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OVERSEAS INVESTMENTS: BSNL readies $10-b war chest for overseas buys
Scouting for consultant. New Delhi, May 28 Following moves by private telecom players to acquire international operators, State-owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd is readying a $10-billion corpus for its own global ...

M-COMMERCE: SEBI issues norms for mobile trading
Invites comments from market participants by June 15. Mumbai, May 28 Stock trading using the mobile phone is likely to get a push, with SEBI issuing on Thursday a draft framework for securities trading using wireless technology. SEBI said it is ...

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS: Bharti-MTN deal: Pointer to the future
The merger talks between Bharti Airtel and South African telecom company, MTN, is a pointer to an emerging trend in the Indian telecom growth story. Saturated urban markets, declining average revenue per user, tighter domestic acquisition laws ...

OUTLOOK: Satyam may downsize overseas operations, terminate lease contracts
Move to increase capacity utilisation, reduce overhead costs. Mumbai, May 28 A handful of the 105 offices and 30 delivery centres that Satyam Computer Services has worldwide may soon cease ...

ENVIRONMENT: IT’s not all that clean and cool: Greenpeace
The information technology industry is perhaps not as environment friendly as is commonly believed, according to the findings of a Greenpeace Study. The results of the Greenpeace Cool IT Challenge should make the city, India’s IT ...

OFF-SHORE DEVELOPMENT: Patni opens new HQ in London
Mumbai, May 28 IT solutions company Patni Computer Systems today said that it has opened its new headquarters for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) in ...

NEW PRODUCTS & SERVICES: HP launches high-end conferencing solution
Beijing , May 28 Hewlett-Packard has launched SkyRoom technology, which allows real-time discussions on business plans and high-end 3D visuals, without the fear of ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: AP High Court asks BSNL to file response to Nokia Siemens
New Delhi, May 28 The Andhra Pradesh High Court has asked Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd to maintain status quo in the tendering process for awarding to Huawei a contract for rolling out GSM network in the South ...

SOFTWARE: Intel’s global campaign
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TELECOMMUNICATIONS: GoM on 3G likely to be reconstituted
New Delhi, May 28 The Group of Ministers set up to decide the policy for auctioning third generation mobile spectrum may be reconstituted following the changes in the ministerial portfolios after the ...

NEW PRODUCTS & SERVICES: Way2SMS launches e-mail alerts on mobiles
Hyderabad, May 28 SMS service provider, Way2SMS.com, has lunched e-mail alerts on mobile. Any subscriber of www.way2sms.com can avail this free service, which works with any mail box that has ...

From eWorld

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Clear signal on spectrum
DoT has suggested a market-based mechanism for spectrum allocation, instead of subscriber numbers. Call of clarity, say market watchers.. On May 13, a committee under the Department of Telecom submitted a 56-page report on how spectrum ...

INTERVIEW: From MB to GB to TB to…
HP captures turning points in the evolution of storage.. How much information did we create in 2008? The equivalent of more than: 237 billion fully-loaded Amazon Kindle wireless reading devices, 4.8 quadrillion online bank transactions, 3 ...

INTERVIEW: Clients will need to keep spending…
…albeit more carefully, and there are opportunities to be captured, says Cognizant.. It isn’t easy to stump Francisco D’Souza, President and CEO, Cognizant. At age 39, and as CEO of a $3-billion corporation, he has obviously ...

E-GOVERNANCE: Service is a call away
A feel of the e-lokshahi project in Jalgaon district.. Jalgaon District in the north-west region of Maharashtra is known for its advances in horticulture. Its production of bananas and cotton through drip irrigation has been cited as a role ...

INTERVIEW: Crisis under check
Technology can help healthcare tackle virus outbreaks more effectively, says this player.. Collecting and sharing vital health information underpins the successful containment of virus outbreaks and is one of the key requirements to ensure that ...

INTERVIEW: Open opportunity
Red Hat sees career scope in the open source software space.. IT budgets may have shrunk but the demand for IT services is on the rise, says Shankar Iyer, Director (Services), Red Hat. “As adoption of Open Source increases during the time ...

BOOKS: ‘Cyber shepherd’ for grazing tips
Sample some innovative instances of ICT at work.. Political turmoil is almost always the top news about Nepal, and not many may be aware that, at a different level, the tiny landlocked country is striving to harness the powers of ICT ...

CYBER QUEST: Quiz
V. V. Ramanan. 1. Name the aborted Microsoft product for China which was to be a set-top operating system designed to work with ...

CARTOON: Cartoon
“Latest latest gadget, madam. Analog clock with a built-in digital ...






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