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REGULATORY BODIES & RULINGS: ‘Use USO funds for rural mobile charging centres’
TRAI wants SEBs to give power to base stations on priority basis. New Delhi, March 5 Recognising that lack of adequate power is stunting the growth of mobile services in rural areas, The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India has suggested that ...

SECURITY: Ready-to-use workplace facility in emergencies
WAR CENTRES. Mumbai, March 5 Picture this: A terrorist attack or a power outage has happened in that part of the city where your BPO company has delivery centres. As the Chief Delivery Officer of the company, the first thing that comes to your ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: GoM set up for 3G auction
New Delhi, March 5 The Government constituted on Thursday a Group of Ministers to decide on the issue of pricing of 3G spectrum auction and the number of players to be allowed in a ...

NEW BUSINESS: Gemini bags BSNL order
Gemini Communication Ltd, Chennai-based networking company, has secured an order from Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL), for the supply, implementation and maintenance of Rural Mobile WiMax in the telecom circles of Gujarat, Maharastra, ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: BSNL drops fixed line tariffs
New Delhi, March 5 With just over a month left for the elections, Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd on Thursday announced a steep reduction in fixed line telephone tariffs across the ...

COURTS/LEGAL ISSUES: Ramalinga Raju’s kin granted anticipatory bail
Hyderabad, March 5 A city court has granted anticipatory bail to Mr Suryanarayana Raju, brother of Mr B. Ramalinga Raju, former Chairman of Satyam ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Number portability: Syniverse, MNP Interconnect get DoT nod
New Delhi, March 5 The Department of Telecom has given letters of intent to Syniverse and Telcordia-backed MNP Interconnect for setting up and managing mobile number portability in the ...

ALLIANCES & JOINT VENTURES: IBM ties up with Idhasoft
Hyderabad, March 5 IBM, a global leader in offering hardware to software, services and consulting services, has joined hands with Idhasoft Limited to package healthcare IT solutions through its Smart ...

From eWorld

E-COMMERCE & E-BUSINESS: Screen presence
The e-publishing space offers scope despite the slowdown, say market watchers. More on the e-word.. What's the good word? It could well be e-publishing! In these times of recession, when everybody is talking of the slowdown's impact on the ...

SOFTWARE: The ‘drop’ can only get bigger
Polaris shares its reasons for optimism with eWorld.. As you start talking about the economic gloom and its impact on IT spending, you catch a look of triumph brighten the face of chairman and MD of Polaris Software Labs, Arun Jain. Not used to ...

INTERVIEW: ‘Use CRM to build customer intelligence’
Be it a simple notebook or sophisticated software.. The downturn should be looked at as an opportunity to re-evaluate all the internal processes including the most important one, which is CRM (customer relationship management), says Rajendra C. ...

INTERNET: On and off
I was having some difficulty with my multiple social networks when I remembered a piece I wrote last December ( http://www.blsmartbuy.com/?p=2001) predicting that social networking will lose ...

BOOKS: 5 ways to automate internal controls
Recommended read for security professionals.. SCARF and EAM, snapshots, audit hooks, ITF and CIS. Quite an alphabet soup, but these are the five types of automated evaluation techniques discussed in Technical Guide on Information System Audit ...

OUTSOURCING: ‘Companies taking a new look at captives’
Outsourcing advisory TPI on the slowdown scene and its impact on Indian players.. The economic downturn has impacted the growth rates of Indian IT service providers, whose customers, reeling under the crisis, have shelved or delayed plans to ...

ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING: Costly drain
Automation can help companies avoid fraud in attendance marking or leave management chores, says Kronos.. Companies generally look at chores such as employee attendance or leave requisition as tasks that need to be automated so as to save on ...

CYBER QUEST: Quiz
V.V. Ramanan. 1. Apple recently said no to which TV show’s iPhone App because it might be ...

CARTOON: Cartoon
“Come on, you don’t have to Google it! I just asked, ...





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