When the Mahindra &amp; Mahindra (M&amp;M) group named S Durgashankar as the chief financial officer of Mahindra Satyam in June 2009, the task was him was gargantuan. It involved collecting 30 terrabytes of information, checking over 2 million emails, securing and mining information from over 300 computer hard discs and verifying over 200 bank accounts to bring order to the financial system at the fraud-hit IT outsourcing firm.

BS People: S Durgashankar

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Mobile phone major Nokia today set it is all set to launch its all-in-one smartphone Nokia E7 in the Indian market soon.

Nokia to launch E7 smartphone in India

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Leading security vendor Fortinet today said rollout of 3G services in India would throw up fresh security challenges, demanding new solutions to tackle these problems.

3G rollout to play out new security challenges: Fortinet

The television was not the only screen that was vying for the audiences&rsquo; attention on the Budget day last week.

Google monetises video platform

He understood Sun&rsquo;s India business threadbare, and this was a reason why his expertise proved handy for Sun Microsystems when it was undergoing the crucial phase of integration.

BS People: Bhaskar Pramanik

Aditya Birla Minacs, the business process outsourcing (BPO) arm of the Aditya Birla Group, was an early mover into the segment. Formed after the acquisition of Minacs by Transworks, the company is seeing rapid change in the way BPO services are offered to clients. Global CEO Deepak Patel discusses what lies ahead with Pradeesh Chandran.

Q&A: Deepak Patel, Global CEO, Aditya Birla Minacs

Nokia India today announced its debut in &lsquo;Touch and Type&rsquo; design with the launch of two new devices, Nokia X3 - 02 and Nokia C3 - 01, in Chandigarh. Both the devices offer consumers the best of both worlds by combining keypad functionality with a sleek touchscreen interface.

Nokia launches new handsets in Chandigarh

The India arm of the &euro;50.9-billion, France-based, Orange Business Services (OBS), offering integrated communication services, is looking at quadrupling its sales in India over the next five years. Bala Mahadevan, CEO, OBS India, outlines plans for growth, current strategy and insights into the burgeoning cloud market to Swati Garg.

Q&A: Bala Mahadevan, Orange Business Services

The combined serial inkjet and page printer, copier and multifunction product (MFP) market expanded by 10% to over 6.8 lakh units in the last quarter of 2010, market analyst firm Gartner said today.

Printer copier market grows 10% in Oct-Dec

Warner Bros is offering an online rental service on Facebook, giving the studio a new way to distribute films amid concerns by parent Time Warner that Netflix devalues movies and TV shows.

Warner starts movie service on Facebook

Loop Telecom on Wednesday gave an offer to the government to auction its licence and spectrum in over 21 circles.

Loop tells court has had enough, offers to return spectrum, licence

It was not so long back when 3G technology made a quiet entry to India in 2008 with BSNL and MTNL and after three years of political churnings, is today every telecom subscribers's war cry. Every telecom player has tie-ups with VAS players and a large chunk of their revenue comes from them. Most top VAS companies only have 1-2 products that give them 80 per cent of their revenues.

Infotainment, mobile video demand to increase with 3G

Unlike the India heads of other global information technology (IT) firms, Sandeep Mathur, the new managing director of Oracle in India is not very well known in the industry circle.

BS People: Sandeep Mathur

Byrraju Foundation, the non-governmental organisation (NGO) set up by Satyam Computer Services founder B Ramalinga Raju and his family, was left orphaned in January 2009. That was when the chairman of the information technology outsourcing company (then the country&rsquo;s fourth-largest IT exporter) confessed to fudging the company&rsquo;s accounts for several years and the funding from the family ceased to flow in.

Raju's 'social' orphan learns to manage on its own

Reliance Communications&rsquo; (RCom) stock zoomed in today&rsquo;s trade, going up as much as 10.3 per cent on rumours that it might have finalised a buyer for its telecom tower business.

RCom stock zooms on tower biz deal talk

Global and domestic manufacturers woo consumers with low-priced, feature-rich handsets.

Thinking smart with smartphone features

Telcos such as Loop, Etisalat and Videocon have done little to churn the subscriber base.

Why operators with minimal subscriber base can opt to exit

Having launched its new product, Fiesta eCampus, a teaching, learning and communication tool for educational institutes, Rajkot-based Anukaanchan Solutions Pvt. Ltd.

ASPL eyes Rs 15 crore biz from eCampus

Tata Teleservices, a Tata group company, is planning to go for a rights issue to its shareholders.

Tata Teleservices mulls rights issue to repay debt

Tata DOCOMO, the first private telecom operator to launch third-generation (3G) services, on Thursday said these were being used by 15 per cent of its data users.

One in 7 of Tata DOCOMO data users on 3G

HCL Infosystems Ltd, India&rsquo;s premier Hardware, Services and ICT System Integration Company, has announced the awarding of an order from Punjab and Sind Bank (PSB) to provide smart card based solutions in over 1,500 villages across the country. The partnership aims to facilitate the provision of smart card-based technology solutions for financial inclusion, besides engaging and managing business correspondents deployed in unbanked villages allotted to PSB.

HCL Infosystems bags financial inclusion project from PSB

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