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POLICY: 3G policy: Foreign players want PMO to intervene
Say auction rules unattractive for new players. New Delhi, Aug. 14 Stung by the recently announced policy for third generation (3G) mobile services, a delegation of foreign telecom players has approached the Prime Minister’s Office ...

IT TRAINING: Auto cos tying up with ITIs to fight skill shortage
Mumbai, Aug. 14 The public private partnership (PPP) model for skill development in industrial training institutes (ITI) announced in the Union Budget turns into an opportunity for automobile manufacturers to fight the shortage of trained ...

TRENDS: Vendor consolidation gaining popularity
Win-win for both clients, service providers. Bangalore, Aug. 14 With Indian IT vendors vying for a larger share of the offshoring pie, and their clients trying to cut costs, vendor consolidation is increasingly becoming more ...

INTERNET: A@mchi Mumbai
Breakneck Mumbai loves to save on time. It hosts an amazingly innovative range of online services.. When we four friends realised that we neither had the money to buy all the books that we would love to read nor the place to store them in our ...

HUMAN RESOURCES: Employee referrals dispel hiring blues
Bangalore, Aug. 14 Hiring blues? Not any more for the Indian IT service providers. With employee referrals catching up really fast, companies have finally spotted the silver ...

AWARDS & HONOURS: Satyam rating in Gartner list
Satyam Computer announced on Thursday that it has been rated “Positive” in Gartner’s MarketScope for Business Intelligence (BI) and Performance Management (PM) Services, Western Europe, 2008. Satyam’s BI and PM ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Kavveri Telecom forms subsidiary
Kavveri Telecom Products Ltd has decided to incorporate a subsidiary company with the name ‘Kavveri Telecom Infrastructure Ltd’ to be involved in creation of telecom infrastructure. The shares of the company closed at Rs 108.95, down ...

VENTURE CAPITAL: Ctrl S Data Centres plans Rs 700-cr expansion
To close $40 m in private equity deal. Hyderabad, Aug. 14 Ctrl S Data Centres, the Hyderabad-based data centre and IT infrastructure management services provider, is set to raise Rs 700 crore to fund its expansion plans. These plans include ...

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS: Idea Cellular open offer for Spice put on hold
Revised schedule after SEBI nod. Mumbai, Aug. 14 Idea Cellular’s open offer for 20 per cent stake in Spice Communications has been put on hold pending observations from the Securities and Exchange Board of ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: 3G auction as planned: DoT
‘Finance Ministry’s stand surprising’. New Delhi, Aug. 14 The Department of Telecom on Thursday said that there will be no delay in auctioning spectrum for 3G mobile services and there will be no change in the announced ...

NEW BUSINESS: IBS Software bags 5-year Kingfisher deal
Aims to garner $100 million a year from the product. Bangalore, Aug 14 IBS Software Services, which has bagged a five-year contract from Kingfisher Airlines for its iCargonet software, aims to garner $100 million a year from the product for ...

SOFTWARE: Windows Live teams in parleys with BSE, NSE
REAL-TIME STOCK INFO. Hyderabad, Aug. 14 Windows Live India teams are in parleys with the BSE and the NSE to offer real-time search of stock quotes just like they do in the US and other ...

NEW PRODUCTS & SERVICES: D-Link launches IP-video phone
Bangalore, Aug. 14 Networking and communications device maker D-Link (India) Ltd launched an IP-video phone for the Indian market that has been developed and manufactured at the company’s India centres. The phone, GVC-3000, which would ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Airtel launches virtual campus
Hyderabad, Aug. 14 Telecom operator Airtel has announced the launch of ‘Airtel Mobile Campus’, a virtual place on the move. This feature helps converge Web, Wireless application protocol and SMS and gives a new dimension to mobile ...

FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE: WNS net dips 60%
Mumbai, Aug. 14 Pure play BPO firm WNS Holdings has reported a 60.4 per cent dip in its consolidated net income to $3.3 million from $8.4 million reported in the same quarter a year ...

IT TRAINING: WatchGuard, Jetking in pact


INTERNET: Akmin mobile Web site builder
Chennai, Aug. 14 Akmin, the Chennai-based software product company, has launched a mobile Web site builder ( www.mobisitegalore.com) that enables people to build a full-fledged Web site using their ...





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