The Hindu Business Line : Tuesday, May 26, 2009

INFO-TECH

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS: Bharti, MTN set to ring new $23-b merger tone
Revived deal envisages combination of cash, stock. New Delhi, May 25 Bharti Airtel Ltd and South Africa’s MTN Group have restarted merger talks to create a $20-billion (in revenue terms) emerging markets telecom entity, a year after ...

NEW BUSINESS: HCL Info nets Rs 240-cr BSNL system integration order
To unify telecom major’s finance, commissioning, operations functions. HCL Infosystems on Monday said it has bagged a Rs 240-crore system integration order from state-run Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: New Sistema Shyam Chairman
Sistema Shyam TeleServices (SSTL), a joint venture between Sistema of Russia and Shyam Group of India, has appointed Mr Ron Sommer as the Chairman of its board. Mr Sommer was earlier CEO of Deutsche Telekom. SSTL has also appointed Mr ...

HARDWARE: Moser Baer Photo Voltaic’s expansion plans may get pushed back by 1-2 quarters
New Delhi, May 25 Moser Baer Photo Voltaic Ltd’s (MBPV) capacity expansion roadmap for manufacturing solar cells and modules could get pushed-back by one or two quarters, to 2010-end, as the company seeks a clarity in the demand ...

INTERNET: Carpooling Web site for Technopark
Group of Technopark Companies (GTech), the strategic grouping of IT companies based in the Technopark here, has launched a carpooling Web site under the ‘green ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Bharti, MTN may retain current management structures
New Delhi, May 25 To avoid any conflict over control of the merged entity, Bharti and MTN are likely to retain their existing management structures to run the operations in the respective ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Merger move reflects telcos’ need to look beyond India
Mumbai, May 25 Indian telecom operators are venturing into emerging geographies such as Africa to arrest falling subscriber revenues and counter long-term fears of a slowdown in the ...

ENVIRONMENT: Dell bans export of electronic waste
Bangalore, May 25 Computer maker Dell has banned the export of non-working electronics to developing countries as part of its global policy on responsible ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: IDEA Cellular launches services in Tamil Nadu
Coimbatore, May 25 As part of its national roll-out plan, Aditya Birla Group’s IDEA Cellular has entered Tamil Nadu by launching its services in Coimbatore and marking its presence in other major towns and cities in the State. ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Considerable business synergies for Bharti
Chennai, May 25 Indian telecom players are once again back to wooing MTN, the pan-African telecom operator. After talks with Bharti Airtel (Bharti) and subsequently Reliance Communications failed to produce a partnership last year, Bharti is ...

From eWorld

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Clear signal on spectrum
DoT has suggested a market-based mechanism for spectrum allocation, instead of subscriber numbers. Call of clarity, say market watchers.. On May 13, a committee under the Department of Telecom submitted a 56-page report on how spectrum ...

INTERVIEW: From MB to GB to TB to…
HP captures turning points in the evolution of storage.. How much information did we create in 2008? The equivalent of more than: 237 billion fully-loaded Amazon Kindle wireless reading devices, 4.8 quadrillion online bank transactions, 3 ...

INTERVIEW: Clients will need to keep spending…
…albeit more carefully, and there are opportunities to be captured, says Cognizant.. It isn’t easy to stump Francisco D’Souza, President and CEO, Cognizant. At age 39, and as CEO of a $3-billion corporation, he has obviously ...

E-GOVERNANCE: Service is a call away
A feel of the e-lokshahi project in Jalgaon district.. Jalgaon District in the north-west region of Maharashtra is known for its advances in horticulture. Its production of bananas and cotton through drip irrigation has been cited as a role ...

INTERVIEW: Crisis under check
Technology can help healthcare tackle virus outbreaks more effectively, says this player.. Collecting and sharing vital health information underpins the successful containment of virus outbreaks and is one of the key requirements to ensure that ...

INTERVIEW: Open opportunity
Red Hat sees career scope in the open source software space.. IT budgets may have shrunk but the demand for IT services is on the rise, says Shankar Iyer, Director (Services), Red Hat. “As adoption of Open Source increases during the time ...

BOOKS: ‘Cyber shepherd’ for grazing tips
Sample some innovative instances of ICT at work.. Political turmoil is almost always the top news about Nepal, and not many may be aware that, at a different level, the tiny landlocked country is striving to harness the powers of ICT ...

CYBER QUEST: Quiz
V. V. Ramanan. 1. Name the aborted Microsoft product for China which was to be a set-top operating system designed to work with ...

CARTOON: Cartoon
“Latest latest gadget, madam. Analog clock with a built-in digital ...

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