Today News

 

• Viacom has formalized its joint venture with Network 18 - Viacom 18 Media Pvt Ltd. The 50:50 joint venture will receive around $90.5 million in investment from Network18 over the next three years, which will be through Network18 group company Global Broadcasting News ($40 Million), and wholly owned subsidiary BK Holdings Mauritius ($50.5 million). GBN has acquired warrants convertible into equity shares of Viacom 18, and has the option to acquire the entire shareholding from BK Holding Mauritius.

 

• Six long-distance telephony operators, including Sify, Rail Tel Corporation, Power Grid Corporation, Tulip IT, HCL Infinet and Dishnet Wireless, have deposited outstanding payment as access deficit charges (ADC) to Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd following orders from the telecom regulator.

 

• The acquisition of leading animation company Anirights Infomedia - Reliance Entertainment has decided to focus on regional language films for film production.

 

• Shemaroo Entertainment Pvt Ltd, one of India's largest aggregators of movies for broadcast, has entered into a 10-movie deal with Zee TV worth Rs 260 million ($6.6 million) for satellite broadcast. Zee TV will telecast these movies on its satellite channel over a period of five years from 2008.

 

 

New Year Wishes....

Hi Karthik,

Wishing you and all your near and dear ones a very Happy New Year 2008 !!!

Today News

 

 

• Spice Communications is planning to sell 875 telecom towers of the company to a tower operating company and to avail the borrowing facilities of up to $400 millions from Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation and also to avail borrowing facility of up to $410 millions from China Development Bank (CDB) for growth and network expansion in the existing telecom circles.

 

• Japan's top mobile phone carrier NTT DoCoMo will join with Internet search engine Google to provide Internet search and e-mail services on the company's handsets .

Today News

 

• Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd on Wednesday said it is constructing a $250 million (about Rs 988 crore) worth cable system for linking Mumbai directly to Paris, London and Madrid via Egypt.

 

• 9.9 Mediaworx has acquired Jasubhai Digital Media, the media arm of the Jasubhai group. The company will now be called 9.9 Digital Media. Dr. Pramath Raj Sinha, founder and Managing Director of 9.9 Media has taken over as the Managing Director of 9.9 Digital Media.

 

• ACK Media, which had bought rights to popular childrens magazines Amar Chitra Katha and Tinkle Magazine with the agenda of monetizing the content across platforms has now acquired a Bangalore based animation studio - Quietmen Studios, which will now be called Katha Studios. Samir Patil, CEO of ACK Media has said

 

• Venture Fund ComVentures, which has investments in NDTV Networks Plc ($20 Million), the UK based subsidiary of BSE listed NDTV, and Rajat Sharma’s India TV ($11.5 million through Fuse+Media), has merged with the Velocity Investment Group to form Velocity Interactive Group. The Velocity Investment Group was formed just four months ago by former FIM (NYSE: NWS) president Ross Levinsohn and former AOL (NYSE: TWX) chairman Jon Miller. VIG intends to raise another round of funding in 2008, and is looking to invest “as little as $100,000, as much as $30 million.”.

 

• Venture Fund ComVentures, which has investments in NDTV Networks Plc ($20 Million), the UK based subsidiary of BSE listed NDTV, and Rajat Sharma’s India TV ($11.5 million through Fuse+Media), has merged with the Velocity Investment Group to form Velocity Interactive Group. The Velocity Investment Group was formed just four months ago by former FIM (NYSE: NWS) president Ross Levinsohn and former AOL (NYSE: TWX) chairman Jon Miller. VIG intends to raise another round of funding in 2008, and is looking to invest “as little as $100,000, as much as $30 million.

 

• US-based venture capital firm Com Ventures will invest $20 million in NDTV Networks Plc, the UK subsidiary of NDTV Ltd. The company had recently received approval from Foreign Investment Promotion Board for an investment of Rs 5.85 billion or $133 million. Com Ventures’ is the first of a series of investments the company plans to rake in. NDTV announced that it has signed definitive agreements with Com Ventures for investing $20 million in the new company.
  NDTV Networks has wholly owned subsidiary companies NDTV Imagine and NDTV Lifestyle which would launch Hindi general entertainment and lifestyle channels.

 

• The latest company to get foreign investment is Hindi news network India TV (promoted by Rajat Sharma). The company received foreign investment of $11.5 million (Rs 50.96 crore) from FUSE+Media, an affiliate of venture fund ComVentures, according to a report in Exchange4Media.com. FUSE+Media will get 19.17 per cent for the investment. The CEO and MD of Fuse+Media is Keyur Patel, who is also a partner at ComVentures.

