The Hindu Business Line : Sunday, November 22, 2009

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SOFTWARE: CBI arrests Mahindra Satyam V-P
The Central Bureau of Investigation has arrested Mr V.S. Prabhakar Gupta, Vice-President (Internal Audit) of Mahindra Satyam (formerly Satyam Computer Services), in connection with the Rs 7,136-crore fraud. He has been charged with cheating, ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: 16 million new mobile users in October
New Delhi, Nov 21 The number of telephone subscribers in India increased to 525.65 million with more than 16 million new mobile users in October. With this the overall tele-density reached 44.87 per cent, according to numbers released by ...

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 ...

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