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VENTURE CAPITAL: Moser Baer’s solar PV biz gets Rs 411-cr funding
Dilutes 6.5% stake to global investors. New Delhi, Sept 4 Moser Baer India Ltd on Thursday said its wholly-owned photovoltaic subsidiary has raised Rs 411 crore from a clutch of global investors including Nomura, CDC Group, Credit Suisse, ...

INFRASTRUCTURE: Technopark launches work on third phase
Technopark near here, one of India’s oldest IT parks, today embarked on a new stage of growth with the commencement of work on its third phase. ...

E-COMMERCE & E-BUSINESS: Oracle e-biz suit for Kenya Air
Satyam Computer Services and Oracle announced that they have implemented the Oracle e-business suite for Kenya Airways. In a joint press release issued on Thursday, they said the Oracle applications have streamlined the airline’s ...

SOFTWARE: IBM solution for HPCL


CONVERGENCE: Govt to issue IPTV guidelines
After getting the Cabinet’s approval, the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting is to issue guidelines for Internet Protocol Television (IPTV). The new guidelines will come along with the amendment to downlinking rules, allowing ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: GTL Infra achieves financial closure
Telecom tower company GTL Infrastructure has achieved financial closure of its Rs 7,265-crore project that entails rolling out of 15,700 telecom towers. The firm has financed its project through a mix of debt and equity, a company official said. ...

NEW PROJECTS: CIPSA-RIC sets up 2nd plant
Italy’s Tecnomec buys 10% stake. Bangalore, Sept. 4 CIPSA-RIC India Pvt Ltd, a maker of printed circuit boards (PCBs), said on Thursday it invested $20 million (Rs 85 crore) to set up its second plant in India to compete with China, ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Foreign telecom players seek M&A norms relaxation
New Delhi, Sept. 4 Just a month away from 3G auctions in the country and foreign players are still looking for ways to enter the Indian market. After the Department of Telecom refused to review the decision to impose an entry fee of Rs 1,650 ...

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS: Azim Premji takes 10% stake in Subhiksha
Wipro Technologies’ Chairman, Mr Azim Premji, has taken a 10 per cent stake in discount retail chain Subhiksha Trading Services. ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: GSM operators seek more time in dual tech case
New Delhi, Sept. 4 The telecom tribunal today adjourned the hearing on the issue of allowing dual technology to Reliance Communications after the GSM operators requested for more time to file a detailed response. The Telecom Dispute Settlement ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Kavveri Tele forms arm to enhance cellular network coverage
Bangalore-based Kavveri Telecom Products Ltd (KTPL) has set up a subsidiary to develop and deploy telecom infrastructure solution that enhances the coverage of cellular networks within large buildings such as malls, cinema halls and high-rises. ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Quippo Telecom among 17 FDI plans cleared
New Delhi, Sept 4 The Government on Thursday cleared 17 FDI proposals, amounting to Rs 1844.32 crore, including a proposal by Quippo Telecom Infrastructure, involving an increase in foreign equity to 82.55 per cent from 65.63 per cent. ...

INTERNET: Online job portal launched
Hyderabad, Sept. 4 Ireland-based online recruitment company, Saongroup, has launched an exclusive job portal for job-seekers in ...

From eWorld

E-GOVERNANCE: `Going steady, guv'
Amidst all the slowdown talk in the tech industry, one sector appears unaffected -e-governance. eWorld chats up players in this space..

E-GOVERNANCE: Of models and money
Given that e-governance deals come in all sizes and shapes, as it were, what are the models operational in this space?For mission-mode projects, deal sizes are in the Rs 200-Rs 300 crore range; they would generally be projects spread over ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: An i on this phone
Apple’s iPhone feels slim and broad in your hands and generally lives up to the hype surrounding it.. I was very sceptical at first, but now I’m totally sold on it,” confided the excited sales executive in the O2 showroom in ...

INTERNET: Happy watching


BOOKS: When three forces collide…
…and they are people, technology and economics, a lot of things start happening. Catch the action.. People, technology, and economics. When these three forces collide, the result is Groundswell, the title of a new book from ...

INTERVIEW: Do more with less...
...by using Virtualisation. VMware on the concept and its business implications.. Talk of doing more with less and the term that pops up is ‘Virtualisation.’ eWorld chatted with Ganesh Mahabala, Regional Director of VMware India and ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: No getting away from IT
Consolidated Cybernetics says its smart campus initiative taps the mobile to keep parents in the know.. Remember those heady college days when one tried to keep both parents and teachers in the dark…And proxy attendance was something ...

INTERVIEW: Open opportunity
Red Hat on trends in the open source software space.. What is hot in the open source software scene? eWorld chatted with Gery Messer, President, Red Hat Asia Pacific, for an update. Here ...

INTERVIEW: `Weekend start-up'
Sashi Chimala was probably among the first 100 engineers to be shipped from India to work onsite in the IT (information technology) industry in the US. His first assignment was with Burroughs Corporation (later renamed Unisys). This was almost ...

CYBER QUEST: Quiz
V.V. Ramanan. 1. Name the feature that Mozilla is bringing to Firefox 3.1 that would dramatically speed up programs written in ...

COMPUTER USAGE: Disk Cleanup in Windows XP
The ‘Disk Cleanup’ menu features ‘Compress Old File’. What are these files and how do they get generated? ...

CARTOON: Cartoon
“It’s scientific! We ignore the planetary positions and go by the positions of the ...






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