The Hindu Business Line : Monday, May 25, 2009

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TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Clear signal on spectrum
DoT has suggested a market-based mechanism for spectrum allocation, instead of subscriber numbers. Call of clarity, say market watchers.. On May 13, a committee under the Department of Telecom submitted a 56-page report on how spectrum ...

INTERVIEW: From MB to GB to TB to…
HP captures turning points in the evolution of storage.. How much information did we create in 2008? The equivalent of more than: 237 billion fully-loaded Amazon Kindle wireless reading devices, 4.8 quadrillion online bank transactions, 3 ...

INTERVIEW: Clients will need to keep spending…
…albeit more carefully, and there are opportunities to be captured, says Cognizant.. It isn’t easy to stump Francisco D’Souza, President and CEO, Cognizant. At age 39, and as CEO of a $3-billion corporation, he has obviously ...

E-GOVERNANCE: Service is a call away
A feel of the e-lokshahi project in Jalgaon district.. Jalgaon District in the north-west region of Maharashtra is known for its advances in horticulture. Its production of bananas and cotton through drip irrigation has been cited as a role ...

INTERVIEW: Crisis under check
Technology can help healthcare tackle virus outbreaks more effectively, says this player.. Collecting and sharing vital health information underpins the successful containment of virus outbreaks and is one of the key requirements to ensure that ...

INTERVIEW: Open opportunity
Red Hat sees career scope in the open source software space.. IT budgets may have shrunk but the demand for IT services is on the rise, says Shankar Iyer, Director (Services), Red Hat. “As adoption of Open Source increases during the time ...

BOOKS: ‘Cyber shepherd’ for grazing tips
Sample some innovative instances of ICT at work.. Political turmoil is almost always the top news about Nepal, and not many may be aware that, at a different level, the tiny landlocked country is striving to harness the powers of ICT ...

CYBER QUEST: Quiz
V. V. Ramanan. 1. Name the aborted Microsoft product for China which was to be a set-top operating system designed to work with ...

CARTOON: Cartoon
“Latest latest gadget, madam. Analog clock with a built-in digital ...

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