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.
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.
Nokia would plant a tree for each handset dropped into the recycling bins and would also be gifting presents to the people participating in its campaign.
Indian IT- ITeS segment is likely to register slowest ever growth rate since 2003 for the financial year 2009. Market research firm, IDC forecasts 13.4% growth rate of the technology sector in 2009. IT- ITeS market including hardware, software and services registered a growth rate of 17.3% in 2008 and generated revenue of Rs 1,01,031 crore.
The Andhra Pradesh government is keeping a close watch on the developments in the Satyam group as the fate of the Rs 12,200 crore Hyderabad Metro Rail (HMR) Project has become doubtful due to the turmoil in the group. The anxiety in the government is obvious as set back to the project at this stage would blot Y S Rajasekhara Reddy’s administration.
The government, however, says that "the project is well on track."
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 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. 
Indian IT- ITeS segment is likely to register slowest ever growth rate since 2003 for the financial year 2009. Market research firm, IDC forecasts 13.4% growth rate of the technology sector in 2009. IT- ITeS market including hardware, software and services registered a growth rate of 17.3% in 2008 and generated revenue of Rs 1,01,031 crore. 
The Andhra Pradesh government is keeping a close watch on the developments in the Satyam group as the fate of the Rs 12,200 crore Hyderabad Metro Rail (HMR) Project has become doubtful due to the turmoil in the group. The anxiety in the government is obvious as set back to the project at this stage would blot Y S Rajasekhara Reddy’s administration. 
