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India Debuts Mobile TV Channel

India Debuts Mobile TV Channel Reliance Infocomm introduced a full-fledged English TV news channel on mobile phones in India Monday through its wireless carrier Reliance IndiaMobile, underscoring a trend among carriers to move into more lucrative offerings. The channel, called Times Now, is a joint offering from Times Group, South Asia’s largest and most profitable media conglomerate, and Reuters. The streaming news will be available through Reliance IndiaMobile’s R World service. A similar channel that will run on televisions will premiere later this week. Reliance premiered R World several years ago, treating users to cricket scores, Bollywood movie trailers, news

WiMAX Indias answer to spectrum problem, rural connectivity

WiMAX Indias answer to spectrum problem, rural connectivity India is on the threshold of a new mobile technology revolution with WiMAX being considered as the new age reality by many mobile manufacturers. WiMAX is not only being touted as 30 times faster than third generation mobile technology and 100 times faster than the wireless data rates, but is also expected to solve the problems of rural connectivity. It could also solve the last mile connectivity problems that prevent internet connectivity in rural India, DoT Telecommunication Engineering Centre Sr Deputy Director General P N Padukone said at a Wireless Tech India 2006

Temasek buys 10% of India’s Tata Teleservices

Temasek buys 10% of India’s Tata Teleservices Singapore state investor Temasek Holdings Pte Ltd said on Wednesday it had bought a 9.9 percent stake in Tata Teleservices, India’s second-largest provider of CDMA mobile services, for an undisclosed amount. Temasek’s share in the telecoms firm is its second major investment in India’s salt-to-software Tata conglomerate after its acquisition of shares in software services provider Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. two years ago. “We are excited about India’s growth prospects, and the telecom industry provides us with an attractive opportunity to participate in this fast-growing market,” Manish Kejriwal, Managing Director of Temasek’s India

Will Maran’s dream of making India a semiconductor powerhouse take off?

Will Maran's dream of making India a semiconductor powerhouse take off? For the last few days, Vinod K Aggarwal has been keeping a strenuous schedule — dashing in and out of meetings with technology bigwigs — hardly any time to catch up on his sleep. The soft-spoken former electrical engineering professor at McGill University and chairman of SemIndia, which he founded with a group of non-resident Indians, says with a smile: “Earlier, my mobile phone used to ring once in a while. Now it refuses to stop ringing. My battery has got exhausted and I have no choice but to borrow

FIIs may have to open special account for India investments

FIIs may have to open special account for India investments NEW DELHI: All foreign institutional investors may need to channel their funds through a special non-resident (NR) account as per a proposal made by the Reserve Bank of India. This will give the monetary regulator a stronger means to “closely monitor the flow of FII investments” to trace if undesirable funds are coming into India, through any of them. If implemented, this could mean that all FIIs would transact their business into and out of India, through the NR account only. As of now, there are no restrictions on the type