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Contrary to popular belief, not all dotcommers hold highly-paid fancy jobs.
Information Technology
A pie in the sky?
IS a 50 per cent growth rate possible for the Indian software industry, particularly when the US economy is slowing down on IT spending and given that 58 per cent of India's export revenues come from the US? Will it affect the progression of Indian compa
nies up the software value chain?
Online or Offtrack?
``TELELEARN at any time, any place (with Internet access)'' has been touted by cyberschools that have mushroomed over the past few years. Online education offers the flexibility many students need during busy work or family weeks, without forfeiting inte
raction with professors and other students.
Get cracking on content
Here are a few tips for cyberschools to make their content more effective:
Time for tomorrow's telecom
The telecommunication industry has developed relatively slowly in the last century compared with information technology (IT). This is despite advances such as the migration from POTS (plain old telephone service) to ISDN (integrated services digital netw
ork) and then to the mobile phone.
Raise a toast to NexGen
The first part of this article titled New route to health appeared in eWorld dated February 14.
Crown the customer
I've survived many revolutions. JIT, TQM, BPR ... and just when I thought the bullets would stop flying, the world suddenly discovered that the customer was important. And here I am again, at the centre of a new revolution called ``customer relationship
management''. This translates as being bombarded with direct mailers from my bank having my name printed, assuming that I would be delighted to see my name on junk mail.
Clash of the big Cs
A contact of this newspaper, fresh out of college, spent a couple of years at a global strategic consultancy leader, before heading right back to business school. His primary responsibility was to evaluate business processes of client companies in coalit
ion with their CEOs. Amazing that an experienced CEO would lend a ear and pay to get a 20-something's opinion on how he should run his business? Not really surprising, the consultant says. ``One thing that an external consultant brings is his objectivity
, and of course, he needs to package himself well if he is to be accepted inside the company.''
Dotcom dashes doubts
THE Year 2000 was a roller-coaster ride for almost all dotcoms. At the beginning of the year, dotcoms were on top of the world, getting superfluous valuations, and therefore, more money than they could burn from various investors.
EYE 4 I
The Internet is full of live news and magazine sites, but how many Web sites are devoted exclusively to magazine articles? Not many, and among the few good ones is Magportal.com.
TIP-OFF
How do I write into the logo.sys file the message which I'd like to be displayed when shutdown is complete? It says open this file by any one of the following programs and a list is displayed. Which program should I choose and then how do I proceed?
Cyber Quest
1. Who developed the Audio Interchange File Format, a format for storing and transmitting sampled sound?
NETTING A CATCH
There's more to e-mail than you probably knew, as this week's software picks illustrate. With these programs, you can look up remote mail, mass mail, extract IDs from Web sites and validate e-mail.
Snip away...
Adobe Systems Inc has announced the launch of Premiere 6.0 for the Indian market.
...in any Indian language
The Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) has launched ISM2000, ``the latest in the series of software that provides Indian language support in IT through Graphics and intelligence-based script technology (GIST).''
