India Business

News: BSNL/MTNL Merger(?), Kishore Biyani to Launch MNVO Service

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First announced in 2008, Kishore Biyani is now all set to launch MVNO services (in 6-8 weeks) and will reveal the details in few weeks. MVNOs, as you know do not own spectrum, and buy Minutes of Usage from telecom … Read More »

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21 Dec

News Roundup: UIDs for schoolchildren, Telcos fined for Fake Identity [and more]

By Team PI 5 Comments

Call it BHAG (Big Hairy Audacious Goal), UID authorities have proposed to make it mandatory for children to have the UID at the time of admission to school once the process of issuing the UID gets under way.The rationale behind the proposal is that children can be tracked for academic progress besides being targeted for direct benefits. Read More »

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16 Dec

News Roundup: LinkedIn India, IPv6, .IN Registrations [and more]

By manish No comments

LinkedIn has opened it’s India office (as we mentioned earlier) and has partnered with CNBC-TV18 for co-marketing of the service in India.
DoT is all set to announce its policy for adopting the next generation protocol for Internet services in the country. Read More »

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11 Dec

News Roundup: Reliance : mGovernance, 3G Auction Update, Sistema [and more]

By manish No comments

Reliance has bagged contract to setup mGovernance infrastructure in Mumbai, Maharashtra circle and Kerala circle. RCOM would build infrastructure for mGovernance, which help give 24×7 provide real time police information, updates on land records and civil services through voice, GPRS, … Read More »

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30 Nov

CAT Fiasco and Rise of Smart Managers!

By manish 3 Comments

“Unfortunately, the particular viruses and malware that attacked the test delivery system were not detected by the anti-virus software at the testing centres” – Prometric on CAT fiasco (CAT Servers Fails to take the Load [Server Crash]) Lame excuse? Because … Read More »

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28 Nov

692 Government Sites Hacked [Technology]

By manish 5 Comments

Indian government’s site getting hacked is not a news, but 692 of them? Well, that’s a news and is representative of the sad state of technology in government sector. Read More »

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12 Oct