Global IT major Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) is understood to have shelved plans to increase its headcount in Australia to around 2,000 by the end of this year. The reason: The ongoing financial crisis.

TCS drops plan to raise headcount in Australia

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Netbooks, or low-cost laptops, could boost the penetration of personal computers (PCs &mdash; both desktops and laptops). Over the next three to five years, according to a Credit Suisse report, these cheap laptops and netbooks could add 170-250 million units globally to the current figure of around 300 million units.

Netbooks help boost PC sales

Amul, non-government organisations reach out to buyers through the virtual world, which is free.

Consumer-oriented firms get a Second Life

Come general elections and the cyber space starts buzzing with election news. So, can cybercrime be far behind? Spams, viruses and thefts are nothing new. The kind of spam mails visible around election times are those encouraging voters to view websites of various electoral candidates, sending party manifestos, requesting for votes and party propaganda mails.

It's time to vote, say spammers

Bharti Airtel, the largest mobile operator in the country, posted slightly better than expected results showing a 21 per cent increase in net profit in the quarter ended March 31, 2009, at Rs 2239.3 crore.

Bharti exploits free cash for first dividend

Hewlett-Packard (HP) has launched its pilot healthcare initiative, the &lsquo;Sankya Learning Laboratory&rsquo;, in association with Rotary International, for empowering anganwadi workers in Karnataka. The Sankya laboratory is part of the Sankya Plus programme and has been set up in association with Sumangali Seva Ashram in RT Nagar area of Bangalore. Sumangali Seva Ashram works with 147 anganwadi workers in 35 centres across Karnataka.

HP launches digital pilot for anganwadi workers

The Essar group&rsquo;s telecom retailing company, The MobileStore, is close to launching its private label, &lsquo;Ray&rsquo;, with an initial portfolio of four handsets. The company, sourcing handsets from Chinese vendors, is looking at rolling out at least 40 models by the end of the current financial year.

The MobileStore to launch own label

Tata Communications, a leading provider of a new world of communications, has announced that it has been positioned by industry analyst firm Gartner in the challengers quadrant of its &quot;Magic Quadrant for Managed Security Service Providers (MSSP) in North America&quot; report. The Magic Quadrant evaluates MSSPs such as Tata Communications on completeness of vision and ability to execute, and uses selection criteria based on service and product capabilities and other factors.

Tata Comm included in Gartner's Magic Quadrant

Telecom major Bharti Airtel today signed a five-year managed services deal valued at&nbsp;$500 million with Alcatel Lucent for its fixed-line and broadband operations.

Bharti, Alcatel in $500 mn deal for network mgt

Press Trust of India

Polaris Retail Infotech Ltd, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Polaris&nbsp;Software, today said it has partnered with computer major IBM to launch software solutions&nbsp;package targeted at an estimated Rs 28,000 crore retail industry in the country.&nbsp;The solution package developed by PRIL is based on the software platform of IBM.

Polaris, IBM launch software solution for retail industry

Internet search engine giant Google has emerged as the world's number one brand and is also the first one to touch the $100 billion-mark, despite the tough economic environment.

Google world's top brand; first to hit $100-bn

This could be the way to retain the entrepreneurial spirit of the IT industry.

Shiv Nadar: Looking inwards for growth

Indian IT-BPO firms have stepped up investments by around 30-70 per cent on training and education of employees despite the economic slowdown.

IT-BPO firms step up training spend

State-owned telecom operator Bharat Sanchar Nigam (BSNL) today commercially launched its third generation (3G) mobile services simultaneously from 11 cities, namely, Agra, Ambala, Jalandhar, Jaipur, Dehradun, Shimla, Lucknow, Ranchi, Durgapur, Haldia, Patna and soft launch in Jammu.

BSNL launches 3G in 11 cities

For Ahmedabad-based Net4Nuts, a mobile value-added service provider founded by CHIRAG PATEL, troubleshooting gadgets is a de-stressing activity. From taking his gadgets apart to putting them back together, Patel believes that every geek should be able to do this.

Assembly lion

The government has mandated a Jaipur-based accounting firm to conduct the special audit of the accounts of Anil Ambani-promoted telecom firms for alleged evasion of licence fee, in three months of starting work.

DoT appoints firm for special audit of RCom

MCX Stock Exchange has launched its 7th regional website in Telugu (http://telugu.mcx-sx.com). The website has a currency futures price ticker, real-time rendering of charts, online charts and membership-related data. Currently, there are over 500 members. It would also offer information updates on price movements, volumes transacted, and contract details.

MCX SX launches Telugu website

Infosys Technologies, India&rsquo;s second largest IT exporter, is planning to acquire &lsquo;strategic assets&rsquo; overseas. However, it does not intend to go in for big bang acquisitions like Axon &mdash; the bid for which fell through owing to a competing bid by another Indian IT outsourcing services provider HCL Technologies.

Infy looks for acquisition in utilities, healthcare

Technology giant Hewlett-Packard&rsquo;s move to slash employee compensation and benefits across geographies in lieu of job cuts will not affect an estimated 3,000-plus employees of the erstwhile Electronic Data Systems Corp (EDS) who were moved to EDS subsidiary MphasiS after the former was acquired and merged with HP last year. However, a good number of former EDS India employees who were transferred to HP India will not be so lucky, industry sources said.

HP paycuts not to affect most ex-EDS staff

Stating that there is a slow down in recruitment, software major Infosys today said all 18,000 students selected from various engineering colleges across the country would join it in July this year.

'All 18,000 selected students to join Infy by July'

Tata Communications, a Tata Group company marked its entry into UAE&nbsp;by launching a range of dedicated Ethernet services in association&nbsp;with leading telecommunication service provider of UAE, Etisalat.

Tata Comm launches Ethernet services in UAE

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