 

 

Today News

 

 

• TV18 will be launching a business magazine in India in partnership with Forbes..the partnership will include a content licensing arrangement and could also mean the introduction of other Forbes products, TV18’s biz properties include CNBC-TV18 and CNBC Awaaz, besides Newswire18 and online properties like Moneycontrol.com.

 

• Ministry of Communications & IT, Department of Telecommunications on Friday has granted the PAN India GSM licence to Anil Ambani backed Reliance Communication to begin its GSM technology based service in the remaining 14 circle.

 

• Airtel, has launch of eight Mbps broadband service, becoming the first service provider in the country to offer such high speed broadband service to open multiple windows at the same time, download heavy files, view streaming video, enjoy online gaming, chat, email and other applications.

 

 

Today News.

 

 

• Nokia has announced that it intends to invest around $75 million in 2008, in its manufacturing plant in Sriperumbudur in Chennai.

 

• Inventus Capital, an Indo-US VC firm set up by Kanwal Rekhi, founder of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE) is in the process of raising $125 million for investments in tech startups that operate cross-border - in both the Indian and US markets. Inventus is targeting embedded software, mobile services, knowledge process outsourcing startups, as well as those creating Intellectual Property.

 

 

Today News!

 

 

• Buongiorno (BIT: BNG) (Hong Kong) which provides mobile value added services in India has appointment Satish Kejriwal as Chief Operating Officer for India. Kejriwal joins from Air2Web India, where he was COO. As per the he has around 19 years of experience in telecom, and in the past has been associated with BPL, Alcatel, Airtel and Data Access.

 

• Venture Capitalists invested over $777 million in 57 deals in India during the first three quarters of 2007.

 

 

Today News.

 

• Smile Interactive plans to set up 97,000 assisted e-commerce kiosks across India in the next three years. Through these internet kiosks, the company will offer music downloads, airline and railway tickets and other products available on the Net.

 

• Times Financial Services (TFS) has tied up with Reliance Communications International (RCI), the US based subsidiary of Reliance Communications (RCOM) to offer mobile remittance services.

 

• Hyderabad-based digital marketing company Ybrant Technologies is acquiring Israel-based online advertising company, Oridian, for $13 million (approximately Rs 52 crore).

 

• US-based digital marketing agency Zeta Interactive has launched its operations in India. The Indian office, led by Pradeep Vegunta (managing director), is located in Hyderabad and has a staff strength of 140 employees. The company offers a wide range of services including email and search marketing, website development, creative, and business intelligence services.

 

• SureWaves a new generation media convergence company, has appointed Sanchit Sanga as AVP - Business Solutions. Sanga was earlier national director at GroupM Interactions, the digital media planning and buying arm of GroupM India.

 

 

 

 

 

Today News.

 

 

• Apnaloan.com (ALC India), a Sequoia Capital funded personal finance site is in talks with Chrys Capital, Intel (NSDQ: INTC) Capital and Sequoia Capital to raise up to $15 million.

 

• UTV Software has informed the BSE that they have called off their “discussion” with Malaysian DTH and Pay TV co Astro for a TV joint venture in India; that venture was supposed to be UTVs youth focused business Bindass, which was launched earlier this year.

 

• The number of internet users in India in the ever user or claimed user category has increased by 40 per cent at 46 million in September 2007 as compared to 32.2 million in September 2006.

 

• Nitin Desai's ND Studio, Anil Ambani’s Reliance Entertainment has sealed yet another 50:50 joint venture — with London-based Great Wheel Corporation (GWC), the IPR holders of iconic viewing and observation structures such as the London Eye and the Singapore Flyer.

 

• Filmy, the Hindi movie channel from the Sahara stable, has elevated Nilesh Bhanushali to national ad sales head.Bhanushali was regional ad sales head for the western and southern region.

Today News.

 

• Sun TV Network's FM station 93.5 SFM is all set to launch in Pondicherry on 4 December through its subsidiary Kal Radio.

 

• The Bloomberg television service has been named the 2007 International Television Channel of the Year by The Association for International Broadcasting (AIB).

 

• Dell, the personal computer makers, has awarded its worldwide marketing, advertising and communication operations to WPP Group PLC, a holding company that owns almost 250 smaller agencies. The account is worth $4.5 billion and will last for three years.

