Customers’ consent must for providing value-added services

September 8th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Tata Docomo, the GSM brand of Tata Teleservices, Tuesday launched a short messaging service (SMS), called Diet-SMS, which enables customers to pay on a per-character basis. "The cost of any Diet-SMS will be only one paise per character used, thereby providing complete value to customers, Tata Docomo said in a statement.

September 4th, 2009 AGARTALA - The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) will soon engage agents to provide banking services in villages, says RBI deputy governor Usha Thorat. "To act on behalf of the banks and to provide certain banking services among the uncovered people, non-government organisations, self-help groups, cooperatives, financial bodies, retired teachers and government employees and responsible citizens would soon be employed as banking correspondents or agents," Thorat said while addressing a seminar in Agartala late Friday.

September 2nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - BMW Group will introduce BMW Financial Services India as a new business entity in India. The new subsidiary is planned to be fully operational by the mid of 2010 and will be headquartered in Gurgaon.

September 1st, 2009 Deal helps disabled dispute credit card chargesALBANY, N.Y. — New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo says HSBC bank's credit card division is agreeing to a new national standard to serve customers who are blind or deaf.

August 19th, 2009 Chase introduces new card for wealthiest customersWILMINGTON, Del. — Chase Card Services, a unit of JPMorgan Chase & Co., said Wednesday it will now offer a rewards card designed for wealthy customers.

August 12th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Telecom major Reliance Communications (RCom) Wednesday announced it had partnered US-based telecom solutions provider Kodiak Networks to roll out nationwide mobile conferencing service. RCom will roll out the services on both GSM and CDMA platforms, the company said in a statement.

August 12th, 2009 DUBAI - Dubai has unveiled a new advanced and user-friendly website for the emirate's business community to improve public access to business-related information and procedures, the WAM news agency has reported. The new website, developed by the Department of Economic Development (DED), is the first of many steps planned for the near future to improve the business community's interaction with the department, officials said.

August 4th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Indian outsourcer HCL Technologies has acquired its first data centre in the US from one of its customers, a report here said. HCL actually acquired the data centre in October but delayed announcing it until this month pending the upgrade of the facility.

July 29th, 2009 ICICIdirect, one of the largest financial product distributors in India, today announced that it has waived off transaction fees for its HNI Mutual Funds customers. ICICIdirect is the first distributors to revise its commissions on mutual funds, post SEBI’s directive on removal of entry load from August 1, 2009.

July 19th, 2009 MUMBAI - Allahabad Bank is adding MoneyGram International's money transfer services to its core banking service branch locations. Allahabad Bank offers locations countrywide in India's largest cities and services to cities and rural communities especially across Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal.

July 15th, 2009 CHENNAI - Sify Technologies Limited announced today the launch of Managed MPLS Service and Managed Internet Service as part of the Cisco Managed Services Channel Program (MSCP). This service is the first of a series of Managed Services that Sify Technologies plans to launch over the next two years.

May 11th, 2009 Chrysler to ask judge to approve GMAC agreementNEW YORK — Chrysler LLC will ask a bankruptcy judge on Tuesday to allow General Motors Corp's lending arm to take over making auto loans for Chrysler's customers and dealers. Chrysler two weeks ago said its lending arm, Chrysler Financial, would no longer provide vehicle financing.

April 30th, 2009 BANGALORE - TANDBERG announced ts Telepresence T3 is the first and only immersive telepresence solution that maintains the multi-screen, high-definition telepresence experience when calling out to a third-party telepresence system. This new functionality is meeting the growing demands of organizations that require all video systems to fully interoperate, putting an end to siloed communication.

March 19th, 2009 MUMBAI - Shell Lubricants, the global market share leader in finished lubricants, unveiled a new range of Product PLUS Services. Shell recognises that simply supplying high quality lubricants is not always enough to give its customers a clear competitive advantage and has developed this range of services aimed at helping customers get the best from Shell products.

March 12th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Bharti Airtel Limited, Asia's leading integrated telecom services provider, today announced the withdrawal of '95' dialing for long distance calling on its fixed line service as per the directive from Department of Telecom (DoT), Ministry of Communications and IT, Government of India. This withdrawal will come into effect from midnight today.