Funds crunch keeps Nila TV off air
Liquidity crunch seems to have totally eclipsed Nila TV, the Tamil satellite channel. The channel has, for all practical purposes, shut shop with the management asking its employees not to report for duty. The channel went off air on August 18 within a few months of its launch.

Sun Microsystems ropes in Nasscom for open systems development plan
Sun Microsystems has announced a programme to back up independent developers in the country. The plan aims at open systems software development segment.

Organic & Khajurao; Zee has 2 new channels up its sleeve
Zee Network is planning to launch two niche channels, Organic and Khajurao, next year. While Organic will be a channel on alternative therapy and traditional healing systems, Khajurao will be an artistic, adult channel.


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  Aptech plans acquisitions in US
  Lawyer Jaitely may put a regulation or two in place at I&B ministry
  Kerala to promote IT start-ups at district level