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Nintendo picks GameStop, Toys “R” Us for Wii launch
The Wii launch will take place two days after Sony Corp.”s PlayStation 3 hits U.S. stores, marking the start of the holiday shopping season when video game makers traditionally reap more than half of their annual sales.
Nokia wins $230 mln network services deal
Telecom equipment vendors are battling fiercely for such orders as managing networks on behalf of operators is a fast-growing segment in an industry where new network construction is slowing.
Gmail on mobile service
Google Inc. aims to close the gap between the classic way people get e-mail sitting at a computer and the slow-as-molasses reality of receiving e-mail on cell phones
Yahoo ventures into food business
The Web media giant is looking to create a new lifestyle business in a category that, while well-established in Internet terms, is largely fragmented among food industry players and niche recipe sites, with few big independent media players.
YouTube hopes to be on mobile devices in 2007
Chad Hurley, YouTube chief executive and co-founder, told an advertising conference that offering video services on mobile phones was a key opportunity for the company.
Bangalore city renamed Bengalooru
The name change was announced to mark the 50th anniversary celebrations of the formation of Karnataka state, of which the city is the capital.
Vodafone denies report of tie-up talks with Altimo
Last week, Altimo Senior Vice President Roger de Bazelaire told Reuters that the firm was in talks with international telecommunications majors, including Vodafone, about a possible merger or partnership
Cingular to offer music to U.S. cell phone subscribers
The move by Cingular, jointly owned by AT&T Inc and BellSouth Corp, follows the launch of a virtual wireless music store by rival Sprint Nextel Corp last year, and Verizon Wireless, owned by Verizon Communications and Vodafone Group Plc, early this year.
Indian cities best for outsourcing – survey
India”s rising wage bills and a perception it cannot provide watertight security are the main reasons why outsourcing companies may look elsewhere
Norwest invests $10 mln in Sulekha
Financing would fund the expansion of Sulekha”s focus beyond India”s top eight cities and into new business segments
Hurix is on cloud level 4
Hurix, an e-learning major in India, is certified at CMMI Level 4, the first e-learning company to be appraised at that level
Web UI and Charting Components
These feature rich AJAX enabled components for Visual Studio 2005 provide a lot of options for easy implementation in your C# or ASP.NET applications
DLINQ for ASP.NET 2.0
A powerful new backend-independent query language to enumerate data like XML, RDBMS tables, etc for all your ASP.NET applications
Entertainment portal, cricket and technology
We found that Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software could be applied to any business across all verticals, says Krish Srikkanth
Developer population to exceed 17 Million by 2009
The APAC region will overtake the EMEA region in 2007 as the home of more professional developers than any other area
Swisscom launches Internet TV over broadband
Priced at 29 francs a month on top of the fees for telephone and Internet connection, the service offers more than 100 television and 70 radio channels as well as sporting events and video on demand
U.S. intelligence unveils spy version of Wikipedia
Intellipedia allows intelligence analysts and other officials to collaboratively add and edit content on the government”s classified Intelink Web much like its more famous namesake on the World Wide Web
Google acquires Web applications pioneer JotSpot
Three-year-old JotSpot had developed a series of online productivity software programs that offer many of the functions of Microsoft Office programs like Microsoft Word or Excel spreadsheets
TCS takes majority stake in Swiss firm
The acquisition will help TCS expand its product portfolio in the banking and financial services space