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

Business Standard

About 850,000 subscribers from the northern region comprising Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan, Himachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir had given in their requests to different service providers for porting their mobile numbers, by the end of February 2011.
According to insiders, the northern region has responded well to the service since its launch initially in Haryana on November 25 last year, and later in the rest of India on January 20. MNP allows users to change their service provider while

850,000 mobile users opt for telco change in N India

The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has sent a notice to Etisalat DB for cancellation of Delhi and Mumbai licences for not meeting rollout obligations. Idea Cellular has also got a similar notice for the Punjab circle.

Etisalat, Idea get notice for licence cancellation

Chennai-based IT consulting, products and managed services provider Ramco Systems Limited, part of the over $875-million (approximately Rs 4,000 crore) Ramco Group, is in the process of going in for a rights issue soon to raise anywhere between Rs 35 crore and Rs 40 crore, according to chief operating officer Kamesh Ramamoorthy.

Ramco Systems plans Rs 40-crore rights issue

Bharat Sanchar Nigam (BSNL) is upgrading its network to enhance the current data speed by three times to compete with private players in the 3G space.

BSNL begins upgrading 3G network

Press Trust of India

Japan&rsquo;s most powerful earthquake in 140 years on Friday caused massive damage in the country&rsquo;s northeast, triggering a 10-metre tsunami across the Pacific basin and sending global stocks to their lowest level in nearly six weeks. Crude oil fell below $100 a barrel.

Japan quake spooks India Inc, markets

Becoming the first private mobile operator to have launched 3G services in Gujarat, Tata DOCOMO, the GSM arm of Tata Teleservices Ltd (TTSL) has invested about Rs 250 crore for the rollout in the state.

Tata DOCOMO invests Rs 250 crore for 3G in Gujarat

The &lsquo;No Idea-Get Idea&rsquo; campaign might have become an instant hit with subscribers helping Idea Cellular to add the most number of net new subscribers under the mobile number portability (MNP) regime, but Bharti Airtel has been voted the most preferred network. About 712,000 users have applied for port-in to Airtel &mdash; the highest for any service provider.

MNP: Good Idea to woo subscribers

The department of telecommunications is likely to send notice to telecom operators, including Reliance Communications, Bharti airtel, Idea Cellular and Tata Teleservices for demand of about Rs 1,100 crore for under reporting revenues.

DoT may ask five telcos to pay Rs 1,100 crore

CA Technologies, a Fortune 500 company formerly called Computer Associates that made news in 2004 on reports of insider trading, has been on the rebuilding track for about three years. It will a become market leader in its space within the next two years, Amit Chatterjee, managing director of its Indian arm, tells Swati Garg.

Q&A: Amit Chatterjee, CA (Technologies) India

Apple Inc may sell 600,000 of the second version of the iPad in its debut this weekend, extending the device&rsquo;s lead in a crowding market.

iPad 2 sales likely to cross 600,000 on debut

When Apple Inc releases a product, the store lines are typically led by fanboys clamoring to be first to get the latest gadget. However, the gray market was the first to reach a downtown San Francisco store, for the iPad 2 debut.

Apple byte: Grey marketers queue up

&ldquo;Data subscribers comprise about 13.5 per cent of revenues on Saturday and broadband penetration in the country hovers at under one per cent.

3G users key for Airtel, Vodafone

Research In Motion's BlackBerry operating system is world-renowned as being virtually impossible to exploit, but a new study has exposed a virus that specifically targets SMSes sent using the high-end smartphones' Messenger service.

New virus targets data on Blackberry phones

The Indian IT industry will add over 2.25 lakh employees in 2011 and will clock revenues of $71.7 billion by the end of the year, consulting firm Deloitte has said.

Indian IT industry to hire 2.25 lakh in 2011: Deloitte

Karnataka, better known for its leading Indian and global IT companies, is all set to open a business process outsourcing (BPO) centre - the first of its kind in the country &mdash; exclusively for filing petitions under the Right to Information Act. Citizens need to call up the centre, expected to be located in Bangalore, to file RTI applications, in lieu of some charges.

Karnataka to pioneer tele-filing of RTI petitions

AOL might be laying off hundreds of employees in India but at the same time, the American internet major is on a hiring spree in its home country and a few other overseas markets.

AOL fires people in India, hires in other countries

Reliance Communications Ltd, one of India's leading telecom service providers, plans to provide 3G services in 17 major towns in Orissa by the end of this month. The company has a subscriber base of around four million in the state.

Reliance Communications to extend 3G services to 13 towns in state

Research In Motion&rsquo;s BlackBerry operating system is world-renowned as being virtually impossible to exploit, but a new study has exposed a virus that specifically targets SMSes sent using the high-end smartphones&rsquo; Messenger service.

New virus targets data on BlackBerry phones

Indiaplaza.in, among the top e-commerce retailers in India, is understood to be readying itself to embark on a round of fund-raising in the near future. The company in which the Indigo Monsoon Group is a majority investor, is said to be going through the process of due diligence from a few venture capital funds.

Indiaplaza said to be eyeing funds from VCs

Even as Microsoft&rsquo;s browser rules the roost when it comes to the number of users, Google Chrome users displayed loyalty with only 35 per cent switch-outs.

Is Internet Explorer wary of Chrome?

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