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STOCKS: IT stocks turn bearish, pull Sensex down to 14,000
Companies unable to reap benefits of depreciating rupee. Mumbai, Sept. 12 The Sensex fell more than 2 per cent on Friday, partly due to the unusual phenomenon of IT stocks declining even as the rupee is depreciating against the dollar. ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: 3G spectrum charges not on combined revenues
Shift in DoT stance may help faster roll-out as operators stand to gain. New Delhi, Sept. 12 Existing cellular players have got another incentive for rolling out third-generation mobile services quicker. The Department of Telecom has decided ...

EVENTS: IT, electronics products from over 60 Taiwan cos on show
Chennai, Sept. 12 The Tamil Nadu Government will extend its fullest cooperation for the business community of Taiwan to invest in the State, said Dr C. Chandramouli, IT Secretary, Tamil Nadu Government. ...

SOFTWARE: Ministry to take up STPI tax sop extension
Chennai, Sept. 12 The Ministry of Communication and Information & Technology will consider the IT industry’s demand to extend tax concessions by another year for units in Software Technology Parks of India (STPI), Mr A. Raja, ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: GSM players want equal base price
New Delhi, Sept. 12 GSM operators have opposed Government’s decision to allow lower base price for auctioning WiMax spectrum. The move comes after the Department of Telecom changed its earlier decision to allow operators using wireless ...

ALLIANCES & JOINT VENTURES: MapmyIndia ties up with Ford, GM
Ahmedabad, Sept. 12 Digital maps provider MaymyIndia has tied up with Ford and General Motors to install in-car voice navigation to all its customers, said Mr Rohan Verma, Director, CE Info Systems (P) Ltd. ...

OFF-SHORE DEVELOPMENT: Australian varsity in talks with IT cos
Bangalore, Sept. 12 The University of Wollongong in New South Wales, Australia is in talks with several Indian IT companies, including Wipro, TCS, Zensar and mPhasis to set up development centres on its campus. ...

From eWorld

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Moolah in MVN?
Is there money to be made by taking to the Mobile Virtual Network Operator route in India? eWorld sought to hear the market’s message.. What is common to supermarket firm Tesco, coffee shop Tchibo, hamburger chain Hesburger, periodical ...

SECURITY: Handle with care
The UK government is grappling with cases of careless handling of sensitive information.. It is bad times for government departments in the United Kingdom holding sensitive information and struggling to protect it from anti-national and ...

INTERVIEW: ‘iPhone poses security challenges’
Appin Security Group on what it sees as hitches.. Looks like the iPhone, which was launched recently in India with a lot of fanfare, may not be without its own set of hitches. Rajat Khare, CEO, Appin Security Group (ASG) — an ...

BOOKS: Make alliances work
Despite more than 2,000 strategic tie-ups being launched worldwide each year, this terrain is fraught with failures.. Framework, organisation, and relationships — these three have to be right if you want your alliances to work, says Steve ...

INTERVIEW: Protection against online piracy
Safenet on the steps to be taken.. Rana Gupta is business head for India and SAARC at information security firm Safenet. In an exclusive interaction with eWorld, he shares his views on online piracy and the losses that companies face on this ...

CYBER QUEST: Quiz
V.V. Ramanan. 2. Where in New York is AMD planning a $3.2-billion computer chip manufacturing ...

COMPUTER USAGE: Bandwidth Monitor
Home Internet users who have subscribed to a limited bandwidth scheme may need to track their Internet usage. To check your monthly BSNL bandwidth usage, you can look up the following URLs: ...

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