Partnerships

Du Gives Free Facebook

The Emirates new integrated telecommunications service provider, Du; and

social networking websiteFacebook have announced free mobile browsing of the

new 0.facebook.com website for its customers. The 0.facebook.com website is a

faster, lightweight version of Facebooks mobile site m.facebook.com. The new

site does not have graphics or photos and the pages have been designed for

optimum performance on the state-of-the-art telecommunications network in the

Emirates. However, to view a photo on Facebook, one needs to click on a link to

the photo and they will be prompted that they are leaving 0.facebook.com.

Standard data charges will apply when a person leaves 0.facebook.com to view

photos.

Etihad Launches Online Visa Processing

Etihad Airways, the national airline of the UAE, has launched an online visa
processing service for the Indian passengers traveling to the UAE. The airline

has launched the service with TT Services, which is a visa outsourcing service

provider in India, Sri Lanka, South Korea, Sweden, Russia and the UAE. "Citizens

and residents of India, traveling on Etihad Airways to Abu Dhabi can apply for

quick and easy visa processing for the UAE by visiting the website of TTS,"

Etihad says in a statement. The types of visas being offered include visit visa,

tourist visa, entry permit and transit visa, the statement adds.

Carlyle Ties Up with MindTree



MindTree has announced a partnership with The Carlyle Group, a private

equity firm. MindTree would provide IT infrastructure management and support

services for Carlyles global data centers. MindTree would monitor and manage

all of Carlyles IT production servers hosted at Carlyles data centers in the

US, UK and Hong Kong, as well as its disaster recovery data center in Virginia.

It would also monitor and manage the file servers located in Carlyle offices

throughout the world, as well as other classes of hardware and applications.

eInfochips Ties Up with BIT



eInfochips, embedded design and software product development firm along with its
knowledge partner Seer Akademi has recently signed an MOU with Babaria Institute

of Technology (BIT) to impart training and support research activities to help

in building the skills of engineering graduates. eInfochips would be the local

and implementation partner for this course offered jointly with Seer Akademi.

eInfochips would help to implement the program through complete content delivery

via training and exams conducted. Besides giving technical support in lab

development at college sites, einfochips will also help in training faculty

coordinators and reach out across Gujarat. Seer Akademy is an educational

content provider for Synopsys University programs.