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CORPORATE GOVERNANCE: 3 more Satyam directors quit
‘January 10 board meeting may see change of guard’. Hyderabad, Dec. 29 A beleaguered Satyam Computer Services today suffered another major blow with three top independent directors ...

SOFTWARE: IL&FS Trust sells 44.1 lakh Satyam shares
‘Lenders may have sold shares pledged with them’. Mumbai, Dec. 29 IL&FS Trust Company Ltd — believed to be one of the institutions with whom the shares of the promoters of Satyam Computer Services were pledged — on ...

BROADBAND: 3G spectrum auction postponed to Jan 30
Cabinet nod awaited on policy issues. New Delhi, Dec. 29 The Department of Telecom has postponed the auctions for third generation mobile spectrum by two weeks to January 30. It was earlier announced that the auctions would take place on January ...

PERFORMANCE: Telecom maintains ‘ringing’ growth
More than 100 million new telephone users in 2008. New Delhi, Dec.29 Despite the controversy over spectrum allocation and a slowing economy, the telecom sector continued to grow at a scorching pace this year. The number of telephone users in ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Idea Cellular enters Karnataka
Will build on Spice’s subscriber base. Bangalore, Dec. 29 Idea Cellular Ltd said on Monday that it will build on the current 14 lakh subscriber base of Spice in Karnataka, and introduce its complete range of mobile telephony products and ...

SECURITY: Online security threats to rise further
Microsoft to remain a favourite target; global economic crisis to spawn phishing attacks. Pune, Dec. 29 Explosion of malware variants, advanced Web threats, economic crisis, increased spam levels, virtual machine security, the ...

SOFTWARE: Overseas IT clients unfazed by war talk
Holiday season diverts attention, delays queries. New Delhi, Dec. 29 Overseas clients of Indian IT companies seem unperturbed by the recent reports of a military build-up and speculation over possible India-Pakistan ...

CORPORATE GOVERNANCE: Satyam directors’ remuneration
Dr Krishna G. Palepu, the faculty of Harvard Business School, has topped the list of independent directors in Satyam who received maximum remuneration with Rs 99.48 lakh last year. According to the report on corporate governance of the company ...

OUTLOOK: Nasscom ‘review’ in Jan
New Delhi, Dec. 29 Apex software association Nasscom is likely to complete the ‘review exercise’ of the FY09 IT industry targets in early ...

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS: Core Projects buys K12 unit of Princeton Review
Mumbai, Dec. 29 Education solutions provider Core Projects & Technologies said on Monday that it has acquired the K12 Education unit of the US-based NASDAQ listed firm, The Princetown Review Inc (TPR), for $20 million or Rs ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: 10.18 m new telephone subscribers in November
New Delhi, Dec. 29 The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India said that 10.18 million new telephone connections have been added during November as compared with 10.29 million connections added in October ...

From eWorld

BROADBAND: Twin tracks to broadband nirvana
With the upcoming auction of spectrum in 3G and WiMAX Indian telecom is at historic cross roads. Anand Parthasarathy suggests why these technologies need to complement, not compete.. Remember the nursery rhyme about a child offered a choice ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Recession and telecom
No call for despondency, says this mobile retailer.. As most corporate honchos rack their brains wondering how to sail through the slowdown, D. Sathish Babu, founder of Chennai-based mobile phone retailer UniverCell (
BROADBAND: India enters the broadband era
Wireless tech pioneer shares his take. For his co-development of key technologies behind MIMO (Multiple In, Multiple Out), which sharply increases the speed of wireless systems, Dr A. Paulraj, Professor at the Information Systems Lab of Stanford ...

OUTSOURCING: Opportunity in the midst of crisis
BPO predictions for 2009. Predictions about the future are both easy and hard. Easy because no one can prove you wrong; hard because if you run a BPO business, as I do, you will end up making resource allocation decisions based upon your view of ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Take your call!
Well, no one would believe it, but I have been hit by my personal technologies’ obsolescence. The mobile phone I had for a very long time finally gave up and I had to buy a new ...

INTERNET: Fitness in store
Playgroundonline ( http://www.playgroundonline.com/index.aspx) is for sports buffs who have no time to run to the store to pick up sporting equipment and accessories. Besides offering ...

CYBER QUEST: Quiz
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2. What is the recently-launched full-fledged antivirus application from ...






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