The Hindu Business Line : Saturday, June 27, 2009

INFO-TECH

POLICY: 3G policy goes back to GoM on PMO orders
Quick decision likely as auction is on 100-day agenda. New Delhi, June 26 The Prime Minister’s Office has asked the Communications and IT Ministry to refer the policy on third generation mobile services to a Group of Ministers on IT ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: DoT may peg entry fee for telecom licence at Rs 45 cr
No spectrum; ISPs can offer Net telephony post migration. New Delhi, June 26 The Department of Telecom proposes to peg the one-time entry fee for new telecom licences at Rs 45 crore for pan-India unified access services. This licence will not be ...

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS: Gemini buys 51% in Sanat Tech
Network services company Gemini Communication Ltd has acquired a 51 per cent stake in the city-based Sanat Technologies, which help customers to store data. Separately, it has formed an equal joint venture with Switzerland-based Geoss ...

NEW PRODUCTS & SERVICES: BBC World on Reliance mobile
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TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Airtel enables search for blue-collar jobs
Bangalore, June 26 Airtel has launched an innovative ‘Jobs on mobile’ service for blue- collar jobs in Bangalore. This is a one-of-a-kind mobile service catering to people belonging to the lower middle class and low-income groups ...

PEOPLE: Wipro board reappoints Premji as CMD
Bangalore, June 26 The board of directors of Wipro Ltd has re-appointed Mr Azim H. Premji as Chairman and Managing Director for two more years effective ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Vodafone Zoozoos fail to impress at Cannes
Mumbai, June 26 It may not be as big as last year but India so far has managed to get three nominations this year in the Film Lions category at the International Advertising Festival, Cannes. JWT’s ...

OUTLOOK: CMC eyes ID project
Mr S. Ramadorai, Chairman of TCS subsidiary CMC Limited, has said that the company would explore the opportunities in unique identification database project announced by the Union Government. “We will explore the opportunity along ...

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 ...