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Partiality trend in IJP’s – TCS BPO

Are you close to the Management? If the answer is no, then you have very less chances of growth in the industry. Though you are efficient and process oriented, the additional qualification for any promotion is, you should have good terms with your superior officer. Recently there was a IJP(Internal Job Posting) announced for Team Leader and Escalation Desk. The IJP was conducted by the existing TLs and the Operations manager. The basic criteria to apply for TL  post is the candidate should be a Band 2, should have experience for at least 3 years, also based upon the ratings that were given in the past. However apart from these, you should also have a friendly relationship with your Superiors.

One of my colleagues who had applied for the IJPs conducted was rejected just because he did not have good terms with the person who took care of the internal job posting.  So there is  a partial trend followed by the management on promotions.

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Sony launches Sony Dash to Compete against iPAD and PC Slate

Sony has released “Sony Dash” in the market. It is basically an Internet tablet but offers much more to the users. With Apple launching its much-hyped iPad and HP tying up with Microsoft to unleash its latest slate PC, can Sony be far behind? The Japanese Electronics giant, which is losing market share to Apple and rival Korean companies, is on a revival track and this year it is revealing a number of new breakthrough gadgets.

Sony Dash was shown at the CES a few months back for the first time. The device is being offered at a lucrative price of $200, which can give serious competition to the Apple iPad, which is quite expensive compared to Sony Dash. It has a nice 7-inch touch screen, which has a resolution of 800 x 480 pixels. It displays most Web Pages accurately. The device supports WiFi and so web browsing on the move is fairly easy for its users.The device is pretty powerful in the sense that it can playback video from Netflix and access social media applications without hiccup. However, it is not a net top since there is no such input device.
The Dash also has accelerometer. Sony has also provided a headphone jack and a USB port so that you can connect other devices. At its core there is a Linux based OS. Funnily enough, there is an alarm clock with the device and snooze feature
is also there. Maybe Sony has thought people will keep it by their bedside.

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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