 

• Nazara Technologies a company focused on creating mobile content around cricket, is reported to have received around $7 million (around Rs. 28 crores) in its second round of funding.

 

• Radio One 94.3 FM, a BBC and Mid Day Joint Venture has set up a voice portal for Bangalore, reports exchange4media. The portal gives access to comedy programs like Rajni Sir, K T Kunjumon and Chamrajpet Charles, answer a quiz, and also leave messages that will be aired on the radio station.

Today News..

 

• WPP Digital has acquired 75 percent stake in Quasar Media, a subsidiary of the Smile Interactive Technology Group. Quasar provides services in digital media, creative, search marketing and optimization, mobile marketing, among others, and services clients like MakeMyTrip, Monster, Microsoft, Motorola, LG, Zapak and VISA. It was founded in 2005 and has offices in Mumbai and Bangalore. Quasar, which employs 73 people, reported revenues for the year ended March 31, 2007: Rs 103.6 million with gross assets at the same date of Rs 149.5 million.

 

• ETV Networks, which operates 12 TV channels has launched ETVNetmart.com to allow media planners, advertisers and agencies to bid and buy advertising spots, reports exchange4media.

 

• Indiagames will be the exclusive distributor in India for content from NASDAQ listed game developer Glu Mobile. This includes games, ringtones, wallpapers related to Age of Empires III Mobile, Brian Lara’s Cricket 2008, Kasparov Chess, Looney Tunes, Zuma, Atari Legends 3, Pong, Asteroids Deluxe,

 

 

 

 

Today News..

 

• Sanjeev Bikhchandani, founder and CEO of Info Edge India (Naukri.com), has been included in the list of 20 finalists for the ninth Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Awards 2007.

 

• WPP world’s second-largest advertising and marketing services firm which operates in more than 100 countries, is reportedly acquiring Delhi-based interactive agency Quasar Media.

 

• LiveMint the website for HT Media’s business paper Mint, has launched MarketInfo, a business information segment that provides Company Information, details on performance of Mutual Funds, Stock Markets, live domestic and international market information, results, corporate announcements.

 

• India has about 159.7 million GSM-based mobile subscribers at the end of October, according to figures released by the Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) yesterday.

 

• Bharti Airtel changes the name of its broadband and telephone services unit to Telemedia Services as it gears to launch internet television and DTH operations.

Today News.

 

• Star today promoted its chief operating officer Uday Shankar to the post of CEO and moved up its senior vice president Jadgish Kumar to fill in Shankar’s vacancy.

 

• Printo has received a second round of funding of Rs. 250 million (around $6.25 million) from Sequoia Capital to help fund its national expansion. The company has charted out a national expansion plan that they expect will cost them around Rs. 1000 million (around $25 million).

 

• UTV reported Interactive revenues of Rs. 10.04 crore for the quarter ended September 30 2007. UTV Interactive includes earnings from the companys Gaming, Animation, Post-Production and SFX businesses.

 

• Mahesh Samat has been named the Managing Director of the Walt Disney Company (India). Samat over twenty years of experience across India, Asia-Pacific and Europe, and joins from Johnson & Johnson, where he was MD for Southern Europe, based out of London. Before that, he has worked with Kellogg’s for India, Warner Lambert/Parke-Davis and Boots India Limited. He’s an IIM graduate. Samat will be based out of Mumbai, and report to Walt Disney International President Andy Bird. He’ll be responsible for all of the existing Disney businesses in India, except the ESPN-Star Sports joint venture.

 

 

Today News.

 

 

• Sify Technologies Ltd. appointed Vijay Kumar as its chief financial officer. Kumar’s previous posts include serving as the assistant general manager of investment banking for Sundaram Finance Services Ltd., Chennai, which he left to begin an independent audit and consultancy business.

 

• Suku Murti, regional business director for entertainment, sports & partnerships for WPP Media, has resigned and is joining Anil Ambani’s Reliance ADAG “in a group role”. Murti is expected to join Reliance ADAG on Wednesday. His role could go beyond pure media play.

 

 

Today News.

 

• Mobile value-added services provider Handygo has launched a new video caller application that enables incoming calls to a mobile phone to be accompanied by an audio-video clip.

 

• MSN India has a new design for its home page with options of a wide or narrow layout and of changing the colour of the page.

