France-based telecommunication firm Alcatel-Lucent today said it has bagged a five-year contract worth about $150 million from Unitech Wireless, a telecom venture of real estate major Unitech, to support the launch of the company&rsquo;s GSM mobile services.

Alcatel-Lucent bags 5-year tele deal from Unitech

Press Trust of India

Launches 3G services in Mumbai under the brand Jadoo.

MTNL drops plan to acquire Sri Lankan telco Suntel

Business Standard

Bharti Airtel, India&rsquo;s largest telecom operator, announced today that it had got more than 100 million customers, making it the third-largest telecom company in the world, in terms of in-country subscribers.

Bharti Airtel crosses 100 mn customers

State-owned telecom service provider Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd (MTNL) became the first company to launch 3G services in Mumbai and Delhi, the two most coveted circles, after priority allocation of spectrum. However, it has withdrawn its plan to acquire Sri Lanka&rsquo;s Suntel, while attempts to enter Saudi Arabian and Kenyan markets were also not successful. Chairman and Managing Director RSP Sinha tells Rajesh S Kurup that he continues to look at global opportunities.

'We will give the competition a run for its money'

Suresh Balasubramanian, national sales director of Cisco Consumer Business Group (India) is not only besotted with his Flip handycam but also feels that it has taught him the basics of creative photography with a multitude of functions for amateurs. Not one to waste money on accumulating pointless gadgets, he is all for investing in technology that will automate and synchronise his household appliances.

Flipping for gadgets

Give tax sops, log off slump

Human capital is mostly ignored by accountants, believes the management of India&rsquo;s second-largest information technology (IT) services provider, Infosys Technologies. Arguing that this should not be the case, the company has used the &ldquo;Lev &amp; Schwartz&rdquo; model and pegged the value of each employee at Rs 97 lakh, primarily based on the potential value of their future earnings for the company.

Each Infosys employee is worth almost Rs 1 crore for the firm

Last week, it became the third telecom brand in the world to cross the 100-million subscriber mark. That took 15 years, but Airtel now wants to add another 100 million in just three years.

Airtel's next call

With the economic downturn forcing companies to look more seriously at alternative ways to invest in IT infrastructure upgrades, SumTotal Systems Inc, a US-based provider of talent development solutions that has its global development in Hyderabad, is shifting its focus on providing software-as-a-service (SaaS)-based offerings globally.

SumTotal to double revenues via SaaS

The move ensures more than just &lsquo;five-star&rsquo; treatment; provides Wi-Fi access, Internet Protocol phone, plasma screens, gaming consoles...to residents.

Hotels go hi-tech to woo travellers

Smartphones are for those who demand everything from productivity to voice services, without compromising on the looks of the handset. There&rsquo;s an overwhelming variety of handsets in the market which only makes the decision even more daunting for smartphone lovers. Here are 2009&rsquo;s most deserving business phones.

No compromise phone

As a student of IIT Madras, Ram Prakash and his batchmate K S Sreeram were the only graduates who did not take part in campus recruitment. Driven by their dream to start their own venture, they almost scandalised their families when they launched a company Tachyon in 2000, right after college with a paltry investment of Rs 4 lakh. &ldquo;Even this amount was part borrowed from family, who were really anxious about our lack of work experience since the year we launched was really not the best time for a new technology venture,&rdquo; says Ram Prakash , the co-founder and CEO, Tachyon Technologies.

The making of a freewheeling success story

&ldquo;The politicians are untouchables, they can do whatever they want and people like me...the aam janta, we feel helpless,&rdquo; blogs Anurag Kashyap. Hot on the election trail, the filmmaker writes on news website IBNlive.com, branching out from his regular blogs on a cinema portal. &ldquo;Some of these MPs also have attendance less than 20 per cent (in Parliament). Imagine if you were in college and had 20 per cent attendance, would they let you sit the exams?&rdquo; he questions. Reader&rsquo;s comments have poured in in the last month, in support, while some have been indignant, mocking him for calling himself an &lsquo;aam aadmi&rsquo;.

Lights, camera, blog !

To add 30 million more broadband subscribers.

BSNL introduces video telephony, surveillance and mobile advertising

Corporate enrollments bear the brunt of the slowdown as companies reduce their training budget by 20 per cent.

Finance, IT firms cut online MBA sponsorship

The 3G auction has already been delayed due to inter-ministerial disagreements over VARIOUS issues.

Spectrum, mergers await decisions

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has launched a new development centre at TCS Awdh Park in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh.

TCS opens development centre in Lucknow

You may soon get an email with a colour that suits your culture and nerves, now that IBM, the over $100 billion IT giant, which has a current active portfolio of about 26,000 patents in the US and over 40,000 patents worldwide, has applied for a patent to cover a method for customising colour in an email message, based on the cultural perspective of each recipient.

A patent attempt at cultural sensitivity

It&rsquo;s a leading global manufacturer of servers and personal computers (PCs) with annual revenues of around $120 billion. However, on the back of falling PC sales, Hewlett-Packard &mdash; which gets revenues of over $3 billion from India &mdash; now plans to sharpen its focus on making mobiles, and not PCs, the centre of computing. The HP-EDS combine (HP acquired EDS last May for $13.9 billion) has almost 35,000 employees in India and can offer a suite of solutions ranging from hardware, middleware and outsourcing to its clients, which makes it a formidable player in the commercial and enterprise computing segments. In an interview with Leslie D&rsquo;Monte, Hewlett-Packard India Managing Director Neelam Dhawan explains the way forward in a changing landscape and not-so-encouraging economy as she comes close to completing a year in office after she left Microsoft.

&#39;Mobile is surely the way to go&#39;

The Department of Telecom has asked operators to list out the priority areas, where policies are pending, for placing before the new government as a consensus agenda for the first 100 days.

DoT asks telcos to give list of issues for new government

After BSNL announced its new offering of high speed WiMAX broadband services in Gujarat, now Tata Teleservices Limited (TTSL) is set to follow suit. The telecom operator plans to launch high speed wireless broadband services in Ahmedabad by next month.

Tata Teleservices to launch wireless broadband  in Guj

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