Infosys’s India business unit to focus more on private sector

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <br /> <div id="LeftData" style="border: 0px; float: left; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; min-width: 155px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <div id="sshow" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <div class="cnt new_class3" style="border: 0px; display: inline; float: left; margin: 3px 0px 0px 4px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 310px;"> <div class="padL3" id="bellyad" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 3px;"> <div class="mainimg1" style="border: 0px; display: inline; float: left; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; position: relative;"> <div class="flL_pos" style="border: 0px; float: left; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"> <img alt="Infosys’s India business unit to focus more on private sector" border="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" pg="" src="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/thumb/msid-21546239,width-300,resizemode-4/infosysblr2.jpg" style="border: 0px; display: block; margin: 0px 5px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" title="Infosys’s India business unit to focus more on private sector" vspace="0" width="300" /></div> <div class="zoomimg1 wd300 clearfix" pg="asStoryPic" style="border: 0px; bottom: 4px; display: inline-block; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; right: 4px; width: 300px;"> <div class="photo11" style="background-color: #eaeaea; border: 0px; color: #757575; font-family: georgia; font-style: italic; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 10px;"> To break its large dependence on public sector deals, Infosys’s India business unit will be looking to deal more with private players.</div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="new_class2" id="ftredcmt" style="border: 0px; clear: both; float: left; margin: 0px 15px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </div> </div> <div class="clearFix" id="inc_dec" style="border: 0px; font-size: 12px; height: 797px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <div class="Normal" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <tmp style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 3px 0px 0px;"><br />CHENNAI: To break its large dependence on public sector deals, Infosys' India business unit will be looking to deal more with private players. In contrast to the company looking for large deals in the public sector, the private sector initiative will be marked more by smaller deals and a larger number of clients to generate higher revenue. </span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />"We realised that most of our revenue was coming from the public sector. Public sector has its own nuances and characteristics . We don't want to keep all our eggs in one basket. We are taking a pause to rejig the portfolio more towards private sector," said C N Raghupathi, head of the India business unit at Infosys.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />The move is possibly also a result of slower growth seen by the unit in recent years. In 2011, Raghupathi had said at an analyst meet that the Indian business unit's share in Infosys' revenue would be around 10% by 2015. The share in Infosys' revenue currently at 2.6% compared to around 1.9% in 2011, is far from the 10% projection. Between 2011 and now the company has added only 10 or 20 active clients. It had 40 clients in 2011.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />On the brighter side, Infosys' India unit has managed to bag few large clients like India Post and the Income Tax Department in this period.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />He said growth for Infosys in the private sector was in sectors such as telecom where players were trying to implement valueadded services and financial sector where players like nonbanking financial companies would look at more compliance due to tighter regulations.<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Raghupathi also said that the company is looking at small contracts in the public sector related to big data and analytics and is involved in intelligence and defence projects. Infosys is talking to the government about the National Intelligence Grid (NATGRID) project. NATGRID is a national intelligence network which will connect the databases of various Indian law enforcment and intelligence agencies and ministries.</tmp></div> <span id="storyendpath" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: arial; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 3px 0px 0px;"></span><div class="flR" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #3f3f3f; float: right; font-family: arial; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </div> </div> </div>

Infosys’s India business unit to focus more on private sector

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Google: Hacked sites far worse than attack sites

