Telenor, Alcatel-Lucent Launch Digital Content Store in Serbia

Telenor is on an agreement with Alcatel-Lucent to launch Digital Media Store (DMS) in Serbia and to deliver personalized digital content to its subscribers in Europe and Asia. The store gives customers in Serbia, an access to a wide variety of personalized digital media services such as music, applications, games, e-books, and videos. Telenor will later deploy DMS solution on a country-by-country basis. As a part of the partnership, Alcatel- Lucent’s DMS enables Telenor to provide its customers with a rich blend of services and content and more from a single cloud based ‘entertainment hub’.

Wishtel to Invest 15 crore for Designing and Manufacturing

Wishtel is planning to invest 15 crore for ramping up its design, manufacturing, and software engineering capabilities. The ramped up capacity will help in meeting growing global demands for the company’s market leading tablet products and turnkey solution services. Wishtel has already shipped over 50,000 devices and expects to reach monthly volumes of 100 thousand per month in the second half of 2012. To meet this growing demand, Wishtel is expanding the capacity of its manufacturing facilities in Mumbai and Kandla, Gujarat.

Tata Comm Launches Low Latency Network

Tata Communications has launched a low latency network which can connect major financial capitals in Asia, the UK, and the United States to offer global connectivity scalability and flexibility with ethernet technology. This network is backed by 802.1ah, Provider Backbone Bridging (PBB) technology. It enables the customers to work with a single global supplier instead of multiple country-specific point-to-point network providers.

Intex Unveils Touch Screen Phone Intex Cola

Intex is all set to tap the touch screen portfolio and it intends to target 25% of revenue in mobile business from touch screen category in FY13. Intex has launched a dual-SIM touch screen phone - Intex Cola - priced at `2,190. Intex Cola comes with features such as 6.1 cm resistive and 2.4 inch wide screen, 1.3 mega pixel camera with flash. It also comes with mobile tracker, 3.5 mm jack for
audio output, expandable memory up to 8 GB and Li-Ion 1,000 mAh battery. It is available in black and white colors.

Indian School of Business (ISB) Largest Indian B School

With the addition of a new campus in Mohali, Indian School of Business (ISB) has become the largest premier B school in the country, with an annual intake of 767 students. This academic year onwards, lectures for ISB’s postgraduate programme in management (PGP) will be delivered in both the Mohali and Hyderabad campuses. The new campus has enabled ISB to increase the intake of women students. Around 28% of the students are women, while 63 students come from families with an entrepreneurial background. The class of 2013 has also seen a rise in students from tier I and II cities.

Manipal University plans to open Campus in CHINA

Manipal University is in talks with Chinese officials in connection with its plans to open its campus in China. If the talks come to fruition, this will be the first time for an Indian university to open a campus in China. The university is exploring a tieup with Tianjin University and Shanghai’s Tongji University for assistance in training in information technology and sciences. Manipal University already has overseas campuses in Dubai, Nepal, Antigua and Malaysia.