In the first promotion of its kind in the online travel space in the country, TripAdvisor, the world’s largest and most popular travel community, has partnered with the country’s leading full service airline, Jet Airways, to offer JPMiles to users for contributing hotel reviews on www.tripadvisor.in.

The promotion enables members of JetPrivilege, the frequent flyer program of Jet Airways, to get up to 1000 JPMiles by writing hotel reviews on tripadvisor.in and therefore, that much closer to availing of free flights on Jet. The promotion, which is on till June 12th, was recently launched on the www.tripadvisor.in site and with summer vacations around the corner the initial response from JetPrivilege members has already been enthusiastic.

“This partnership will reiterate our commitment to rewarding our community for sharing their opinions with millions of other travellers like themselves. We are pleased to have partnered with JetPrivilege and offered an exciting & relevant incentive to an audience that most certainly consists of frequent and enthusiastic travellers” said Sharat Dhall, Managing Director, TripAdvisor India.

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Sybase, Inc. (NYSE: SY), the largest enterprise software and services company exclusively focused on managing and mobilizing information, today announced the launch of Sybase® IQ 15 in India.

This latest version of Sybase IQ is designed to deliver more accurate analyses and reports in a speed dramatically faster than its previous version to address the growing need of the business sector to make well-informed and critical business decisions based on real-time data. Sybase IQ 15 builds upon Sybase IQ column-based analytics server and add more power, flexibility and manageability to today’s data-laden and user-expanding

Safety, safety and more safety. If that sounds too motherly well there is a reason. Our lives in this day and age are run by machines. Signage is extremely important as something as mundane as an Exit Sign can make the difference between life and death. Does it sound like an exaggeration? Well ask someone who has survived a fire in a theater or escaped from the hands of death. Exit signs are THAT important.

Here is a company that makes terrfic EXIT SIGNS. They have it in so many shapes and sizes. The styling is superb and there are various price ranges to suit your budget. Their customer service they say is par excellence. They seem very professional and well-informed professional in terms of suggestion the right exit signs and compliant signage and lighting products that fit within the budget.

Overall a great website for superbly styled, reasonably prices signage.

Modern Medicare a leading magazine on healthcare business news, has felicitated Charu Sehgal, Senior Director, Strategy and Operations Division and Head, Healthcare Vertical, Deloitte India, as one of the Top 20 women achievers of the Indian healthcare industry. This recognition is bestowed on women professionals who have made a significant, positive contribution to the development of the healthcare sector in India.

Charu, with an experience of 20 years in management consulting is one of the few women who have made it to the top in the field of consulting. In addition to working on strategic engagements for a large number of Indian and multinational clients in the healthcare sector, she has worked extensively and closely with health departments of the central and several state governments.

“I feel honoured and encouraged by this recognition. While women have come a long way in making their mark in every field, including healthcare, there are still very few women in senior positions. This is largely due to the fact that many opt out due to the constraints they face in handling high pressure jobs along with the role society expects of them as mothers. I feel, that in case the true potential of the female workforce is to be unleashed, employers need to view any legitimate support provided to the women employees in their role of bearing and rearing children, not as a favour to the woman, nor as a limitation of hiring them but as a responsibility towards society and future generations.”, said Charu.

“Healthcare in India is at a point where, on the one hand there is growing global recognition for Indian competence in the healthcare arena, and on the other , there is a huge unmet demand for healthcare services from a large section of the population in rural India. We need to find innovative solutions that make quality healthcare available not just to the urban rich and medical tourists, but to every Indian”, added Charu.

Congratulations Charu. Great going!

HI: ESPN Star Sports has renewed its broadcast rights for Wimbledon Championships for six years from 2009-14.

According to the deal, ESPN will get exclusive broadcast rights including cable and satellite and terrestrial and new multimedia rights across platforms in 24 markets across Asia.

Think about it how much small things we don’t notice like traffic control devices and cones & other equipment we take for granted keeps our life so much in control. Well here is a company that manufactures it all to make our life easy. Warningpower offers the best in Traffic Control Devices, Personal Safety Products, Traffic Signs and Warning Lights.

Think over it. At a construction site there is so much risk. They help protect the construction worker and the entire crew. On offer from them are hard hats, safety vests and much more.

Which is their most interesting product in terms of safefy and design? Well Vehicular Warning Lights seems interesting both in design and utility. They have a huge range from perimeter lighting, directional arrows, beacons, light bars and more. So if safety is what you want for your crew here is a perfect site for you.

For a traveler making a hotel booking isn’t as easy as it sounds. Ten years ago internet changed the rules of the game. Travel sites made booking easy. Then came more travel sites and instead of ease it was impossible to know where to get the best rates. So a traveler could easily be spending between 30 minutes to 2 hrs just to get the best rates.

