The Union Minister for Communications and IT, Mr A Raja, on Friday announced that mobile number portability would be introduced by the first week of May in Chennai and Bangalore. The MNP implementation got delayed due to certain issues related to getting security clearances. Read full story »
From January 26th onwards, Bangalore city traffic police will stop issuing old system of paper challans for traffic violations and instead all traffic violations will be booked only via BlackBerry. Superior officers get details of the enforcement on computers in real time. Citizens can be assured that whatever they pay as fine will only go to the government. Read full story »
VidTeq.com introduces Video Maps – a feature-rich next generation navigable map built on a traditional digital map. Video Map is a video clip of the complete route between source and destination with rich features including business logos, background music, turn-by-turn audio overlay, road names etc. embedded into it. Video Map is built of individual geo-tagged video segments. Read full story »
Latlong SMS service assists people in locating any place (currently in Bangalore and Chennai) and obtain driving directions using SMS on their mobile phones. Locate places and get driving directions in Bangalore (Bengaluru) and Chennai, by sending an sms to 90088 90088. Read full story »
Excerpts from an article by Saritha Rai at silicon.com
It looks like the global economic turmoil and the dramatic Wall Street meltdown is beginning to hit Bangalore.
The collapse of top US financial firms will cause a dramatic slowdown in hiring among outsourcing companies. The banking, financial services and insurance sectors account for 40 per cent of … Read full story »
