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Nintendo picks GameStop, Toys “R” Us for Wii launch

By : CIOL Bureau

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

By : CIOL Bureau

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

By : CIOL Bureau

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

By : CIOL Bureau

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

By : CIOL Bureau

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

By : CIOL Bureau

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

By : CIOL Bureau

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

By : CIOL Bureau

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

By : CIOL Bureau

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

By : CIOL Bureau

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

By : CIOL Bureau

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

By : CIOL Bureau

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

By : CIOL Bureau

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

By : CIOL Bureau

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

By : CIOL Bureau

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

By : CIOL Bureau

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

By : CIOL Bureau

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

By : CIOL Bureau

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

By : CIOL Bureau

The acquisition will help TCS expand its product portfolio in the banking and financial services space