Novatium To Launch NetPC With BSNL; Why MTNL & BSNL

In what appears to be its largest deal yet, thin client company Novatium has signed a deal with government owned telecom operator BSNL to offer its Nova NetPC at Rs. 2999 (plus taxes), reports the Hindu. Details available on the pricing of the service are sketchy - just that the monthly subscription for the NetPC [...]

MovieBeam To Be Launched For Consumers In India, Hospitality Sector In US

Rajesh Mishra, CEO (India) of UFO Moviez said at the IAMAI Digital Entertainment conference yesterday that the company intends to launch MovieBeam in India in around 6 months. Moviebean is essentially a push video on demand service, which requires a separate set-top-box. “If there are four films releasing this weekend, I’ll push those films to [...]

BSNL Eyes Overseas Acquisitions; Why Not MTNL First?

Public Sector telecom operator BSNL is eying overseas acqusitions in Africa and the Middle East reports PTI. BSNL CMD Kuldeep Goyal told reporters that the company is open to acqusitions, and we’re wondering why a meger hasn’t yet taken place between BSNL and MTNL.
It’s a strange situation with the public sector telecom operators - BSNL [...]

Satyam Buys Motorola’s Malaysian Software Development Center

Well, Motorola’s been in a lot of trouble, and were earlier reported to be in talks with Videocon for selling their handsets business. It appears that the company has sold its sofware development center in Cyberjaya to Satyam. The Kuala Lumpur based center has 128 employees, and will strengthen Satyam’s capabilities to cater to Network [...]

Bharti Telesoft To Provide VAS Services To MTN

More of an infrastructure deal, this: Bharti Telesoft (BTSL) has tied up, interestingly, with a company that its sister concern was wooing: CIOL reports that BTSL will provide deploy SMSC, MMSC and WAP Gateway for all 21 of MTNs companies. MTN is among the largest mobile operators, and it appears that Indian companies are looking [...]

Entrepreneur Roundtable, Mumbai

Panelists: Hrush Bhatt, co-founder, Cleartrip.com; Saurabh Gupta - CEO of Phonethics Mobile Media; Naveen Tewari - CEO of MKhoj; Saurabh Khullar, Co-Founder of Ideacts; Jiby Thomas, Co-Founder of Quickr
Theme: Before & After (Starting Up) 
Date: Friday, November 14th
Time: 3-5 PM
Venue: Sequoia Capital India Advisors, #404, Ceejay House, Shivsagar Estate, Dr. Annie Besant Road, Worli, Mumbai

Note: The roundtable is not open to [...]

Rediff CEO On Current Advertising Scenario, In.com, Paid Services, Apps & Content Deals

Much was expected from the Rediff.com this quarter - as the leading online media site in India, and with around 75% of its India Online revenues dependent on the Advertising - we logged on to Rediff’s earnings call for inputs on spread of the Advertising drought:
Data
– India Online Revenues: $4.04 million (72%) from Advertising , [...]