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Infosys Technologies Ltd said it has partnered with ACDI/VOCA, a non-profit international development organization that promotes broad-based economic growth, to develop information and communication technology- enabled application to improve efficiencies in the agro supply chain in India.
The application tackles supply chain management from profiling of farmer clusters to crop planning, scheduling, tracking and forecasting, the [...]

In a bid to establish itself as a brand that’s aware of current trends and customer needs, Spice Mobiles has partnered with Opera Software to offer Opera Mini Web browser on it’s upcoming handsets in the country.
Spice Mobile customers will now be able to access their favorite Web sites quickly and cost-efficiently; Opera [...]

The capital is gearing up for India’s largest consumer exhibition on mobile phones and accessories - Mobile Asia 2008 - to be held at Pragati Maidan from Feb 29 to March 3.
Organised by the Indian Cellular Association (ICA), the four-day exhibition will also highlight the latest technological developments in the Indian mobile market with several [...]

Indian Railways (IR) is to start allowing booking of railway tickets through mobile phones. Mobile ticket booking will be easier and hence convenient to all.
IR plans to look into mobile booking and hence will be issuing unreserved and reserved tickets through SMS. IR will not only provide ticket booking but will also link the call [...]

Concerned over the safety of transaction through cellular phones, the Reserve Bank today proposed to come out with a regulatory and oversight framework for mobile banking.
Stating that the use of mobile communication for banking transaction would assume greater importance in future, the RBI’s draft ‘Financial Sector Technology Vision 2008-10′ document said, “efforts would be channelized [...]

The government will issue new telecom licenses to nine firms which got LoIs last month, followed by allocation of start-up spectrum to roll out mobile services, a move that would fuel competition and bring about affordability in the cellular tariffs.
Telecom Secretary Siddarth Behura has cleared the file and sent it to Communication and IT Minister [...]

The sixth international conference on communications convergence here next month will focus on wireless communication in today’s age and how the telecom revolution could be taken to the remote rural areas. “Leaders from the telecom industry and business will participate as speakers and will deliberate upon various policy matters and future directions of wireless communication,” [...]

Penguin Books India has announced a partnership with Mobifusion to make its content available on the mobile platform.
Mobifusion, a global developer, publisher and distributor of mobile technologies and value-added services (VAS), will make a wide range of content from Penguin’s books available to mobile customers. With a focus on the Indian consumer base, [...]

Anil Ambani group company Reliance Communications is understood to have acquired an African company (Anupam Global Soft) for close to 500 million dollars (over Rs 2,000 crore), through which it plans to offer telecom access services in Uganda. This is the third global acquisition for the company after FLAG in 2003 and Yipes in 2007, [...]

The Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) has embarked on an ambitious public-private partnership project to provide wireless connectivity for the entire twin township.
While the initial plan was to make the 13-km stretch of the Pune-Mumbai highway passing through the township as a wi-fi zone, the municipal corporation changed the scope of work and has now [...]