This is against an addition of 11.90 million wireless users in April, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) said in a statement.

Subscriber addition falls, 11.59 mn mobile users added in May

Press Trust of India

Just a week after announcing the Virtual Pool programme (VPP), a one-time initiative aimed at addressing &lsquo;non-billable&rsquo; staff costs while retaining talent within the company on June 11, fraud-hit Satyam Computer has recalled about 400 associates (as they are referred to by the company) to engage them in the new business contracts that it has won.

Satyam recalls 400 associates from Virtual Pool programme

Business Standard

The Indian telecom sector has added 11.44 million connections (both wired and wireless) in May, which is a decline from the number added in April (11.75 million). The data was compiled by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai).

Telecom sector adds 11.44 mn subscribers

Mobile operators are divided on the consensus reached in the government to increase the base price for 3G auctioning to Rs 4,040 crore. Earlier, the base price for auctioning ranged from as low as Rs 1,020 crore to Rs 2,040 crore.

Mobile operators differ on hike in 3G spectrum base price

Mobile operator Bharti Airtel Limited has crossed the 10-million customer mark in Andhra Pradesh, the second circle of the company to have achieved this feat after Karnataka.

Airtel Andhra circle crosses 10mn customer mark

Four Soft Limited, a Hyderabad-based provider of software solutions for transportation and logistics industry, has won a contract from Polar Speed Distribution Limited, which is ranked number one in the UK for flu vaccine distribution.

Four Soft wins contract from UK pharma distribution firm

India&rsquo;s second-largest IT services company Infosys Technologies is not interested in acquiring companies in India as the company is capable of growing organically quite fast.

Infosys Tech not keen on acquisitions in India

Dr MUKESH AGHI, CEO of Steria, believes that gadgets need to be eco-friendly. He takes care to choose only the most energy-efficient gadgets for home and office. His personal favourite is the music system, custom built to his specifications.

Bespoke music

UK-based Xchanging, a Rs 460-crore business process outsourcing (BPO) unit, is set to open a 1,000-seat high-performance processing centre in the Tier-3 town of Shimoga near Bangalore.

Xchanging to set up 1,000-seat BPO near Bangalore

Tech Mahindra, the new owner of the scandal-hit Satyam Computer Services Limited, will be taking major decisions on the latter&rsquo;s businesses on the concluding day of the two-day &lsquo;Leadership Meet&rsquo; on Sunday, a source privy to the development said.

TechM set to announce major decisions in Satyam today

Steve Jobs, Apple Inc&rsquo;s chief executive officer (CEO), had a liver transplant in Tennessee about two months ago, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported on Saturday, without saying where it got the information.

Apple&#39;s Jobs had liver transplant two months ago, WSJ reports

The Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation (MIDC) has signed an agreement with Microsoft Corporation India Pvt Ltd to computerise multiple functions across the organisation. Under the agreement, MIDC will deploy Microsoft&rsquo;s ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) software to streamline processes in the corporation. This step is estimated to reduce about 70-80 per cent of paperwork internally, the benefit of which will boil down to consumers.

MIDC inks pact with Microsoft to deploy its ERP solutions software

Indian IT and IT-enabled services industry is expected to grow at 10.8 per cent in 2009, the lowest in the last five years, due to the global economic meltdown, a report said.

IT/ITeS industry growth may fall to 5-yr low in 2009

A recent KPMG survey highlights the huge potential for banks to grow their market with the rise in mobile phone subscribers in India.

Bad times are good for m-banking

Hiten Turakhia spent his college days in book-shops devouring books. He did not let his passion wither even as he got himself a post graduate degree in Foreign Trade. Instead he translated it into an online book rental venture and his friends Hiten Dedhia, Dhairyasheel Pawar and Shibanaryan Rath, who were equally mad about books, joined him in launching www.librarywala.com.

Click, book and read

The turmoil in the financial market is likely to spell good news for the Indian outsourcing companies, as the downturn will compel multinationals to seek further economies for sustenance in these tough times, Wipro Technologies founder Azim Premji said. In an interview to the Sunday Times, Premji insisted that &quot;the Indian outsourcing giants will benefit from this downturn, as all multinationals seek further economies&quot;.

Indian outsourcing giants to benefit from downturn: Premji

On an acquisition spree, Essar Group's BPO arm Aegis Ltd is looking to acquire a Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) company in Africa. &quot;We are looking to acquire one BPO company in Africa. However, we can't disclose further details now,&quot; Essar Global Chairman Shashi Ruia said. Aegis BPO's Chief Executive Aparup Sengupta had said earlier that the company would like to expand its footprint in South Africa, which is a developing market.

Aegis BPO eyeing African firm

Anil Ambani-controlled Reliance Communications (RCom) has started preliminary talks with China Mobile, the world&rsquo;s largest mobile company, for a strategic alliance and possible equity participation of 5 to 6 per cent.

RCom, China Mobile in tie-up talks

Don&rsquo;t just go ahead and seek means to buy the new Apple iPhone 3Gs. Instead, download the free iPhone 3.0 OS update for your iPhone 3G and spend some time with the new software. Yes, there are some huge jumps in the hardware of iPhone 3Gs when compared with the last year&rsquo;s iPhone 3G, but a software update will fill in plenty of gaps on your iPhone 3G or iPod Touch (the update has been priced at $9.95).

A must-have upgrade

Partly an answer to downturn, political pressure; trend should shift again, say analysts.

IT firms shifting more work to India to cut costs

It&rsquo;s no secret that every top executive and CEO practically sleeps with his mobile phone under the pillows and laptop on the stand-by mode. But for many executives, the geek story has moved well beyond BlackBerries and Push emails.

Corporate geek: What tickles CEOs

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