A series of third-party apps began filtering through Twitter overnight that sent spam messages from users&rsquo; accounts without their knowledge.

Twitter hit with new spam

Business Standard

Norway&rsquo;s Telenor has demanded that Unitech Chairman Sanjay Chandra step down from the board of Unitech Wireless, their telecom joint venture. Chandra was on Wednesday arrested in the 2G spectrum scam.

Rift widens, Telenor wants Chandra out of board

TV Mohandas Pai&rsquo;s comment on Infosys co-founders has sparked murmurs over whether the company is like family-dominated businesses.

Some fires refuse to be doused

Rajesh, a Bangalore-based software engineer received an e-mail from the Income Tax department saying that the department had reviewed his &lsquo;tax fiscal payments&rsquo; for previous months and his &lsquo;returns filed online&rsquo;, and that he is eligible for a tax refund of Rs 40,135.50. However, what made him curious was the fact that he did not file his IT returns online.

Cyber crime gets more personalised

Reliance Communications (RCOM) today launched the 3G services across Chhattisgarh.

Reliance 3G-services launched in Chhattisgarh

Himanshu Kapania took over as managing director of Idea Cellular this month and faces a range of challenges such as regulatory uncertainty over the re-pricing of 2G spectrum, a hostile telecom ministry and the launch of 3G in a competitive marketplace. He spoke to Katya Naidu and Arijit Barman on how he plans to drive the company&rsquo;s growth and his next big &lsquo;idea&rsquo;.

Q&A: Himanshu Kapania, MD, Idea Cellular

Fresh war of words after court rejects plea against merger of Essar firms.

Vodafone row: Round one goes to Essar

Library books are finally going to be compatible with the Kindle. Amazon said that it would allow Kindle users to read e-books from more than 11,000 public libraries on the devices beginning later this year, a reversal of the company&rsquo;s previous policy.

Kindle users can borrow e-books

Apple Inc gained after reporting that second-quarter profit almost doubled, lifted by sales of iPhones, and the company allayed concerns that growth will be crimped by the earthquake in Japan and its aftermath.

Apple earnings double after iPhone's debut with verizon

Verizon Wireless, the largest US wireless carrier, said it is still evaluating whether to offer Research In Motion&rsquo;s BlackBerry Playbook tablet computer to its customers.

Verizon evaluating distribution of RIM's PlayBook

Deep into one of her favourite computer games, Lesly Lopez, 10, moves her mouse to click on a cartoon bee. She drags and drops it into an empty panel, creating her own comic strip.

Online games, a path to young consumers

India&rsquo;s largest information technology (IT) services provider Tata Consultancy Services&rsquo; (TCS&rsquo;) fourth quarter and annual results have met street expectations. With the discretionary spend and all-round growth across verticals and geographies, the company&rsquo;s net profit for the fourth quarter ended March 2011, touched Rs 2,623 crore, up 31.1 per cent from Rs 2,001 crore in the corresponding quarter last financial year.

TCS meets street expectations, net jumps 31.1%

Though 60,000 is lower than the employees hired in 2010-11, the company said in last financial year its hiring target was higher than the original target.

Headcount to be over 250,000 for 2011-12

MindTree, the Bangalore-based information technology and product engineering services company, today said its fourth-quarter net profit fell 41 per cent from a year ago to Rs 32 crore on lower forex gains, withdrawal from the wireless product business and drop in revenues from a major client.

MindTree net dips 41% to Rs 32 cr

Sistema Shyam Teleservices has announced a net loss of Rs 605 crore during the fourth quarter ended December 2010. This is the first time that the unlisted entity &ndash; a joint venture company between Russia&rsquo;s Sistema and India's Shyam group &ndash; has disclosed its financial numbers.

Sistema Shyam net loss at Rs 605 cr in December quarter

The Essar group will go ahead with its decision to sell 33 per cent stake in Vodafone Essar for $5 billion in cash despite the order of the Madras High Court. The court had yesterday said that Vodafone did not have any legal basis to object to the merger between Essar Telcommunications Holding Pvt Ltd (ETHPL) and Indian Securities Ltd, a listed company promoted by the Essar group.

Essar to go ahead with stake sale plan

Nokia, the struggling market leader in mobile phones, said on Thursday that it intended to cut costs by nearly 20 per cent over three years, a move that will most likely eliminate thousands of jobs as it enters an alliance with Microsoft.

Despite Microsoft partnership, Nokia continues to fade

Differences are understood to have emerged within the Telecom Ministry on whether to go for auction of the 2G spectrum in future to arrive at appropriate price for the scarce resource or go by the mechanism suggested by Trai which recommended over six-time hike in rates.

No unanimity yet on future auction of 2G spectrum

Press Trust of India

The Telecom Ministry has pulled up SingTel for violating ILD licence norms by acquiring and billing customers in India without a licence between 2005 and 2009, while giving a clean chit to Airtel and Tatas which provided international private lease circuits to the foreign firm.

DoT says SingTel broke ILD norms clean chit to Bharti, Tatas

Unitech Wireless Chairman Sanjay Chandra, arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in the wake of 2G spectrum scam, has asked the telecom company&rsquo;s board to appoint an alternative director to deal with its day-to-day affairs as an interim arrangement, real estate company Unitech said today.

Sanjay Chandra asks for interim replacement on Uninor board

Albert Hieronimus, the new chairman of the board of MindTree, is not new to Bangalore. A person passionate about exploring India on wheels as the MD of Bosch Ltd (previously known as Motor Industries Co Ltd) for almost six years, he is heading MindTree at a difficult time. After deciding to scrap the telecom product business after investing about $8 million, its founder-chairman Ashok Soota left. Hieronimus tells Bibhu Ranjan Mishra and Pradeesh Chandran, he is optimistic.

Q&A: Albert Hieronimus, Chairman, MindTree 

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