The Hindu Business Line : Thursday, June 25, 2009

INFO-TECH

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS: Pearson to invest Rs 145 cr in Educomp, TutorVista
‘Perfect time to enter education business’. New Delhi, June 24 With the need for a skilled labour force growing in the country, Pearson Plc on Wednesday announced the establishment of a 50-50 joint venture with Delhi-based Educomp ...

BROADBAND: Give USO Fund autonomy, rationalise taxes for telecom: CII
Roadmap for accelerating broadband growth suggested. New Delhi, June 24 The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) on Tuesday submitted a five-point recommendation on telecom and broadband to Mr A. Raja, Minister for Communications and ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Convergence to drive mobile growth: Ericsson
Stockholm, June 24 Fifty billion connected devices! That Ericsson predicts will be the number of convergence devices providing voice, data and entertainment services by ...

PEOPLE: Polaris to get new COO
Mr Arup Gupta, Chief Operating Officer, Polaris Software Labs, has quit the company. Mr Govind Singhal, who had quit Polaris in 2005, will rejoin the company as the new COO for global delivery and operations. Mr Gupta, who is taking up a ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Tata Tele rolls out GSM under Tata Docomo brand
Chennai, June 24 Tata Teleservices Ltd announced on Wednesday the commercial launch of its GSM (global system for mobile communication) services in India, beginning with Chennai and rest of Tamil Nadu, under the brand Tata Docomo. The ...

E-COMMERCE & E-BUSINESS: Forceites’ online stock analysis tool launched
Mumbai, June 24 Forceites has announced the launch of an online stock analysis application that will generate calls for customers on stock price movements. The product, called Interday Trading Signals, is available through Vantagetrade.com, ...

HUMAN RESOURCES: Dell India to hire from campuses
Hyderabad, June 24 While most global IT majors are trimming both manpower and operations in India, Dell Inc. continues to scout for fresh talent from ...

SOFTWARE: Sungard keen to offer new software tools
Mumbai, June 24 US-based software and IT services company Sungard, which provides mission critical software applications to financial services and energy trading companies, wants to further expand its ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: RCom to launch Mobi TV on GSM
Hyderabad, June 24 Reliance Communications will soon offer 35 television channels for its GSM users. It would use Mimobi, a technology platform developed by the Hyderabad-based Apalya Technologies, to offer the ...

NEW BUSINESS: Firstsource bags IDEA deal
Firstsource Solutions has bagged a five-year, Rs 145-crore outsourcing deal from telecom services provider IDEA Cellular. As part of the deal, Firstsource will provide a suite of customer management interaction services on customer service, ...

NEW PRODUCTS & SERVICES: New GPS navigation gadget
GPS navigation services provider MapmyIndia has announced the launch of a new GPS navigation gadget ‘MapmyIndia LX130’ – nicknamed ‘MapmyIndia Light’. Priced at Rs 11,990, MapmyIndia Light weighs 122 gm and ...

From eWorld

HARDWARE: Still a drain on the purse
The rupee’s slight recovery against the dollar raised hopes of lower PC prices. But it looks like the gain has not reached the consumer.. If you were among those who had hoped that the Rupee’s relative recovery from the March 3 ...

INTERVIEW: Tune in to this Webbcast
TCS on what clients are looking for and the gaps it fills for them.. Long after you have met Simon Webb, the one thing you’d remember about him is the consistency in his answers to your queries. One strain ran through all that Webb, ...

INTERVIEW: ‘PMO’ as part of the action
The Project Manager’s Office is now part of good corporate governance, explains this player.. Project management, as a discipline, has been around for decades. So, what has been changing in it? The core of project management (PM) ...

E-COMMERCE & E-BUSINESS: `e' or no `e'.
When I was a kid, my father used to drag me to the bank to teach me banking and how to fill up forms. We lived in a small town called Srirangam and my father seemed to know almost everyone in the bank by name. There were forms for everything, ...

INTERVIEW: Swap notes
Tune in to the music potential of the mobile, as seen by Nokia.. The mobile phone is all talk — and a lot more music too, these days. Surging digital and mobile technology has changed music forever, and how people listen to it.According ...

INTERNET: For the small guys
MyTradeBook.com says it offers a B2B tool to benefit small and medium players.. A free Web-based business-to-business (B2B) tool that allows businesses to build networks, engage in interest groups, advertise products and services to buy and ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Hand as magic wand
Gestures as gene of future phone… Nokia takes eWorld on a tour.. Taking one step closer to living in Spielberg’s Minority Report, Nokia is now working towards making your phone the “sixth sense.” Two years ago, Steve ...

NEW PRODUCTS & SERVICES: No entry for burglars
Burg-Wachter from Germany has entered the Indian market with its keyless electronic door locking system for homes and offices. Besides E-key, pin-code or biometric fingerscan, one can operate the door via mobile phone or other ...

BOOKS: Moral tone on mobile
Are the voices against ‘misuse’ of technology capturing the real picture?. Sample these news headlines from the vernacular media: ‘Cell phone revolution: Satan in palm. Tragedy caused by cell phone. Seller of cell phone memory ...

CYBER QUEST: Quiz
2. Which Google honcho made this comment on Bing’s launch: “It’s not the first entry for Microsoft. They do this about once ...

CARTOON: Cartoon
“So, you have this feeling of someone constantly following you — Hmm...I think you’re either paranoid or you’re ...