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STOCKS: Talk of undersea cable network sale drags RCom
Company denies any such move. The Reliance Communications counter witnessed selling activity on the bourses on Monday following a news report that the Mumbai-based company is looking to sell its undersea fibre optic network and US. ...

INTERNET: Framework to adopt new Net protocol in the offing
DoT to announce migration path to IPv6. The Department of Telecom is all set to announce its policy for adopting the next generation protocol for Internet services in ...

INTERNET: Basic rate cut for .IN registrations
Move to lift registrations beyond the current 5 lakh users. In a bid to push up volumes for .IN domain, the National Internet Exchange of India (NIXI) has slashed the basic cost for domain name registration payable by the registrars to Rs 200 ...

COURTS/LEGAL ISSUES: Court pulls up Microsoft for ‘forum hiring'
Asks software major to pay Rs 8 lakh as cost security. The Delhi High Court has asked software major Microsoft to shell out Rs 8 lakh as cost security for deliberately choosing Delhi to file copyright violation cases, despite having offices in ...

INFRASTRUCTURE: Innovation Lab in Kochi
Innovation Lab, an extension centre of Technopark TBI and Indian Telecom Innovation Hub (ITIH-TBI), will open its platform for young innovators here on Tuesday. Innovation Lab offers an opportunity to innovative thinkers to establish ...

INTERNET: ‘Enough space for both .IN and .COM'
The spurt in .IN domain name (representing country name India in Web site names) registrations does not pose any threat to the growth of the widely popular .COM in India, according to Mr Kartik Taneja, Head Domain Name Business, VeriSign ...

NEW PRODUCTS & SERVICES: 7Seas Tech launches 3D racing game
With the rising computer penetration, 7Seas Technologies Ltd, an online gaming content company, has set its focus on the domestic market by launching a 3D ...

PEOPLE: Pitney Bowes joins BSA
Pitney Bowes Business Insight, global provider of location and communication intelligence software, data and services, on Monday said it has joined the Business Software Alliance (BSA) in India as a member.As part of the membership agreement, ...

SOFTWARE: Dr Reddy's deploys MIDAS
Bodhtree Consulting has announced that Dr Reddy's Laboratories selected its MIDAS (Multi Industry Data Anomaly Solution) for integrating key applications such as ERP (enterprise resource planning), SCM (supply chain management) and third ...

SOFTWARE: ‘Telangana developments may dent Brand Hyderabad'
The Hyderabad Software Exporters' Association (HYSEA) has expressed its concern that the Brand Hyderabad and Andhra Pradesh as a peaceful destination for information technology (IT) and IT-enabled services companies might be dented in the ...

From eWorld

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: NOKing out competition?
Telecom player Nokia is looking to recover lost ground and beat back rivals, ‘with global applications that connect to the regional.'. Nokia's Finnish HQ or Bond-villain lair?” a fellow journalist tweeted on his smartphone, later ...

INTERVIEW: Tech spending? It's happening!
TCS explains why it feels all the noise about Indian IT spends is justified.. Sleep is the best cure for waking troubles, or so goes a Spanish proverb. As someone who has the knack of getting to sleep immediately, by intent, especially during ...

RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT: Water, water everywhere...
…but not a drop to waste, says IBM, citing its project for the US city of Dubuque.. It looks like any other office campus of an IT company with its well-manicured lawns and a large building with a glass façade. That is, till you ...

VIRUSES: Virus attack
A friend of mine received an offer for a free 'share alert' program. It would scan and analyse the stock markets in real time and would provide 'live' alerts. He didn't know the sender, but thought the program was just what he wanted, as he was ...

INTERVIEW: Cut costs to soar
Airlines need cost-effective IT solutions to boost ROI, avers Sonata Software.. With increased globalisation and opening up of the skies, the challenges being faced by domestic airlines are similar to those of their international counterparts, ...

RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT: Tuning it just for you
Spitfire Automotive Performance says it can customise your car engine settings.. If you wanted to buy a car, what are the specifications you would want to check before deciding on the model? Performance, engine power, fuel efficiency, leg room, ...

SECURITY: Bring in the experts
Build a large corps of professionals to boost cyber crime investigation.. Mid-December may be a bit too early to review all that happened during 2009 on the cyber security front. This is especially so without the benefit of the analyses of ...

CYBER QUEST: Quiz
1. According to Google's annual Zeitgeist findings, the “fastest rising” worldwide search term of ...

CARTOON: Cartoon
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BOOKS: In Googley terms, life is a beta
In these digital times, publicness is a community asset.. Google is not merely changing our societies, lives, relationships, and worldviews; it is probably changing even our brains in ways we can only begin to calculate, writes Jeff Jarvis in ...






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