Swaminathan to Lead AMD in India
Ravi Swaminathan has been appointed as the managing director and regional vice
president of sales and marketing for AMD India. The HP veteran will be
responsible for growing AMD Indias sales and marketing functions in the
country. He will be reporting to Benjamin J Williams, corporate VP & GM, AMD
Asia Pacific. Swaminathan replaces Ram Subramanian, who will remain a senior
member of the AMD team responsible for corporate strategic development.
TCS Hires Mazenier
TCS has hired a new country manager for New Zealand. It has brought on board
John Mazenier, former Sun Microsystems country manager, to boost its presence in
the local market there. Mazenier would be reporting to Varun Kapur, TCS general
manager for Australia and New Zealand.
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Thgersen Joins Four Soft
Four Soft, a global leader offering software solutions for transportation and
logistics, has appointed Johnny Thgersen as business head of its Nordic
operations. He will oversee business development, BPO and services space to
further strengthen the companys position in providing software solutions to the
transportation and logistics industry. He has twenty years of experience in
developing and supplying large ERP and production systems.
When Marriage Becomes Virtual Reality
Love is blind! Yes, this is a clichd usage for sure. But
when you see the mad ways of the world which goes to any extent in search of
love, you too wonder whether it is just blind or something more. This young man
from Tokyo, identified as Sal 9000, found his perfect love not in a real woman
but in a luscious, lovely, devoted and entirely portable video game character.
Her name is Nene Anegasaki, a character that only exists in the Nintendo DS
videogame Love Plus!
Spam King Fined in Australia
The Federal Court of Brisbane imposed $210,000 fine on a New Zealander based in
Sunshine Coast, Australia, after a guilty plea over his part in a syndicate
capable of sending 10 bn spam emails a day. The accused man, identified as Lance
Thomas Atkinson, had reportedly sent billions of emails to websites including
the ones in India, according to Australian IT. The emails posted false adverts
offering lifestyle drugs to computer users and claimed the medication was being
legally dispensed from the US. Atkinson has already been fined $16 mn by the US
authorities.
Wipro Appoints Kohli
Wipro Technologies has appointed Rajan Kohli as its chief marketing officer, IT
business. A Wipro veteran of over fourteen years, Kohli has held various
leadership roles within the organization. He will report to Suresh Vaswani,
joint CEO, IT business and member of the Board.
Searching for Murphy
Hollywood actress Brittany Murphys unfortunate death has given cyber criminals
yet another chance to push scareware or fake anti-virus software, warn
experts. They have said that the inevitable web searches lead Internet users to
some potentially unsafe sites and, according to Finnish security firm F-Secure,
this is, of course, a search engine optimization (SEO) attack. Users who click
on a poisoned search result link will be redirected to a website that swill
display a scare message trying to panic users into downloading rogue AV
software, said F-Secure.
New President for Toonz
Toonz Academy, the animation training division of the Technopark based Toonz
Animation India, has appointed N Radhakrishnan Nair as its president. Toonz
Academy runs training centers across the country, including two in
Thiruvananthapuram and Kozhikode. Nair has served previously as the executive
director of Toonz Academy in 2006. Earlier, he was the CEO of Technopark.
Bandi for WD India Operations
Sushil Bandi will now oversee Western Digitals Indian operations. He will
replace Sharad Srivastava, who will officially step down on December 31, 2009 to
chase his dream of becoming an entrepreneur. Bandi, who has been working with
Srivastava since October to understand the market dynamics, will work closely
with management to take a complete handover.
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3 Idiots on YouTube
When marketing genius Aamir Khan is at work, one can expect a blitzkrieg. This
time the producers of 3 Idiots have struck a deal with online video sharing and
broadcasting portal YouTube for an undisclosed sum. The movie will be released
on YouTube after eight to ten weeks. The deal with YouTube will allow viewers to
download the entire movie from the web at a fixed price.
MD Arrested for Piracy
CBI has arrested two personsKamlesh Jha, MD of Delhi based KK Solutions, along
with his accomplice Krishan Kumarallegedly for carrying out pirated copies of
Microsoft products. The investigating agency has recovered large volumes of
counterfeit or tempered software CDs worth lakhs of rupees during the searches
carried out at fourteen locations in Delhi, Jaipur, Dehradun, and Hyderabad.
Fake Banker Jailed
A New Zealander posing as an international banker was jailed for a multi-million
dollar fraud in the US. Shaun Gregory Morgan, thirty-two, was sentenced to five
years of imprisonment by Utah judge Dee Benson last week, after he admitted
running a fake bank on the Internet. Morgan used to offer huge amounts as loans
to needy people on the condition that they first sent him money as security. He
had claimed he was an executive of the London based international bank First
Mutual and had millions of dollars of credit available.
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Chinese Novelist Sues Google
Google has received yet another blow to its ambitious book project, this time
from a Chinese novelist, who is suing Google over its alleged scanning of one of
her books into its online library. Mian Mian, a counterculture writer, filed
suit in a Beijing court in October, 2009, after Google scanned her latest book,
Acid House, into its library. Sun Jingwei, Mians lawyer, said that the author
wanted damages of 61,000 yuan (5,5756) and a public apology.
South Korea Pardons ex-Samsung Chief
The South Korean government has decided to pardon Lee Kun-hee, former Samsung
chairman and also one of the countrys most powerful tycoons. Convicted of
embezzlement and tax evasion over illegal securities transaction, Lee has been
now granted a special pardon by President Lee Myung-bak. The pardon will take
effect on December 31, 2009. This decision was taken so that Lee could take his
place back at the International Olympic Committee.