 

• Sify has announced the change of its name from Sify Limited to Sify Technologies Limited. According to Sify, this is in line with the company’s strategy to position itself as a technology company with deep expertise in IT infrastructure management.

 

• Sify Technologies Limited has appointed M P Vijay Kumar as chief financial officer.

 

• Jobs portal TimesJobs.com has launched BossMeter.net, an open contest where employees can nominate their boss in the great bosses’ list and ask their colleagues to vote. According to TimesJobs, the top five bosses with maximum votes and their nominators can win holiday vouchers and exciting prizes from TimesJobs.com.

 

• Interactive marketing agency Percept Knorigin has launched an ad network company called AdChakra Advertising Network. AdChakra’s services would include search engine advertising and display advertising with campaign management and reporting facilities. The ad network company is based in India with offices in Mumbai, Bangalore and Delhi.

 

• Computer Associates (CA), an IT management software company, Wednesday launched a new campus of India Technology Center (ITC), making it the largest development facility of the company in the world.

 

• ITC  has developed a mobile device management (MDM) product, which can manage an entire corporate mobile infrastructure from a single consol.

 

 

Likely new entrants in Indian Telecom

• DLF -22
• Unitech -22
• India Bulls Real Estate - 22
• Datacom - 22
• Alliance Infratech - 22
• Parsvnath - 22
• Shyam Telelink - 21
• BPL Mobile - 21
• HFCL - 21
• Spice - 20
• Swan Telecom - 14
• STel - 6
• ByCell - 5
• Cheetach - 2

Source: OutlookBusiness | October 20, 200

Spots on The Horizon

Education

• Private Equity
• Design Services
• Next wave BPO
• Package Food
• Retail Services
• Localised Internet
• Micro-power
• Cold Chain & Warehousing
• TV Content

Source: OutlookBusiness | October 20, 2007



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Posted By kathy to e-Revenge at 10/11/2007 09:16:00 AM

Running meter in standing auto

Bangalore traffic police given an opportunity to auto drivers to loot
public money in a professional way. Meters are runing faster in
signal standing auto than regular. It cashes half the journey cost. As
a public i want to understand why we common people pay for terrific
road traffic for which we regularly pay all our taxes on time.

Telecom News/27th Sept.

 

 

• Sept 27^th :-Sistema JSFC, Russia's largest private consumer services firm, on Wednesday bought 10 per cent stake in telecom operator Shyam Telelink for $11.4 million, marking the entry of a Russian company in India's rapidly growing telecom space.

 

• Sept 27^th :-Videocon has applied for mobile licences in all 22 telecom circles in India with joint venture with an American company Verizon and can hold a 74% stake in the company.

 

• "Kasturi", the new Kannada TV channel owned by Karnataka Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy, went on air on Wednesday.

Telecom News 25th Sept. 07.

 

 

• Sept 25^th:-Indian Space Research Oraganisation is planning to launch a satellite that will provide direct link to the mobile phone handsets.

 

• Sept 25^th:-The department of telecom (DoT) on Monday announced October 1 as the deadline for accepting new licence applications.

 

• Sept 25^th:-The Bombay High Court has issued a notice to the income tax department, following a writ petition by Vodafone Essar challenging the tax department’s move to levy capital gains tax following the Vodafone-Hutch deal.

 

• Bharti Airtel, Vodafone, BSNL and Spice, are undertaking a major shift in their strategy and tying up with handset makers to offer bundled handsets.

 

• A $3.95 billion syndicated loan backing Indian telecom group Essar Communications India (ECIL).

 

 

Telecom & Media News/24th Sept 07

• Sept. 24^th:-Novatium & MTNL will sell computing service against the traditional model where the customer buys the device and then takes a connection from a telecom company or internet service provider to access the net.

 

• Sept. 24^th:- US-based UTStarcom, which had recently bagged two IPTV deals Bharti Airtel and MTNL, expects more deals for triple-play services in India.

 

• Reliance Industries is likely to enter the telecom sector soon and is exploring various options in the sector.

 

• Sept 24^th:- Stepping up their protest against Sun Network's newly launched direct-to-home (DTH) service, cable operators today blacked out Sun Network's channels in many parts of Tamil Nadu.

 

 

 

 

 

Telecom News/22nd Sept.

• Sept 22^nd:-Vodafone, Idea Cellular and Spice — have jointly asked the department of telecom to treat their pending applications for mobile licenses ‘on a different footing’ by considering them on a ‘top priority’ basis, when compared to other applicants.

