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Free roaming likely from March 2013

After announcing plans to abolish roaming charges for mobile users when traveling within India from next year, the telecom department is likely to ask operators to implement this consumer-friendly move from March.  Mobile phone companies have opposed the government's plans to do away with roaming charges, which accounts for about 10% of their revenues, and have warned they would be forced to increase tariffs to offset this loss.  According to an internal DoT note (dated November 23) reviewed by ET, the department has listed this consumer-friendly move amongst 'key initiatives to be completed within the next three months'.  By March, the department also wants to expand the mobile number portability (MNP) provision and allow consumers to retain their numbers when they move to a new city or any location in the country without having to pay roaming charges. At present, MNP, the facility that allows customers to retain their number while switching operators,...

Wipro plans to build biggest campus near Bangalore

 At a time when shaky global economic cues have pushed most companies to po st pone real estate investments, India's third-largest software exporter Wipro is finalising plans to build its largest campus that can house at least 30,000 employees in Bangalore. The new campus, whose first phase is expected to have a built up space of 2.5 million square feet, will come up on a 50-acre plot that is 4 km away from its existing 1.9 million sq ft campus in Sarjapur, on the outskirts of Bangalore. This will be in addition to Wipro's existing campuses across the country and is not aimed at consolidating operations. Currently, the software major's headcount stands at about 138,000 employees. "We are currently in the process of finalising the master plan for the new campus," said Hariprasad He gde, vice-president and global head of operations at Wipro. He did not provide details on the developer of the project or how much it would cost. The Sarjapur facility -the largest f...

Yahoo to kill public chats, voice calls in Messenger

Yahoo, one of the most renowned internet companies in the world, has announced it will close the public chats, Pingbox and voice calls to landline and mobile phones. The company has also decided to pull away its Yahoo Messenger from Microsoft's Windows Live.  This was announced via posts on YahooMessenger Blog as well as on Messenger Help sections in Yahoo Help.  In the blog post, Yahoo stated, "We're focused on building products that are beautiful and meaningful for our users. Sometimes, this means we have to make tough decisions — like closing down features that we feel aren't adding enough value for you. With this in mind, we have decided to discontinue several Yahoo! product features. This will enable us to refocus our efforts on modernising our core Yahoo! products experiences and of course, create new ones."  The company will shut down public chat rooms and Pingbox on Yahoo Messenger from December 14. It will become inoperable with Windows Live on...

Functions of Brain

Functions of Brain : What about you? Send your specials with right and left hand what u did in previous and current achievements? welcome to our blog please send your suggestions .........  Source:Internet(web)

INTELLIGENCE TEST

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9,60,000 jobs by 2015 in IT

IT hiring: APAC region to have 9,60,000 jobs by 2015 Research firm Gartner p redicts that by 2014, IT hiring in major western markets will come predominantly from Asian-headquartered companies enjoying double-digit growth.  "An increasing number of successful Asian companies - particularly from China and India - are enjoying double-digit growth rates and will substantially grow their geographic footprints, making investments in major western markets through 2015. Consequently, these organizations will be responsible for major hiring of IT professionals to support their growth at a time when western companies will still be coping with the impact of the economic crisis," Peter Sondergaard, Gartner senior vice president and global head of research said.  By 2015, 4.4 million IT jobs globally will be created to support big data. Of these, 960,000 will be in the Asia Pacific region.  Every big data-related role in Asia Pacific will create e...

Intel launches new Itanium processor series

Intel launches new Itanium processor series Computer chipmaker Intel launched a new series of processors, Itanium 9500, which the company claimed is over two-times faster than its previous generation processors.  The new Intel Itanium processor 9500 series is more than twice as powerful as the previous generation, making it ideal for today's most demanding workloads, including business analytics, database, and large-scale ERP applications, Intel said in a statement.  Systems based on Intel's Itanium processors run in more than three-quarters of the world's global 100 companies across industries such as aerospace, energy, life sciences and telecommunications, the company said.  With the Intel Itanium processor 9500 series, these industries will benefit from a leap in performance and increase in reliability, availability and serviceability capabilities, it said.  "Built on a new microarchitecture and providing breakthrough performance, the Intel Itanium 950...