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BROADBAND: RCom submits plan to deal with cable cuts to TRAI
Alternative bandwidth to restore Net services arranged. New Delhi, Dec. 26 Reliance Communications Ltd has informed the telecom regulator that it has put in place alternative bandwidth to restore Internet services and International ...

HARDWARE: Financial tsunami gives hard time for hardware sector
Rupee movement, weak sentiment add to industry’s woes. New Delhi, Dec 26 The year 2008 offered virtually no respite to the IT hardware industry, as falling rupee dented margins of PC manufacturers and, in turn, prompted them to effect ...

SOFTWARE: All eyes on Satyam board meet on Dec 29
One independent director quits. Hyderabad, Dec. 26 Satyam Computer Services has received yet another setback with Dr Mangalam Srinivasan, an independent director on the board, deciding to quit her post, taking moral responsibility for not ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Tata Sons, DoCoMo defer open offer for Tata Tele (Maha)
Awaiting SEBI clearance for the proposed offer. Mumbai, Dec. 26 Tata Sons and Japan’s largest mobile operator NTT DoCoMo have postponed their open offer for picking up 20 per cent stake in Tata Teleservices (Maharashtra), their offer ...

OUTLOOK: Netmagic sees opportunity in slowdown
‘Companies looking to outsource every service possible’. Coimbatore, Dec. 26 The economic situation seems to have cut corporates both ways. While some predict gloom, others see opportunity ...

ALLIANCES & JOINT VENTURES: Unitech-Telenor deal closure delayed by a month
New Delhi, Dec. 26 The real estate developer Unitech Ltd said on Friday that its deal to sell a majority stake in its telecom venture – Unitech Wireless – to Norway’s Telenor is expected to close next month. The ...

HUMAN RESOURCES: ‘People Group lays off 80 employees’
Mumbai, Dec. 26 People Group, owners of the matrimonial portal Shaadi.com and mobile content company Mauj, is learned to have handed pink slips to over 80 employees from ...

From eWorld

BROADBAND: Twin tracks to broadband nirvana
With the upcoming auction of spectrum in 3G and WiMAX Indian telecom is at historic cross roads. Anand Parthasarathy suggests why these technologies need to complement, not compete.. Remember the nursery rhyme about a child offered a choice ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Recession and telecom
No call for despondency, says this mobile retailer.. As most corporate honchos rack their brains wondering how to sail through the slowdown, D. Sathish Babu, founder of Chennai-based mobile phone retailer UniverCell (
BROADBAND: India enters the broadband era
Wireless tech pioneer shares his take. For his co-development of key technologies behind MIMO (Multiple In, Multiple Out), which sharply increases the speed of wireless systems, Dr A. Paulraj, Professor at the Information Systems Lab of Stanford ...

OUTSOURCING: Opportunity in the midst of crisis
BPO predictions for 2009. Predictions about the future are both easy and hard. Easy because no one can prove you wrong; hard because if you run a BPO business, as I do, you will end up making resource allocation decisions based upon your view of ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Take your call!
Well, no one would believe it, but I have been hit by my personal technologies’ obsolescence. The mobile phone I had for a very long time finally gave up and I had to buy a new ...

INTERNET: Fitness in store
Playgroundonline ( http://www.playgroundonline.com/index.aspx) is for sports buffs who have no time to run to the store to pick up sporting equipment and accessories. Besides offering ...

CYBER QUEST: Quiz
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2. What is the recently-launched full-fledged antivirus application from ...






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