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Accenture-BMW Deal
Accenture will help BMW Group consolidate its IT processes under a five-year application outsourcing contract. The duo didnt disclose financial terms of the agreement. Accenture will deliver the services to BMW Group leveraging its global delivery network and its automotive centers of excellence in Hyderabad, India; and Munich and Hof, Germany. Accenture will also help BMW Group consolidate a vendor network of its application operations service providers in areas including production, sales, logistics, finance, and human resources.

IMImobile Provides Results by SMS
IMImobile has partnered with the National Network of Education to deliver board and university examination results direct to students via a mobile SMS. The results will be delivered using mVaayooIMImobiles two-way web based SMS service. While results will be published as usual on NNEs portalwww.ExamResults.net, candidates now have the opportunity to know their results by sending an SMS.

Oriental Implements Sun-Oracle Solution
The Oriental Insurance Company has completed the implementation of its core software (Inlias) in all its branches and extension counters. This has enabled 8,000 concurrent users across all offices, access to a centralized system, making it one of the largest centralized installations of core insurance application processing over one crore policy documents and over six lakhs claim per annum.

IBM Deals with Star India
IBM has signed an agreement with Star India, a wholly owned subsidiary of Star, to implement SAP ECC 6.0 application encompassing all major business processes. The deal will increase process efficiency, enabling Star India to enhance customer experience and drive greater control over net margin. The deal also marks a systematic approach by IBM India and IBM Hong Kong, demonstrating the extent of experience and talent within IBM.

Vodafone Selects Onmobile
Vodafone has extended its popular ring back tone service to customers in emerging markets, outside of India, after striking a new deal with Indias OnMobile, a leading provider of value added services. The announcement between Vodafone Group and OnMobile forms a separate agreement to an existing successful partnership Vodafones Indian operation has with OnMobile.

Nazara for Android
Mobile entertainment major Nazara Technologies is all set to give Google-powered Android phone a new edge by creating some innovative games and applications for it. Among the games, Nazara is developing Rounders, Catch Butterfly, and Penguin Jump games. The company is also developing services related to numerology for the Android system. This application allows the user to view his/her future.

IBM Kurmanchal Bank Deal
IBM has signed a 10-year IT outsourcing agreement with Kurmanchal Nagar Sahakari Bank, an urban co-operative bank in Uttarakhand. As part of the agreement, IBM would remotely host and manage the IT infrastructure, disaster recovery site and provide the entire networking infrastructure for the bank. This will help the bank focus on its aggressive expansion plans while reducing its capital expenditure on IT by as much as 60%.

Its a New Composition

With an upcoming Center for Composite Material and Research, Bharati Vidyapeeth University could set a new milestone in incubating one of the latest and potent technology area. While globally composite materials with nano-fibres is picking up as a research subject, witnessing a lot of experimentation and initial prototypes, in India it would be something with a lot of first-mover work and scope for replacing conventional materials. Dr Anand R Bhalerao, principal and dean, BVU College of Engineering, Pune Its uses would range from automobile industry, applying VARTM (vacuum assisted resin transfer molding), and some areas of steel substitutes. Composite materials blend resins of different types and after fabrication under a heat treatment they turn into a panel of lesser thickness but increased toughness. The resulting strength is as good as steel. It can reduce weight of vehicles resulting in better fuel efficiency, can reduce injuries concrete construction sites, can give ease to female construction labor and can help in more sophisticated speed breakers. It can not entirely substitute steel but some areas are possible and the only problem with that is in the equipment standards required for testing on various criteria of steel. explains Dr Anand R Bhalerao, principal and dean, BVU College of Engineering, Pune. He also informs that the research proposal with a project outlay of about 213 lakhs has been submitted with the Department of Science and Technology. BVU would be pumping in about Rs 4 crore for the building and the equipment would be pooled in from DST and the University of North Carolina. The research work has started on a smaller scale already. Composite materials are basically engineered materials made from two or more constituent materials with significantly different physical or chemical properties which remain separate and distinct on a macroscopic level within the finished structure. The use of carbon composites in aircraft, marine, and automotive structural applications is steadily increasing. In 2003, researchers at Purdue University, US, found that carbon nanofibre-reinforced plastic composites could be used in neural or orthopaedic implants in the human body. And recently, in March 2008, Fujitsu Laboratories unveiled the successful formation of a new nano-scale carbon composite. Carbon nanotubes have properties including high thermal conductivity and high current-density tolerance. Pratima Harigunani pratimah@cybermedia.co.in

NIIT to Train Delhi Municipal Schools
NIIT has entered into an agreement with New Delhi Municipal Council to provide ICT Education in twenty-nine municipal schools in the city. NIIT would train the teachers, and offer computer-aided education to 11,500 students from all these municipal schools. NIIT will set up computer labs inside NDMC and Navyug Schools.

HDFC, IBM Tie-up
HDFC Bank has agreed with IBM India to build a cost-effective IT framework. HDFC Bank is the first commercial bank in India to adopt the IBM mainframe and has joined the ranks of the worlds top 50 banks that continue to run on System z Technology. This will enable the bank to keep its critical credit card processing requirements in-house.

ItzCash Seventymm Tie-up
ItzCash Card, the first multipurpose prepaid cash card of India has tied-up with Seventymm to facilitate the online payment of movie rental services. This service will bring in convenience to the viewers to register and rent movies in various languages from the comfort of their home. With this alliance, ItzCash Card reinforces its leadership position by bringing in the service to the movie lovers across the country. ItzCash along with Seventymm promises to bring the cinema like experience to the viewers right at their home with the variety in choice of movies. Viewers are given the facility of renting the movies from an exhaustive collection of 20,000 movies by using ItzCash Card.

Fatwa on Cell Phones
A panel of clerics from the Kanpur-based Madrasa Jamia Ashraf-ul-Madaris has issued a fatwa over mobile phone etiquette. The panel has objected to the use of aayats (verses from the Koran) as ringtones. The Islamic group argues that people who use aayats as ring tones and answer their cell phone midway through the aayat commit a sinful act. Listening to aayats partially is anti-Islamic, says Ghyasuddin, a senior cleric with Jamia Ashraf-ul-Madaris. This kind of action amounts to a gunah (sin). The Group has also criticised the use of mobile phones when in the toilet and refused to allow people to put their phones on vibrate mode while offering prayers.

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