Red Hat Inc and Novell Inc won a US verdict in a case brought by a Texas company that claimed their Linux-based products infringed patents for ways to share icons across computer workstations.

Red Hat, Novell win verdict over Linux software claim

Business Standard

The level of malicious activity on the internet and spam occurring in India will only increase as its broadband infrastructure and user base grow.

India in 'dirty gang of four'

&quot;The IT sector is expected to grow at 15-20 per cent and so is the BPO sector. With the US economy back on the recovery path, we expect double-digit growth as against four-seven per cent last fiscal. We are, hence, planning to expand our business and hire more people. We plan to hire 7,000 personnel across the country this year,&quot; Intelenet CEO Susir Kumar told PTI here.

Intelenet to hire 7,000 in FY 11; enter new geographies

Press Trust of India

Realty major Ashar Group's IT Park in Thane has bagged bookings from eight BPO players including leading player, Intelenet, and now plans to set up a four-star hotel in the vicinity to cater to business visitors of the Park.

Ashar Group's Thane IT Park bags Intelenet, 7 other BPO cos

The committee set up by Nasscom, the IT-BPO industry body, under the leadership of Infosys mentor N R Narayana Murthy after the Satyam scandal last year has made a series of recommendations which aim to make the industry, already known for its high governance and ethics standards, the flag-bearer of best practices in corporate governance across industries.

NASSCOM's medicine

Direct-to-home players converge digital media to lure customers.

Set-top boxes get smarter

High-definition (HD) compact camcorders have been in fashion ever since the launch of the Flip camcorder. But the category &mdash; best defined as pocket-sized gadgets for shooting near HD-quality video &mdash; seems to be expanding fast with recent additions.

Record and shoot

If you have ever hooked up another phone in your house, technically, you have tapped your own phone line.

Hush! Someone may be listening

Public sector telecom firm BSNL is contemplating recruiting top talent from the private sector to its management ranks to help prop falling profits and stand up to competition and is willing to pay the chief executive as much as Rs 10 crore a year.

BSNL thinking of hiring top talent from market

Hardware and systems integrator HCL Infosystems&rsquo; third quarter saw an increase in net profit but a fall in revenue due to the churn in the telecom sector. Its major client, Nokia, witnessed stiff competition from low-end players and those with dual SIMs. Ajai Chowdhry, the chairman and CEO, tells Kirtika Suneja the company is continuing with its transformational journey and going beyond the domestic hardware player it had been till now.

'We are becoming a hardware, software and outsourcing company'

Idea Cellular, the Aditya Birla Group company, today posted a consolidated net profit of Rs 266 crore in the fourth quarter, 4.5 per cent higher than the Rs 255 crore in the same quarter last year. The company&rsquo;s total revenue for the quarter ended March was Rs 3,347 crore, up 14 per cent as compared to the Rs 2,941 crore posted in the corresponding quarter last year.

Idea net up 4.5%; Plans Rs 3,000-cr capex

Movil Mobile, part of the Delhi-based product design company Bling Telecom, is looking at an average revenue of Rs 400 crore this calendar year, said its chairman Rajiv Khanna.

Movil Mobile eyes Rs 400 cr

According to the data compiled by the Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI), the state reached a GSM subscriber base of 12.19 million by the end of March 2010 which marks a 6.23 per cent growth over 11.4 million subscribers in February. This is higher than the national average of 3.42 per cent in the same period.

Orissa posts highest growth in GSM subscriber base

The first quarter net profit of Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation, the information technology and consultancy trans-national, rose to $151.5 million (Rs 660 crore), up by 34 per cent from the year-ago quarter and 5.2 per cent sequentially. The company is headquartered in the US, but chose to also announce the global results here.

Cognizant's global net profit rises 34%

Nashik-based ESDS Software Solution Pvt Ltd, a group of web hosting companies based in UK and US, has introduced its fully managed Cloud VPS Hosting powered by industry-leading virtualization platform VMware.

ESDS Software launches fully managed Cloud VPS Hosting

Microsoft has partnered with Hewlett Packard (HP) to increase access to affordable computing in the Indian educational sector.

MS, HP for affordable computing

Nokia India, an undisputed leader in the mobile handset market a few years ago, faces rising competition from home-grown players who have entered the market with several me-too devices, at much lower price points. In its latest earnings release on April 22, Nokia revealed its global operating profit dropped to 11 per cent, compared to 20 per cent last year. D Shivakumar vice-president and managing director, is unperturbed. In a chat with Priyanka Joshi, he explains how the company will take on the competition, with new devices and affordable mobile services.

'Handsets alone can't sell in a crowded market like India'

As a part of its endeavour to spread the usage of wireless internet services across Orissa, Reliance Communications has announced the launch of its high speed CDMA 1X wireless internet service-&lsquo;Reliance Netconnect 1X&rsquo; on the prepaid platform in over 70 towns of the state. As part of its strategy to drive Netconnect in the Indian hinterland, Reliance is targeting the home user segment.

R-Com rolls out Hi-Speed internet

Delhi-based HCL Technologies has signed a $500 million (Rs 2,225 crore) strategic pact with pharmaceutical major MSD (also known as Merck &amp; Co) for a period of five years.

HCL inks $500-million deal with Merck & Co

Aegis, the business process outsourcing (BPO) arm of the Essar Group, has planned to include higher education as one of its business divisions. It has formalised a plan and brought in a multinational firm with expertise in customer experience management for this. It is also close to tying-up with a leading Indian Institute of Management (IIM) to devise a curriculum.

Aegis to set up training academy with IIM help

The proposed cyber park at Kozhikode on Wednesday got the draft declaration approved by the land revenue commissioner, which enables speedy acquisition of land for the first mega IT project in the Malabar region.

Cyber park to complete land acquisition soon

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