Several were to expire in five years; valuations may rise.

DoT for evergreen mobile licences

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Hyderabad-based animation, gaming and entertainment company DQ Entertainment International, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the AIM-listed DQ Entertainment Plc, is working on a high-definition 3D animation television series on &lsquo;Lassie&rsquo; &ndash; the world&rsquo;s popular fictional collie-breed dog character having her own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame&ndash; at an estimated budget of 8 million euro (about Rs 56 crore).

DQE plans Rs 56cr 3D animation TV series on canine star &#39;Lassie&#39;

Google India closed its centre here for today and tomorrow after one of its employees tested positive for the H1N1 (swine flu) virus strain. The effort was to ensure that other employees do not contract the virus.

Swine flu closes Google Hyderabad office for 2 days

Pratt &amp; Whitney (P&amp;W), a United Technologies Corporation company, is establishing an endowment professorship in gas turbine engineering at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in Bangalore.

Pratt & Whitney to work with IISc for cleaner aircraft engines

Total sales of personal computers (PCs) between April 2008 and March 2009 were 6.79 million units, down 7 per cent year-on-year (y-o-y), due to the slowing economy, said a report by the Manufacturers&rsquo; Association for Information Technology (MAIT).

For the first time, PC sales fall 7%: MAIT

Airtel has integrated Kolkata, West Bengal and Orissa into one circle, making it Airtel&rsquo;s third largest circle in India. In an interview with Pradipta Mukherjee, Airtel&rsquo;s newly elected CEO for West Bengal and Orissa Deepak Srivastava says that the move will help the company make quicker decisions at a local level as well as connect better with the rural pockets.

'We expect over 100% growth for our data business'

Swedish telecom network supplier Ericsson today said it has completed the world's largest upgrade of live mobile network for telecom major Vodafone Essar in record time.

Ericsson completes world's largest live network upgrade

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The government has started discussions with the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) for disinvestment in BSNL and Telecommunications Consultants India Ltd (TCIL) in the current fiscal.

Govt initiates talks with DoT for BSNL stake sale

Mumbai-based mid-cap IT firm 3i Infotech will buy the entire 49 per cent stake of Elegon Infotech from Yucheng Technologies, its joint venture partner in China. Elegon Infotech will then become a wholly owned subsidiary of 3i Infotech.

3i Infotech buys out stake in China JV

India&rsquo;s second-largest information technology services provider, Infosys Technologies, has applied for a mere 405 visas till date for financial year 2009-10 &mdash; its lowest application count in recent years.

IT cos go slow on H-1B visas

Move over Doom Resurrection, God of War, Good and Dark, Evil Worlds of Zelda and a host of other popular games that digitally instruct how to fire weapons at demons, dodge the flaming balls demons throw at the player or conquer evil with violence. Their creators have now come up with a variety of games based on Indian mythological stories, as they think non-violent yet educational games find more takers.

Mythology-based tales find favour with gamers

Cloud computing did receive a major shot in the arm with Google announcing that its Chrome-based operating system (OS) will be ready by the first half of 2010, but what may have gone relatively unnoticed is that many companies other than the internet search giant are promising to change the computing paradigm with web-based operating systems.

Dawn of the age of web-based PCs

Internet search major Google today said the success of its Android platform in India would be determined by the accessibility and affordability of the mobile handsets in the country.

Google links price to success of Android-based phones

State run Mahanagar Telephone Nigam (MTNL) has taken to the franchise route to sell its 3G services in Delhi and Mumbai and has floated a global Expression of Interest (EoI) for 3G Services Franchisee.

MTNL takes franchise route to sell 3G services

State-run Bharat Sanchar Nigam's (BSNL) net profit dipped to Rs 104 crore in 2008-09 as staff costs rose and revenues fell in the period, Rajya Sabha was informed today.

BSNL FY09 net dips at Rs 104 cr as wage rises, revenue falls

The networking company Cisco plans to expand its footprint in Orissa. It is in talks with the Orissa government in this regard.

Cisco to expand footprint in Orissa

Google has launched a free voice-based mobile internet search facility in India that has been built entirely by the internet search giant&rsquo;s India engineering team.

Google India launches voice-based internet search on mobiles

The telecom regulator, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai), wants service providers to bear the cost of supporting mobile number portability (MNP), a move which operators say is heavily loaded against them and will benefit MNP operators only.

Trai wants telcos to bear number portability cost

Tata Docomo, the GSM brand of Tata Teleservices Limited (TTSL), launched its commercial operations in Andhra Pradesh on Thursday, a few days after its launch in Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Orissa and Karnataka.

Tata Docomo launches operations in AP

&ldquo;Since the restating of the company&rsquo;s accounts for over five years is a critical process, we requested the CLB ... for extension of time,&rdquo; a top official told Business Standard.

Satyam gets till Mar 31 to restate accounts

The project implementation board of Technopark has approved the master plan for the development of an IT Park at Kollam in Kerala. Following the hub-and-spoke model of the development strategy of the IT department and the Kerala government for the promotion of the IT and ITeS industry, Technopark will develop three hubs, with Kollam being the first of its kind.

Kollam IT park gets nod

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