Less than four months after announcing plans to slash 5,000 jobs, software giant Microsoft has warned of more job cuts depending on the impact of the economic slowdown.

More job cuts may follow 5,000 layoffs at Microsoft

Press Trust of India

Undaunted by US President Barack Obama's Bangalore-Buffalo remark, the domestic IT industry today said the comments had nothing to do with outsourcing or with India.

Obama's statement has nothing to do with outsourcing: Nasscom

Look at regular reports from the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) and the message is clear: India&rsquo;s mobile phone firms are providing pretty lousy service to their customers. That&rsquo;s also a perception you get from talking to customers &mdash; who doesn&rsquo;t have his/her call-drop stories? While the established telcos deny their service is that bad, or blame it on the lack of spectrum, the question is whether the service is bad enough to get subscribers to leave.

Sunil Jain: Telecom nirvana

Business Standard

Despite regulatory hurdles and spectrum issues, the world of television or TV on mobiles is making a promising start in India with players like UTV and National Geographic channel joining the increasing number of players like Reliance Communications, MTNL and BSNL.

Mobile TV: A good show

The move offers a return on investment in six months to a year.

Gaming firms take to retail

Removable drives like thumb drives, universal serial bus (USBs) and pen drives are the new home of malware in India with infected drives spreading around 39 per cent of the total web threats in the country. These infected drives are used to steal data and leak confidential information. In the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region, this number stands at 31 per cent while the worldwide, it is in single digits, says Internet content security firm Trend Micro.

Removable drives, the new home of malware in India

As 'Little Krishna', the upcoming animated TV serial gets ready to make an international appearance after the successful animated Indian characters of &lsquo;Bal Ganesha&rsquo; and &lsquo;Hanuman&rsquo;, the next treat for kids would be an animated series on popular comic &lsquo;Chandamama&rsquo;. Anil Ambani&rsquo;s Big Animation Pvt Ltd has recently bought rights from publishers of &lsquo;Chandamama&rsquo; to produce an animated TV series over next two to three years.

Chandamama to hit TV screens

The web is running out of addresses. Internet Protocol version 4 or IPv4 is the existing protocol that is used for Internet addresses. However, according to Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) &mdash; the body allocating IP addresses &mdash; there were only 4.3 billion IPv4 addresses of which, 68 per cent have been already allocated and 13 per cent are unavailable due to technical issues.

Indian firms may fall short of web addresses by 2011

MNP Interconnection Telecom Solutions India, a joint venture company of Telcordia Technologies, Inc will invest up to $10 million to build infrastructure for implementation of number portability services in India. The company also expects close to 10 per cent growth in its India business now that the market for number portability services has opened up.

MNP to invest $10 mn

It&rsquo;s a leading global manufacturer of personal computers (PCs). However, given falling PC sales, Hewlett-Packard (HP), which gets over $3 billion in sales from its India subsidiary, plans to sharpen focus on making mobiles, and not PCs, the centre of computing.

HP to make mobiles 'central to computing'

After growing at a CAGR of over 30 per cent for the last five years, the Indian IT industry is expected to witness a single-digit growth in the export of software and services in this fiscal (2009-10) due to the impact of global recession. Industry body Nasscom which is expected to come out with a detailed estimate in June this year, said the economic slowdown as well as the lower technology spending in key geographies like the US and Europe is expected to affect the growth.

IT exports to grow in single digit in FY '10: Nasscom

Karnataka chief minister B S Yeddyurappa today said he would soon convene a meeting with the captains of software industry to discuss the impact of US President Barack Obama&rsquo;s new proposals to end tax incentives for American companies that had shipped jobs overseas like Bangalore, on the Indian IT industry.

CM to hold talks with IT industry

Hewlett-Packard has come out with a virtual storage bundle that features HP StorageWorks along with LeftHand Networks&rsquo; P4000 SAN solutions to cost-effectively deploy, replicate, and manage data across shared storage resources.

HP announces virtual storage solutions

US President Barack Obama&rsquo;s proposals to amend the US tax structure since it allegedly encourages creation of &ldquo;...a job in Bangalore, India, (rather) than create one in Buffalo, New York&rdquo;, has made the IT sector in India edgy. In Bangalore to attend an event of Nasscom, the industry association, its Chairman, Pramod Bhasin, and President, Som Mittal, explain their stance in a chat with Bibhu Ranjan Mishra.

'It should have been Shanghai, not Bangalore'

The investigation arm of the Monopolies and Restrictive Trade Practices Commission (MRTPC), the country&rsquo;s anti-trust body, has launched a probe against 10 cellular service providers, including state-owned ones, for allegedly charging customers for short messages (SMSes) that are not delivered.

Failed messages ring the alarm bell at MRTPC

The Indian Premier League (IPL) fever seems to have spread across borders, as more and more people from non-cricket playing nations like the US and Germany are buying merchandise of the franchise teams online.

IPL merchandise attracts buyers worldwide

Accusing the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government of indulging in corruption during &ldquo;its last days in office&rdquo;, the Opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) today demanded Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to sack Union Communications Minister A Raja for allegedly helping his friend get franchise of state-run BSNL&rsquo;s new high-speed internet service.

BJP demands removal of telecom minister

The decks have been cleared for the appointment of TDSAT member JS Sarma as the new chairman of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai).

TDSAT member to be new Trai chairman

State-run Bharat Sanchar Nigam (BSNL) is looking for tie-ups with big retail chains in the country to sell its products and services under an aggressive marketing strategy.

BSNL to tie up with retail chains

Technology and manufacturing firm Honeywell International today unveiled its research, development and engineering facility with an investment of $50 million here.

Honeywell unveils R&D facility in Bangalore

As the real estate market has started showing signs of stability, several IT and telecom companies have already started actively looking at space in the city, especially in Rajarhat and Salt Lake Sector V areas, for setting up operations.

IT companies look for commercial space

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