The Hindu Business Line : Wednesday, September 02, 2009

INFO-TECH

NEW PRODUCTS & SERVICES: Talk endlessly and still pay just Re 1
Tata Tele breaks per minute barrier with pay per call scheme. New Delhi, Sept. 1 Now talk on your mobile as much as you like without having to worry about per minute ...

REGULATORY BODIES & RULINGS: DoT’s single 8.5% licence fee plugs arbitrage loophole
Long-distance and ISP operators to bear the brunt. New Delhi, Sept. 1 The Department of Telecom has decided to do away with the existing variable licence fee structure for telecom operators and replacing it with a uniform rate of 8.5 per cent ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Reliance Comm prepays Rs 5,000 cr term loans
Company saves interest costs of Rs 700 cr annually. Chennai, Sept. 1 Reliance Communications has prepaid Rs 5,000 crore term loans raised from various domestic and foreign banks less than a year ago for terms three to five years. In the process, ...

INFRASTRUCTURE: Proposed IT township project near Rajarhat hits roadblock
Kolkata, Sept. 1 The prospect of the proposed IT township near Rajarhat, on the fringes of Kolkata, seems to have hit a roadblock due to local disturbances related to land acquisition. Wipro and Infosys, among others, were supposed to have ...

SOFTWARE: Enhanced SaaS platform from Wipro
Wipro Technologies will offer ‘w-SaaS’, a platform for rapid Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) enablement of business applications using Oracle Grid Computing and Oracle application grid middleware for independent software vendors (ISVs). ...

OUTLOOK: Cisco Services eyes market in Bangladesh
Bangalore, Sept. 1 Cisco Services is eyeing the Bangladesh market to offer services support to e-governance and education projects in the ...

EXPORTS & IMPORTS: Karnataka software exports rise 23%
Bangalore, Sept 1 Notwithstanding the global economic slowdown, revenue from software exports in Karnataka grew 23 per cent to Rs 74,929 crore for 2008-09, and constituted 34 per cent of the national software ...

From eWorld

SOFTWARE: You take over from here
Shrinking R&D budgets are forcing software makers to hive off dedicated centres, or captives, and these find ready buyers in outsourced product development companies. What’s the financial logic?. Like any other sector, Indian IT ...

INTERVIEW: The silver lining
HP is working to make cloud computing secure.. Balu Doraisamy is the Senior Vice-President and Managing Director (Asia-Pacific & Japan) of technology multi-major Hewlett-Packard. Based in Singapore, he is responsible for driving overall ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: The heart and eyes of AT&T
Inside the network giant’s operations centre, which works round the clock to keep its cables humming without stop.. The name ‘GNOC’, for the global network operations centre of America’s largest telecom service provider, ...

INTERNET: Doctor is online
A local developer helps a Coimbatore hospital host an interactive site on interventional radiology.. Even when she was in college, pursuing her Masters in Software Engineering, Kavitha started earning in dollars by taking up small projects for ...

INTERVIEW: All for fun, fun for all
Microsoft sees the future in connected entertainment.. For a long time nothing seemed to happen in Microsoft, though one did occasionally hear about some research or the other. This year you can see many things coming out of Microsoft research ...

SOFTWARE: Play from a `cloud'
Gaming reaches for the sky.. With most of us living our second lives in virtual worlds, chatting with virtual people or even flying to thousands of exciting virtual 3D locations, the `cloud' definitely looks like the way to the future. It has ...

INTERNET: In network we trust
AT&T's security chief on trusting service providers to save you from online attacks.. If you knew that the water you received at home was contaminated, what would be the first thing you would do about it? Get the provider, the water board or ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Beyond the network
AT&T is a network company. It also does research in data analysis. Where could these skills come in handy? Chris Volinsky, who heads the data warehousing unit at AT&T Labs, answers this. “We see more than one billion transactions ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: mvno — on the go
AT&T is in talks with major telecom carriers in India to offer MVNO services to enterprise customers. Typically, Mobile Virtual Network Operators (MVNO) use a partner’s backbone to offer services. V.S. Gopinath, Chairman and CEO ...

CYBER QUEST: Cyber quest
V.V. Ramanan. 2. In what way is the contribution of Armas Clifford “Mike” Markkula Jr. important in the history of ...