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REGULATORY BODIES & RULINGS: Foreign telecom cos up in arms against uniform licence fee
‘Arbitrary increase in fee may discourage new entrants'. International players, including AT&T and BT, have written to the telecom regulator opposing a move to impose uniform licence fee for all categories of ...

E-COMMERCE & E-BUSINESS: Want to draft a will? key-in the details
EASING THE WAY. A draft will can be yours at the click of a mouse. Warmond Trustees and Executors Pvt Ltd is offering a facility wherein customers can provide the will writing instructions online and get a draft will within seven days for ...

SOCIETY & DEVELOPMENT: TCS' Ramadorai takes to a new initiative – restoring art
PURSUING A PASSION. After steering Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)for over 13 years, the former CEO and current Vice-Chairman, Mr S. Ramadorai, has found a new calling — restoring art and giving it a new lease ...

CORPORATE GOVERNANCE: A year into collapse, Satyam set to get a new identity
It is exactly one year to this day when Satyam Computer Services, then in top-4 IT services company league, took the corporate world by surprise by announcing its controversial plan to buy the two Maytas companies – Maytas Infra and ...

HUMAN RESOURCES: Aditya Birla Minacs to hire 3,000 more in 6 months
Plans to bid for captives of MNCs. The back-office outfit of the $28 billion Aditya Birla group plans to increase its overall employee base by around 25 per cent in the next ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Bharti poised to enter Bangla mobile market
In talks with Abu Dhabi group for stake in Warid Tele. Bharti Airtel is in talks with The Abu Dhabi Group for buying 70 per cent stake in Bangladesh's fourth largest mobile phone operator, ...

OUTLOOK: New services to fetch Infosys one-third of its revenues
Business model fine-tuned in sync with demand. Software firm Infosys Technologies expects new services to fetch about one-third of the total revenues during the next decade as it fine-tunes its business model in anticipation of ...

HARDWARE: Intel working on chip for cloud computing
Chip manufacturer Intel on Wednesday demonstrated the capabilities of its next-generation ‘single-chip cloud computer' - a futuristic chip that boasts of greater energy efficiency and increased design complexity suited for tomorrow's ...

INFRASTRUCTURE: UL Cyberpark proposes Rs 600-cr investment
The Cyberpark being developed by Uralungal Labour Contract Cooperative Society (ULCCS) in Kozhikode, which has been accorded special economic (SEZ) by the Board of Approvals of the Union Ministry of Commerce, will see a total investment of Rs ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: RCom issue best left to regulators: Khursheed
The Corporate Affairs Minister, Mr Salman Khursheed, said on Wednesday that his Ministry would look into the allegations of financial irregularities against the Anil Ambani group company Reliance Communications (RCom) only if the ...

E-COMMERCE & E-BUSINESS: Rural India too shops online: eBay
eBay India's census guide demystifies the popular belief by proving that at least 747 rural towns in India are witnessing active buying and ...

SOFTWARE: NeST-Nvidia centre of excellence
Nvidia Corporation, the world leader in visual computing initiatives and NeST, a provider of specialised software and engineering services, have announced the setting up of their a centre for GPU (graphics processing unit) computing at the ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: STel to bid for 3G spectrum, launches GSM services in H.P.
S Tel Pvt Ltd, a joint venture between Siva Group and Bahrain Telecommunications Company (Batelco), will bid for third generation mobile spectrum when it is put up ...

From eWorld

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: NOKing out competition?
Telecom player Nokia is looking to recover lost ground and beat back rivals, ‘with global applications that connect to the regional.'. Nokia's Finnish HQ or Bond-villain lair?” a fellow journalist tweeted on his smartphone, later ...

INTERVIEW: Tech spending? It's happening!
TCS explains why it feels all the noise about Indian IT spends is justified.. Sleep is the best cure for waking troubles, or so goes a Spanish proverb. As someone who has the knack of getting to sleep immediately, by intent, especially during ...

RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT: Water, water everywhere...
…but not a drop to waste, says IBM, citing its project for the US city of Dubuque.. It looks like any other office campus of an IT company with its well-manicured lawns and a large building with a glass façade. That is, till you ...

VIRUSES: Virus attack
A friend of mine received an offer for a free 'share alert' program. It would scan and analyse the stock markets in real time and would provide 'live' alerts. He didn't know the sender, but thought the program was just what he wanted, as he was ...

INTERVIEW: Cut costs to soar
Airlines need cost-effective IT solutions to boost ROI, avers Sonata Software.. With increased globalisation and opening up of the skies, the challenges being faced by domestic airlines are similar to those of their international counterparts, ...

RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT: Tuning it just for you
Spitfire Automotive Performance says it can customise your car engine settings.. If you wanted to buy a car, what are the specifications you would want to check before deciding on the model? Performance, engine power, fuel efficiency, leg room, ...

SECURITY: Bring in the experts
Build a large corps of professionals to boost cyber crime investigation.. Mid-December may be a bit too early to review all that happened during 2009 on the cyber security front. This is especially so without the benefit of the analyses of ...

CYBER QUEST: Quiz
1. According to Google's annual Zeitgeist findings, the “fastest rising” worldwide search term of ...

CARTOON: Cartoon
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BOOKS: In Googley terms, life is a beta
In these digital times, publicness is a community asset.. Google is not merely changing our societies, lives, relationships, and worldviews; it is probably changing even our brains in ways we can only begin to calculate, writes Jeff Jarvis in ...





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