Vodafone has made announcement about the launching of its new service, named ‘Vodafone Friends Circle’ permitting customers to make local calls to family and friends more frequent and long.
The offer is for both pre paid and post paid users.
The facility allows users to add up at least 5 numbers and enjoy extra talk time to local calls at just 20 paise per min.
This service can easily be activated by sending an SMS ‘FRIENDS’ to a toll free number 144.
IBM has entered into a US$5 million IT services agreement with Kotak Mahindra Bank Limited (Kotak) to further strengthen latter’s position as one of the leading banking and financial services provider in India. 
On Thursday, it was announced by the Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy that the recent developments in the software giant Satyam group are not going to affect major projects in the state. 
The stake of chairman of Satyam Computer Services Ltd, B. Ramalinga Raju and his family declined to 5.13% from 8.27% following large scale selling of shares by the institutional investors. The company is facing trouble since allegations of corruption were made on Mr. Raju while executing some important deals. The World Bank has also banned the company for eight years on the basis of bribery charges. 
On the very first day of the 2009, Nokia launched its ‘Take Back’ campaign with the aim to encourage the users of mobile phone to dispose off their used handsets and accessories at any of the recycling bins set up across Nokia priority dealers and Nokia care centres, no matter what brand they belong to. 
