Reliance Communications is in advanced talks to sign a technical alliance with Apalya Technologies to offer mobile television (MobiTV) on its recently launched GSM network.

RCom to expand mobile TV offerings on GSM network

Business Standard

With innovation as the key agenda, the Indian handset industry is coming up with new features to attract users in urban and rural areas.

Not just all 'talk'

70-80 senior leaders at Satyam under lens

Satyam Computer Services today said 8,500 idled employees might be fired in six months, unless business picked up as the Indian software provider reorganised.

8,500 jobs may be axed if work not found: Satyam

The XIV additional chief metropolitan magistrate on Wednesday extended the judicial custody of all those charged in the Satyam fraud till July 8. Satyam founder B Ramalinga Raju, his brother B Rama Raju, former CFO Srinivas Vadlamani, former vice-president G Ramakrishna, former finance manager D Venkatapathi Raju, ex-assistant manager C Srisailam and Price Waterhouse auditors S Gopalakrishnan and Srinivas Talluri were produced before the court.

Raju's judicial custody extended till July 8

Tech Mahindra on Wednesday said it was planning to pay back about Rs 1,000 crore debt, for which it was issuing shares on private placement basis. Yesterday, Tech Mahindra board had approved the issue of 1.36 crore shares by way of private placement or Qualified Institutional Placement (QIP).

Tech M plans to raise Rs 500-1,000 crore

Press Trust of India

Imagine if you could play a first person shooter game, typically very graphic intensive, on your mobile phone without ever having to download or install any software. And what if this computer-intensive game would neither eat up the valuable storage space nor the battery life? You could even watch a movie on your mobile phone while on your way to home and later switch the same movie from exactly where you left off on to a high definition TV.

Games and movies on the cloud

Tata Communications has signed a pact with British Telecommunications (BT) to share resources in voice and IP services space.

Tata Comm in pact with British Telecom

Tata DoCoMo, the GSM brand of Tata Teleservices Limited (TTSL), on Thursday launched its operations in Kerala. This is the second launch in south India after Chennai and Tamil Nadu circles on Wednesday.

Tata DoCoMo to cover south soon

Within days of being named the chief executive officer of Mahindra Satyam (formerly Satyam Computer Services), C P Gurnani has laid down a blueprint to re-energise the company.

Mahindra Satyam CEO asks associates to stay united  and committed

Nandan Nilekani, the author of the book Imagining India, helped conjure the shape of what is now India's second largest IT services provider, Infosys Technologies, which he co-founded with five other tech professionals, including its current chairman, N R Narayana Murthy, in 1981. Now, even as most IT services firms are trying to emerge out of a crippling global financial crisis, Nilekani is stepping down to take up a bigger cause &mdash; heading a government project to provide a unique

'We will miss him but the company will continue to run as usual'

Internet and telecom major Tata Communications has bagged a voice services outsourcing contract from British Telecom (BT), spread over a five-year period. The financial details of the contract were not disclosed.

Tata Comm bags voice outsourcing deal from BT

The imaging and printing division of Hewlett-Packard India (HP) will be focusing on pharma and publishing industry in Gujarat in the near future. The company is also planning to increase its footprint in the state, which accounts for around 17 per cent of HP&rsquo;s business.

HP targets publishing, pharma industry in Gujarat

IT companies have seen their day sales outstandings falling steadily quarter upon quarter by improving their collections and simultaneously focussing on smaller deals where paybacks are faster. Wipro Technologies CFO Manish Dugar tells Ravi Menon that smaller deals are coming in use to gain mindshare and pave the way for the big-ticket contracts.

'IT firms' smaller deals have not gone slow'

City-based Gemini Communication, a wireless networking and Wimax solutions company, has acquired a majority stake in Sanat Technologies.

Gemini acquires 51% in Sanat Tech

Tata Docomo, the GSM brand of Tata Teleservices Limited, has invested Rs 350 crore for its GSM operations in the Orissa circle.

Tata Docomo invests Rs 350 crore in state GSM operations

Ramco Systems, the software products and services provider, is eyeing revenues of Rs 12-15 crore this fiscal, a growth of nearly 100 per cent, on the back of sales bookings for its new enterprise resource planning (ERP) software.

Ramco banks on new software for growth

Employees who are on the bench for at least 60 days in a quarter to be affected.

Wipro to slash variable pay by half

Mahindra Satyam, the rebranded IT services firm (earlier Satyam Computer Services), is set for a major organisational restructuring after the new CEO C P Gurnani took over this week. The new structure, expected to be announced by the company on Monday, aims at introducing more agility in decision making by tightly integrating various verticals, delivery units and sales units within the company, a highly-placed source told Business Standard.

Rejig at Mahindra Satyam likely on Mon

Diptarup Chakraborti, principal research analyst, Gartner, surmises that 80 per cent of the time he wants to be involved with his gadget right from the installation process. Be it installing or tailoring a gadget to suit his preferences, Chakraborti happily embraces do-it-yourself.

Rapid reader

70% of animation studios' revenue comes from outsourced work.

Animation firms buck slowdown, see increase in orders

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