Uttar Pradesh, which was earlier among the top 2 IT exporters in India, is slowly getting back to its groove.

UP posts 73 % growth in software exports

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With 14 acquisitions in barely 40 months,Aegis the business process outsourcing arm of the Essar Group, has managed to carve out a place for itself in the top five BPO players globally. Managing Director and Global Chief Executive Officer, Aparup Sengupta, is working on being a $1-billion company in the next 12-18 months (current turnover is $700 million or Rs 3,150 crore) and believes acquisitions will be a major way of achieving this. In a chat with Shivani Shinde, he talks on these plans.

Q&A: Aparup Sengupta, MD & CEO, Aegis

Max Secure Software&nbsp;a Pune based software company developing products designed to protect the privacy and security of Windows computer users launched its&nbsp;anti- virus software called&nbsp;Max Secure Anti Virus Pro Scan for the Indian market claiming it is 10 times faster, reduces scanning time by upto 40 minutes and is lighter by 70 per cent as compared to its competitors.

Max Secure Software launches anti-virus offering in India

With the success of 3D movies like Avatar, electronics players such as Samsung, Philips, LG, Sony and Panasonic are introducing 3D TVs in the country.

Watching TV with new eyes

If you are a couch potato who sits in front of the television (TV) without knowing what to see, fret not. You are among the estimated 70 per cent of viewers who have unplanned TV sessions. Finding the right show among 350-odd channels, however, is akin to searching for a needle in a haystack.

What's showing on your tube today?

Smartesting, an independent French software provider, has released version 4.0 of its Test Designer software, thereby offering a more far-reaching response to the needs of testing professional in terms of project quality and productivity gains. Test Designer features automatic test generation based on models of the expected behaviours of the application being tested. The new version will enable users to define a test strategy based on functional requirements and risks directly from test models and generate tests on demand, including for execution in manual mode.

Smartesting releases new software

A mere five months after buying Aircel&rsquo;s portfolio of 17,500 telecom towers, GTL appears to be hungry for more. The world&rsquo;s largest independent tower company is believed to be in talks with Reliance Infratel, the telecom tower arm of Reliance Communications (RCom), for a strategic partnership.

GTL eyes RCom in tower tango

Facebook said its advertisers have more than quadrupled since the start of 2009 as marketers aim to get their products before a growing global audience.

Facebook sees 4-fold jump in number of advertisers

The Hinduja Group is looking to acquire business process outsourcing (BPO) units in the United Kingdom and the United States as part of its plan to deploy idle cash.

Hinduja Group to acquire BPOs in UK, US

Aditya Birla Minacs, an information technology (IT) business solutions company and a subsidiary of Aditya Birla Nuvo Ltd, today announced the acquisition of US-based Bureau of Collections Recovery (BCR), an accounts receivables management company, in an all-cash transaction. However, the deal amount was not disclosed.

Aditya Birla Minacs buys US-based company

Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group (ADAG) company Reliance Communications (RCom) today said it had received various proposals from global telecom companies for acquiring a strategic equity stake in it.

RCom clarifies on stake sale reports

Want to talk more? Keep pedalling, says Nokia.

Nokia launches bike-powered handset

Infosys Chairman and Chief Mentor N R Narayana Murthy shows no signs of tiring. Indeed, while most people expected him to spend a quiet life in retirement on reaching 65 next year in August, his &ldquo;second journey&rdquo; with a Rs 600-crore venture capital fund is going to take off soon. He talks to Bibhu Ranjan Mishra on Infosys&rsquo; next stage of development, on the US challenge, on India&rsquo;s relations with China and, yes, on whether his son would join Infosys.

Q&A: N R Narayana Murthy, Chairman, Infosys

Tricom India Ltd, a Mumbai-based non-voice Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) major, has registered 5.80 per cent rise in its business turn over in FY 2009-10 as compared to that of last year.

Tricom India registers 5.80% rise in revenue

S Tel, one of the latest entrants into the mobile services market in the country, will invest Rs 700 crore on acquisition of the 3G spectrum and the roll out of 3G services in three circles of the country- Himachal Pradesh, Bihar and Jharkhand and Orissa.

S Tel to invest Rs 700 cr on 3G services

Unfazed by the sovereign debt crisis in Europe and political protests in the US against offshoring, Indian information technology (IT)-business process outsourcing (BPO) companies are busy acquiring more companies, data reveal.

Indian IT-BPO firms hot on acquisitions

Uninor today announced the commercial launch of its global GSM service in Gujarat alongwith the new concept of dynamic pricing (DP). With this, the telecom company is now present in 13 circles in the country including Maharashtra, Goa, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh Bihar, Jharkhand, and West Bengal.

Uninor rolls out GSM services in Gujarat

The International Telecommunication Union (ITU)&rsquo;s World Telecommunication Development Conference (WTDC), which after 12 days of deliberations concluded here on Friday, adopted the Hyderabad Action Plan, outlining a road map to foster the global development of information and communication technology (ICT) networks and services over the next four years with more emphasis on emergency telecommunications.

ITU to focus on emergency communications

British telecom major Vodafone Plc today received a new showcause notice from the income tax (I-T) department, quantifying its liability at Rs 12,000 crore on its 2007 acquisition of a majority stake in Hutchison Essar. The company is expected to approach the High Court here over the next few days to challenge the notice.

I-T pegs Vodafone's liability at Rs 12,000 cr

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), the public sector telecom giant, will launch its Wi -Max services in Orissa this year.

BSNL to launch Wi-Max service in state soon

Eyeing the upper crust of the ultra low cost (ULC) segment, ICE Mobile Network Systems Limited, which has tied up with TCT Mobile Limited for co-branding and marketing of 'Alcatel ICE3' mobile handsets, is planning to launch the product in Gujarat. While the company will be offering single model as of now, by November 2010 ICE Mobile plans to introduce five more models in the price range of Rs 6,500 and above.

ICE Mobile aims at 40K Alcatel ICE3 mobile handsets in Gujarat

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