The Hindu Business Line : Monday, March 16, 2009

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TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Exempt BSNL, MTNL from proposed offset policy: DoT
New Delhi, March 15 The Department of Telecom wants state-owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd and Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd to be kept out of the purview of the proposed National Offset Policy drafted by the Ministry of ...

ALLIANCES & JOINT VENTURES: IPL matches with ‘enhanced consumer experience’
Bangalore, March 15 Bangalore-based mobile solutions company TELiBrahma has partnered with a few IPL teams to “enhance the experience” of spectators at the ...

From eWorld

OUTSOURCING: Still above the water
BPOsitive! This seems to be the message from the BPO industry, which is holding its chin up, for now.. In times uncertain, the silver lining has never vanished for BPO vendors. Notwithstanding the impact of the global downturn, the business ...

SOFTWARE: Technology makes the grade
Anna University Coimbatore is putting in place an integrated system to handle the examination process — from start to finish.. If you are a student of Anna University, Coimbatore, then you will be the first to reap the benefit of the ...

OFF-SHORE DEVELOPMENT: ‘No choice but to offshore’
All the more reason why clients should let vendors manage their processes rather than insist on price comparisons, says this veteran in the offshoring advisory space.. The best compliment a company could get is for an analyst evaluating it to ...

CONVERGENCE: ‘E-mails on any mobile phone’
Bitla Software on making ‘the common man’s BlackBerry dream’ come true.. Dash was my lunch-hour guest on Saturday, February 28. Lest you wonder if I left the name blank for you to guess, let me clarify that it’s short for ...

INTERVIEW: More space for India
MySpace talks of plans for the Indian market.. MySpace, which describes itself as a social portal, has embarked on a drive to make its brand more prominent in the Indian space. In January, MySpace unveiled the Black Curtain Screening programme ...

INTERVIEW: Share, ‘unshare’
Seclore Tech says its software can help companies share information with other companies or clients without compromising on security.. Seclore Technology, incubated at IIT Bombay, provides information rights management services to enterprises. ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Innovation calls
The mobile screen is set to offer more for rural Indian consumers, says Nokia.. Astrology, Bollywood and cricket might not be a thing of the past, but the Indian mobile application developer community has certainly moved beyond these three ...

INTERNET: Focus on career
Another networking site? ApnaCircle says it’s different.. You must be sick of the word social networking now, what with constant talk of the action in the space. So, what’s new that’s happening here, you ...

INTERNET: Virtual less real?
After last week's revelation of what I'd been missing because I was fiddling with my pda phone during the commute rather than listen to a loved one or a good friend or even simply sitting watching to the world go by, I decided to take an ...

CYBER QUEST: Quiz
V.V. Ramanan. 2. Which retailer recently paid $5.1 million for the Toys.com ...

BOOKS: Hire corporate software officer
And give him/her some resources, as well as your ear, exhorts this book.. There is enough and more of bad news already around, so you may not like to know more on how not to succeed. Yet, here is a book with 52 ways to go under in business by ...

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