Well here is a site that changes it all Ooaha.com The interface is as simple as Google and the power immense with 4,00,000 hotels in 195 countries. What really makes it different is Ooaha’s power to offer choice of the cheapest hotel price to the traveler. So instead of going to different sites to check rates Ooaha gets the best real time rates for the traveler combined with pictures of the hotel, room, bathroom, besides maps and real traveler reviews of each hotel. It fetches live feeds from top industry tigers by comparing their rates. Ooaha gets real time live hotel prices from Expedia, Priceline, Traveloity, Venere, Intercontinental, Hotels, Asiarooms, Booking, Orbitz, Agoda, Laterooms, Ratestogo, RoamFree, Travelmate, TravelGuru, Skoosh and so many more besides with real time live prices from 4,00,000 hotels from 195 countries all on the Ooaha platform. The detailing is impeccable and rates for hotels really low. You can check Ooaha.com on www.ooaha.com

– Indian business process outsourcing (BPO) providers have proved to be stiff competition to western BPO providers, accounting for 5 percent of market revenue generated among the top 150 providers in 2008, according to Gartner, Inc. Gartner analysts expect this increase in revenue to be maintained, with the BPO market share of Indian vendors expected to nearly double by 2010.

In 2002 there were few, if any, India-centric vendors in the top 150 worldwide providers, but by the end of 2008, the top 20 India-centric BPO providers accounted for $4 billion in revenue, representing 5 percent of the $80 billion revenue of the top 150 BPO vendors. Gartner expects this trend to accelerate because of economic pressures that are leading to demand for low-cost BPO.

“Indian BPO providers are swiftly evolving to balance exposure to vertical industries, currency and legislation issues,” said Mr. Arup Roy, Senior Research Analyst at Gartner. “Their strategies include investing in onshore and nearshore delivery, and pioneering new area of analytics services or knowledge process outsourcing (KPO) where Indian BPO players are shining.”

Although there are still no Indian vendors in the top 20 global BPO players, half of the top 20 India-based BPO providers now operate local U.S. and European sales and delivery centers.

MUMBAI: NDTV on Monday announced the launch of its independent production group, RedDot Productions. The production house will create and design content for television and interactive media.

NDTV said RedDot Productions would offer at competitive prices an array of services like documentaries, corporate films, advertiser-driven audio-visuals, media consultancy, learning aids, spots & PSAS, training modules and various genres of television programming ranging from travel, lifestyle, youth-oriented and reality-based shows.

Myntra - India’s largest on-demand consumer products Personalization brand - in collaboration with Reebok - India’s largest sportswear brand - today launched a range of personalized IPL jerseys for the second season of the Indian Premier League (IPL). Consumers can log on to Reebok store on the Myntra website - www.myntra.com/reebok-store - and choose jerseys of 4 IPL teams - Chennai Super Kings, Kolkata Knight Riders, Kings XI Punjab & Bangalore Royal Challengers. After selecting the jersey they can submit the name and number that they would like to personalize their jerseys with. Myntra would then process the orders and have the personalized jerseys shipped to the consumer at the address provided by the consumer.

Commenting on the launch of the personalized jerseys from Reebok Mr. Mukesh Bansal, CEO - Myntra Designs Pvt. Ltd. said, “Being the leader in the on-demand personalization space in India, it is only fitting that Myntra introduce the concept of personalization to the IPL which is the biggest cricketing event of the year. Cricket fans and enthusiasts now have the opportunity to see themselves in the jerseys of their favourite IPL teams by just adding their names and jersey numbers to the jerseys of their team.”

Added Mr. Sajid Shamim - Executive Director, Reebok India Company, “Reebok’s brand positioning is celebrating individuality in sport and life. Reebok celebrates the distinct qualities that make people who they are - their unique points of view, their individual style and their remarkable talents and accomplishments. This association with Myntra enables consumers to personalize jerseys of their favourite IPL teams and is another step towards allowing our consumers to express themselves and celebrate their individuality.”

Myntra.com offers an easy to use and user friendly ordering platform for ordering personalized IPL jerseys. One needs to just select a jersey of one of the 4 IPL teams and enter his / her name and the jersey number that he / she would like to see on the jersey. On doing so a preview of how the jersey would look after personalization is also available.

The personalized IPL jerseys are available in two options - men’s & boys. Payments can be made on the Myntra website through convenient payment options like credit card, debit card, Net Banking and Itz Cash. Mobile payment through the PayMate platform is also accepted. There is also an option of making payments through cheques.