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CONVERGENCE: Soon, TV shows will come ‘live’ on your mobile phones
Mundu.TV. Mumbai, Nov. 10 Bored sitting in traffic? Well soon you might be able to stream your favourite Saas-Bahu serial, movie, cricket match or news on your mobile phone ...

TECHNOLOGY: Now, location-based mobile tariffs
New Delhi, Nov. 10 After offering seconds-based billing, mobile operators are now looking to introduce location-based tariffs that will enable users get discounts if they make calls from an area where the operator’s network is ...

OUTLOOK: Double-digit growth by next year: Nasscom
‘We have to move beyond 6 major cities to grow’. New Delhi, Nov. 10 With a turnaround in global business sentiment, the Indian IT sector is expected to return to double digit growth by the next financial year, according to the ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Alcatel-Lucent offers to match Huawei’s price for BSNL deal
PSU major close to sealing deal with Ericsson for East, North Zones. New Delhi, Nov. 10 Franco-American equipment vendor Alcatel-Lucent has made an offer to Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd for supplying GSM network gear at the price quoted by Chinese ...

EVENTS: Bangalore IT.biz starts today
Bangalore, Nov. 10 The 12th edition of the Karnataka Government-sponsored ICT event, Bangalore IT.biz 2009, will begin on ...

HARDWARE: Sony India eyeing 30% growth in laptop biz
Kolkata, Nov. 10 Sony India Ltd is eyeing 30 per growth in laptop business in 2010-11, according to its Head, IT, SE & PS Sales and Marketing Department, Mr Sachin ...

ALLIANCES & JOINT VENTURES: NIIT to offer SAP training programme
New Delhi, Nov. 10 IT training major NIIT and SAP India on Tuesday entered into an alliance for offering SAP training programmes in India and ...

FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE: Vodafone’s India revenue up by 20%
New Delhi, Nov. 10 Vodafone’s India revenues have increased by 20.5 per cent during the half year ended September 2009 to £1,485 million from £1,178 million in the first half of last year. However, EBITDA declined 4.4 ...

INFRASTRUCTURE: Vrindavan TechVillage to add more space by next year
Bangalore, Nov. 10 Vrindavan TechVillage, an SEZ being developed by Assetz Property Group in Bangalore, will add a million sq.ft to its existing business park by the middle of next ...

IT TRAINING: Online education tool from GS Lab
Pune, Nov. 9 Pune-based IT services provider Great Software Laboratory Pvt Ltd (GS Lab) has made a foray into product development and is ready with its first branded product, kPoint, which will be launched in the country on ...

PEOPLE: Mahindra Satyam hires Infosys’ Sudhir Nair
Hyderabad, Nov. 10 Mahindra Satyam has hired Mr Sudhir Nair as Senior Vice-President and Head of Infrastructure ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Vodafone is largest in Bengal
Vodafone Essar is the only service provider with 100 per cent accessibility in Kolkata, says a company release quoting a TRAI report on comparative analysis of all telecom players in Kolkata and West Bengal. Vodafone has got the largest network ...

From eWorld

SECURITY: More teeth and byte to IT law
Changes to the IT Act will enable it to crack down on cyber offences strongly but the law is ‘soft’ in parts, say experts.. Nearly three years after it was introduced in the Lok Sabha and almost a year after it received a green ...

INTERNET: Orkut promises new look, feel
Says it has factored in the ‘care’ factor while helping its users network.. Social networking is gearing up for a wave of evolution. Not just in terms of features and functions but in the very way it is being used, if recent ...

INTERVIEW: ‘Big role for BIOS, boss’
The basic input/output system is playing a major role in embedded intelligence, says American Megatrends.. While most people tend to stop with bland statements, such as innovation is key in the technology industry, S. Shankar, President and CEO ...

NEW PRODUCTS & SERVICES: Waiting for the Wave
I was almost consumed by a great Wave last month. It is a miracle I am ...

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY: Simplify man-machine interaction
‘Multimodal systems’ enable your computer to carry out your commands with less fuss.. Why can’t we interact with a computer as naturally as we interact with a fellow human being? Why do we have to learn to type, click, scroll ...

INTERVIEW: ‘Revival of Indian offshoring has begun’
Ashok Soota, Executive Chairman, MindTree, looks ahead at prospects for Indian IT.. I am privileged to have been given a third innings. I would like to make the most of it,” is the answer you get when you ask Ashok Soota what keeps him ...

BOOKS: Space technologies in defence
Future R&D: Space-based X-Ray lasers for dramatic capabilities in space applications and earth wars.. Outer space is internationally accepted as the common heritage of mankind, but it is increasingly getting used for military purposes, cautions ...

CYBER QUEST: Quiz
V.V. Ramanan. 2. Name the USB flash storage device developed by Microsoft along ...

NEW PRODUCTS & SERVICES: A Prodigy launch
Prodigy Electronics has announced the release of its Handheld Industrial Computer PE-HIC, powered by Samsung ARM9 processor and ported with Linux 2.6 operating system. The PE-HIC is available in two models: Basic Model and Printer Model, ...

NEW PRODUCTS & SERVICES: Solar recharge
Sanyo Energy Corporation, a subsidiary of Sanyo Electric Co Ltd, has announced the extension of the company’s eneloop series to include AA-, AAA-, C- and D-sized batteries and accompanying Universal Charger, as well as the ...






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