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OVERSEAS BORROWINGS: Telecom players want ECB cap to be raised
Seek funding under automatic route for 3G, broadband auction. New Delhi, Oct. 23 In a bid to tide over the liquidity crunch due to the global financial crisis, telecom operators have approached the Finance Ministry seeking further relaxation to ...

INSIGHT: Growth space reserved
While the financial meltdown may take a toll on economies globally, India is a long-term story and growth will continue, feels President and CEO of Ascendas, Chong Siak Ching.. As the global economic slowdown brings more bad news with each ...

OUTLOOK: Dell hopes to improve marketshare in India
Announces new campaign for SMEs. Bangalore, Oct. 23 Computer-maker Dell Inc said the current slowdown would eliminate some of its competitors and help the company to gain market-share, though it would also create some softness in demand for ...

HARDWARE: Lenovo targets SMBs
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TELECOMMUNICATIONS: MTNL dividend to Govt
MTNL has paid Rs 35.43 crore to the Government towards 10 per cent balance of final dividend for the financial year 2007-08. In its 22nd Annual General Meeting held on September 26, MTNL had approved payment of final dividend of 40 per ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: TRAI asked to review termination charges
Move aimed at lowering mobile tariffs. New Delhi, Oct. 23 In a move that could result in lower mobile tariffs, the Department of Telecom has asked the telecom regulator to review termination rates paid by one operator to ...

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M-COMMERCE: This one is no easy call
Imagine using your mobile phone to pay for your groceries at the supermarket using your credit card facility, transfer funds from your bank account to your parents’ account in their village, buy travel and movie tickets and, perhaps, even ...

SECURITY: Fight child pornography
Nothing short of an obsession to root out this menace will work, if we are to make the world a safer place.. Every instance of child pornography, wherever it comes from, reinforces my uneasy feeling that it is one crime that is under-reported ...

INTERVIEW: `Made for each other? Not always'
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BOOKS: Alternatives to downsizing
How about cutting back on hours of work per week, or reduced salaries?. Downsizing does not solve an organisation’s problems, says Donald W. Huffmire in Handbook of Effective Management (
INTERVIEW: What 3G means to you and me
Qualcomm explains the technology in terms of the services it would offer the mobile user.. Everyone and anyone related to the telecom industry these days talks only about third generation or 3G services. But what does 3G really mean for the end ...

HARDWARE: Different strokes
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CYBER QUEST: Quiz
V.V.Ramanan. 1. Name Google’s new feature, as CNET describes, “designed to prevent you from sending stupid e-mails in the small hours, when you’re most likely to be inebriated and at risk of making a complete idiot ...

COMPUTER USAGE: Spike buster and UPS load
Are spike buster and surge suppressor the same devices or different? I also would like to know why laser printers should not be connected to the UPS. The literature that comes with the UPS cautions against using surge suppressors and ...

SOFTWARE: Don’t lose grip
Forrester on what India needs to do to raise the global competitiveness of its tech economy.. With India slipping further in the global IT industry competitiveness index this year despite its offshore IT prowess, Forrester has said that stepping ...

CARTOON: Cartoon
“Go back home — His Highness gets enough jokes on ...






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