The Hindu Business Line : Wednesday, March 05, 2008

TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Airtel launches mobile payment solutions
New Delhi, March 4 Bharti Airtel has launched a range of M-Commerce solutions in a wide-ranging partnership with HDFC Bank, ICICI Bank, SBI, Corporation Bank, VISA and mChek. Through this initiative Airtel subscribers with a credit or ... More

DoT nod for Tatas’ GSM plans
The Department of Telecommunications has given the go-ahead to Tata Teleservices Ltd and Tata Teleservices (Maharashtra) Ltd to launch mobile services based on global system for mobile communications (GSM). They had applied for dual technology ... More

Vodafone’s first store in Eluru
Hyderabad, March 4 Vodafone Essar has announced the launch of its first Vodafone Store in Eluru, in coastal Andhra Pradesh. Along with availability of new connections, Vodafone handsets, and various value-added services, the store ... More

BUDGET
BL CLUB
Budget disappoints IT; ‘with incentives, the sector could hit $200-b mark’
If sops for the information technology sector such as the software technology parks scheme were extended, the sector could generate revenues of $200 billion in the next 10-15 years, from the $60-billion in revenues it generates now, according ... More

Knowledge centres will help IT industry
The Government has allocated Rs 100 crore for the Information Technology Ministry to set up National Knowledge Centres. This is a positive step and will help boost the growth of IT industry. However, there is no change in the peak rate of ... More

IT peripherals industry will gain
The Union Budget this year is a mixed bag. While we are disappointed with the corporate tax and surcharge rates being unchanged, the reduction in CENVAT from 16 per cent to 14 per cent and lowering of Central sales tax to 2 per cent are ... More

HARDWARE
Now, Intel to power nettops, netbooks
Hyderabad, March 4 Chip-maker Intel on Tuesday said that the next billion Internet users could potentially come from what the company referred to as ‘netbooks’ and ‘nettops,’ a new breed of mobile Internet ... More

SOFTWARE
‘US east coast banks holding back some deals’
Other regions exploring outsourcing options: Polaris chief More

Microsoft unveils 3 products
India centre plays crucial role More

Etisalat opens India arm
Bangalore, March 4 The UAE-based Etisalat, which provides telecommunications services, has opened a subsidiary in India. Etisalat has set up a software solutions centre in Bangalore under the brand name ‘Technologia’, for ... More

Unified call centre tech from Aspect Software
Bangalore, March 4 Aspect Software, which provides products and services to the contact centre industry, is set to launch a technology worldwide that will converge ‘unified contact centre solutions’ with ‘unified ... More

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