The Nandan Nilekani-headed Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has got 19 bids for its first information technology project, on application development services. Among those who applied are Tata Consultancy Services, Infosys, Wipro, HCL and IBM.

UIDAI's first big IT project gets 19 bids

Business Standard

Wipro, the software to vanaspati maker, has effected key management changes to drive the company in the next phase of growth.

Wipro management structure rejigged

In January, this year, the company announced Kapoor&rsquo;s appointment as CEO (India and South Asia), along with other senior level management elevations, which was to come into effect from April 1, Bharti Airtel said in a statement.

Kapoor takes charge as Bharti's India CEO

After pioneering per-second billing for mobile telephone calls, Tata Teleservices, which offers both GSM and CDMA services, has again unleashed an interesting initiative. It says its subscribers would be compensated if the company failed to meet pre-determined levels of service standards.

Tata to now pay cellphone customers for deficient service

Net4India Ltd, a BSE-listed provider of network and application services and solutions, is planning to dilute 10-15 per cent promoter equity in the company to raise about Rs 20 crore as part of expansion capital.

Net4India to dilute up to 15% equity

Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) plans to expand its presence in India by adding 5,000 employees to its managed services division. The segment accounts for 40 per cent of CSC&rsquo;s overall revenue.

CSC to expand footprint

The Union Commerce Ministry and revenue department are at loggerheads over the approval to Infosys' campus as a special economic zone (SEZ) unit in Chandigarh SEZ.

Revenue dept objects to SEZ status for Infy's Chandigarh unit

The nation's third-largest IT firm Wipro Technologies today said it has entered into a seven-year strategic agreement with the US-based insurance firm Main Street America Group for software solutions.

Wipro bags 7-yr IT contract from US insurance firm

Press Trust of India

PIE Software Private Limited, a subsidiary of Australia-based PIE Software, has introduced a new service -- Key Rescue -- in association with Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited and India Post.

PIE Soft to help find lost key chains

VXL Technologies, the Rs 60 crore S K Birla Group company, is eyeing a turnover of Rs 100 crore in three years, on the back of government orders for its new security solutions.

VXL Technologies eyes 60% growth on govt orders

The telecom engineering services (TES) division of Prithvi Information Solutions Limited, a Hyderabad-based software consulting, outsourcing and business solutions company, is expecting its order book and sales pipeline to reach up to Rs 500 crore by the next financial year, on the back of the emergence of new operators and existing operators growing in India, Brazil and other emerging markets.

Prithvi Info eyes Rs 500 cr telco services orders

Gujarat&rsquo;s first special economic zone for IT/ITES services is all set to kick start next month. US based Kendle group, a leading global clinical research organization (CRO) with about $ 415 million net revenues in 2009, has firmed up its plans to check into Mindspace, a Rs 1200 crore IT/ITES SEZ project developed by Mumbai-based K Raheja Corp on Ahmedabad-Gandhinagar Knowledge Corridor.

Gujarat's first IT SEZ clicks as Kendle logs on to Mindspace

After partnering with telecom operator Aircel to build a mobile application store, the country&rsquo;s second-largest (information technology) IT services company, Infosys Technologies, is set to do the same for at least nine other mobile operators across the globe.

Infy to develop mobile app stores for nine telcos

Content is King, and if it is of high quality, Indians are ready to pay for it. Internet users polled in India are ready to pay for online content, particularly books, magazines and music, and professionally produced videos and television shows, said The Nielsen Company.

Indian users ready to pay for online content: Nielsen

Think of an office where you can sit next to your chief executive officer- a seamless office sans cubicles and partition walls; a workplace where there are no assigned sitting positions, not even for the boss.

Uninor strives for seamless office environment

Information technology major Cognizant, which invested Rs 200 crore to set up its campus in Bantala, is trying to work out ways to improve the &lsquo;environment&rsquo; around it. &ldquo;Our Bantala campus is not environment-friendly. But we have invested Rs 200 crore and have started transferring people to that campus,&rdquo; said R Chandra Sekaran, president and managing director, Cognizant.

Cognizant worried over Bantala campus environment

State-run telecom major Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) decided to scrap its controversial tender for 93 million GSM lines, worth Rs 35,000 crore.

BSNL decides to scrap Rs 35,000-cr GSM tender

California-based global low cost computing solutions major NComputing is looking at Tier II and III cities of Uttar Pradesh for growth in the region.

IT solutions major NComputing to expand in Uttar Pradesh

The plethora of new pricing schemes from telecom companies, like &lsquo;one paisa per second&rsquo; billing, has squeezed the margins of their business process outsourcing (BPO) partners.

Telco price wars hit BPO margins

With user base of 80,000, the company is operating in Himachal Pradesh, Orissa, Bihar.

DoT orders S Tel to stop ops for 'security' reasons

BSNL would have accounted for revenues of $250 million this year.

BSNL tender: Huawei to lose 10% of business in India

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