One fine morning in 2006, Dhiraj Kacker received a phone call that changed his life as an employee with a successful start-up in the Silicon Valley. At the other end was his buddy Peeyush Rai coaxing him to come back to India to start their own business. And, Kacker didn&rsquo;t think twice.

Giving the photo call

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Realising that raising money for charity will only get tougher in the present economic environment, the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (Iskcon) has decided to harness the ever-increasing mobile users in India. For Iskcon, this will help them sustain the inflow of donations for its mid-day meals programme.

Now, fund-raising for charity goes mobile

Despite trying economic conditions, most midsized companies in India increased their IT budget in 2009 over the previous years. According to the latest study by IBM, over 50 per cent of Indian mid-market business decision makers expect their IT budget to increase this year over last year.

Indian mid-market continues to be lucrative for IT services firms

With the first signs of recovery in the information technology (IT) sector, the three biggest IT companies &mdash; Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Wipro Technologies and Infosys &mdash; are not only hopeful of bagging more overseas deals but have also modified their strategy to focus on near-shoring, where employees work at customer premises.

IT majors preparing strategy in line with revival of demand

Tata Indicom is aiming to add about 50,000 new broadband wireless connections in the state during this fiscal with the launch of its Photon Plus service.

Tata Tele bets big on Photon Plus

Infosys Technologies, India&rsquo;s second largest software exporter, plans to use the success of its global internship programme, InStep to attract more global talent to the company. From the launch of the programme in 1999, the company has so far trained 664 people from 41 nationalities.

Infy to use its internships to attract more global talent

N R Narayana Murthy, co-founder and chief mentor of India's second-largest IT services provider Infosys Technologies, is planning to invest in US-based clean technology venture capital (VC) fund Siderian Ventures.

Narayana Murthy mulls investment in green VC fund

The Andhra Pradesh high court posted the case of Maytas Infra Limited challenging the state government action of cancelling the Rs 12,132-crore Hyderabad metro rail project awarded to it for next week.

Maytas case posted for next week

Kochi-based Infopark will launch its hub and spoke model IT park at Koratty near Thrissur by November this year. Meanwhile, master plans for IT parks at Cherthala and Ambalapuzha, the other two spoke models of Kochi Infopark, have been approved and the development work has been initiated.

Koratty IT park to be launched by Nov

Indian information technology services providers may have seen a dip in net hiring this financial year. However, the drop is more due to the slowdown in the business enviroment rather than a shift towards non-linear growth. Experts believe it will take another three to five years for Indian IT firms to move to a non-linear business model.

IT companies may take time for non-linear growth

GSM mobile phone operators in the country added 9.48 million users in July, taking the total GSM subscriber base to 325.7 million.

GSM operators added 9.48 mn mobile users in July

Etisalat DB Telecom India, in which the UAE-based Etisalat holds a 45 per cent stake, is close to signing a Rs 1,500 crore outsourcing deal with IT major Wipro Technologies.

Wipro close to Rs 1,500-crore IT deal with Etisalat

IT and BPO services company MphasiS today said it will acquire AIG Systems Solutions (AIGSS), the IT arm of the US-based insurance giant AIG (American International Group), for an undisclosed sum.

MphasiS to buy AIG's Indian IT arm

The Orissa IT department has got its act together to come out with the broad contours of the much awaited new ICT (information and communication technology) policy of the state government.

Panel to decide features of new ICT policy

The concept envisages the use of IT to make &lsquo;smart grids&rsquo; all over the world, including India, in a bid to create an interconnected planet.

IBM wants to make our planet 'smarter'

Brand jacking or the process of stealing content/identity of a website (or any specific brand) to make the spammer&rsquo;s site appear more legitimate and mislead the consumer, is becoming a popular way of stealing information and passwords.

Online brand jacking picks up pace

To encourage information sharing, collaboration, and interactivity, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) have been working jointly to provide consumers and partners with social media tools like widgets, mobile information and online videos.

Online social networking to provide swine flu updates

Samsung Electronics today launched OMNIAHD in India &mdash; world&rsquo;s first full-touch handset featuring 720P HD video recording, with the largest 9.4 cm AMOLED screen on mobile. The Active Matrix Organic Light Emitting Diode or AMOLED touch screen offers sharpness of tone, vivid colours, greater clarity in direct sunlight and consumes less power.

Samsung launches HD video recording cellphone in India

State-owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) has got around 40,000 customers for its 3G services.

BSNL garners 40,000 3G customers

With the growing swine flu scare across the city, a number of IT-BPO service providers here are seeing up to 20 per cent drop in attendance.

Pune's IT, BPO cos see 20% fall in attendance

Rising tenancy rates, better management of energy as well as input costs help.

Tower biz starts paying off for telcos

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