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

Press Trust of India

Enterprise data connectivity services firm Tulip Telecom today said it has received a clearance from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), which enables the company to sell data connectivity services in the US.

Tulip gets nod for data connectivity services in US

IT firm iGATE today said its net income jumped by 83.6 per cent to $11.2 million for the quarter ended June 30, 2010, on the back of recovering demand in the US markets.

iGATE Q2 net income up 84% to $11 mn

The company plans to invest Rs 100 crore in the 2010-11 fiscal on distribution and service network development, product development, brand development and advertising.

Wynn Telecom to invest Rs 500 cr in India by FY12-end

The central government has granted 31 acres of land to the Infopark Kochi - Phase II, meant for setting up a sector-specific IT/ITeS special economic zone (SEZ).&nbsp;The decision was taken in New Delhi at a meeting of the Board of Approvals, ministry of commerce.

Infopark Phase II gets 31 acre

Business Standard

Ideacts Innovations, a Bangalore-based cyber cafe management and security solutions provider, is aiming at having a pan-India presence, hopefully in the next 10 months, said its retail head Krishna Swamy. According to a survey conducted by the Internet and Mobile Association of India (IMAI), there are 180,000 cyber cafes in the country.

Ideacts plans pan-India presence

City-based IT product development company Tangent Solutions (India) Private Limited has signed an MoU with Telecommunication Consultants India Limited (TCIL), a public sector enterprise under the administrative control of the Department of Telecom-munications. &ldquo;Both the solutions of Tangent add a business value for target organisations like public sector banks and large manufacturing companies. The partnership will enable both of us to frame a go-to-market strategy to expand domestic and global business,&rdquo; TCIL chairman and managing director RK Upadhyay said in a release.

Tangent inks pact with TCIL

Employees at Nokia&rsquo;s Sriperumbudur factory have decided to withdraw strike after the Tamil Nadu government intervened. According to a company statement, work on the third shift will commence immediately.

Nokia says dispute settled

Companies pay a celebrity between Rs 10 lakh and Rs 1 crore to sign up for voice blogging.

Fans pay to hear celebrity voices

Unity Infraprojects recently bagged a huge order from the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai to replace two pipelines as part of the Tansa Pipleine Construction project. Much is at stake. Tansa is one of the largest lakes supplying water to Mumbai. Any delay could even attract a penalty besides costing a loss of goodwill.

Trapping 'ghost' workers with RFID

This year, global digital information will cross the gigabyte threshold and reach 1.2 Zettabytes. One Zettabyte is equal to one trillion gigabytes. This either equals &ldquo;Tweets&rdquo; by nearly every man, woman and child continuously for 100 years or data that can be stored in 75 billion fully-loaded 16 GB Apple iPads. It would fill the entire area of Wembley Stadium to the brim 41 times, the Mont Blanc Tunnel 84 times, CERN's Large Hadron Collider tunnel 151 times or the Beijing National Stadium 15.5 times.

Where will you store Zettabytes of information?

Mobile connections in India will cross 660 million, growing at 27.3 per cent in the current year according to Gartner, an information technology research firm. Also the revenue from mobile services is expected to reach $19.8 billion by the end of the year, up by 19.7 per cent from last year.

India mobile users to cross 660 mn in 2010: Gartner

Financial technology company Polaris Software Labs today said it plans to enter into &quot;newer geographies&quot; this year.

Polaris plans to enter newer geographies

Enterprise IT solutions provider SAP today said it has bagged a turnkey project from the Indian Navy for implementing an online financial information system.

SAP bags contract from Indian Navy

Worldwide computer shipments reached 82.9 million in the second quarter of 2010, a 20.7 per cent increase compared to the year-ago period, according IT research and advisory firm Gartner Inc.

Global PC sales jump 21% in Q2 2010: Gartner

Software services provider Zensar Technologies plans to invest Rs 5 crore in FY11, mainly to set up two development centres, a top official said on Thursday.

Zensar Tech plans two centres

In an attempt to deliver portable unlimited music to its consumers in a legal way, Nokia launched its Ovi Music Unlimited (OMU) in Kolkata.

Nokia launches OVI Music Unlimited

Telecom software firm Aricent is understood to be looking at setting up a Centre of Excellence (CoE) at its Bangalore operations for developing mobile value-added services (VAS) applications which can be delivered over service-oriented architectures (SOAs) to clients.

Aricent to set up mobile VAS centre of excellence

The Ruias of the Essar Group will now be getting around $750 million (about Rs 3,493 crore) more from their telecom joint venture partner, Vodafone Group, over and above the fair market price if they exercise the &ldquo;put&rdquo; option for their 33.02 per cent stake.

Essar may get Rs 3,493 crore windfall from Vodafone

Its revenue, too, at Rs 8,217 crore recorded a 14 per cent increase as compared with the figures posted during the same period a year ago.

TCS beats estimates, net shoots up 24%

Infy closes BPO in Bangkok

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