 

• Sept 22^nd:-India's wireless market, the fastest growing in the world, crossed another milestone, with the subscriber base crossing the 200-million mark in August.

 

• Sept 21^st:-Real Estate major Unitech has decided to enter mobile telephone service in all 22 circles of the country. The Unitech board cleared a decision to this effect on Friday and the company plans to leverage its telecom tower manufacturing capabilities for the diversification.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Telcom News/20th Sept. 07

• Sept 20^th :- Reliance Communications (RCOM) recently launching ultra budget handsets with prices starting at Rs 777, the industry buzz is that Vodafone would lower the entry barrier to an unbelievable Rs 666. There’s also news that Vodafone may follow the pricing model of Rs 666, Rs 777, Rs 888 and Rs 999 for its ultra-cheap handsets.

 

• Sept 19^th :- Gemini Communication has bagged a Rs 10-crore order from BSNL for installation and commissioning of telecom equipments and accessories across 11 circles in India including Andaman and Nicobar, Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Punjab, Rajasthan and Kerala.

 

• Sept 19^th :-Vodafone, will keep intact its predecessor's assurance of following customers wherever they go while telling them to 'Make The Most Of Now'. Which could cost between Rs 80-100 crore.

 

• Film distributor Eros International and Sony Pictures Entertainment on Wednesday said they will co-invest in Indian movies that are scheduled to be released in India and overseas.

 

• Nimbus Sports on Wednesday said it has tied up with Hong Kong's leading mobile operators for providing mobile clips of the Barclays Premier League football matches for next three seasons up to 2010.

 

 

 

 

Telecom News/19th Sept 07

 

• 19^th Sept:-Essar group sold Shipping Stop Dot Com, which has a licence to offer national and international long-distance services, to BPL Mobile just ahead of applying for pan-India universal access service license (UASL).

 

• 19^th Sept:-Chinese communication major ZTE is targeting revenues of $350 million by selling GSM network equipment and an additional $100 million from its broadband division in India this fiscal.

 

• 18^th Sept:-Cellular major Bharti Airtel has awarded a 150 million-dollar deal to Chinese vendor Huawei for building and managing GSM mobile infrastructure for its Sri Lankan operations for next 3 years.

 

Telecom & Media News/18th Sept. 07

 

• Sept 18^th:-Reliance Telecom and Airtel are among 12 companies for Qatar's second mobile licence as the deadline for submission of bids ended.

 

• Sept 18^th :-Vodafone, which had got the government’s permission to rename Hutch-Essar as Vodafone Essar, is set to unveil the new branding for the company in Mumbai this week.

 

• Movie-buffs can hope to enjoy their visit to cinema halls without loosening their purse strings if the Information and Broadcasting minister succeeds in persuading states to reduce entertainment tax on films.

Telcom & Media News/17th Sept.

• Sept 17^th :-BSNL and MTNL has said regulator Trai’s direction on opening up domestic leased circuit (DLC) would lead to hoarding of last mile connections by the private sector, rendering the two PSUs uncompetitive.

 

• Sept 17^th:-India has now become the second largest market for Chinese handset major ZTE and accounts for a third of the company’s handset sales by volume after China.

 

• Sept 16^th:- International IPR watchdog WIPO has directed a Saint Kitts-based company to transfer the domain name bhartiairtel.com to the domestic telecom major.

 

• Sept 16^th :- Essar group company Essar Telecom Infrastructure Private Limited (ETIPL) is in talks with cellular operator Aircel for leasing out its towers.

 

• Sept 17^th :-- PVR Cinemas has been conferred with the 'Retailer of the Year' award by India Retail Forum (IRF) 2007, for its corporate social responsibility initiatives including those for the underprivileged children.

 

Telecom News/15th Sept.07

 

• Sept 15^th:-TDSAT has rejected Bharti Tele-Ventures’ petition for refund from BSNL and MTNL on claims of excessive billing of interconnect charges.

 

• Sept 15^th:-Vodafone Essar has filed a writ petition in the Bombay High Court challenging the right of the tax authorities to levy a capital gains tax on it.

 

 

 

Telecom & Media News/14th Sept.

• Sept 14^th :-Idea Cellular has joined the Asia Mobility Initiative.

 

 

• Sept 14^th :- GSM operators added 5.95 million subscribers in August to take their total subscriber base in the country to 147.7 million.

