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| ICICI, Infy among best firms for nurturing talent | 23-NOV-09 |
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| As many as five Indian companies, including ICICI Bank and Infosys Technologies, rank among the top 12 companies in the Asia Pacific region for being instrumental in building leadership capability within their organisation. |
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| If another 26/11 happens | 23-NOV-09 |
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| The Heckler and Koch sub-machine guns have finally arrived, as have the Colt grenade launchers; 200 bullet-proof vests will eventually land up, as will 19 amphibious vehicles from Canada to help patrol the seas to prevent another sea-borne attack; at some point in the future, you will have CCTVs in each street corner… The questions, however, are whether this is enough to ensure there is no other attack on Mumbai; and, are other cities in the country, say Delhi, better prepared? NDTV 24x7’s Managing Editor Sreenivasan Jain, who spent months meeting the men in uniform, put some of this down to paper for Open magazine, and the account is as frightening as it is riveting. At one level, the story of The Untouchables, as he chooses to title his piece, is the familiar one of shortages of people and equipment. Mumbai has just 40,000 policemen to police a city of 20 million, and Jain recalls the iconic image of constable Jillu Yadav finding his . |
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| Tata DOCOMO launches per second roaming | 22-NOV-09 |
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| Mobile player Tata DOCOMO today launched per second billing for roaming across the country to take on rival Airtel, which announced a major cut in roaming charges last week. |
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| Vodafone seeks time till Jan for tax claim reply | 20-NOV-09 |
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| UK-based mobile major Vodafone has sought an extension until January 29 next year to reply to a tax claim notice issued last month by the Income-Tax department, the Lok Sabha was informed today. |
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| Tata Tele top grosser of mobile users in Oct | 20-NOV-09 |
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| Cellular service provider Tata Teleservices today said it has become the top grosser of subscribers for the third consecutive month, with over 3.8 million new mobile users in October. |
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| Airtel cuts mobile roaming rates by 60% | 20-NOV-09 |
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| Telecom major Bharti Airtel today cut mobile roaming rates by 60 per cent for its 115 million users, opening a new turf in the ongoing tariff war. |
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| SBI Card launches mShop | 20-NOV-09 |
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| SBI Card, the credit card service offering from the State Bank and GE Capital, today launched mShop to enable its customers shop from over 100 merchants across the country, using their mobile phones. |
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| Mobile apps prove a boon for Indian developers | 19-NOV-09 |
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| Shanmukh Raj, a 29-year-old developer who works for an Udipi (Karnataka)-based application development company called Robosoft, headed a four-member team which recently developed a popular online game called Chess Lite. “It took my team four months to develop this game for the iPhone. |
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| Sybase 365 continues robust growth in Asia market | 18-NOV-09 |
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| Sybase 365, a subsidiary of Sybase, Inc. (NYSE: SY), the global leader in mobile messaging and mobile commerce services, today announced further growth in the Asia market with its selection by eleven leading mobile operators to provide International SMS, MMS and GRX services. |
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| EGoM meet tomorrow to review 3G spectrum vacation | 18-NOV-09 |
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| An Empowered Group of Ministers (EGoM) will meet tomorrow to review progress on auction of 3G mobile licences, amid sharp differences between the telecom and defence ministries over release of spectrum (airwaves) for commercial use. |
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| Telenor cuts India capex by Rs 3,500cr | 18-NOV-09 |
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| Norwegian mobile operator Telenor today said it has slashed the earmarked capital expenditure by Rs 3,500 crore from Rs 15,500 crore spread over the next five years on lower equipment costs. |
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