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Hutch, Nimbus hatch deal to offer WC cric-pix
MUMBAI: For the first time in India, a live action event will be brought to the mobile device in near real time.
Hutchison has launched the first ever General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) based video delivery onto subscribers’ mobile phones, which will commence with video action from the Cricket World Cup 2003.
As a result, all subscribers of Hutchison in India (Hutch and Orange networks) will be able to receive video clips within minutes of the actual action, states a release.
Till now such video clips were available only over 3G networks but Hutchison has made this breakthrough on GPRS networks as well. Nimbus Communications Ltd will look into the video production for new formats.
According to the release, Nimbus has set up a studiodedicated to downloading encrypted signals from South Africa from the PAS 10 satellite using a RAS enabled decoder. The digital feed will then be recorded onto a master server, backed up by a redundant server and a DV recorder, all in real time. Two dedicated NLE work stations will edit in real time the match action, route the over highlights in the form of 10 second video clips to four workstations which in turn will generate four different file formats of each video clip : AVI, GIF, JPEG and MPEG.
The protocol generator workstations will then route individual 10 second clips in the four different file formats over dedicated lines to the Hutchison servers in Mumbai which will then deliver these to subscribers in the appropriate file format depending on which file format their mobile handset is capable of receiving.
Recognising that handsets are not uniformly capable, the multiple file format system was devised to suit the handset capability of most Indian handsets that have any form of MMS or video capability.
Nimbus intends to offer these services to the vast mobile services market, and post Cricket World Cup intends to take these capabilities to the global GPRS market, targeting
Australia, Middle East, Europe, South East Asia, the release adds.
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Beacon Group appoints Dr Rajesh Patel as Group CEO
36-year healthcare veteran to lead Beacon Diagnostics, Vector Biotek, Biogeny.
MUMBAI: A new chief, a fresh diagnosis and a sharper prescription for growth. Beacon Group has appointed Dr Rajesh Patel as its Group Chief Executive Officer, effective April 1, 2026, signalling a decisive push to scale its presence in the diagnostics and IVD space. Patel steps into the role with 36 years of experience across the healthcare and diagnostics industry, bringing a career shaped by leadership roles spanning sales, marketing, business development and operational strategy. His mandate is both expansive and precise: to steer the group’s overall strategic direction while tightening coordination across its three core entities Beacon Diagnostics, Vector Biotek and Biogeny Diagnostics.
In practical terms, that means driving cross-company synergies, accelerating market expansion and strengthening organisational capability areas increasingly critical as diagnostic players compete for scale in a fragmented yet rapidly evolving healthcare ecosystem. The group is positioning itself to capture unmet demand across chain laboratories, key accounts and standalone labs, segments that remain underserved despite growing diagnostic needs.
The appointment comes at a time when the In Vitro Diagnostics (IVD) sector in India is entering a more competitive and innovation-led phase, with companies focusing not just on product pipelines but also on service delivery, integration and customer-centric models. Beacon’s leadership appears to be betting that Patel’s execution-focused approach can help translate ambition into operational momentum.
Welcoming the appointment, Chairman Dr D K Joshi described Patel’s induction as a strategic move aligned with the group’s long-term vision, emphasising the role of leadership depth in navigating the next phase of growth.
For Beacon Group, the message is clear, in a sector where precision matters, leadership is the new differentiator—and this appointment is intended to set the tone for what comes next.
