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TELECOMMUNICATIONS: India will get next 400 million mobile users five times faster
Cellular operators revise forecast to 893 million users by 2012. New Delhi, June 3 It took 15 years for India to get 400 million mobile users, but under three years it will add the next 400 ...

E-COMMERCE & E-BUSINESS: eFiling of personal income-tax getting good returns
DIGITAL DILEMMA WANING. Coimbatore, June 3 The Electronic Filing (eFiling) of income-tax returns by individuals is catching on, albeit ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: BSNL readying WiMax tender for rural broadband project
7,000 base stations to set up common service centres in villages. New Delhi, June 3 To boost its plans to roll out WiMax-enabled broadband services in the rural areas, state-owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd will shortly launch a Rs 1,500-crore ...

OUTLOOK: Auto majors’ bankruptcies add to challenges facing IT vendors
Reliance on BFSI and telecom verticals may have to be enhanced. The impact of the US recession is beginning to show in the non-BFSI verticals of IT ...

SOFTWARE: IBM tells channel partners to upgrade sales, service skills
‘We want to work only with those who can deliver results’. Chennai, June 3 IBM is talking tough with its non-performing channel partners, asking them to improve skills or be left out. The US software major has asked its partners to ...

SOFTWARE: Patni eyeing next generation telecom tech
Focus on access via phones, better streaming of content. Hyderabad, June 3 Patni Computers is gearing up to take advantage of the potential demand for next generation telecom technologies such as fixed-mobile convergence and long-term ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: HC asks BSNL to maintain status quo on GSM tender till June 10
New Delhi, June 3 The Andhra Pradesh High Court on Wednesday asked Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd to maintain status quo in the tendering process for awarding to Huawei a contract for rolling out GSM network in the South zone till June ...

OUTSOURCING: New metrics in BPOs
With the BPO (business process outsourcing) sector being one of the leading revenue-earners of our country, providing millions of job opportunities to Indians, quite naturally it is becoming one such industry where domain expertise is ...

INFRASTRUCTURE: Gujarat Govt, IL&FS sign pact with Cisco
Gujarat International Finance Tec-City Company Ltd (GIFTCL) and Infrastructure Leasing and Financial Services Ltd (IL&FS) on Wednesday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Cisco for the proposed Gujarat International ...

STOCKS: Satyam breaches Tech Mahindra offer price
Mumbai, June 3 The stock of Satyam Computer Services has been trading above acquirer Tech Mahindra’s open offer price of Rs 58 a piece for the last ...

IT TRAINING: Aptech sells stake in China jt venture co
Mumbai, June 3 Education and training services company Aptech has successfully completed sale of its 50 per cent equity interest in joint venture company ...

HARDWARE: Dell Netbook
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HUMAN RESOURCES: Directi to hire 1,500 more in two years
Mumbai, June 3 At a time when technology companies in the country are either laying off people or freezing recruitments, Internet products firm Directi plans to grow its headcount four-fold, to 2,000 from 500 people, within the next ...

OUTLOOK: Wipro sees no major impact from GM bankruptcy
Bangalore, June 3 Wipro Ltd said the bankruptcy declaration of Detroit-based customer General Motors Corp will not have any adverse impact on the ...

From eWorld

HEALTH: Alive and clicking
The healthcare space is ticking with promise for technology players battling spending cuts by clients.. When was the last time you actually celebrated a fever? Years ago when it helped you escape a dreaded Hindi or Maths test? For grownups too, ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Be your own phone exchange
Google Voice calls up with its offer of a single number for your many different phone needs.. The much-awaited Google Voice service is expected to change the way telephone services are managed traditionally. In 2007, Google acquired ...

SECURITY: Caught in a data storm
The leak of information concerning British MPs and other happenings throw focus on electronic information and its handling.. We in India often complain about the aggression of our media and the questionable tactics that they allegedly use ...

WEBSITE REVIEW: Reading, unlimited
Reading is fun and the best of unlimited access to the Internet is that you read as much as you want. Today your favourite classics might be out of print but if you can log onto Project Gutenberg ( ...

INTERVIEW: ‘Tailored to fit SME needs’
Big Blue on its initiative for the small and medium player.. The millions of small and medium businesses in India need the backing of technology to support their plans to get into the big league. However, the current economic downturn has ...

INTERVIEW: Tech is still buzzword…
…for entrepreneurs, asserts this player, which deploys IT in the real-estate segment.. It is not easy to find many who are cheerful during the current downturn. But Challa Sumedh Reddy is different, despite being in the real-estate ...

CYBER QUEST: Quiz
V.V. Ramanan. 1. According to a recent survey, which Asian country has been judged to have the worst ...

BOOKS: Caution on Cyburbia
More on how the online space is tapped to promote the growth of radical outfits.. From fewer than a hundred jihadi sites that existed prior to September 11, 2001, there are now nearly five thousand, observes James Harkin in Cyburbia: The ...

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