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MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS: Three in race for Satyam stake
L&T, Tech Mahindra, Spice interested; board meeting today. Hyderabad, March 12 With the deadline for registering ending on Thursday, L&T, Tech Mahindra and Spice Corp have announced their intention to join the race to take a majority ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: TRAI moots 3-year lock-in for promoters’ equity in new telcos
Recommendations to have no impact on Unitech-Telenor deal. New Delhi, March 12 The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) on Thursday said promoters of new telecom companies should be asked to give the Government 50 per cent of the ...

SOFTWARE: Satyam still has ‘significant’ TDS dues
I-T Dept probing into non-deduction of TDS from some salaries. Hyderabad, March 12 Satyam Computer Services is yet to pay old dues of TDS (Tax deducted at source) cut from the ...

NEW BUSINESS: Wipro Infotech bags ESIC deal
Wipro Infotech, the India and Middle East IT Business of Wipro Ltd, said it won a six-and-half year IT outsourcing contract from Employees State Insurance Corporation (ESIC). ESIC is a statutory corporation under the Ministry of Labour ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: RCom unveils new wireless Net service
Service will be launched in 35 cities soon. Mumbai, March 12 Reliance Communications Ltd on Thursday launched a new wireless Internet service based on the CDMA technology. The company claims that the service has downlink speed of up to 3.1 Mbps ...

SOFTWARE: Bid to get IT into small leather units
Chennai, March 12 Imagine this: a German department store chain asks a footwear manufacturer in Chennai to deliver a consignment of shoes to its warehouse in Europe at a specific hour on a specific day. If the exporter misses the deadline, ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Bharti Airtel makes top level changes
Sanjay Kapoor is new Deputy CEO. New Delhi, March 12 Bharti Airtel Ltd on Thursday announced key apex level organisational changes aimed at laying the foundation for the company’s next phase of ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Tata Comm to invest $500 m next fiscal
New Delhi, March 12 Tata Communications (formerly VSNL) on Thursday said that it had enough resources to fund ongoing capital expenditure and plans to invest $400-500 million during the fiscal year that begins April ...

HARDWARE: New Maharashtra IT policy may benefit hardware, animation verticals
The new information technology policy of the Maharashtra Government is on its ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Aircel to invest $1 b in expansion this year
Telecom services provider Aircel Ltd plans to invest $1 billion to expand its network in the country ...

SOFTWARE: Delhi HC rejects petition on Satyam
New Delhi, March 12 The Division Bench of the Delhi High Court on Thursday rejected a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed by Mr Manohar Lal Sharma, who claims to be a shareholder of Satyam Computer ...

SOFTWARE: TCS asks 1,300 employees to leave
Mumbai, March 12 Around 1,300 employees of Tata Consultancy Services will resign from the company following a routine bi-annual performance appraisal. The employees being asked to leave will constitute around one per cent of the total ...

From eWorld

SOFTWARE: Turn on… turn off
Companies appear to be warming up to ‘Software as a Service’ in slowdown times, citing pricing flexibility.. Every time James White, CIO of a financial services company, talks IT investment, the creases on his CFO’s forehead ...

E-COMMERCE & E-BUSINESS: No huffing or puffing
A pilot project shows that technology can make tobacco auction a transparent process for farmers.. The forty-something Krishne Gowda, a tobacco grower of Mukanahalli in Hunsur taluk of Mysore district, is contented — his produce has ...

INTERNET: As close as can be
I thought I was doing a smart thing by checking my e-mail on my commute — about 45 minutes — from my mobile phone, just to get a heads-up on what to expect for the day. I’d also check up on our mobile Web ...

SECURITY: ‘Cat and mouse’ game
Recent terror attacks bring into focus the use of Internet telephony.. After every terrorist action, intelligence agencies are lambasted for their failure to alert the police in the field of the possibility of an attack. We saw this in full ...

RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT: An eye for technology vision
Spearheading research at Accenture demands all this and more.. What Academics lost, Accenture gained in Kishore Swaminathan about 19 years ago. Growing up in South India’s Madurai, Swaminathan says he became fascinated by how people ...

E-COMMERCE & E-BUSINESS: Open the page to e-learning 2.0
Companies have started blending formal and informal sources of learning onto one platform.. The knowledge fountain in any organisation is, more often than not, either the water cooler or the canteen. How many times have you met colleagues at ...

INTERNET: Making a difference, and making money
‘What we do is good for the people, and good for profits. This is the golden mean, it doesn’t get better.’. You feel grateful to board the air-conditioned bus to escape Chennai’s sweltering heat. And this is no ordinary ...

CONVERGENCE: Converging on the small screen
PC makers are logging into the smartphone for newer revenue streams.. The mobile phone space is becoming the new battleground for companies looking to keep the business going in a recession-struck market. With computer sales falling and ...

SECURITY: 4 layers of security
Microsoft on playing it safe. Keeping cyberspace safe is a growing preoccupation. Incidents such as the Mumbai terror strikes and reports of data theft or virus attacks highlight the need to constantly keep one’s turf secure.But how do ...

CYBER QUEST: Quiz
1. Fill in the blank: Austrian jewellery designer Peter Aloisson has created the most expensive _____, which costs $2.5 million and is ‘made of solid gold and 138 brilliant cut diamonds apart from a strategically-placed big ...

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