the benefits of outsourcing are no longer exclusive to the Fortune 1000. Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) everywhere are now poised to fully participate in the global economy by requesting bids, awarding projects, and building trusted relationships with service providers around the world, thanks to a new Web platform that was launched today: LimeExchange, the first socially networked marketplace for global talent. Read more

ByCell Telecommunications India Private Limited today announced that they have received the Letter of Intents for entering into Unified Access Service Licence Agreements to provide telecom services in five telecommunications circles namely Assam, North East (comprising Nagaland, Mizoram, Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur and Tripura), West Bengal (including Sikkim and Andaman & Nicobar Islands), Orissa and Bihar (including Jharkhand). The 5 circles would cover a total of 13 states with a population of more than 260m. Read more

When will iTunes replace Wal-Mart as No. 1 music retailer? Interesting question right? Well that’s also the hot topic for discussion numerous sites and journals. According to Cnet Apple’s iTunes will likely whip past Wal-Mart Stores to become the largest U.S. music retailer sometime this year.

The NPD Group issued a report Tuesday that said Apple had outpaced Best Buy and Target to become the No. 2 U.S. music retailer. Unless the downward trend in CD sales suddenly reverses, Apple will be No. 1, said Russ Crupnick, the NPD Group’s president of Music.

“Digital sales were up close to 50 percent and CD sales were down 20 percent last year,” Crupnick said. “Even at half that growth rate in digital sales, Apple will in all likelihood catch Wal-Mart this year.”

Anybody in their teens or early 20s is going to ask, “So what else is new?” To them, digital downloads has been part of their lives for years. It’s only natural that a download store emerge as the top seller.

But anybody older is going to remember that it wasn’t too long ago when music buying meant flipping through CD racks at the former retail powerhouses, Sam Goody and Tower Records.

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Sony has announced the DSC-H50 and DSC-W300, two new point-and-shoot digital cameras. The DSC-H50 and DSC-W300 will be released in May for $400 and $350 respectively. The highlight of the cameras is a 9.1 megapixel resolution with 15x optical zoom lens. There are also features like optical image stabilization and 3-inch tilting LCD display covered in scratch-resistant UV hardcoat.

Airtel the leading mobile telephony provider has joined five leading international companies including Google to build a 10,000 km undersea cable to link Asia and the United States. The high bandwidth cable system that would pump 7.68 terabits of information per second — equivalent to about 9 crore telephone lines — is being called Unity and is estimated to cost $ 300 million (about Rs 1,200 crore). The Unity consortium includes Malaysia’s Global Transit Limited, leading search engine firm Google, Japanese telecom major KDDI Corporation, and Pacnet and SingTel from Singapore. The ultimate aim of the cable is to be able to allow companies to send large amounts of data across the world at a lower price. Consortium companies will utilize a five fiber pair cable system, which can be upgraded to eight fiber pairs later down the road.