The Hindu Business Line : Saturday, May 30, 2009

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OUTLOOK: My motto is phone calls at 10-20 paise a minute: Raja
3G auction will be completed within two months. New Delhi, May 29 The Communications and IT Minister, Mr Andimuthu Raja, expects telephone tariffs to come down to as low as 10 paise a minute for local calls and to 25 paise a minute for domestic ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Fee on operators for disputed amounts mooted
Telecom Commission nod for mobile virtual network operators. New Delhi, May 29 Challenging the Department of Telecom’s decision on levying penalties and charges at the telecom tribunal could be expensive for the ...

EVENTS: Kids’ day out at Microsoft campus
It was a kids’ day out at Microsoft, Hyderabad here on Friday. This event was aimed at creating enthusiasm among the children of its employees who were invited to the campus to have fun. As part of this, over 800 kids, aged between 3-17 ...

SOFTWARE: Ramco Systems cancels rights issue
Cites ‘unfavourable market conditions’ as reason. Chennai, May 29 Ramco Systems Ltd, which had announced a rights issue last year to raise Rs 131 crore, has decided not to proceed with the issue due to “unfavourable ...

SOFTWARE: Polaris to take acquisitions route to new places, clients
Chennai, May 29 Polaris Software Lab will look for acquisitions to help it expand into new geographies and acquire new customers. It has cash and cash equivalent of Rs 340 crore for the year ended ...

IT TRAINING: NIIT to offer course in IT infrastructure management services
New Delhi, May 29 NIIT Ltd on Friday announced a programme for training in IT infrastructure management ...

HARDWARE: Gartner sees 20% decline in global semiconductor revenues
Bangalore, May 29 Technology research firm Gartner Inc has forecast an over 20 per cent decline in global semiconductor revenues for 2009 over the previous year, due to a slump in consumer ...

OUTLOOK: Dell bullish on India
Bangalore, May 29 Computer maker Dell Inc has been able to improve its share in the Indian market though growth ...

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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