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		<title>Curtain Raiser: NASSCOM India Leadership Forum 2009</title>
		<link>http://idhries.wordpress.com/2009/02/06/curtain-raiser-nasscom-india-leadership-forum-2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2009 20:33:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW DELHI, INDIA: The 17th edition of NASSCOM India Leadership Forum, the flagship event of NASSCOM, is being held at a very critical juncture in the short yet exciting history of Indian IT/BPO industry.
Recession in US and downturn in India is exerting lot of pressure on Indian IT/BPO industry, to devise a calibrated strategy to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=idhries.wordpress.com&blog=688705&post=347&subd=idhries&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>SOA adoption is not function of pricing alone</title>
		<link>http://idhries.wordpress.com/2009/02/05/soa-adoption-is-not-function-of-pricing-alone/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2009 20:40:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW DELHI, INDIA: Intelligroup, a global provider of business consulting, technology, and outsourcing services has been consistently included in the in the &#8216;Strong Performers&#8217; category and received high client satisfaction scores by leading industry research firms.
The company has operations in the Americas, Japan, AsiaPacific, and Europe and is present in India in Hyderabad and Bangalore [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=idhries.wordpress.com&blog=688705&post=346&subd=idhries&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Headstrong acquires US based BPO firm</title>
		<link>http://idhries.wordpress.com/2009/01/27/headstrong-acquires-us-based-bpo-firm/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 20:40:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lydian Data Services is now Headstrong Business Services
Idhries Ahmad
NEW DELHI, INDIA: Global financial services consulting firm, Headstrong has acquired the Lydian Data services, a privately owned diversified financial services firm.
Lydian Data Services provides Business Process Outsourcing, business connectivity and transaction management solutions to mortgage originators, secondary market conduits and investors. The company specialises in mortgage [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=idhries.wordpress.com&blog=688705&post=348&subd=idhries&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Steria to tap Indian market this year</title>
		<link>http://idhries.wordpress.com/2009/01/22/steria-to-tap-indian-market-this-year/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 20:40:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mukesh Aghi]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Steria&#8217;s solutions for credit card fraud management, Airport management system and command and control solutions for police makes sense for Indian markets

Idhries Ahmad
NEW DELHI, INDIA: Europe based IT services company, Steria will be aggressively targeting the opportunity thrown by domestic Indian market in 2009. The formerly Xansa, is also giving final touches to its center [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=idhries.wordpress.com&blog=688705&post=344&subd=idhries&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Destination Europe</title>
		<link>http://idhries.wordpress.com/2009/01/22/destination-europe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 16:10:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The low hanging fruit in US is almost gone and it is time Indian IT companies re iron their European strategy, for the journey is going to be difficult<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=idhries.wordpress.com&blog=688705&post=338&subd=idhries&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Curtain Raiser CIOL CChange 2009: Be prepared to do more with less</title>
		<link>http://idhries.wordpress.com/2009/01/20/curtain-raiser-ciol-cchange-2009-be-prepared-to-do-more-with-less/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 21:12:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Invest in technologies, where payback is closer to the horizon
Idhries Ahmad
NEW DELHI, INDIA: In the first part of our speaker series for CIOL C Change 2009, Idhries Ahmad of CIOL catches up with Prasanto Kumar Roy, President &#38; Chief Editor, ICT Publications, CyberMedia.
Roy, a veteran in enterprise technology trends, and with more than twenty years [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=idhries.wordpress.com&blog=688705&post=342&subd=idhries&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>BT rules out job cuts in India</title>
		<link>http://idhries.wordpress.com/2009/01/15/bt-rules-out-job-cuts-in-india/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2009 20:40:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW DELHI, INDIA: British Telecom is excited about Indian market opportunity and is targeting twenty percent of networked IT market in India, which BT expect to be around 24 billion Euro in 2010-11.
The company has also ruled out any lay offs in India in response to the global slow down and expects to continue its [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=idhries.wordpress.com&blog=688705&post=345&subd=idhries&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Software testing is inferior to development is a myth</title>
		<link>http://idhries.wordpress.com/2009/01/06/software-testing-is-inferior-to-development-is-a-myth/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:40:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a test engineer, you play an important role in ensuring that the final software application or product meets the desired quality standards, and the success or failure of the application or product largely depends on its quality

Idhries AhmadNEW DELHI, INDIA: Software testers have traditionally thought off by their more &#8216;advantaged&#8217; developer community as some [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=idhries.wordpress.com&blog=688705&post=343&subd=idhries&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>“Recession is an opportunity”</title>
		<link>http://idhries.wordpress.com/2008/12/31/%e2%80%9crecession-is-an-opportunity%e2%80%9d/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2008 12:58:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recession rather than a threat, should be seen as blessing in disguise for CIO's as this is forcing them to re-look their existing IT infrastructure and how they can fine tune it to streamline processes, improve productivity and help their enterprises reduce costs
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		<title>BSNL to roll out 3G services by next month</title>
		<link>http://idhries.wordpress.com/2008/12/31/bsnl-to-roll-out-3g-services-by-next-month/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2008 11:15:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA["We are targeting end of next month as date for roll out of 3G services in the country.  We have completed the testing of our networks and are ready for roll out of 3G services in North East", said Kuldeep Goyal, CMD, BSNL.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=idhries.wordpress.com&blog=688705&post=282&subd=idhries&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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