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We have had reports coming in from various places in India about users complaining that they are unable to connect to Google’s GMail service. Even we are facing the issue since noon and initially thought, that it could be an Airtel’s Broadband issue, but it turns out that GMail is facing connectivity problems. Few users … Read more GMail users in India facing Connectivity Problems

State run Bharat Sanchar Nigam (BSNL) has announced a new tariff plan that offers local and STD calls at just 50 paise per minute across all the network and 20-30 paise for BSNL to BSNL. The new plan – India Golden Fifty – would be made available to its customers from March 1 for a … Read more BSNL Cellone India Golden Fifty Plan

Nimbuzz today announced a collaboration with electronics giant Toshiba to develop optimized versions of the multi-award winning Nimbuzz Social Messaging application for its mobile communications division. The agreement will bring instant messaging and social networking capabilities to Toshiba’s new high quality, high performance TG01 Handset. Bertand Issard, Head of Product Planning & Strategy of Toshiba … Read more Nimbuzz Signs Pact with Toshiba

India’s second largest software exporter – Infosys Technologies – has set up a not-for-profit trust christened Infosys Science Foundation to promote research in sciences in India. Under this initiative, Infosys will honour outstanding contributions and achievements made by Indians across various fields in science. The annual award for each category comes to the tune of … Read more Infosys sets up foundation to promote science research

A host of Internet Service Providers (ISPs), including few telcos, have opposed TRAI’s regulations to ensure that ISPs provide internet connections based only on the capacity of traffic they can carry. TRAI has proposed to introduce norms that would mention the ratio between the number of customers per unit bandwidth. The average international contention ratio … Read more ISPs set to oppose new TRAI regulation

The government-appointed board of the crisis-ridden IT major Satyam Computer Services, which met in Mumbai on Thursday, has started work on formulating guidelines for selecting a buyer for the company. The company’s chairman Kiran Karnik  told us the board will announce the bidding process in the next seven to ten days. He added that the … Read more Bidding on Satyam Computers – Decision in 7-10 days: Kiran Karnik