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TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Defence sets new terms for vacating spectrum
New Delhi, March 24 Talks between the Department of Telecom and the Ministry of Defence for vacating spectrum have hit another bump with the defence forces wanting new conditions to be included in the proposed memorandum of ...

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS: Spice Group voices concern over bidding process
Approaches Satyam board, former Chief Justice. Spice Group on Tuesday approached the former Chief Justice of India Mr S.P. Bharucha as well as the board of Satyam Computer Services, voicing its concern over the bidding ...

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS: Satyam sets more conditions for winner
Hyderabad, March 24 As it set an April 30 deadline for the stake sale of Satyam Computer Services, the six-member board has put in more don’ts to the winner ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Pacnet hikes stake in India joint venture
To apply for long distance telephony licences. New Delhi, March 24 Hong Kong-based telecom services firm Pacnet on Tuesday announced that it has increased its stake in its India joint venture, Pacific Internet India Ltd, from 55 per cent to 74 ...

SOFTWARE: SitMobile commences operations in Kochi
Kochi, March 24 As a part of its global development programmes, SitMobile Software India has opened its office in Kochi, which will result in further recruitment and human resource developments and augment the company’s worldwide ...

OUTSOURCING: 3i Infotech opens Riyadh office
IT solutions company 3i Infotech has started a new office in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Mr Amit Trigunayat has been appointed as the operations head of 3i Infotech’s Saudi Arabia practice. The company recently bagged customers such as Al Fozan ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Live poll updates from Vodafone
Ahmedabad: Vodafone Essar on Monday announced the launch of the “Election Alert” service for the coming Lok Sabha election. It will provide four updates daily on the candidates’ profile, trivia about ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: HC asks Govt to decide on ByCell’s licences in 4 weeks
New Delhi, March 24 The Delhi High Court has asked the Government to take a decision on whether or not to issue telecom licences to Switzerland-based ByCell within four ...

SOFTWARE: UK co Digitella likely to shut Kerala office
Thiruvananthapuram, March 24 Digitella Technologies, a UK-based IT services company, appears to be closing down its offshore development centre — Digitella Outsourcing Pvt Ltd — located in Technopark ...

EVENTS: Seminar on India-China software cooperation
Technopark Thiruvananthapuram is hosting a seminar on India-China software co-operation on ...

PEOPLE: UST Global country head for India
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From eWorld

INTERVIEW: ‘Use downturn as an opportunity to learn’
Customer centricity will be growth driver during slowdown, says Infosys.. The financial and economic turmoil in the US offers both a challenge and opportunity to the tech sector, say IT ...

INTERVIEW: Find toxic assets with analytics
Analytics helps companies to find the pattern underlying data and correct problems, says expert.. It was an early morning meeting, only a few days post 26/11, and when Rita Chakravarti arrived at the Business Line office, after surviving an ...

TECHNOLOGY: All IT takes is a touch
Touch-enabled gadgets are sprouting up everywhere – Here’s a feel of the action.. Picture a surface that can recognise physical objects — from a paintbrush to a cell-phone — and allows finger control to content such as ...

INTERNET: Hit their trail
It’s election time! And it’s summer. If you have planned a vacation, you are pretty much going to be bombarded with news of what politicians are saying and doing, down to every small detail on newspapers, magazines, television, ...

INTERNET: ‘I get what you are saying’
This service helps Americans understand the English spoken by Indian partners.. Ah, the vagaries of the English language! Sometimes it seems you have to eat a dictionary before you can even think of improving vocabulary. For all those who grew ...

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS: Acquisition — and after
Fidelity on the integration challenges after its eFunds buy.. In June 2007, the US-based Fidelity National Information Services (FIS) acquired eFunds Corporation, also an American company, which then had around 4,000 employees working in India, ...

INTERNET: For the HR manager
First Advantage says it offers a candidate background screening service.. It’s easy to hate the HR department in your company. But recruitment is an onerous process. Checking out and getting together a pool of work-ready employees ...

BOOKS: A taste of online journalism
But don’t forget traditional media if you are eyeing progress.. Online news is a young medium, so there are plenty of opportunities to progress fast, writes Andy Bull in The NCTJ Essential Guide to Careers in Journalism (
CYBER QUEST: Quiz
V.V. Ramanan.

1. Which computer-maker is touted as having the ‘greenest family ...






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