Oracle Corp, the world&rsquo;s second-largest software maker, agreed to buy RightNow Technologies Inc for $1.5 billion, gaining customer-service expertise to bolster a new Internet-based product. RightNow investors will get $43 a share, Oracle said today.

Oracle buys RightNow for $1.5 bn 

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Reliance Telecom on Monday filed a petition in the Delhi High Court for quashing of charges framed against it and its three executives by a CBI court in the 2G spectrum case.

Reliance Telecom moves Delhi HC for quashing of charges

Bangalore has least number of Net users

A faltering economy explains much of the job shortage in America, but advancing technology has sharply magnified the effect, more so than is generally understood, according to two researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Technology advancements outpacing human role?

Ashok Soota&rsquo;s house overlooks one of the best maintained parks in Bangalore&rsquo;s upmarket Koramangala area. I go there to say hello to his three dogs &mdash; both of us are dog lovers &mdash; and then we walk across, as it is more sensible to park my car there and not try to find a parking space on the busy street where The Esplanade is located.

Lunch with BS: Ashok Soota

A late entrant to the smartphone party, firm would have to snatch market share from Google, Apple.

Nokia stares at trying times ahead

In a bid to further clamp down pesky SMSes, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) will impose a termination charge of 5 paise per SMS on operators from whose networks commercial messages originate.

Trai imposes 5 paise termination charge on commercial SMSes

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Edserv Softsystems Ltd, an education support services company based in Chennai, has announced expansion of its mobile learning services through telecom service provider Tata Docomo.

EdServ ties up with Tata Docomo

KPIT Cummins, a product engineering and IT consulting partner to manufacturing companies, said it has partnered with PACCAR to launch the PACCAR technical center in the city. The center, with approximately 200 employees, will focus on engineering, information technology and component sourcing for worldwide production and aftermarket operations.

PACCAR to establish India technical center with KPIT Cummins

&ldquo;Among his last advice he had for me, and for all of you, was to never ask what he would do. &lsquo;Just do what&rsquo;s right,&rsquo;&rdquo; Cook said. Jobs wanted Apple to avoid the trap that Walt Disney Co fell into after the death of its iconic founder, Cook said, where &ldquo;everyone spent all their time thinking and talking about what Walt would do.

Just do what's right, Jobs had told Cook

Flipkart's Sachin and Binny Bansal may have become the poster boys of the Indian e-commerce industry, but there are a host of others who are emerging from the shadows.

Wannabe poster boys of e-commerce

Amazon.com Inc&rsquo;s escalating pursuit of Apple Inc squeezed its profit forecast for this quarter, prompting investors to erase as much as $20 billion from the company&rsquo;s market value in late trading.

Amazon's Apple war costs investors $20 bn

International Business Machines Corp&rsquo;s (IBM) Virginia &lsquo;Ginni&rsquo; Rometty has grown throughout her career by taking on challenges she&rsquo;s never faced before. Now, she&rsquo;ll tackle something no one has ever done.

Rometty to be IBM's first woman CEO

Internet giant Google Inc has spent more than $500 million for as many as 54 acquisitions and asset purchases so far in 2011 to expand into new markets and expects its current pace of takeovers to continue.

Google expects to continue with its acquisitions

China-based mobile handset manufacturer G'Five group is planning to enter the laptop and tablet PC business targeting the mass segment. The company is currently developing a few laptop and tablet PC models, according to a senior executive of the company.

G'Five making laptops, tablets for mass market

Pavan Mahanta was recently in a tearing hurry to reach his call centre. He forgot to wear his helmet, but thought he could slip past the policemen during peak hours. But he was stopped near Shankar Chowk, Gurgaon. and without much ado, a policeman whipped out his cellphone, snapped a photo of Mahanta before allowing him to leave. In a couple of weeks, Mahanta received a challan at home, which levied a penalty for the traffic offence.

Cellphones help trap traffic violators in Gurgaon

Technology giant HP has scrapped the plans to spin off its personal computer unit, about a month after the ouster of its former CEO Leo Apotheker who had mooted this proposal in August last as part of the strategic overhaul.

HP scraps plans to spin off PC business

Expected to be priced Rs 4,000-5,000; Mukesh Ambani looks to repeat his low-cost CDMA trick of 2002.
Canada-based DataWind &mdash; which launched itself into the limelight with the world&rsquo;s cheapest tablet computer Aakash recently &mdash; is now in talks with Reliance Industries (RIL) to develop the world&rsquo;s cheapest 4G-enabled tablet for it, priced Rs 4,000-5,000.
The price point is nearly one-fourth of what is currently on offer from phone makers HTC, Dell, Motorola and

DataWind, RIL talk on cheapest tab

In what could jeopardise the pan-India services offered by private telecom operators Bharti Airtel, Vodafone Essar and Idea Cellular, the department of telecommunications (DoT) has clarified that a UASL (unified access service licence) licensee cannot offer 3G services and declare a tariff plan or acquire customers in a circle it hasn&rsquo;t been allocated 3G spectrum for.

3G roaming pacts face DoT heat

Global data storage solutions provider NetApp is one of the few global IT firms that has huge exposure in the US government space. This is the reason why the Nasdaq-headquartered company saw its sales to the US government declined dramatically during the July quarter. The Sunnyvale-headquartered company&rsquo;s president and CEO, Tom Georgens, told Bibhu Ranjan Mishra about the softening of demand in key geographies that gave an indication about the buyers&rsquo; behaviour.

Q&A: Tom Georgens, President & CEO of NetApp

TCS, India's largest IT services company, and Department of Electronics and Accreditation of Computer Classes or the DOEACC are said to have emerged as the only two entities that have responded to a tender notification of the Central Board for Secondary Education (CBSE) for conducting the All India Engineering Entrance Examination (AIEEE). The stiff conditions put forth in the tender document are said to be the reasons for lack of response from the companies to participate in the tender.

Only 2 firms in fray for CBSE tender

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