Polaris Software Lab today announced the acquisition of IndigoTX, a Chennai-based Software as a Service (SaaS) company providing an enterprise brokerage platform used by half a million customers. The company refused to disclose the acquisition cost.

Polaris Software acquires IndigoTX

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The special auditor appointed by the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) to look into the alleged evasion of licence fees by Vodafone-Essar has found an additional liability of Rs 188 crore on the company. The liability, detected by SK Mehta and Co, is based on the terms of reference given by DoT.

Vodafone-Essar may face Rs 188-cr liability

MTS, one of the latest entrants in the telecom sector, is looking at 30 per cent revenues from data services soon.

MTS eyes 30% revenues from data services

They&rsquo;re young, creative and successful.

A developing story

The Rajeev Chandrasekhar-owned Asianet Communications Ltd, a Bangalore-based media company, is believed to have struck a strategic alliance with Kannada Prabha, a multi-edition Kannada newspaper run by Express Publications (Madurai) Ltd.

Rajeev Chandrasekhar set for regional print foray

Internet content censors (read countries) are rearing their ugly heads again &mdash; sometimes in the garb of protecting their citizens and especially children, and at other times, claiming to protect national interests.

Geopolitics in cyberspace

In what could be called a major step towards green computing, scientists in Germany claim to have developed a system that substantially reduces the energy consumption for processing huge amounts of data.

Now, a computer system with energy-efficient data processing

Press Trust of India

Reliance Communications (RCom), as a part of its 100-day celebratory period of achieving the 100-million customer landmark, is offering free airtime to its consumers.

RCom to offer free calls today

Will Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee get more than the Rs 35,000 crore he had budgeted for from the auctions of 3G and BWA spectrum that will take place next week, considering that there&rsquo;s one less 3G slot this time around? As compared to four 3G slots apart from one given to BSNL/MTNL that were supposed to have been auctioned initially, there will only be three slots apart from BSNL/MTNL.

Sunil Jain: 3G game changer

Seeks to defend market share in India, puts global ambitions on hold.

BSNL readies Rs 14,000 crore war chest

WeP Solutions, an IT services and security company, is reinforcing its services focus by offering its proprietary unified threat management appliance software free to small and medium businesses across the world.

WeP Solutions reinforces services focus

This patent-pending technology has been developed by matrimonial site Coupl.

Startups look to patenting techs

Telecom major Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) has been losing market share, with declining revenues, in the competitive Indian mobile market. From being number two, it has been struggling to maintain fourth position. The telco&rsquo;s Chairman and Managing Director Kuldeep Goel explains his strategy to get BSNL back on track to Mansi Taneja and Surajeet Das Gupta.

'We'll compete with more 3G, better broadband'

If you have the money and you also want to spend it, why not spend on gadgets? You could slide a dazzling Rs 2-lakh mobile device into your Armani pockets or, perhaps, acquire a wickedly handsome high-definition 3D TV for Rs 1.63 lakh to get your daily dose of entertainment. After all, life&rsquo;s sure to be a notch easier when you are surrounded by gadgets and appliances that feel chic, look elegant and are a cut above the rest. Priyanka Joshi lists some of the elite devices that fit this description...

Have money? go splurge it!

India Inc has made its biggest foray yet into Africa, with Airtel waiting to sew up its $10.7 bn acquisition of the African assets of Zain Telecom. The deal will ensure the combined entity has 171 million subscribers in 19 countries, and will make it the seventh largest in the world in terms of the subscriber base (in terms of revenues, of course, the combine will be much lower down the pecking order &mdash; Verizon which is the 9th in terms of subscriber has a revenue of $108 bn, as compared to $66 bn for China Mobile, which has the largest subscriber base in the world at 533 mn).

African safari

However, currencies, elections remain concerns.

Problems in Europe not to affect IT firms

It&rsquo;s no longer just a status symbol. Dual SIM mobile handsets are suddenly catching the fancy of Indian consumers, already comprising 10-12 per cent of total mobile handset sales.

Dual SIM handsets catching rising consumer attention

Videocon Telecommunications Limited, a Videocon Group company would roll out its GSM services in Punjab by April 10 this year. Videocon will be the seventh GSM Mobile service operator in Punjab, the six other operators in the Punjab telecom circle being Airtel, BSNL, Vodafone Essar, Idea Cellular, Reliance Telecom and Tata Docomo, the GSM brand of Tata Teleservices Limited.

Videocon to launch GSM services in Punjab

Imagine a football video game being played on your screen. You feel like participating in the game, but instead of being a couch-potato gamer who uses a controller, you start flapping your arms and feet in the air. Almost magically, the ball on the screen responds to your gestures.

Project Natal - play video games your way

Jim Turner has bought 15 iPads that he&rsquo;ll get in April, when Apple Inc starts shipping the tablet-style computer designed for book reading, game playing and video viewing. Yet Turner won&rsquo;t be using the iPad for entertainment.

Office-goers fast logging on to Apple's iPad

The Department of Telecom has expressed reservation about going the optic fibre cable (OFC) route, which suggested by a government panel for connecting 2.5 lakh villages panchayats through high speed broadband services.

Optical fibre costly to deploy, hard to maintain: DoT

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