The concern is writ large on the face of Srikanth R, president (finance) and chief financial officer of a mid-sized Chennai-based mid-sized information technology (IT) services firm, Polaris Software.

Tax sunset clause unnerves small, mid-size IT firms

Business Standard

When Google launched Google Buzz in February this year, nearly 180 million Gmail users impulsively started pinging their friends, scaring the life out of other micro-blogging sites like Twitter and social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace.

Google attempts to get Buzz back on its feet

People of Orissa will no longer have to queue up at the regional transport offices to pay their motor vehicle tax, apply for a driving license or apply for the permit of commercial vehicles.

E-Disha to offer online driving license, vehicle permits

Teams playing in the Indian Premier League (IPL)are harnessing technology for that extra edge.

Technology makes the IPL teams tick

The 40 million mobile-internet users in India have taken the mobile-web traffic to new heights, according to AdMob, a leading mobile advertising network. According to the latest data from AdMob, web traffic from mobile phones touched the 1.2-billion mark in March 2010, making India&rsquo;s mobile-web traffic the second highest globally next to the US.

Internet traffic rides the mobile wave

Prithvi Information Solutions Ltd has bagged orders for developing the Haryana State Data Centre, an e-governance infrastructure space. The Haryana SDC would provide single window for accessing the services provided by the state government, proving to be a key infrastructure to house the data from various state departments under one roof.

Prithvi Info Solutions Ltd bags order in Haryana

Telecommunication Services provider AT&amp;T plans to invest about $1 billion in 2010 to upgrade its services and products, besides expanding global network in countries like India, China and Japan.

AT&T to scale up network operations in India, China

Press Trust of India

Birlasoft, the information technology company of the $1.2-billion CK Birla Group, eyes acquisitions in the range of $15-30 million (Rs 70-135 crore) and plans to close the buyout by the next quarter.

Birlasoft gears up to grow organically

Telling Arvind Rao that the 70:30 split doesn&rsquo;t make sense is like waving a red rag to a bull. The revenue split between telecom operators, aggregators/technology providers and content firms in the value-added services (VAS) food chain has long been a bone of contention. In the rest of the world, the split is 30:70 in favour of the content owners.

'Content providers get a fair share'

Department of Information Technology, Chandigarh Administration and National Informatic Centre, UT have been awarded three National- Level Web Ratna Awards for the year 2009. These awards had been constituted by the ministry of communications and information technology, Government of India for the first time in order to acknowledge exemplary initiatives/practices of various states/UTs in the realm of e-governance for the dissemination of information and services to the citizens.

Chandigarh gets Web Ratna Award

Nine companies to bid for 3G spectrum; 11 vie for BWA.

3G auction begins today, may go into 2nd round

&lsquo;100 million, thanks to you&rsquo;, says the coffee mug strategically placed on the desk of Marten Pieters, managing director and CEO of Vodafone Essar. Pieters says he is in a mood to celebrate, as the company has just reached the 100-million customer mark after 14 years of operations in India. In this interview with Katya Naidu, the MD points out that the industry is not too much about customers but the revenue from them.

'It's difficult to box with one hand bound behind the back'

Having already sold over 40,000 mobile phones in last four months in Punjab, Zen Mobiles, part of Teleecare group, is aggressively targeting the Punjab market, especially the B, C &amp; D category towns. To strengthen its presence in the state, the company is further expanding its sales and service network in the state as well as across the country to get closer to its customer base.

ZEN mobiles to increase its presence in Punjab

Apple Inc&rsquo;s iPad may force Japan&rsquo;s $21 billion book market to reshape pricing in the industry by historic proportions, publishing officials and analysts said.

iPad may shake up Japan's book industry

Share prices yet to reflect fund-raising, expansion in infrastructure by companies.

It's going to be call-waiting for a while on telco stocks

Pan-India bids kick off at Rs 3,919 crore

Cognizant Technology Solutions on Friday signed a memorandum of understanding with Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT).

Cognizant, VIT sign pact

The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has cancelled the licence of Switzerland-registered firm ByCell to start telecom operations in five circles in India on security grounds.

DoT cancels licence of Swiss telco on security grounds

If there&rsquo;s any company that can match or even emulate the hype that online search giant Google generates when it is to launch a product, or sometimes even a couple of years before the launch, it is Steve Jobs&rsquo; Apple Inc.

Steve Jobs does it again

The second day of the auction of 3G spectrum saw greater interest from bidders with the pan-India licence reaching a bid of Rs 4,085.23 crore, 16.72 per cent higher than the base price of Rs 3,500 crore. The first day of 3G auction had seen the price go up to Rs 3,913 crore.

3G bids move higher on day two

Cognizant Technology Solutions has signed an MoU with Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT), which will allow CTS employees to &lsquo;learn while they earn&rsquo; by taking up an M Tech (Master of Technology) Programme in Software Development and Management offered by VIT. This is an exclusive programme designed for Cognizant, a US-based software company with large offshore development centres in India.

CTS signs MoU with VIT

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