The Hindu Business Line : Saturday, September 06, 2008

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TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Bharti, Tata Comm come under DoT scanner
Face penalty for violations of licence norms. New Delhi, Sept. 5 The Department of Telecom may impose a penalty on Bharti Airtel and Tata Communications (formerly VSNL) for allegedly violating long distance licence norms. ...

NEW PRODUCTS & SERVICES: HP upbeat on virtualisation
Better management of IT infrastructure. Singapore, Sept. 5 Hewlett-Packard (HP) has announced a clutch of products, services and solutions aimed at helping enterprises simplify and better manage their IT infrastructure. The products launched ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: PNB Gilts stake sale process on, says bank
Tie-up with BSNL for bill payment via ATM network. New Delhi, Sept. 5 Punjab National Bank on Friday entered into a tie-up with State-owned BSNL to enable the latter’s subscribers to utilise the bank’s ATM network for paying their ...

CONVERGENCE: BigAdda goes mobile
Ahmedabad, Sept. 5 Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group’s Big Adda has taken social networking to mobile phones through Mobile Adda. It will have similar features as that of its online counterpart Big Adda such as text, voice, photo scribbles, ...

OUTLOOK: Barry-Wehmiller bullish on India
Barry-Wehmiller International Resources, a $1.2-billion US-based information technology and engineering consulting solutions provider, expects revenue from India to increase to nearly $50 million by 2012 from the present $12 million. The ...

AWARDS & HONOURS: MS India among ACE finalists
The US Ambassador to India, Mr David C. Mulford, on Friday announced that Microsoft India is one of eleven finalists in the Secretary of State’s prestigious 2008 Award for Corporate Excellence (ACE) competition, chosen from more than 60 ...

OUTSOURCING: Integreon Vice-President
Mumbai, Sept. 5 Knowledge process outsourcing company Integreon Managed Solutions has appointed Mr Mark Jewell as Vice-President in charge of account implementation and program management (AIPM) in ...

HARDWARE: Keep forgetting? reQall launches ‘memory jogger’
iPhone application from Hyderabad start-up. Hyderabad, Sept. 5 For the globe trotting executive equipped with the latest gadgets but prone to forgetfulness, a new hi-tech memory aid promises to be a handy tool. ...

INTERNET: Rising costs prompt Naukri to go for Linux
Coimbatore, Sept. 5 Job portal Naukri has availed the benefits of Open Source, according to its Chief Information Officer, Mr Vibhore ...

INTERNET: Video conferencing gains as cos trim travel costs
PREFERRED MODE. As many companies try to cut down on expenses, video conferencing is becoming a preferred alternative to corporate ...

SOFTWARE: HP aims to sign up with 2,000 hospitals
Mumbai, Sept. 5 Technology solutions major Hewlett-Packard has set a target of signing up with about 2,000 small and medium-sized hospitals in the country by the end of the current fiscal. The US-based company will provide IT infrastructure ...

OUTSOURCING: BPO firm Etech to add 5,000 jobs in India
Ahmedabad, Sept. 5 Business Process Outsourcing company Etech Inc is looking to add 5,000 jobs at its Gandhinagar facility within the next 12-18 months. The Texas-based company has purchased tower IV at Infocity to accommodate the global as ...

SOFTWARE: Correction
With reference to the news report captioned ‘Patni expects to double revenues from domestic market soon’ that appeared in these columns on September 2, Patni clarifies that Mr Neeraj Gupta holds the designation of Chief Commercial ...

VENTURE CAPITAL: Pressmart gets $6-m funding

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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