Telecom
Asus introduces new PDA phone
02 Mar 2009
Former minister Sukhram gets 3 years jail; fined Rs2 lakh in disproportionate asset case
25 Feb 2009
Former union minister for communications, Sukhram, has been sentenced to a 3-year jail term for amassing disproportionate assets during his tenure
Expansion plans on track, says Tata Comm
21 Feb 2009
India's phone connections top 400 million; tele-density reaches 34.5 per cent
21 Feb 2009
Telephone service providers added a total of 15.26 million new fixed and mobile connections during January 2009, taking the total to over 400 million
Telstra's mobile broadband breaks speed barrier; declared world's fastest by Guinness World Records
20 Feb 2009
The Telstra NextG network, with a peak network speed of 21 Mbps, was yesterday declared the world's fastest mobile broadband network by the Guinness World Records
Reliance Comm's books to be probed for 'cooking'
20 Feb 2009
Vihaan's solar-powered GSM network operates at `zero cost'
18 Feb 2009
Vihaan Network Ltd has unveiled the world's first solar-powered GSM system that allows mobile phone networks to operate at near zero cost and remain eco-friendly.
Mobile phone makers moving to solar-powered handsets
By By Mary Thomas | 18 Feb 2009
The mobile phone industry is going to great lengths to boast its environmental credentials. Mary Thomas reports
New FDI norms baffle analysts
18 Feb 2009
The new FDI norms announced by the centre yesterday will have benfit telecom companies such as Bharti Airtel, says a report by australian research firm Macquarie
Nokia to integrate Skype in N97
17 Feb 2009
Microsoft unveils Windows Mobile 6.5, gets support from LG, HTC
17 Feb 2009
Microsoft has announced a new version of Windows Mobile at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, with some innovative features
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Almost a month after the damning report of short-seller Hindenburg Research on the Adani Group that claimed that the seven stocks within the group were about 85 per cent overvalued, one of the group's stocks, Adani Total Gas, closed at Rs835 on the BSE, down nearly 79 per cent from its 24 January level, almost close to reaching that valuation