Consumers across the country lapped up Apple&rsquo;s new tablet offering, the iPad2, available in stores across the country on Friday, just 50 days after its global launch in the US.

Apple's iPad2 flies off shelves everywhere

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Polaris Software Lab Ltd is planning to increase wage for its Indian associates by 12-13 per cent and by 2-3 per cent for associates outside India during the current fiscal.

Polaris to hike salaries by 12 pc

The $76-billion information technology (IT) and IT-enabled services (ITeS) has found itself at the receiving end of the Budget.

Industry rues death of STPI scheme

As part of its plans to build m-commerce infrastructure across the country, Mumbai-based mobile payment service provider My Mobile Payments Ltd (MMPL), is eyeing a network of 10,000 retail outlets for B2B services in Gujarat in next 2-3 months. The company intends to have tie-ups with retail outlets in the state for provision of m-wallet services.

MMPL eyes 10,000 outlets, Rs 7 crore volume in Gujarat

Ramco Systems, a software company engaged in consulting, product and managed services announced that it has won an award for Operational Excellence and Quality at the BPO Excellence Awards 2010-2011. Ramco won the award for exhibiting successful implementation of its acclaimed IP3 framework, in bringing operational excellence and quality to customers.

Ramco Systems receives BPO Excellence Award

GSM mobile network operator Aircel, a 74:26 joint venture between Maxis Berhad of Malaysia and the Apollo Hospitals Group, will be investing Rs 400 crore in Andhra Pradesh for 2G and 3G network enhancement in the next two years, according to chief operating officer Gurdeep Singh.

Aircel to invest Rs  400 cr in AP

Invest in Tier-II and Tier-III cities like Visakhapatnam, Vijayawada, Tirupati, Warangal and Kakinada as they hold good potential for growth, besides promising significant cost advantage, experts urged IT companies. &ldquo;For instance, Visakhapatnam offers office space at &#39;20-25 per sft, while it is &#39;15-20 in Vijayawada.

'Invest in Tier-II cities'

Let a consortium or a body hold airwaves and firms pay according to usage, says internal note.

DoT proposes open skies for spectrum

Private GSM cellular operator Vodafone is preparing the groundwork for launching its 3G service in the Uttar Pradesh (East) circle soon.

Vodafone preparing to launch 3G in UP

Tata Consultancy Services has won a contract to establish and manage the State Data Centre (SDC) from Puducherry.

TCS gets Puducherry data centre contract

Company&rsquo;s India technology sales head Sandeep Mathur will succeed.

Oracle India head Bhaskar Pramanik quits

ERevMax, the online channel management&nbsp;technology provider, has developed innovative room distribution and pricing&nbsp;automation features into its product lines.

eRevMax develops hotel room distribution solutions

US-based TriZetto Group, Inc. has acquired Tela Sourcing Inc. with a business process outsourcing (BPO)center in Pune and with headquarters at Baltimore, US. Tela Sourcing provides US and India-based outsourcing capabilities to the healthcare industry. With this acquisition, Tela Sourcing will be renamed as TriZetto BPO.

US firm TriZetto acquires Tela Sourcing for BPO expansion

When you want to find out something about the purple bird you last saw at the Lotus Pond in Hyderabad, you are most likely to type a Google query like &ldquo;purple water bird Lotus Pond&rdquo; and voila! you would discover the Purple Moorhen on your screen. Then, if you Google &ldquo;Purple Moorhen&rdquo;, you will learn the bird&rsquo;s scientific Latin name &ldquo;Porphyrio porphyrio&rdquo;, the fact that it is found in India, Australia and Africa and how the state of Florida is trying to eradicate its accidentally-introduced population.

Add more power to Google

Dynamics CRM Online, the cloud version of Microsoft&rsquo;s Dynamics CRM 2011, is set to change the Indian Customer Relationship Management (CRM) market.

CRM turf war: Microsoft keen to hog the limelight

Domestic value-added services (VAS) companies are gearing up to launch a gamut of applications (apps) on their own stores. Hyderabad-based VAS infrastructure and services provider IMImobile, for instance, will introduce its own developers&rsquo; forum in the second quarter of this year, which will help developers write new applications for enterprises.

Home-grown VAS providers launch app stores

The Union budget marks a watershed in the life of the Indian information technology services industry, akin to a family&rsquo;s coming of age rites of passage! The end of support to a growing youngster is implicit in two measures that signal the end of special treatment. One is the sunset of the software technology parks of India (STPI) and sections 10A/10B via which tax sops were given to the IT-BPO sector in its growing years. The other is the general measure that extends the minimum alternate tax (MAT) to units in special economic zones (SEZ). When the impending sunset of STPIs and the tax concessions that when with the scheme appeared on the horizon, large IT-BPO operations made a beeline for SEZs in order to continue to receive tax benefits.

End of infancy

PeoplePerHour.com (PPH), a UK-based online marketplace that connects small businesses with freelancers across the world, is bullish on India as it is seeing over 30 per cent growth here, according to founder and chief executive Xenios Thrasyavoulou. The company, which has offices&nbsp;in New Delhi and Hyderabad doing web development, customer support and community moderation functions, recently raised $6 million (approximately Rs 27 crore) in venture capital funding to invest in its international expansion. &ldquo;Of this, India is a key part,&rdquo; Thrasyavoulou said at the two-day IT summit &lsquo;Advantage AP&rsquo; here. PPH, till date, has in excess of 100,000 service providers spread across more than 150 countries, and serves over 35,000 small business clients. &ldquo;India ranks third in terms of usage by our clients and has more than 13,000 registered freelancers. In the last year, our usage in India has grown seven times,&rdquo; he added.

PeoplePerHour sees 30% growth in India

Will ascertain whether ther has been revenue loss to the telco.

CAG to look into BSNL franchise deals

While the $60-billion information technology industry is recovering from the impact of global recession, companies are increasingly hiring non-engineering graduates with an aim to tame attrition and minimise costs.

IT firms hire non-engineering graduates to cut cost

Uninor has launched &ldquo;Cricket Unlimited&rdquo; for cricket enthusiasts during this cricket season. This product is specially designed for people who do not want to miss out on a single moment of the cricketing action. To subscribe to the &ldquo;Cricket Unlimited&rdquo; service, a Uninor customer simply needs to dial the toll free number 52255 and request for this service. This service will be available for Rs&nbsp; three per match day or Rs 30 for a monthly pack on toll free number. Once subscribed to the service, customers can browse through &lsquo;Live Match Coverage&rsquo;, participate in &lsquo;Cricket Opinion Poll&rsquo;, and download &lsquo;Cricket Tunes&rsquo; including ring tones and caller tunes as part of this offer.Beyond this, the subscribers can also access Cricket Rankings, Match Schedules, and a whole ocean of little known cricket trivia.

Uninor launches 'Cricket Unlimited' pack

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