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Street view of Indian cities soon

Hindustan Times | May 26, 2011 Global Internet search engine Google on Thursday announced plans to offer street view of Indian cities on its maps platform. "We are launching the street view project from Bangalore as it is the IT capital of India where IT-savvy...

WSJ: Google to India-Lay off the Regulations

Wall Street Journal WSJ's Amol Sharma reports from New Delhi on Google taking issue with India's Internet regulations. Google claims the strict rules could hamper its profitability in a booming Internet market.

India rejects Dutch govt’s plea to settle Vodafone tax case out of court

Economic Times | May 25, 2011 | Deepshikha Sikarwar & Joji Thomas Phillip NEW DELHI: India has rejected the Dutch government's plea for an out-of-court settlement of Netherlands-registered Vodafone International Holdings BV's dispute involving a tax claim of over Rs 11,000 crore. .... Read full article here via...

India rejects Dutch govt's plea to settle Vodafone tax case out of court

Economic Times | May 25, 2011 | Deepshikha Sikarwar & Joji Thomas Phillip NEW DELHI: India has rejected the Dutch government's plea for an out-of-court settlement of Netherlands-registered Vodafone International Holdings BV's dispute involving a tax claim of over Rs 11,000 crore. .... Read full article here via...

US court seeks B-1 visa details from Infosys

The Business Standard | May 25, 2011 A district court in Texas, US, has issued a subpoena to Infosys Technologies seeking details of the company’s use of B-1 business visas. A subpoena is a court-issued command to an individual or representatives of corporate entities to provide...

DoT, Trai war intensifies

Times of India | May 24, 2011 NEW DELHI: The communications ministry has sought legal opinion for the second time if it is duty bound to follow the industry regulator's advice on policy issues signaling the turf war between the telecom department and the Telecom...

The Hindustan Times: Mass telephony will spawn new services

The Hindustan Times | May 15, 2011 | N Madhavan More than two years ago, I had started this column by describing as the "Law of diminishing digital returns" the phenomenon under which your digital device will seem dumber as they days progress while smarter ones...

Govt asks MTNL, BSNL to synergise operations; stock rises

Economic Times | May 16, 2011 NEW DELHI: After dilly-dallying for years, the government has asked the two telecom PSUs - BSNL and MTNL - to synergise their operations and function as one entity, pending their merger, offering Pan-India services. BSNL provides all telecom services -...

Top MNP loser RCom to focus on value, not numbers

If numbers are anything to go by, mobile number portability (MNP) has not made much of a dent in the fortunes of most telecom companies, as only about 4 million out of 771 million users have dumped their operators in the first five months...

All telecom policies will be sorted out by August: Sibal

Hindustan Times | May 5, 2011 Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal promised on Thursday that all policies pertaining to the sector would be ‘sorted out’ and settled by August 2011 after due discussions. The assurance comes even as probe agencies investigating the multi-billion dollar 2G telecom...

Bharti offers mCommerce service

The Hindu | May 10, 2011 | Bharti Airtel has launched its mCommerce service “airtel money” in Chennai. Following its launch in Gurgaon (National Capital Region) earlier this year, Airtel customers in Chennai are the second in India to benefit from this new service that...

Ericsson enables mobile positioning systems in India for AIRCEL

Ericsson | May 3, 2011 | Press Release Aircel subscribers to get better localized information through Ericsson's Mobile Positioning System (MPS) for Location Based Services (LBS) Ericsson is the sole supplier to provide multi-vendor network integration services Solution aims to make moving through traffic more efficient in...

Vringo Launches Major National Service in India with the Country's Largest Content Aggregator

Vringo | April 29, 2011 | Press Release Partnership with Hungama Digital Media Provides Access to a Potential 500 Million Subscribers NEW YORK, Apr 29, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Vringo, Inc. (NYSE Amex: VRNG), a leading provider of software platforms for mobile video services and video ringtones,...

Vringo Launches Major National Service in India with the Country’s Largest Content Aggregator

Vringo | April 29, 2011 | Press Release Partnership with Hungama Digital Media Provides Access to a Potential 500 Million Subscribers NEW YORK, Apr 29, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Vringo, Inc. (NYSE Amex: VRNG), a leading provider of software platforms for mobile video services and video ringtones,...

Ericsson enables mobile positioning systems in India for AIRCEL

Ericsson | May 3, 2011 | Press Release Aircel subscribers to get better localized information through Ericsson's Mobile Positioning System (MPS) for Location Based Services (LBS) Ericsson is the sole supplier to provide multi-vendor network integration services Solution aims to make moving through traffic more efficient in a...

2G scam: Unitech’s Sanjay Chandra drags PM Manmohan Singh’s name into the issue

Economic Times | May 2, 2011 NEW DELHI: The lawyer for Unitech MD Sanjay Chandra , who is in judicial custody over his alleged role in the 2G spectrum scam, on Monday told the Delhi High Court that the telecom policy under which several companies,...

2G scam: Unitech's Sanjay Chandra drags PM Manmohan Singh's name into the issue

Economic Times | May 2, 2011 NEW DELHI: The lawyer for Unitech MD Sanjay Chandra , who is in judicial custody over his alleged role in the 2G spectrum scam, on Monday told the Delhi High Court that the telecom policy under which several companies,...

Spice switches focus to mobile Internet

The Hindu Business Line | May 2, 2011 To invest Rs 1,000 cr this year NEW DELHI, MAY 2: Spice Mobility Ltd on Monday announced that it will invest Rs 1,000 crore in the current financial year in a bid to reposition itself as a mobile Internet...

Vodafone Essar calls auction of airwaves as ‘optimal method’ for spectrum allocation

Economic Times | May 2, 2011 NEW DELHI: Vodafone Essar , the country's second largest GSM-based mobile operator, said it supports auctions for all future allocations of airwaves and termed it the most 'optimal and efficient' methodology for handing out this scarce resource. "Auctions will introduce...

Vodafone Essar calls auction of airwaves as 'optimal method' for spectrum allocation

Economic Times | May 2, 2011 NEW DELHI: Vodafone Essar , the country's second largest GSM-based mobile operator, said it supports auctions for all future allocations of airwaves and termed it the most 'optimal and efficient' methodology for handing out this scarce resource. "Auctions will introduce...

TRAI’s latest proposals to cut interconnect charges may lower call rates

Economic Times | April 29, 2011 | Joji Thomas Philip NEW DELHI: Telecom regulator TRAI has fired the starting gun on radical changes in the mobile sector by proposing deep cuts in charges paid by operators to each other, a move that could lower tariffs for...

TRAI's latest proposals to cut interconnect charges may lower call rates

Economic Times | April 29, 2011 | Joji Thomas Philip NEW DELHI: Telecom regulator TRAI has fired the starting gun on radical changes in the mobile sector by proposing deep cuts in charges paid by operators to each other, a move that could lower tariffs for...

RIM sees sluggish sales of BlackBerry, cuts profit forecast

Hindustan Times | April 29, 2011 Research In Motion has sharply cut its quarterly profit forecast, citing sluggish sales of BlackBerry smartphones, which are facing security concerns in India and the Middle East as well as stiff competition from other mobile phone makers. The announcement,...

Nokia Announces Plans to Transfer Symbian Software Activities to Accenture; Accenture to Provide Future Smartphone Ecosystem Services to Nokia

Accenture | April 27, 2011 | Press Release ESPOO, Finland and NEW YORK; April 27, 2011 – Nokia (NYSE: NOK) and Accenture (NYSE: ACN) today announced plans for a strategic collaboration in which Nokia would outsource its Symbian software activities and transition about 3,000 employees...