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PEOPLE: Tech Mahindra nominees join Satyam board
Hyderabad, May 27 Tech Mahindra got its four nominees on the Satyam Computer Services board today, about 45 days after successfully winning a bid for a majority stake. With this development, Satyam’s board will now have the full ...

NEW BUSINESS: Infosys sees good demand in India, West Asia; bags 3 deals in home market
Bangalore, May 27 Infosys Technologies Ltd has won three significant deals in the last five months in India, a market that has become increasingly strategic to ...

M-COMMERCE: Dial your doctor, pay by phone
Patient-doctor link portal HealthcareMagic has said its subscribers now can not only consult a doctor on phone but also pay their fee by phone. The company has tied up with mobile payment service provider Atom Telecom to provide IVR-based ...

HARDWARE: Personal computer sales grow 7% in Jan-March 2009
But year-on-year shipments fall 19%. Bangalore, May 27 Improving literacy is beginning to translate into higher technology adoption in the country as evident from the rising personal computer (PC) ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Bharti, MTN to explore synergies
New Delhi, May 27 In a bid to optimise the merged entity, Bharti Airtel and South African telecom major MTN will discuss synergising their operations in a number of areas, including procurement of telecom equipment and international ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: DoT nod for Etisalat-Allianz merger
The Department of Telecom has given its nod to a proposed merger between Etisalat-Swan and Allianz Infratech. Allianz has licences to launch mobile services in Madhya Pradesh and Bihar. UAE’s Etisalat had earlier picked up a 45 per cent ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Aegis BPO to service MTS mobile customers
New Delhi, May 27 Sistema Shyam Teleservices Ltd (SSTL) announced a strategic agreement with Aegis BPO for outsourcing customer service operations of its mobile service brand MTS in the eastern ...

FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE: NIIT net drops 8% on hedging losses
New Delhi, May 27 NIIT Ltd on Wednesday posted eight per cent decline in its consolidated net profit for the year ended March 31, 2009 to Rs 69.8 crore on back of hedging losses of Rs 13.5 crore during the year. The company’s net ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: BSNL’s vigilance officer seeks clarification on GSM tender
New Delhi, May 27 Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd’s internal vigilance officer has asked the company’s management to clarify allegations made by Nokia Siemens against the tendering process followed in short-listing bidders for ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Does Bharti-MTN deal signal a recovery?
The first developing-nation foray into the ‘Big 5’ of the telecom world encompassing two fast-growing emerging wireless markets, India and Africa; consolidated post-deal financials, north of 200 million subscribers and revenues of ...

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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