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <span style="background-color: white; color: #768696; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 24.390625px;">The new Safe Browsing section of Google's Transparency Report shows that you face a significantly bigger threat from compromised legit sites than intentionally dangerous sites.</span><img alt="" class="cnet-image" height="293" src="http://asset3.cbsistatic.com/cnwk.1d/i/tim2/2013/06/25/Google_Transparency_report_Safe_Browsing_610x293.png" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: 19.984375px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="610" /><br /> <div class="cnet-image-div image-LARGE2 float-none" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; clear: both; float: none; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19.984375px; margin: 10px auto; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 610px;"> <div class="image-caption" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.8em; font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.133em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> This map from the Google Transparency Report on Safe Browsing shows that only two percent of sites hosted in the U.S. contain malware.</div> <span class="image-credit" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.8em; font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.133em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">(Credit: Screenshot by Seth Rosenblatt/CNET)</span></div> <div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19.984375px; margin-top: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Web sites you think are safe but have been compromised to distribute malicious software are far more prevalent than sites that are intentionally dangerous, according to a new Transparency Report from Google released on Tuesday.</div> <div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19.984375px; margin-top: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> The new Safe Browsing section of the report reveals some of the security trends that Google has been seeing. While Google reiterated that its Safe Browsing program flags up to 10,000 sites a day, the report showed that hacked sites remain a major problem -- with about 60 percent hosting malware and 40 percent being used for phishing attacks.Dedicated attack sites numbered in the hundreds until late 2009, when they began to increase. They crested at the end of last year above 6,000, but that number has since dropped. As of June 9, 2013, Google reports the number of these malicious sites at 3,891.</div> <div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19.984375px; margin-top: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Dramatically worse is the problem of compromised sites, Web sites that are supposed to be legitimately safe but that have been hacked to infect visitors.</div> <div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19.984375px; margin-top: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> During the week of June 9, Google tallied 39,247 hacked sites, down from more than 60,000 last July and more than 76,000 in June 2009.</div> <div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19.984375px; margin-top: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Webmaster response time to fixing those compromised sites has accelerated remarkably, although it has been slowly getting worse over past 18 months. Response time began to drop from more than 90 days in 2008 to a low of 12 days in May 2009. As of March 2013, the response time hovered around 50 days.</div> </div>

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BlackBerry unveils service to manage Android, Apple devices

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="http://i1158.photobucket.com/albums/p608/adityadamarjati/bth_blackberry_logo-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="http://i1158.photobucket.com/albums/p608/adityadamarjati/bth_blackberry_logo-1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div> <br /> <br /> <br /> <span id="storyendpath" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; orphans: auto; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 3px 0px 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><br /> <div class="flR" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; color: #3f3f3f; float: right; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; orphans: auto; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"> </div> <br /> <div class="Normal" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; orphans: auto; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"> <tmp style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">TORONTO: BlackBerry on Tuesday launched a service allowing government agencies and corporate clients to secure and manage devices powered by Google's Android platform and Apple's iOS operating system. <br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />The long-anticipated offering, which BlackBerry had said would come out around mid-year, could help the company sell high-margin services to its large clients even if many, or all, of their workers are using smartphones made by its competitors. <br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />The new Secure Work Space feature will be managed through BlackBerry Enterprise Service (BES) 10, a new back-end system launched at the start of this year that allows BlackBerry's clients to control mobile devices on their internal networks. <br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />The company, a one-time pioneer in the smartphone arena, is now fighting to regain ground lost to Apple's iPhone and Samsung's Galaxy devices. To compete, it has rolled out a trio of devices powered by its new BlackBerry 10 operating system. <br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />It hopes to win back users with the Z10, Q10 and Q5 devices that were unveiled during the first half of this year. The first comprehensive look at the success of its turnaround plan will likely emerge when it reports quarterly results on Friday. <br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />At the same time, it has indicated a shift in emphasis from smartphones to services. <br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />"With an integrated management console, our clients can now see all of the devices they have on their network, manage those devices and connect to them securely," David Smith, the head of enterprise mobile computing at BlackBerry, said in an interview. <br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />"We now also have a secure work space on Android and iOS that allows our clients to secure and manage the data on those devices as well." <br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />BlackBerry has installed some 18,000 BES 10 servers since the system was launched in January, up from a little more than 12,000 servers one month ago, and more than 60 percent of US Fortune 500 companies are testing or using the system. <br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />The feature, when used to manage Android and iOS devices, will allow IT managers to fence off corporate email, calendars, contacts, tasks, memos, web browsing and document editing from personal apps and content, which could be less secure.</tmp></div> </div>

BlackBerry unveils service to manage Android, Apple devices

TORONTO: BlackBerry on Tuesday launched a service allowing government agencies and corporate clients to secure and manage devices...

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