2008: Hot circuits

Posted: Monday, Dec 29, 2008 at 0349 hrs IST
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Hall of fame

Nandan Nilekani
On national stage

INFOSYS co-founder and co-chairman, Nandan Nilekani is making waves with much-talked about book— ‘Imagining India: Ideas for the New Century’. At the forefront of India’s transformation into a global leader in information technology, he has inspired best sellers like Thomas Friedman’s ‘The World is Flat’. In this much-heralded book, he elaborates on familiar issues like ICT, India’s changing attitude to English language and the demographic advantage, and also forays into new territories—democracy, school education, urbanisation and infrastructure. Will this launch him on national stage and catapult Banglaore and the burgeoning IT population into a new power centre?

Arun Sarin
In demand

ARUN Sarin has scaled global charts as Vodafone Group CEO for long. He created a stir by bringing the Vodafone brand to India. But that was short-lived and soon, the Vodafone Group CEO of five years walked out of the company this year. He came back again into the limelight with his name being considered for the top job at beleaguered internet major, Yahoo. Last heard, he has decided not to pursue the Yahoo CEO post.

Maran VS Raja
In and out

INTERNAL politics of DMK ousted Dayanidhi Maran from the job of Union IT and telecom minister and put in the hot seat his party colleague A Raja. But both faced the swirling policy imbroglios with respect to issues like spectrum allocation in the telecom sector. At one stage, Raja even threatened to resign over spectrum allocation to telecom operators under the existing 2G policy.

Hall Of Shame

India—Top spam sender

IT is a distinction that would not make anyone proud of. A Trend Micro study accorded India the dubious distinction of topping the list of spam sending countries in Asia, accounting for more than 4% of the total global spam. India left behind China (3.39%), Republic of Korea (2.57%) and Thailand (2.04%) in the list of Asian spammers.

Breach menace

YOU couldn’t miss the security drill while entering the premises of any BPO majors. All boasted of state-of-the-art systems to monitor phone conversations, mails and every move of their employees. Yet, the tentacles of breach menace plagued several financial BPOs whose clients are extremely sensitive about confidential information relating to financial data, health data, corporate information and trade secrets. Short-term data loss is not the only thing that worries the BPO firms. It...

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