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REGULATORY BODIES & RULINGS: CBI searches DoT office
Probing allegations of irregularities in awarding mobile licences. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Thursday searched the office of the Department of Telecommunications to investigate corruption charges against some officials for ...

PEOPLE: Mentor turns promoter of bright ideas
Narayana Murthy sells 8 lakh Infy shares to raise Rs 175 cr for VC fund. Bangalore, Oct. 22 After having steered the company for 28 years through various ups and downs and scaling many new heights, Mr N. R. Narayana Murthy, Chairman and Chief ...

NEW PRODUCTS & SERVICES: Microsoft rolls out Windows 7
PC makers line up new products that come pre-loaded with new OS. New Delhi/Bangalore, Oct. 22 Want your PC to instantly hide everything on the screen when boss peeps over your shoulder? Microsoft’s new Operating System Windows 7, released ...

ALLIANCES & JOINT VENTURES: Wipro forms joint venture with Delhi airport
Strikes 10-year outsourcing deal to provide IT infrastructure, services. Bangalore, Oct. 22 Wipro Ltd has formed a joint venture with Delhi International Airport (P) Ltd to offer IT services to airports across the country and abroad. Wipro will ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: BSNL to set up tower operations centre soon
Hyderabad, Oct. 22 Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL), which is targeting annual revenues of Rs 1,000 crore from infrastructure sharing with competitors, will set up an exclusive Tower Operations Centre soon. The TOC will manage one-fourth of ...

SECURITY: Cyber crooks play on ‘thrift’ sentiment
Coimbatore, Oct. 22 It is not unusual for cyber crooks to target e-mail accounts, but when the criminals exposed over 10,000 Hotmail users’ passwords and posted them on a site, the information breach could not be ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Weather inputs for farmers on mobile phones
Thiruvananthapuram, Oct. 22 handygo Ltd, a leading wireless solution provider in mobile and value-added services, has tied up with India Meteorological Department (IMD) to provide farmers with meteorological inputs through Interactive ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Russia to decide on stake buy by year-end, says Sistema Shyam
Bangalore, Oct. 22 The Russian Government is likely to decide by the year-end on buying a stake in Sistema Shyam Teleservices Ltd (SSTL), one of the newest telecom operators in ...

HUMAN RESOURCES: Satyamites on regular rolls shocked
OUSTING ORDER. Hyderabad, Oct. 22 The e-mail Mahindra Satyam sent to 4,500 employees on the virtual pool has proved to be a shocker for the regular ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: 3G meet today
Mumbai, Oct. 22 The fifth edition of the 3G India International Conference will be held ...

CONVERGENCE: SmartLearn Telcomp on expansion mode
Chennai, Oct. 22 SmartLearn Telcomp, a newly launched company that provides online coaching using web TV platform, hopes to expand to 10 locations across the country and also in Singapore and the UAE ...

EVENTS: Workshop on mobile applications
T he Thiruvananthapuram Chapter of Computer Society of India (CSI) and the Kerala Section of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) will organise a two-day workshop on ‘Mobile applications – Technology ...

From eWorld

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: A ‘script’ for on-screen action
Tachyon now offers transliteration services on your mobile phone.. Reading or writing in your local language on the mobile phone could now get simpler. No, you don’t need a Hindi keypad to type in Hindi, nor do you have to type in the ...

SECURITY: Chinks in cyberspace
Attacks on top e-mail service providers are an eye-opener on safety.. I’m not worried about a teenage hacker reading my email. I’m worried about you reading ...

INSIGHT: Zero visibility
Reviewing new products can be fun. It can also drive you round the bend, depending on the company that has sent ...

CONVERGENCE: A feel of Windows Mobile 6.5
eWorld tuned in, found friendly user interface, better browsing experience.. Windows Mobile, which has always laid emphasis on offering `workable solutions' at enterprise level, is now tuning in to the demands of the feature-hungry smart ...

INTERVIEW: `eLearning market is wide open'
EdServ SoftSystems says it is keen to tap the full potential.. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance, says Will Durant. Which, perhaps, explains why the word `education' doesn't often excite people, despite the counsel of ...

CYBER QUEST: Quiz
V.V. Ramanan. 1. Name the flick in the making, which stars Jesse Eisenberg as Mark Zuckerberg and made by David Fincher, which tells the story of Facebook’s ...

BOOKS: Optimise your digital assets in online newsrooms
But mind, ensure navigability and user-friendliness.. Blogger relations, social media news releases, and the monitoring of online news outlets. If your company is already doing all these, it may be useful to know that these are only a part of ...

NEW PRODUCTS & SERVICES: Storage drive
Strontium, supplier of memory modules and flash products, has unveiled the Strontium Power Store Slim. “This portable hard drive features storage capacities of up to 500GB and strong data retention. It is the perfect portable ...

NEW PRODUCTS & SERVICES: Out of sight, out of mind
With cable outlets either side, CableBox Mini is ideal for hiding cords, adapters, small hubs and even small power strips, says J.S. Equipments. It is good for small power strips and cable clusters on the floor but it also works fine on ...

CARTOON: Cartoon
“Once I told them that it’s a social networking site, the venture capitalists just ...






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