 

 

• Tata Teleservices Ltd expects to gain a bigger share of India's mobile-phone market with the launch of a new Internet-enabled handset.

 

• Kavveri Telecom, a leading manufacturer of communication cables, expects to double its turnover to over Rs 100 crore this year on the back of orders received from Vodafone Essar, Tata Teleservices and Idea for their base stations roll-outs in 2007-08.

 

• Bennett, Coleman and Co. Ltd (BCCL), the publisher of The Times of India and The Economic Times, has acquired 6.83% equity stake in Kolkata-based lifestyle retail firm Nik-Nish Retail Ltd.

 

 

 

Telecon and Media News/13th Sept.

• Sept 13^th :- Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) on Wednesday served a legal notice to the department of telecom (DoT) over the delay in allocating spectrum to GSM operators.

 

• Sept 13^th :-India’s largest GSM mobile service operator, Bharti Airtel, is embarking on a significant shift in its marketing strategy.

 

• Sept 13^th :-Idea plans to spend about Rs 9,000 crore in capital expenditure over the next couple of years and has already begun outsourcing its information technology operations to IBM earlier this year.

 

• Sept 13^th :-With an average 1.5 billion SMSes generated nationally every week, the Indian SMS saga is already the stuff of legend. If anything, the marriage of reality TV shows and mobile telephony now promises to set the national SMS turf on fire.

 

• Sept 13^th :-Much to the disappointment of DD viewers in non-cable homes, Prasar Bharti’s negotiating skills have fallen short just one day ahead of India’s first Twenty20 match.

 

 

 

Telecom & Media News/Sept. 12th

 

• Sept. 12^th :The Delhi High Court on Tuesday restrained telemarketers from making unsolicited calls to mobile phone users, irrespective of the fact whether or not they are registered with the DND facility.

 

• Sept 12^th :Cellular Operators’ Association of India (COAI), the GSM operators’ body, has written to the government to strictly enforce licence conditions.

 

• Sept 12^th : The Monopolies and Restrictive Trade Practices Commission (MRTPC) has put the recent tariff hikes by leading telecom operators Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Essar under the scanner for alleged cartelisation.

 

• Sept 12^th :Since September 1, NSDL and CDSL have introduced free SMS alert facility to apprise equity investors of any shuffle in their demat share holdings. This alert facility could put an end to probable mischief in the hands of the brokers.

 

• Sept 12^th : Harry Potter has deposed James Bond as the most money-spinning movie character of all time, entertainment industry press reported on Wednesday.

 

• Sept 12^th : Probably for the first time as many as 20 Hindi films, with production costs anywhere between Rs 50 lakh and Rs 5 crore, are releasing in the next six weeks.

 

 

 

 

Telecom & Media News/11th.Sept.07

Telecom Media & Entertainment News:

 

 

• Sept. 11^th :Idea Cellular Ltd said on Monday its board had approved a proposal to spin off its telecom towers business into a subsidiary, following in the footsteps of its larger rivals. No other details were disclosed in the statement.

 

• Sept 11^th :The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) has never seen more Indian films and their representatives than this year. Bengali filmmaker Rituparno Ghosh, Amitabh Bachchan, Preity Zinta, Rahul Bose and Nandita Das are among the denizens of Indian cinema currently in the Canadian city.

 

• In what said be a "first of its kind" initiative in the fast growing radio market, domestic player Big 92.7 FM has tied up with US-based Asian FM, which caters to the Indian diaspora in some US cities.

 

 

 

 

Regards,

 

Kr. Chanchal

Telecom News/9th&10th Sept.

Telecom News:

 

 

• 9^th Sept. 2007:-- Five years after it first invited bids for its Call-Data-Record project, state-run BSNL has finally placed Rs 1,200 crore orders with TCS, HCL and Wipro for the programme that will enable it to provide a single bill to subscribers for all its services.

 

• 10^th Sept. 2007 :-- With the list of companies wanting to start telecom services in India growing by the day, the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) is taking a closer look at the applications to establish the real identities of all those who have sought licences. Government sources said the move was not aimed at disqualifying any player; instead it will help the Centre in obtaining some details such as the stakeholders in the company, the proposed foreign direct investment and the net worth.

