Nasdaq-listed IT services company iGATE today said net income for the quarter ending March has more than doubled to $11.6 million over the same period a year ago.

iGATE earnings double in Q1, revenue up 29%

Press Trust of India

IT services company iGATE today said it will hire 500 professionals in the next two quarters to support its expanding operations.

iGATE to hire 500; eyes acquisition worth $30-70 mn

Leading information technology solutions provider Cisco has set up Linksys by Cisco Exchange Centres in eight cities, which will provide greater convenience and time savings for end-consumers who require product exchange service.

Cisco opens exchange centres in 8 cities

US buyers have been snapping up the iPad so quickly that Apple Inc is delaying the tablet computer's overseas debut a second time, the company said today.

Apple delays international iPad launch again

Business Standard

Virtusa Corporation, a US -based IT consulting, technology implementation and application outsourcing services provider with global delivery centres in Hyderabad and Chennai, has unveiled its cloud services offering for Pegasystems&rsquo; business process management (BPM) in the cloud platform &ndash; SmartPaaS.

Virtusa offers cloud services to Pegasystems

Gearing up to meet the May 15 deadline for launching mobile number portability (MNP), state-run Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd (MTNL) has invited bids for installing a gateway, crucial for the MNP infrastructure.

MTNL gearing up for MNP

The segment has seen entry of one mobile vendor every month.

Small handset makers making big strides

The bigwigs of cyberia are cashing in on the popularity of reality TV and social networking amongst the youth.

Reality TV on fast track in cyberspace

To manage its internal information technology services across 104 countries for 3 years.

Infy bags $150-mn Microsoft order

Employee activism is on the rise at Infosys, India's second-largest information technology (IT) services firm, which employs close to 1,14,000 in India and across the world.

Infy sees higher employee activism

IT services firm Infosys Technologies has made its campus selection process more stringent this year by increasing the cut-off marks and visiting a fewer engineering colleges.

Campus selection rules made more stringent

The environment and forest ministry has given its clearance for the Phase-III expansion project of Technopark, Thiruvananthapuram.

Technopark III gets environment clearance

With workforce becoming younger across enterprises &ndash; the Facebook generation, which is more used to tweeting, texting and chatting rather than writing emails, companies are now aggressively looking at social capabilities to improve employee engagement and ensure the staff communicate their point and open up to the business perspective.

Pramati arm eyes $10 million in three years

IT service provider Cognizant today said it has signed an agreement with the $5-billion communications company Harris Corporation for providing software development services.

Cognizant to provide software services to US firm

The Google&rsquo;s internet bus, which aims at educating people across India about the internet, entered Chandigarh today.

Google internet bus in Chandigarh

Smart Guard Systems, a 100 per cent subsidiary of Ahmedabad-based eInfochips Ltd, launched its Internet Protocol (IP)-based surveillance products in Gujarat. The company, which claims to be the first Indian company to design and manufacture IP surveillance products, is setting up a facility to manufacture IP cameras, digital video recorders (DVRs) and encoders in a phased manner.

Smart Guard Systems to set up facility in A'bad for IP surveillance products

Rolta India&rsquo;s stock has been outperforming the broader indices in the last six months on hopes of an upturn in the fortunes of the information technology (IT) sector. For the March 2010 quarter, it delivered results mostly in line with the Street&rsquo;s expectations.

Rolta India: Results in line with expectations

Telecom equipment vendor ZTE Telecom is eyeing 10-15 per cent market share of the country's $4 billion telecom vendor market through business from the 3G and Wimax sector.

ZTE eyes $4 billion 3G, Wimax market

Having already invested about Rs 850 crore in launching its GSM services in Punjab and Haryana, the Videocon Group, has further plans to inject Rs 800 crore within a year in these two states for expanding its base. The launch of services in the region is a part of the company&rsquo;s rapid roll-out of services covering 100 key cities/towns over 100 days.

Videocon launches GSM services in Punjab, Haryana

Within hours of imposing a ban on SMS services for post-paid mobile subscribers in Jammu and Kashmir, the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) did a u-turn following an order from the home ministry.

DoT revokes ban on SMS in J&K following home ministry diktat

Agilent Technologies Inc (NYSE: A), the world&rsquo;s premier measurement company and a technology leader in communications, electronics, life sciences and chemical analysis has opened its new state-of-the-art campus in Manesar in Haryana.

Agilent opens campus in Haryana

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