Seven Networks to buy Smartner

US-based Seven Networks is to acquire European rival Smartner as it vies to mount a challenge to BlackBerry maker Research in Motion in the fast-growing wireless email software market and boost its......

Foreign airlines pull out of India

A severe squeeze on margins has prompted leading international airlines such as Virgin Atlantic, Sri Lankan Airlines, Austrian Airlines, Delta, KLM, Syrian Airlines, Aeroflot, All Nippon Airways,......

War is fine, not the flu

Business travellers from India don't mind flying over the war zone if they can avoid the peninsula of the mystery pneumonia. An increasing number of travellers are opting to fly over Europe and......

A charter for change

Travel agent Balbir Mayal isn't wasting any time. For the last seven days Mayal, the managing director of New Airways Travels has been working the phones and sending off a flurry of e-mails to......