 

• 10^th Sept. 2007 :-- Planning to buy the new Nokia 3310 or 6210? Think again — 12 people from Finland and 7 people from China died recently — common among all deaths is that they all purchased Nokia’s new 3310s and 6210s. The medical team that examined the bodies reported extreme levels of radiation from the two cell phone models. Do not pick up calls from following numbers — 9888308001, +919316048121, 9876266211, 9888854137. Calls from these numbers will be of very high wave length and frequency. It can cause brain haemorrhage. It’s not a joke. 27 persons died just by receiving calls from these numbers.

 

 

 

 

Best Regards,

 

Kumar Chanchal

Telecom News/8th Sept.

 

 

 

 

• BPL Mobile, the Mumbai circle operator at the centre of a battle for control between Vodafone Essar and the Ruias, has applied for a pan-India licence through a subsidiary. This is seen as an attempt by the Ruias to fortify their telecom presence.

 

• Public sector BSNL has announced that it would invest Rs 22,881 crore this fiscal on expanding operations and added that it had awarded a Rs 5,200-crore contract ($1.3 billion) to Swedish equipment major Ericsson for 13.12 million GSM lines.

Autoindia.com moving it headquarters from Trivandrum to Chennai

Autoindia.com moving it headquarters from Trivandrum to Chennai. V. Chandramouli, ex sify Consumer Channels, Content and the Education vertical head will be joining them as a CEO to develop channels and monetize the domain.

Competitors: Indimoto, DriveInside, IndiaAutomobile (Bharatmatrimony Group)AutomartIndia, Bharatautomobiles.

KTwo acquire Adamya

KTwo Technologies, a company founded by successful enterprenur Mr.Anant Koppar(founded kshema technologies and sold it to mPhasis). It is an product development company based at bangalore. KTwo acquired ADAMYA a bluetooth company for a undisclosed sum

OSC : Stress Management

Microsoft : Ravi Venkatesan

Bengalooru Mirror on his way

Bangalore Mirror, a tabloid from TOI Group is ready for Bengalooru
edition. I guess they plan a launch for next week.

Good Luck! Bangalore Mirror

ArcleorMittal's new identity

ArcleorMittal worlds largest steel company created a new identity for their combined entity ArcleorMittal with a new tag line "Tranforming Tomorrow", Arcleor a leading steel giant merged with Mittal Steel last year to form world's largest steel making company

Seventymm acquires madhouse

Seventymm acquires madhouse, Bangalore based seventymm DVD rental service company acquired Delhi based madhouse for undisclosed amount. This acquisition gives access for seventymm to extend their service in northern part of india as well.

A Raja is successor of Dayanidhi Maran, as a Union IT & Communication Minister of India

Raja is successor of Dayanidhi Maran, as a Union IT & Communication Minister of India. 44-year-old Raja is a lawyer by profession and is in his third term in Lok Sabha. He was elected from Perambalur (reserved constituency), Tamil Nadu

PODWORKS - India's largest event is Audio & Video Pod casting

A Workshop Style Unconference
June 9 - 10 - 2007 CHENNAI

Virgin Mobile to start Indian Operations

Virgin mobile plan for joint venture in India region. Currently, they are in look of senior officials for this operations

No more, water scarcity in Chennai

No more, water scarcity in Chennai city. National Institute of Ocean Technology developed world's first floating desalination plant off the chennai coastline.

This plant will produce fresh drinking water from Ocean water and handle the water shortage in costal India.

Desalination Plant will be live in 2008 with a capacity of one million litres per day.

Google to acquire DoubleClick

Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) announced on 13 Apr 2007, a definitive agreement to acquire DoubleClick Inc., a global leader in digital marketing technology and services, for $3.1 billion in cash from San Francisco-based private equity firm Hellman & Friedman along with JMI Equity and management. The acquisition will combine DoubleClick's expertise in ad management technology for media buyers and sellers with Google's leading advertising platform and publisher monetization services.

High Definition Video Company

LifeSize, the high definitions video communication company become a fast growing company is HDVC space.

LifeSize has Bangalore Design Center with focus on software development and contribution to engineering efforts across the company’s high definition video product line.

I guess communication is a notable space for a constant growth in following years

Cisco has seen accolades go to Google in recent years, and the company is bent on changing that

Cisco’s pace of investment is kicking back into ’90s-style high gear again - as said by an analyst

Cisco bought web app hosting firm Reactivity; two social networking software firms, Five Across and Utah Street Networks; and an on-demand app firm, Webex.

On the global front, Cisco invested an undisclosed sum in Ozon, Russia’s Amazon.com, and last December invested $50 million in China Communications Services Corporation Limited, a state-run telecom firm.

