs 55 million) for various initiatives like primary education, healthcare and rehabilitation of the underprivileged in the state.
Ack : ~ Rediff
MUMBAI:
European banking major ABN Amro is in the finals stages of selecting its IT vendors for a multi-year, multi-billion-dollar contract. For the first time, Indian vendors have emerged as front-runners for a large portion of the contract.
The domestic vendors being considered for various components of the deal are Infosys, TCS and Patni. The local operations of IBM and Accenture could play a major role if these companies are selected.
The mega deal is said to be one of the largest in Europe as European banks, unlike their American counterparts, are not used to outsourcing. The deal also has a large offshore outsourcing component of more than $500m spread over five years.
The final negotiations are being carried out and the share of individual vendors is expected to be announced in a couple of weeks, according to a spokesman for the bank in Amsterdam.
The bank had invited bids for three areas within its IT department almost a year ago. The final vendors for each of these three areas — IT infrastructure, application support & enhancement and application development outsourcing — have been finalized.
IT infrastructure will involve the basic network, servers and other hardware within the company. ABN has finalized IBM and HP for this portion of the deal. In software application support & enhancement, ABN has identified Indian vendors, TCS and Infosys.
In application development outsourcing, which will have an offshore component, more than five vendors have been finalized, namely Patni Computers, TCS, Infosys, IBM and Accenture.
The domestic software services industry is seeing this as a major stage since Indian vendors, for the first time, are competing evenly in a large outsourcing deal. The overall deal involves a fairly important and large onsite presence and Indian vendors have emerged as front-runners.
Moreover, short listing IBM and Accenture for application development outsourcing in a category dominated by Indian vendors is seen as a sign of the times. The development centers of IBM and Accenture in India are seen as much bigger competition than their capabilities in Europe or the US.
Accenture’s operations in India have been ramped up, with aggressive recruitment and hiring. Its local operations already employ more than 11,000 people after less than four years of operations. IBM acquired more than 6,000 people through its acquisition of Daksh last year.
The capabilities that these two companies have acquired or built are now being used to pitch for the outsourcing deals.
At office or home, we may be spending more time with computers and internet, but that does not make us any less gullible. Sometimes, we trust technology more than individuals. This is just ripe breeding ground for cyber criminals.
Organized criminal gangs target online consumers with blended phishing attacks, some of which even find out details of their interests and use them to generate phishing emails tailored to tempt them into giving away their identities. As awareness has grown about Phishing within the Internet community, the tactics used by Phishers have evolved over time making it more difficult for the consumer to realize they are being duped:
Phishers are now increasingly using automated URL obfuscation tools to deceive would-be victims. The Phisher simply enters the URL of the legitimate website and then enters the address of the fake malicious website, with the tool automatically crafting a new “socially engineered” URL that includes the text from the legitimate URL as well as special characters that actually cause the URL to direct the browser to the fake website. To the untrained eye this specially-crafted URL looks like the real thing.
The use of Embedded Java script and Active X applets is becoming more common in Phishing emails. These scripts and applets can automatically place a graphic image of the expected legitimate URL on top of the address bar within the browser to hide the actual address that the browser.
Along with phishing, pharming is emerging as a bigger threat. Pharming is the technological evolution of Phishing, and while it requires a more sophisticated and technically savvy cyber criminal, it is growing rapidly.
A skillful Pharmer takes advantage of unpatched and vulnerable software using worms and viruses to compromise Internet DNS servers or host files on personal computers to transparently redirect consumers to illegitimate websites to harvest their personal financial information.
Here are some tips on how to combat phishers & pharmers:
1. Always be up-to-date with the latest security patches as well as your Anti Virus and Firewall software on your PC.
2. Never click on an embedded URL contained in any email. Rather, enter the URL manually in your browser address bar for banking and credit card websites.
3. Never fill in forms contained within email. Personal financial info should never be sent by email. Always use a secure website – verify that the URL contains https:// and that the closed lock appears on the lower right hand side of the browser for a secure website connection.
4. Do not click on an email attachment unless you know the sender and were expecting to receive the attachment.
5. Monitor your banking and credit card accounts on line and check for illegitimate transactions regularly.
6. Register with a credit card security system that requires a password to authorize transactions.
7. Use common sense. If any deal looks too good to be true then it probably is.
8. Beware of Bait-and-Switch ploys. A store advertises a great price for a product and then claims to have sold out of it when you want to buy it. Salesperson participating in bait and switch will try high-pressure sales techniques to get you to buy a similar but different product–at a higher price. Online, vendors sometimes advertise a low price for something like a digital camera and then will try to persuade you to buy accessories you probably don’t want or need as a way to jack up the price. Always refuse such a deal.
9. Pricing engines don’t always deliver the “best deals.” Pricing engines like Froogle and others are adept at directing you to the cheapest price of a given product. But often the best price isn’t the “best deal.” Low-priced merchandise might be a lure to a scam where a site takes your money and delivers you nothing. Items advertised for sale on eBay but never delivered included Xbox video game systems, designer handbags, laptop computers, and Rolex watches.
And ridiculously low prices should show that you may be buying counterfeit.
10. Read the Warranty before you buy that discounted flat panel TV, find out what the product warranty covers, how long the coverage lasts, and where you have to send the product to obtain repairs, a refund, or replacement
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