Americans and Canadians have disagreed about plenty over the years: the British, nationalised health care, hockey.

US BlackBerry bears growl as Canadians keep faith

Business Standard

IT solutions and BPO services provider MphasiS has hired Boston Consulting Group to revamp its business structure.

MphasiS hires Boston Consulting to revamp biz

Press Trust of India

Yahoo&rsquo;s! launch of Pulse in June and its rebranding initiative to grab the online user&rsquo;s attention could finally be working.

Yahoo! vies for attention with its social strategy

India-based Chimpoo.com, a virtual world for kids, had 36 hours to conduct a dipstick study on the time allotted to children in France for accessing the Internet.

Instant dipsticks, instant bucks ... all in the game

Indian companies are increasing their information technology (IT) security budgets for 2010. This comes after their decision to cut corners in the security segment last year due to the global recession, said a Deloitte report.

India Inc raises security budget for 2010

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), the country&rsquo;s largest information technology (IT) services company, has bagged a Rs 150-crore e-governance contract from the Madhya Pradesh (MP) government.

TCS pips Infosys to bag MP government contract

Whether it is jewellery, games or even spas, everything is available at a discount on special deal websites. But, don&rsquo;t become a victim of bargain shopping.

Life in a web of deals

Announcing the launch of its GSM services in Gujarat, Aircel, a part of Maxis Communications Berhad, Malaysia, said that the company will be investing in all Rs700 crore in the circle by 2013. Of these, the telecom operator has already invested about Rs300 crore and plans to infuse another Rs400 crore in the next 2-3 years.

Aircel plans to invest Rs 700 cr in gujarat

UK-based telecom giant BT (ex-British Telecom) is planning to reduce its information technology budget this year, aiming at vendor rationalisation and increasing its efficiencies, said sources.

BT to reduce IT budget, aims at vendor efficiency

Business process outsourcing firm Firstsource&rsquo;s recently appointed managing director and chief executive officer, Matthew Vallance, will be focusing on building domain capabilities within the company to leverage its position in the US, UK and India and also enter new areas like Australia.

Firstsource to expand in Australia, Philippines

Google intends to extend the service to India as a pilot though it did not give a definite timeframe.

Service to be extended to India soon

RIM needed time to provide real time access to its corporate e-mails.

BlackBerry deadline may get 2-month extension

France-based Atos Origin, an information technology services and solutions company with a &curren;5-billion turnover, enters the Indian payments market by acquiring Mumbai-based payment processing firm Venture Infotek in an all-cash deal, said sources.

Paris-based Atos buys Venture Infotek

IT firm HCL Infosystems today said it will invest up to Rs 300 crore over the next 2-3 years on consolidating its facilities and expanding its software business.

HCL Infosystems to invest Rs 300 cr over 3 yrs

A leading mobile phone operator Vodafone on Friday cautioned its subscribers of a disruption of email and messenger services after August 31 in the face of a government deadline to ban BlackBerry's encrypted services if security agencies are not given access.

Vodafone tells users about possible BlackBerry disruption

Could a &ldquo;three strike, you&rsquo;re out&rdquo; approach to piracy help wean Indian music aficionados off illegal peer-to-peer file sharing and downloading activities? It seems to have worked for France, South Korea and Taiwan.

Neha Chowdhry: Three strikes and you're out!

Hewlett-Packard Co topped Dell Inc in the bidding for 3Par Inc for the third time, agreeing to pay $30 a share or $2 billion for the data-storage provider.

HP tops Dell in 3Par bidding

Sreenidhi International School will host the &lsquo;IT Akshaya Pratibha 2010-11,&rsquo; a national level IT competition for school children aged 9-13 at its campus here on October 30-31. The competition, organised by Bangalore-based Vaps Knowledge Services, will have quiz, concept presentation, spot programming, and projects.

IT contest for school children on Oct 30-31

In a surprise move, Sanjay Kalra, chief executive officer of Tech Mahindra, has resigned from the company to pursue other interests.

TechM CEO Sanjay Kalra resigns

Hardware and systems integrator HCL Infosystems today posted an 11.2 per cent rise in net profit for the fourth quarter ended June 30. Net profit stood at Rs 67.2 crore, compared to Rs 60.4 crore in the year-ago quarter. Gross sales at Rs 3,234 crore were up by 3.2 per cent from Rs 3,132.9 crore in the year-ago period.

HCL Info net jumps 11.27% to Rs 67 crore

In the first meeting of the Unique Identification (UID) Implementation Committee presided over by Haryana Chief Secretary Urvashi Gulati today, the state designated Information Technology (IT) department as the nodal and implementing department for the Unique Identification (UID) project. Special Secretary, IT, has been nominated as the &lsquo;Project Reader&rsquo; and IT Advisor T R Sastry as the &lsquo;Task Manager&rsquo; for the effective implementation of the project.

I-T Dept for UID projects in Haryana

Tech News: Latest Techn news & updates on Smart Watches, Gaming Console, iOS updates with launch date and price straight from Business Standard.com.

Page 2044 - Tech News