“India is both a compelling end market and a compelling source market,” - Hilton Romanski, Head Global Investment Strategy - CISCO

eReveMax set to sell their products in Indian market

eRevMax Technologies has become a pioneer in hotel industries most popular online distribution management tools, RateTiger. With its international client base eRevMax is undertaking a spirited and ambitious challenge this year:

According to Udai Singh Solanki, CIO, "With the help of our international exposure and dynamic local talents, we are putting India on the map and within the perspective of revenue management. We are showing international firms today that India has the potential to provide not only product development and support services, but world-class leading solutions as well"

Joost : Something to watch

Joost is a new way of watching TV on the internet. With Joost, you get all the things you love about TV, including a high-quality full-screen picture, hundreds of full-length shows and easy channel-flipping.

Joost is started by the founders of Skype

China dominates in manufacturing

China's superior infrastructure led to India losing its bid to build Intel's new $2.5 billion factory.

A decision by Intel to build a $2.5 billion chip factory in China represents a key loss for India, which won't likely see any chip factory projects from major companies this year due to its poor infrastructure.

India, which is best known for its research and development prowess and focus on outsourced services, has been trying to attract chip factory investments to build up its manufacturing talent

The Indian government needs to take more proactive measures on its infrastructure if it hopes to win major companies manufacturing factory projects over the next few years.

Indian ISV's promotes Oracle Fusion Middleware in global market

Oracle has announced that leading Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) across India and Asia Pacific have deployed more than 200 solutions on Oracle Fusion Middleware

Google Developer Day

Google Developer Day is a chance for programmers around the world to meet Google’s developer product teams conduct Workshops in 10 countries could be aimed at find new revenue streams in addition to new developers.

Google woo more developers to its Web services software platform with a 27-hour-long "Developer Day" on May 31.

Webby Nominations Announced

2007 Webby Nominees Announced. Vote for Your Favorites.

The Nominees and Official Honorees for the 11th Annual Webby Awards have been announced. See them all and vote for your favorite Nominees in the People's Voice until April, 27th.

Symphony Technology Group

Symphony Technology Group is planning to expand in India.

Symphony Technology Group companies are CAPCO, ImmediateFX, IRI, Lawson, Symphony Metreo and Symphony Services

Yahoo's tailor search

http://au.alpha.yahoo.com - customizable search engine

proto.in

proto.in is a premier event to showcase new products, technologies and companies to a selected gathering.

proto.in is planned for July 21st - 22nd at Chennai.

Venue yet to be confirmed.

India's Business Franchise Directory

www.franchisebusiness.in a franchise business directory which helps the potential users to find, research, and apply to franchise directly.

This is part of Catch is specialist online division of Reed Business Information

Bangalore's new mobile service provider

There is a good news for fellow bangaloreans, We have all the major mobile service providers like AIRTEL, HUTCH, SPICE TELECOM, BSNL and now there is one more new player AIRCEL is going to be added in near future.

AIRCEL is first mobile communication company to provide 3G service in India. As you know HUTCH is taken over by VODAFONE

I am sure this going to create more options and high competition between existing players

A recent Largest SOA player

Software AG (TecDAX, ISIN DE 0003304002 / SOW), Europe's largest systems software and Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) provider, and webMethods, Inc. (Nasdaq: WEBM), a leading business integration and optimization software company, today announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement for Software AG to acquire webMethods in a cash tender offer for $9.15 per share or approximately $546 million.

Wikicamp.in

Wikicamp is all about harnessing and understanding the power of Wikis. It is a one day event aimed to bring together the best minds from the Wiki/Internet space to talk about issues, opportunities and what the future and evolution of this valuable tool looks like. Crowd sourcing, Wisdom of crowds, User generated content and collaborative knowledge sharing have become the keywords of today's Internet. Wikicamp aims at demystifying these terms. The event will feature workshops, debates and keynotes on the present state and evolution of the wiki. Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia and President of Wikimedia Foundation will be attending the event. He will share with us the vision for Wikipedia and his experiences.
Cost: Rs.200 per person. It's a door donation to meet the expenses towards venue, logistics and lunch. It's still an unconference. Which means that each of us helps out by becoming a speaker or helping with the organizing or blogging/video blogging the event.

Location:
Tidel Park, Canal Bank Road, Taramani, Chennai

Date:
25th February 2007

Chief Guest: Jimmy Wales - Founder of Wikipedia & President of Wikimedia foundation