The Hindu Business Line : Thursday, November 19, 2009

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TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Rural mobile project mired in towering delays
Communications Ministry keen to change USO fund allocation rules. It was supposed to be a project that would have given another 275 million people living in rural areas accessibility to mobile ...

INSIGHT: A smart proposition
Smartphones pack in the features, some at prices as low as their less well-endowed counterparts.. A changing price-volume equilibrium has hit the smartphone market in the country. With nearly a 30-35 per cent drop in prices of smartphones in ...

INFRASTRUCTURE: Bengal mulls IT park near Science City
Kolkata, Nov. 18 The West Bengal IT department is to set up an IT Park on two acres on the EM Bypass near Science ...

SOFTWARE: Advantage MNCs in Europe
Indian vendors not building up comfort levels: Forrester. Bangalore, Nov. 18 MNC IT firms such as Accenture and IBM are better placed to bag a lion’s share of contracts from Europe while their Indian counterparts can expect only ramp-ups ...

OUTSOURCING: Engineering services potential
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SOFTWARE: Progress Software tool for BA
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PEOPLE: Four Soft names new Executive V-P
Four Soft, a provider of IT solutions to logistics industry, has appointed Mr Tim Sensenig as its Executive Vice-President (Global Sales and Business Development). Mr Sensenig is the former Vice-Chairman of G-log, a third party logistics ...

SOFTWARE: Quinnox Consultancy to focus on Indian clients
Quinnox Inc, which is based in the US, is entering India’s domestic IT solutions market with an eye on companies in the banking, financial services, retail and ...

OUTLOOK: ‘Over time, voice will go over cloud’
Huge potential in India, says Verizon. Give it a few years and you will see a lot of voice on the cloud, says Verizon Business, one of world’s leading telecommunications networking and network ...

SOFTWARE: Wipro tool facilitates remote healthcare
Wipro Technologies has announced the launch of a next generation medical gateway solution that aims to improve healthcare coordination between patients and their care ...

SOFTWARE: SAP says cloud computing has a long way to go
Bangalore, Nov. 18 Cloud computing (a system wherein virtualised resources are available as services over the Internet) may be the most talked about concept in ...

E-COMMERCE & E-BUSINESS: RCom, Atom Tech sign m-Commerce pact
Madurai, Nov. 18 Reliance Communications (RCom) has entered into a strategic tie-up with Atom Technologies, an m-commerce solutions provider from the Financial Technologies India ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: EGoM to discuss 3G spectrum today
The Empowered Group of Ministers on telecom, headed by the Finance Minister, Mr Pranab Mukherjee, will meet on Thursday to find a solution to the dispute between the Department of Telecom and the Defence Ministry on vacating spectrum for ...

SOFTWARE: American Megatrends expands India centre
Chennai, Nov. 18 American Megatrends India, part of US-based American Megatrends Inc, has expanded its research and development centre ...

From eWorld

E-GOVERNANCE: Exit PC, enter Mobile
The appeal of the mobile platform to deliver e-governance programmes is growing, given advantages that include rural penetration.. Zero Mass Foundation, an NGO, has found an innovative way to use mobile phones for payment towards social services ...

E-COMMERCE & E-BUSINESS: Stuck between the two
If you fall, it's easy for you to get up and get going. If you fall between two stools, things become complicated. You may hit your head against a stool (or even both); the space between the stools may be enough for you to fall down, but ...

INTERVIEW: COBOL — ‘going strong'
COBOL banking solutions cost 5 times lower per transaction, avers expert.. Travelling backwards more than fifty years in computing is perhaps as stretched as rewinding by as many centuries in travel or commerce, politics or cuisine; but that's ...

EVENTS: TEDIndia: The Future beckons
Talking ideas and innovation, with India in the picture.. It has taken 25 long years for TED, a non-profit organisation devoted to ‘Ideas Worth Spreading' to reach India, the land of hoary civilisation, a modern superpower in the making, ...

EVENTS: Predictions on Indian income
The average income of Indians would match that of US or British citizens on July 27, 2048, says software.. You might call it a vision, a conviction or even an assumption, but health expert and data visionary Hans Rosling predicts that the day ...

EVENTS: TEDIndia snapshot — Mythology and market
Businesses must enhance sensitivity to Indian beliefs.. It is not often that you meet a person who takes you back in time to the bygone ages, to Alexander and the gymnosophist on the banks of Indus, and to the early days of the clash of ...

EVENTS: Crackling with interest
The audience was keen to contribute to causes, CEOs saw a sense of responsibility towards their market.. TEDIndia was much more than Technology, Entertainment, Design. And it certainly went beyond ...

EVENTS: Stamp of `soft power'
India seeks to score on this front too.. Shashi Tharoor was once accosted in a foreign land by a gentleman whose computer had broken down. Upon learning that Tharoor was an Indian, the gentleman pounced on him, requesting him to fix the ...

EVENTS: Gutsy crusader
Fighting to free women. Anti-trafficking crusader Sunitha Krishnan is fighting a bigger battle than we can ever imagine, every moment of ...

EVENTS: Art and advocacy
The magic in a piece of cloth folded eight times over…. Is art for art's sake or for advocacy? Mallika Sarabhai knows the magic of marrying the two without making ...

EVENTS: Reach for the sky
And Shukla Bose, founder and head of the Parikrama Humanity Foundation, a non-profit organisation that runs extraordinary schools for poor children, is definitely one ...

EVENTS: Spread the world
I want to remain a student forever," says the lanky 16-year-old, sans exaggeration. Probably because he wishes to continue to spread the light of learning, a role that he has embraced so early ...

BOOKS: Much of technological donation is e-waste
"As much as 75 per cent of the `donated' products do not ...

CYBER QUEST: Quiz
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