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The knowledge processing outsourcing (KPO) will ride the wave of global business reorganisation and continue to keep Indian outsourcing at the forefront, despite the many ups and downs faced by the BPO industry over the past year. While consolidation within the Indian KPO industry is expected, alliances and relationships may also emerge on the international scene. The Indian KPO sector will be pushed to retain its cost arbitrage and upgrade its regulatory environment. Against the backdrop of this stir in the Indian KPO sector, regulators are all set to step up the issues concerning data security and privacy in India. The government will very soon make amendments to the existing laws to address the issue of data protection, data security and privacy that have been long discussed and remain pending.
Zoho Adopts Offline Mode for Web-based Apps
Zoho, a web-based suite of productivity applications, announced yesterday that users of its word processor software can edit their documents in an offline mode. The announcement quells one of the primary criticisms mounted against the two-year-old start-up and its primary competitor, Google Apps, by businesses accustomed to traditional installed tools like Microsoft Office. Raju Vegesna, chief evangelist at Zoho, admitted the move won't catapult the company into the enterprise space just yet but he says it will help Zoho garner more small business (SMB) customers. "We don't think the online office suites are enterprise ready yet," Vegesna says. "The current functionalities are targeted toward SMBs. Eventually you'll see an enterprise version. The apps need to mature more before going to the enterprise." In order to make online functionality available offline, users must add the Google Gears extension to their web browser.
Sybase Presents 7th Annual Innovator Awards
LAS VEGAS, Aug. 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Sybase, Inc. (NYSE: SY) today presented its 2007 Innovator Awards to partners and customers who have demonstrated the most innovative use of Sybase(R) technologies that enable themselves, or their customers, to take advantage of the benefits of the unwired enterprise by utilizing enterprise and mobile infrastructure, development and integration and software solutions. The award winners are Accenture, BNP Paribas Securities Services, Colonial Supplemental Insurance, Fidelity Investments and Simbex, LLC. "We are very impressed by our award winners' innovative applications of Sybase technologies," said John Chen, Sybase chairman, CEO and president. "They exemplify how Sybase's open, cross-platform solutions can be used to create an information edge and securely deliver data anytime, anywhere, in order to help our partners and customers succeed in the ever-changing technology landscape." Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company.
JDSU Acquires Westover Scientific's Fiber Optic Division to Meet ...
Westover Scientific is a leading provider of fiber inspection microscopes and automated fiber analysis software necessary for these programs. Fiber inspection and cleaning are critical components in a comprehensive fiber deployment and operation strategy. Westover Scientific provides a full suite of optical inspection and cleaning solutions that address the needs of fiber component and system manufacturers, communication service providers, and various other vertical markets such as premise networks, military and aerospace. "The investment in FTTx initiatives and the importance of service quality in today's competitive environment mean telecommunications and cable service providers need dependable fiber optic test solutions that allow them to proactively prevent fiber contamination that may cause network faults before they affect end-users," said Bill Mortimer, vice president and general manager of JDSU's Lab, Production and Fiber Optic test businesses.
Social websites click with online buyers
While the average social networker has around 86 people in their friendship group, the most popular online celebrities have thousands following their journals and videos and can make significant amounts of money from selling products. One, Paul Griffiths, 20, from Nelson in Lancashire, has created a new clothing brand, Babycakes, and in the past 10 months has sold over 15,000 £10 T-shirts and £38 jackets to his 65,000 online friends - he received 5,000 orders over Christmas alone. He works on a 50pc margin and now employs five friends to help in new offices in Nelson. So far he has generated a turnover of around £150,000. Like many entrepreneurs, he did not prosper via the traditional academic route. He tried Nelson and Colne College, first studying graphics, then media, but it did not work out.
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