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FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE: Idea Cellular net dips on expansion costs
May spin off Punjab, Karnataka licences to ‘eligible transferee’. Mumbai, Oct. 20 Telecom service provider Idea Cellular Ltd on Monday reported a 34.6 per cent dip in consolidated net profit for the second quarter ended September 30, ...

OUTLOOK: $108-b opportunities in Japan: Nasscom
Service providers urged to tap high-end market; US crisis impact to last a year. New Delhi, Oct. 20 Software association Nasscom on Monday asked the Indian IT industry to look at opportunities in the $108-billion Japanese IT services market, ...

FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE: MindTree consolidated net rises 37% in Q2
Maintains revenue forecast for 2009. Bangalore, Oct. 20 IT and R&D services provider MindTree Ltd posted a 37.4 per cent increase in consolidated net profit for the second quarter and maintained its revenue forecast for the ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Future Group partners Axiom Telecom for mobile retail
Plans to operate in over 500 stores, set up service centres. New Delhi, Oct. 20 Future Group has joined hands with Axiom Telecom, a mobile retail company from West Asia, to form a joint venture company called Future Axiom ...

NEW PROJECTS: LiquidHub proposes facility in Hyderabad
Hyderabad, Oct. 17 LiquidHub Inc is planning to develop its own campus in Hyderabad over the next couple of ...

NEW BUSINESS: UTStarcom bags BSNL contract
New Delhi, Oct. 20 UTStarcom has received a Rs 300-crore contract from Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd to roll out the broadband network that will support 1.1 million ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Meridian Mobile unveils new range for festive season
Chennai, Oct. 20 Meridian Mobile has launched a new range of mobile handsets under the Fly brand for the festive season. The handsets, priced in the range of Rs 1,700 to Rs 11,000, include dual SIM series and music and entertainment ...

FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE: Kale Consultants Q2 revenues up
Kale Consultants, solutions provider to the airline, logistics and travel industry, has recorded revenues of Rs 26.20 crore for the quarter ended September 30, 2008, as compared to Rs 20.87 crore for the corresponding quarter of the previous ...

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M-COMMERCE: This one is no easy call
Imagine using your mobile phone to pay for your groceries at the supermarket using your credit card facility, transfer funds from your bank account to your parents’ account in their village, buy travel and movie tickets and, perhaps, even ...

SECURITY: Fight child pornography
Nothing short of an obsession to root out this menace will work, if we are to make the world a safer place.. Every instance of child pornography, wherever it comes from, reinforces my uneasy feeling that it is one crime that is under-reported ...

INTERVIEW: `Made for each other? Not always'
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BOOKS: Alternatives to downsizing
How about cutting back on hours of work per week, or reduced salaries?. Downsizing does not solve an organisation’s problems, says Donald W. Huffmire in Handbook of Effective Management (
INTERVIEW: What 3G means to you and me
Qualcomm explains the technology in terms of the services it would offer the mobile user.. Everyone and anyone related to the telecom industry these days talks only about third generation or 3G services. But what does 3G really mean for the end ...

HARDWARE: Different strokes
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CYBER QUEST: Quiz
V.V.Ramanan. 1. Name Google’s new feature, as CNET describes, “designed to prevent you from sending stupid e-mails in the small hours, when you’re most likely to be inebriated and at risk of making a complete idiot ...

COMPUTER USAGE: Spike buster and UPS load
Are spike buster and surge suppressor the same devices or different? I also would like to know why laser printers should not be connected to the UPS. The literature that comes with the UPS cautions against using surge suppressors and ...

SOFTWARE: Don’t lose grip
Forrester on what India needs to do to raise the global competitiveness of its tech economy.. With India slipping further in the global IT industry competitiveness index this year despite its offshore IT prowess, Forrester has said that stepping ...

CARTOON: Cartoon
“Go back home — His Highness gets enough jokes on ...





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