New telecom players mull rival association.

Tata Teleservices takes on incumbent GSM operators

Business Standard

62% kids across the world have had negative internet experiences.

How safe is your child online?

It&rsquo;s time to move over YouTube, Metacafe and other online video-browsing portals; now, its Shufflr. If the thought of videos means YouTube to you, Bangalore-based Althea Systems&rsquo;s video-browsing website, www.shufflr.tv, aims to change the pattern of video-viewing for you.

Time to shuffle your video browsing

HCL Technologies today signed a seven-year total information technology outsourcing services agreement with Saudi Arabia&rsquo;s Al Majdouie Group. HCL will implement the contract over two years, with the next five years for operations and management.

HCL , Saudi group ink 7-year agreement

There could be several hardware-related reasons for a slow computer. For example, the processor, the brain of your computer, may be too slow to run today&rsquo;s demanding software. It may drag along if you have several programs running simultaneously. Then, there is RAM &mdash; the temporary memory the computer uses to do its calculations. If you do not have enough RAM, your programs will run slowly.

Make your PC run as fast as new

Online financial solutions provider 3i Infotech Consumer Services Limited (3icsl), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Mumbai-based IT company 3i Infotech Limited, is planning to acquire a consumer-based organisation in the domestic market for a consideration of $10 million (approximately Rs 47 crore).

3i Infotech arm plans $10 million buyout

Other new entrants undecided whether to follow or not.

Tata Tele quits 'autocratic' COAI

Riding on the success of the just-concluded FIFA World Cup 2010, Satyam Computer Services Ltd (rebranded Mahindra Satyam) is gearing up to provide its technology backbone solutions to two more world sporting events.

Mahindra Satyam bags NBA, S'pore Youth Olympic deals

After winning permission from China&rsquo;s government to continue to operate in the country, Google must now fight for relevance as Baidu Inc extends its dominance in the world&rsquo;s largest internet market.

Google ends conflict with China, Baidu still a winner

DQ Entertainment (International) Limited, an animation, game, art and entertainment company, has signed two exclusive broadcasting agreements for its 3D animated TV series &mdash; The Jungle Book.

Animation firm in pacts for telecast abroad

APTel Business Solutions (India), a Gurgaon-based provider of telecom network infrastructure solutions, will be opening 20 centres for telecom technology training and capability enhancement across the country shortly.

APTel plans 20 new training centres

Upbeat trends in markets the world over seem to have percolated into the Indian information technology (IT) sector &mdash; and especially into the small and medium segment.

Tide of downturn ebbs for smaller IT players

With its enterprise resource planning (ERP) making further inroads among small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Gujarat, Microsoft's business in the state has been growing at around 40 per cent. The software giant, hence, is expecting more business to generate in the state in near future.

Microsoft sees 40% business growth in Gujarat

Company raises full-year revenue guidance on greater demand, analysts stay upbeat on stock.

Infosys disappoints with 2.4% net fall

The Supreme Court today directed private telecom operators to pay state-owned BSNL Rs 39,000 for every point of connection (ports) as interconnection usage charges (IUC), as an interim arrangement, and asked the PSU not to disconnect the service.

SC directs private telcos to pay BSNL for ports

Press Trust of India

Production at Nokia's factory at Sriperumbudur, near here, was hit by an employees&rsquo; strike which began at the end of the first shift of operations.

Nokia employees strike work after talks fail

Infosys Technologies aims to introduce a social media policy which will help it take legal action against employees who leak confidential company information on social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter and Orkut.

Action for leaks on networking sites

With nearly 8,000 employees leaving Infosys Technologies in the quarter under review, the company's attrition has almost touched 16 per cent, the highest in four quarters.

Infy faces surge in attrition

There was a time when Infosys Technologies, India&rsquo;s second largest software exporter, wanted to reduce its overdependence on the North American market by increasing its revenue from Europe and the rest of the world. The economic uncertainty in Europe is forcing a strategy rethink. &lsquo;Kris&rsquo; Gopalakrishnan, CEO and MD of the Bangalore-headquartered Infosys spoke to Bibhu Ranjan Mishra and Ravi Menon on key strategies the company is adopting to tide over the rough times.

Q&A: 'Kris' Gopalakrishnan, CEO, MD, Infosys

Telecom tribunal TDSAT today sought responses from operators to a petition seeking uniformity in their prepaid tariff plans.

TDSAT seeks telcos response on anomaly in prepaid tariff

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