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FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT: US panel favours 100% FDI in telecom sector
Recommendations sent to DoT; discussions on Nov 3. The United States Telecommunications Sub-committee, an advocacy body which looks into telecom regulations around the world, has suggested a slew of reforms for India to implement in the ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: ‘Mobile, TV are life enhancers’
Ajai Puri, Director & CEO – DTH, Bharti Airtel, speaks on how the company is going after the rural consumer, and shares his views on digitisation, CAS and more.. With the advantage of its mobile network, and a brand as strong as ...

CONVERGENCE: Follow the protocol
Internet Protocol TV is nascent in India with just a handful of providers, but promises to make advertising more focused.. Your 30-second television commercial is all set to get a digital makeover as the entertainment market gets restructured ...

SOFTWARE: ‘Wipro-GE Healthcare equity to stay 49:51’
Jt venture to use cash to buy out GE entities: Senapaty. Wipro Ltd does not see any changes to the equity structure in joint venture Wipro-GE Healthcare post integration of all the GE Healthcare units in India with the joint ...

FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE: HCL Tech Q1 net dips 10% on forex losses
Cautious on demand environment; hikes staff salaries. New Delhi, Oct. 28 IT services company HCL Technologies on Wednesday posted a 10 per cent drop in consolidated net profit for the quarter ended September 2009, with its earnings dented by ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Under-reporting of revenue?
Stanza 587 of the Tirukkural, translated into English would read: “A spy must search each hidden matter out, and full report must render, free from doubt.” The special auditor who has reported under-reporting ...

FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE: Hexaware net trebles
Mumbai, Oct. 28 Mid-size IT services company Hexaware Technologies has reported an over three-fold jump in net profit for the third quarter ended ...

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS: Sasken buys Ingenient’s assets, product portfolios
Bangalore, Oct. 28 Sasken Communication Technologies has acquired the product portfolio, some customer contracts and certain assets of the US-based Ingenient Technologies Inc, a provider of embedded multimedia ...

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS: On the prowl for buys
New Delhi, Oct. 28 Less than a year after it acquired Axon, HCL Technologies is on the prowl ...

SOFTWARE: ‘What happened with Satyam was an Indian problem’
The Corporate Affairs Minister, Mr Salman Khurshid, came out in support of Satyam’s revival saying that the Government would not let the revival be sabotaged by any ...

FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE: MRO Tek net loss at Rs 1.87 cr
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INTERVIEW: Recession is opportunity, not excuse, says HCL CEO
The HCL Technologies CEO, Mr Vineet Nayar, feels that the talk of recovery in the IT space is a bit premature and the industry continues to ...

SECURITY: Norton products for Windows 7
Symantec has updated its Norton-branded consumer products to provide seamless migration to Windows 7. The company has in a release stated that all active subscribers would automatically receive the appropriate compatibility update online. The ...

From eWorld

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: A clash of wills… and bills
The telecom regulator favours per second billing but not all players back a new billing regime. eWorld tuned in to talk at ITU Telecom World 2009.. With its spell-binding lakes, parks and gorgeous vineyards, the Swiss metropolis of Geneva is ...

SOFTWARE: Looking through Windows 7
Bitten by Vista, twice-shy about upgrading? Shed your fears.. After the delays that plagued the launch of Windows Vista, Microsoft has surprised us by announcing the launch of the next version — Windows 7 — ahead of schedule.We had ...

SOFTWARE: Happy to ‘resort’ to Win 7
Mahindra Holidays & Resorts says it is pleasantly surprised by the many features of Microsoft’s latest offer.. I was pleasantly surprised,” were the first words from Mahesh Manchi, Chief Information Officer, Mahindra Holidays ...

TECHNOLOGY: Pick… pocket video conferencing
By opting for a high-definition Tandberg camera.. Video conferencing can never get simpler and better than this, it seems. One can not only carry the device in one’s pocket, but can also use it from anywhere without having to hunt for a ...

SOFTWARE: Windows 7: WHAT THEY SAY
eWorld sought feedback from hands-on users: This is what 23-year-old Robin Anil, who works in Bangalore with a software company, has to say to ...

INTERNET: Digital marketing
Google says its initiative can make a difference.. The Internet has never been a medium short of excitement. Whether it is social media sites such as Facebook or Orkut or video sites such as Youtube, the fan following and the time spent on these ...

SOFTWARE: ‘Microsoft is listening to users’
Analysts on Win 7 and its impact on Indian business.. How are industry watchers assessing the new release from Microsoft? Here are some takeaways, from analyst firms.Frost ...

CONSUMER ELECTRONICS: Play safe, print ‘em!
There was a time when we all had cameras with film rolls that could take only 36 photos, and if you made a mistake, there was no way to delete the photo. You took the film roll to the photo studio nearby and ordered ...

CYBER QUEST: Quiz
V.V. Ramanan. 1. Fred Berenson, a research associate at New York University, is to write which American classic entirely ...

BOOKS: Computers are language-neutral…
…the way babies too are, explains this guide to programming.. If you are a talented computer programmer, there is nothing to stop you from learning several computer languages and becoming ‘multilingual,’ encourages Richard ...

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