The year 2009 is likely to be tougher than recent years for smart phones while the mobile industry should keep its faith. Mobile television and services, too, are likely to slow down or even be closed as major sporting events, which can be a catalyst for the adoption of new media formats, largely failed to launch mobile television.

Deloitte report depicts tough time for telecom

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Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft Corporation, which recently launched its own search platform today described its competition with Google as &quot;fun competition&quot;.

Gates terms competition with Google "fun"

Press Trust of India

Bill Gates, co-founder of global software giant Microsoft, today expressed a keen interest for becoming a partner in India&rsquo;s unique ID programme. Speaking at &lsquo;Transforming India through technology&rsquo;, an event organised by software body Nasscom, Gates said he planned to take the issue forward when he met Nandan Nilekani, the newly-appointed chairperson of the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI).

Bill ready to open gates for UID

Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) sleuths, led by its director Ashwini Kumar, met senior officials of fraud-hit Satyam Computer Services, now rebranded as Mahindra Satyam, at its headquarters here on Friday.

CBI chief calls on senior officials at Satyam

The digital media industry will grow over 80% Y-o-Y as the base is quite small.

Ad agencies tie up with online cos to cash in on digital media growth

Facebook lovers, here is another survey showing how employee productivity is robbed at workplaces. So, put a limit on its usage before employers and the bosses put a stop to its usage at work.

Use of Facebook cuts productivity: Study

Satyam Computer Services Limited founder B Ramalinga Raju got a temporary reprieve on Tuesday as his petition against the CBI conducting lie detector test (polygraph test) and brain mapping (F300 testing) on him and two others was referred to a division bench of the AP high court. On July 9, the XIV additional chief metropolitan magistrate allowed the CBI to conduct the forensic tests but the high court stayed the order admitting Raju's petition.

Satyam case referred to division bench

Will pay $1.13 bn for insolvent co&rsquo;s wireless equipment division.

Ericsson to buy Nortel unit

All-in-one PCs are basically desktop computers that have their central processing unit (CPU) integrated in the monitor. Result: they look much sleeker and have a lot less wires dangling from them.

Computing goes sleeker

While searching for unique websites, we chanced upon www.tips4me.com, a portal best described as the web version of &lsquo;daadi ma ke nuske (grandma&rsquo;s tips)&rsquo;.

Online panacea

Microsoft&rsquo;s latest attempt in search engine, Bing has broken into the top-20 websites within a month of its launch. According to a web information company, Alexa, Google dominates the charts but Bing is already at 19th position with about 5 per cent of users from India accessing internet to visit Bing. ViziSense, another online traffic measurement and metric tool, tells us that since the launch of Bing in India, the traffic on Microsoft sites has gone up.

Bing-o! MS search engine among top-20

Half of new mobile subscribers are coming from rural areas.

Bharat strategy paying off for telecom companies

One lesson the government should learn from the Air India-Indian Airlines merger fiasco is that combining two sick people ends up making them sicker. Sure, merging BSNL and MTNL, as has been suggested by BSNL chief Kuldeep Goyal, will increase their turnover to more than that of market leader Bharti &mdash; this suggests advantages in costs/marketing.

Sunil Jain: Don't dial this merger

Reduction in mega deals in Europe; demand for IT outsourcing remains stable: Study.

Global IT contracts  dip 22% in H1

India&rsquo;s largest business process outsourcing (BPO) firm, Genpact, plans to bid for the union government&rsquo;s Unique Identity (UID) project and is likely to enter a tie-up with IT players who can work on the hardware aspect.

Genpact to bid for UID project

SNSs have proved to be a great medium for companies to engage users.

Social networking sites lead in redefining entertainment

Over half of Indian small and medium entreprises surveyed expect their information technology budgets to increase in 2009, said a global study released by IBM.

Over 50% Indian SMEs expect to increase IT budgets for 2009: IBM

The first meeting of the Empowered Group of Ministers (EGoM) constituted to take a decision on the pricing of spectrum for third-generation telecom services has got postponed, making the wait for 3G services in the country even longer.

First EGoM on 3G spectrum gets deferred

Wipro Technologies, the global IT services business of Wipro, has entered into a five-year agreement to provide IT data centre and applications management services for BJ&rsquo;s Wholesale Club, Inc., membership warehouse club headquartered in Massachusetts, US. The company, however, did not divulge the size of the contract.

Wipro bags 5-year contract from BJ's Wholesale Club

Bangalore-based hospitality software solutions firm IDS Softwares Private Limited is targeting government tourism projects to boost growth.

IDS Softwares eyes govt tourism projects

US-based Intelligroup Inc, a provider of strategic IT consulting, application management, support and implementation services with its global delivery centres in Hyderabad and Bangalore, is pursuing acquisitions in the US and India, which have the right set of competencies in the business intelligence (BI), infrastructure management and testing space.

Intelligroup eyes buyouts in US, India for $18mn

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