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TCS recalls its BRMs and All non billable staff from US

It  is confirmed that TATA Consultancy Services has called back all its BRMs (Business Relationship Managers) who are in charge of creating new business oppurtunities in US and other regions outside India. This position has become a liability to the company during the tough economic times. Though their pay is not very high, the benefits they enjoy is huge.

The same goes with Project Leader positions in Onsite locations, most of the PL positions in client locations are funded by TCS and hence TCS looks to move these positions back to India. Though the recall maynot cover every BRM/PL but it should cover most of them.

The status of other non billable positions like PMO, (Project Management Office team), HR and MATC is not known. But there will be lots of chaos in the onsite ranks of TCS in the coming weeks.

The cutoff date for this movement has been announced as first week o February. This was confirmed by a mail from CEO to middle management and upper management.

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TCS gets Satyams projects – World Bank and Cigna Insurance

Satyam is collapsing like card castle swept by wind, but other Indian companies are gaining by the fall of India’s No 4 tech vendor. World Bank has given the contract to TATA Consulatancy Services the work which was earlier  handled by Satyam Computers.

TCS also might get Satyam’s one more major client Cigna insurance, after Cigna terminated all Satyam contractors from its premises today. TCS  got a portion os Satyam’s work sometime back and it is expected, that Signa will give the full work to TCS now. 

There are other financial clients of Satyam which TCS and Infosys might bid to get the accounts.

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Top WordPress plugins you should never miss

There are lots of good plugins but the below four plugins can be blindly installed for any type of site and will add lots of value to your hardwork.

Akismet – The solution to all your Spam problems. Provided by WordPress developers this is default plugin available with installation of wordpress. But you need to supply Akismet key to activate the plugin.

The Akismet key can be obtained from http://wordpress.com/api-keys/. This plugin has a very high accuracy in capturing spam comments and it uses webservices to evolve everyday. If your Akismet misses a spam and you mark it spam, you are doing a great service to the WordPress community by adding to the collective knowledge of the community.

All in One SEO Pack – Best available Search Engine Optimization tool for blogs/newswebsites which run on wordpress. It gives the option of setting various titles, description and meta tags for your site and also inidividual pages and posts. This definitely increases the visibility of websites among search engines. 

Google XML Sitemaps – Generates XML sitemaps which is needed for submitting your site url automatically to search engines. This plugin generates sitemaps and allows suitable customization like no of posts to be added in the sitemaps, priority of posts,categories and Home page and all. It also submits content to Google,Yahoo,Ask and MSN.It helps your content in reaching the search engines quickly.

WordPress Automatic Upgrade  – A very useful plugin which saves a lot of time by allowing users to upgarde the worpress automatically without bothering to download files or replace etc. A very useful plugin which was launched just one year back. But has hit the popularity roofs very soon. This plugin was developed based on requests from many users.