What began as steamy gossip about an affair between a famous British soccer player and a reality TV star has quickly become another test over how far the rights to privacy and free speech extend online, where social media operate in countries with vastly different laws.

Free speech on Twitter faces test

Business Standard

&quot;G'Five plans to launch its range of tablet computing devices in Indian market by the end of June 2011. We strongly believe that the benefit of the technology should not be limited to a few but must be available to the masses,&quot; Arshit Pathak, managing director, Kingtech Electronics India said.

G'Five to launch tablet PCs below Rs 10,000 in India

Press Trust of India

A district court in Texas, US, has issued a subpoena to Infosys Technologies seeking details of the company&rsquo;s use of B-1 business visas.

US court seeks B-1 visa details from Infosys

In a move to back the company he seed-funded more than a decade ago, Cafe Coffee Day Group owner V G Siddhartha, is expected to buy the 11.1&nbsp;per cent stake in MindTree held by Ashok Soota for Rs 270 crore. The move will enable Siddhartha to become the single largest shareholder in MindTree.

GTV's Siddhartha may buy Soota's stake in MindTree

Pune-based IT consulting and engineering service provider KPIT Cummins on Tuesday said it had signed an agreement to buy 50 per cent stake in Mumbai-based firm Systime, for Rs 103 crore.

KPIT Cummins buys 50% stake in Systime

Most aeronautical and technological innovations in airplanes initially involve a guy like Dave Cummings in the cockpit, testing out new equipment under various conditions.

Innovation in the air can begin on the water

Intel Corp Executive Vice President Sean Maloney will move to Beijing to take up the newly created position of chairman for Intel China, underscoring the country&rsquo;s importance in fuelling sales growth.

Maloney to head Intel China, will oversee strategy

Pramod Bhasin, the founder of the country&rsquo;s largest business process outsourcing (BPO) company, was one of the few early bird&rsquo;s to identify the tremendous potential of the back-office business in India.

BS People: Pramod Bhasin

Microsoft&nbsp;previewed Mango, a major update to its existing mobile platform today. The new version of the mobile operating system will come with 500 new features and will be available for free to Windows Phone 7 customers. More details on the update will be provided closer to availability, Microsoft said.

Microsoft's new mobile OS offers fresh features

City-based outsourced software product development services company Persistent Systems today announced that it has been recognised as one of the leading service providers in two key &lsquo;Zinnov Zones&rsquo; &ndash; cloud computing and software by Zinnov Management Consulting, a leading globalisation advisory firm. Zinnov recently released their Global R&amp;D Service Provider Ratings (GRSPR) for the year 2010-2011 based on a comprehensive study and analysis of&nbsp;global R&amp;D service providers&nbsp;across geographies like India, China, Russia and Eastern Europe.

Persistent gets recognition from Zinnov Consulting

Girish Paranjpe, the former joint CEO of Wipro&rsquo;s information technology business, is understood to be joining global consulting company Ernst &amp; Young in a global role, said two sources in the know.

Paranjpe, ex-CEO of Wipro, may join Ernst & Young

Apple, LG and Samsung, each eyeing a share of India&rsquo;s growing smartphone market, have launched their flagship models that closely compete with each other. Samsung&rsquo;s Galaxy S2, a premium Android-based phone, LG&rsquo;s recently-launched Optimus 2X and Apple&rsquo;s iPhone 4 while being priced competitively will have dedicated data plans from telecom operators.

The war of the smartphone titans

Shares of Yandex, a Russian search engine barely known in the US, surged by more than 55 per cent on Tuesday, signifying the latest multibillion-dollar technology offering and stoking the debate about whether this market has the makings of a bubble.

Yandex's surge stirs talk of tech bubble

Sony Corp, reeling from the second-largest online data breach in US history, shut down some Internet services in Canada, Thailand and Indonesia after detecting unauthorised intrusions.

Sony affiliated sites breached in Canada

Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd (MTNL), which operates in Delhi and Mumbai, has sought the Department of Telecommunications&rsquo; (DoT&rsquo;s) approval for a voluntary retirement scheme (VRS).

MTNL plans VRS for a third of workforce

Information technology services and solutions firm Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) tweaked its management structure to bring in greater vertical focus within the firm.

TCS rejigs management structure, to focus more on its verticals

L&amp;T Infotech, a wholly-owned subsidiary of engineering giant Larsen &amp; Toubro, today said it has launched its MoST-i (Mobile Strategy for Insurance) framework, aimed at accelerating the adoption of mobile applications.

L&T Infotech launches MoST-i framework

Tech Mahindra (TechM), the information technology arm of the Mahindra and Mahindra Group, has joined the &lsquo;billion dollar club&rsquo;.

Tech Mahindra in red as Satyam eats into its books

Infotech Enterprises Ltd, a Hyderabad-based technology solutions provider offering engineering and geographic information services, expects a 20-25 per cent growth in revenues from relationship with Boeing, according to Krishna Bodanapu, president - engineering.

Infotech eyes 20% growth from Boeing tieup

With 70 per cent of the internet population watching videos online, a comScore report reveals that users beyond 15 years of age watched online video in India either from home or from workplace, with an average viewer consuming 58 videos and watching five hours of video content in a month.

An app to network and share videos

Bloom Energy, a Silicon Valley-based start-up in the green tech sector, has appointed Girish Paranjpe, the former joint-CEO of Wipro&rsquo;s information technology business, as its managing director.

Paranjpe joins green tech start-up as MD

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