Attrition in all time high among IT companies,Wipro leads the pack

The Whims of Economic slowdown had a telling effect on the Indian IT majors like TCS,Infosys and Wipro last year but the signs of recovery and the current quarter results have shown a progression for all the companies.

Returning to Normalcy not only means recovering sales but also a return to the stage of high staff attrition and wage pressures.Wipro saw the attrition rate upto 17.1 percent in the current quarter up from 8.4 percent in the April to June 2009.The company added a net 5325 employees in the current quarter bringing the headcount to 108,071 and said wage hikes have cut into margins
Wipro quarterly jumped 21 percent to Rs 12.1 billion,8 percent higher than the earlier year.Even the Scramble for talent is back in India,Yearly revenue growth has not returned to the boomtime rate of 30 percent plus.And the problem of attrition and Wage hike is taking a pie of the Company balance sheets in all the IT majors

INTEX phones with Dual SIM,QWERTY and Music Options in India

One Another Cheap but more than cost effective Mobile Phone is on the Market.This time it is from INTEX Technologies.INTEX Technologies unveiled its new Dual SIM, GSM+GSM QWERTY mobile phone in the Indian market.The phone bears a price tag of Rs 2,200 for the Indian customers.The handset is revealed to come with GPRS and WAP compatibility, featuring a 1.8 screen extending easy usability. It possesses chatting and texting options as well.

This Cheap Phone facilitates an 11 hours talk time and up to 336 hours stand-by, apart from an in-built Black List feature which permits users to block 10 callers of choice.Moreover, it boosts a 2 GB expandable memory. The dual SIM phone also supports both Hindi and English and bears an Auto Call Record function.
INTEX Technologies launched a new mobile ‘IN 2020 QT’ for Indian telecom market. The Mobile is having QWERTY keypad and is a basic handset which well suited to our pockets.The Indian can grab it just by paying INR 2,200. The handset boasts of 2 GB expandable memory. INTEX phone includes an in-built Black List feature that allows users to block 10 callers of choice, a five LED torch light to help the user during power cuts

Its not Virus affecting the PCs worldwide,Antivirus too…

Computers in companies,schools and hospitals arond the world got struck repeatedly after rebooting themselves on wednesday after and antivirus program identified a normal windows file as a virus.
McAfee Inc.. Confirmed that the software update it posted at 9AM EST is causing this problem.McAfee could not say how many computers were affected but judged by postings,it seems it runs into thousands.The Victims include the National Science Foundation Headquarters in US as well as Intel Corporation.McAfeer said the problem did not appear in the consumer versions of the software.It is investigating how the error happened and will take measures to prevent it from recurring.
The Computer problem forced about thirds of the hospitals in Rhode Island to postpone elective surgeries and stop treating patients without traumas in emergency rooms.Many people is of the view that it is a virus when actually the update version of the Antivirus software has caused this problem.McAfee has posted the replacement download for this problem.