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DIVERSIFICATION: Bharti Airtel launches DTH service
Features include account balance indicator, 10 World Space channels. New Delhi, Oct. 7 Bharti Airtel launched its Direct to Home Service on Tuesday, marking the telecom company’s entry into media and entertainment and for which it plans ...

PERFORMANCE: AP registers IT exports worth Rs 26,100 cr
Even as large financial institutions such as Lehman Brothers in the US fell like nine pins adding further to the slowdown, the IT and ITES industry in Andhra Pradesh is not all ...

NEW PRODUCTS & SERVICES: ASUSTek unveils new Netbook variant
Taipei, Oct. 7 ASUSTek has added glitter to its successful Netbook brand Eee PC by launching S 101, an ultra-mobile, slender offering that combines on-the-go computing with a touch of style and fashion. It comes with a couple of ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: GSM players seek clarity on non-voice revenues
New Delhi, Oct. 7 GSM-based mobile operators have approached the Government seeking permission to separate their non-voice revenues and club it under an Internet Service ...

SOFTWARE: SunTec, eServGlobal tie up
Thiruvananthapuram, Oct. 7 The city-based SunTec Business Solutions and eServGlobal Ltd have announced a partnership to provide convergent billing solutions targeting WiMax solutions for mobile service ...

PEOPLE: Wipro Tech's France country head
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MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS: Spanco, Spice Televentures to merge domestic BPO biz
New Delhi, Oct. 7 Spice Televentures Ltd and Spanco Telesystems and Solutions on Tuesday inked an agreement to create a large onshore BPO entity by merging three existing domestic BPO businesses – Omnia BPO Services, Spanco BPO ...

OUTSOURCING: 6 cos in fray for Air India call centre contract
New Delhi, Oct 7 The interest of leading BPO companies in taking on the call centre work of Air India appears to be waning. The airline has received bids from about six vendors including Omnia, Sparsh, InterGlobe, Firstsource and ...

VENTURE CAPITAL: Helion, Charles River invest $11 m in SMS GupShup
Bangalore, Oct. 7 Venture capital firms Helion Ventures and Charles River Ventures have invested $11 million (Rs 52.8 crore) in SMS GupShup, a mobile group SMS service that allows users to create mobile communities and broadcast messages to ...

From eWorld

SOFTWARE: Not too keen to pay for use?
When every rupee counts, one would think the ‘software as a service’ model is poised to grow. But the action appears muted. Here’s a reality check.. Though Software as a Service has been held up as the next big revolution in ...

INTERNET: Trigger for violence?
The Finland shootout raises grave concerns over the use of the Internet.. Parents say our children are not out on the streets, they are not doing drugs or alcohol, they are at home and we believed they were secure. It is now the opposite, and ...

E-COMMERCE & E-BUSINESS: Serve IT hot and fast
Technology waits on you, at this restaurant.. When you’ve ordered Paneer Tikka, you don’t want to settle for Paneer Pakoda, right?But why does the mix-up happen, at the restaurant? It happens because the ‘master’ (the ...

INTERVIEW: Pay through the mobile phone
Awareness and adoption are challenges, says mChek.. Even at a 3 per cent conversion of every mobile bill payer onto an mCommerce solution, the industry would be worth around Rs 3,000 crore, estimates Sanjay Swamy, CEO, mChek. The Bangalore-based ...

CYBER QUEST: Quiz
V.V. Ramanan. 4. Which Academy Award American actress’ new Web site is ...

INTERVIEW: Debt spells no dent
3i Infotech on aggressive use of debt to fund acquisitions and working capital requirements.. 3i Infotech has been aggressive in acquisitions. Its latest in a string of acquisitions is US-based Regulus, which provides bill presentment and ...

BOOKS: Good technology is almost half of health
With telemedicine and robotic surgeries, doc-patient distances diminish.. A healthy feeling is a happy one, as we recently saw, closer home. A few top-level statements about ‘health’ lifted the otherwise gloomy financial markets. ...

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