When Tej Lalvani was young, he wanted to be a film director. Today he runs the Vitabiotics Group, the largest UK-based nutritional and food supplement company. Between making plans to launch his over-the-counter products in India, Lalvani finds time to mix music at his personal music studio and pine for a wristwatch-controlled Aston Martin DBS convertible.

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Infosys Technologies will delay its visit to campuses for recruitment this year. The software major normally starts the recruitment process during April or May.

Infosys opts out of campus recruitment

Industry body says that the sector will be a net hirer though &lsquo;performance-based&rsquo; separations will continue to take place.

Hiring in IT-BPO to pick up from April: Nasscom

Anticipating a tough year ahead, major Indian companies are planning to trim their IT expenditure or stop additional investments. This is against the conventional wisdom of increasing IT budgets even at times of crisis (due to long-term benefits), with companies now increasing exposure to open source technologies and low-cost infrastructure.

Firms to trim IT expenditure, take refuge in open source

At a time when US President Barack Obama is coming down heavily on outsourcing, global financial firm Moody's has said India will remain a top outsourcing destination.

India to remain among top BPO destinations: Moody's

Press Trust of India

Technology giant IBM is resorting to &quot;scattered layoffs&quot; and the total could be nearly 4,600 employees in North America even though the company has reported surprisingly strong quarterly profits in January, a media report says.

Scattered layoffs in IBM can touch 4,600: report

First-time buyers may opt for cheaper desktops rather than laptops.

Falling rupee spells trouble for domestic hardware segment

MphasiS, the IT and business process outsourcing service provider, has seen some changes in recent years. First, the Bangalore-based company promoted by Jerry Rao was acquired by EDS. Then, HP acquired EDS last year. Despite uncertainties in IT outsourcing, MphasiS, which has now aligned its financial year with HP's accounting year (November to October), has shown satisfactory results. Ganesh Ayyar, its new CEO, and Sushanto Banerjee, CFO (interim), speak to Bibhu Ranjan Mishra on the growth strategy.

'We are building deeper relationships with our existing customers'

India is still lagging behind emerging Asian countries in establishing a successful telecom regulatory environment, according to the latest telecom regulatory environment survey.

&#39;India lacks successful telecom regulatory environment&#39;

The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has selected NYSE-listed Syniverse Technologies as one of the two companies to implement mobile number portability (MNP) services in the country.

Syniverse chosen to provide number portability in India

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has slashed local termination charges by 33 per cent to 20 paise, on the other hand it hiked incoming termination charges by 33 per cent to 40 paise per minute.

UPDATE: Trai cuts mobile termination charges

Hyderabad-based Satyam Computer Services has started a competitive bidding process to select an investor who will acquire a majority (51 per cent) stake in the troubled IT services company. The process will be overseen by either a former Chief Justice of India or an ex-Supreme Court judge.

Satyam details tight process to select majority investor

Satyam founder and chief, B Ramalinga Raju, his brother and former managing director, B Rama Raju, former chief financial officer, Vadlamani Srinivas, and the two Price Waterhouse auditors, S Gopalakrishnan and Srinivas Talluri, may be questioned from 10 am to 5 pm while in custody, in the presence of their lawyers. They would be produced before the court after the interrogation on March 17. All five are currently in judicial custody. Deputy legal adviser of the CBI, Ravindranath Bhalla, said custody of the accused was essential to give a proper perspective to the agency.

As CBI gets Rajus&#39; custody for a week

Global meltdown is set to pull down Karnataka&rsquo;s IT exports by five per cent in the current financial year, but state officials dismiss talk of large-scale layoffs in the sector. &ldquo;We expect four to five per cent fall in exports for the year (2008-09) compared to last year,&rdquo; Karnataka&rsquo;s IT secretary Ashok Kumar C Manoli told PTI here.

State IT exports to fall by 5% in FY &#39;09

CDMA players welcome move, GSM incumbents unhappy.

Regulator  cuts receiving charges between operators

Imagine Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati and Bharatiya Janata Party&rsquo;s prime ministerial candidate L K Advani working out and pumping iron before competing against each other in six disciplines &mdash; swimming, running, 100-metre hurdles, shot put, javelin throw and long jump &mdash; at a &ldquo;national-level Olympics&rdquo;.

Watch Manmohan, Advani, Maya compete at 'Olympics'

Tata Indicom&rsquo;s revenues have surged since its tie-up with Samsung mobiles, currently accounting for 30-40 per cent of the company&rsquo;s sales in Kolkata from the sale of this bundled offer.

Samsung fetches 30-40% revenues for Tata Indicom

Reliance Communications (RCom) has placed a Rs 300-crore bulk order with two Chinese equipment vendors, Huawei Technologies and ZTE Corporation, for around one million (10 lakh) plug-n-play USB modems.

RCom places Rs 300 cr modem order with Huawei, ZTE

Subex,&nbsp;a provider of operations and business support systems, announced today it has signed a reseller agreement with JSC &quot;Company TransTeleKom&quot; (TTK), one of Russia's top three fixed network providers.

Subex signs reseller agreement with Russia's TTK

GE Security, a GE Enterprise Solutions and Wipro Infotech entity today jointly announced the signing of an agreement for coming up with physical security solutions in India.

GE Security, Wipro Infotech ink deal to offer security service

GSM subscriber base in the country grew by 9.2 million (excluding Reliance Telecom) in February 2009. According to the latest data released by Cellular Operators&rsquo; Association of India (COAI) the total GSM subscriber base in the country rose to 277.16 million in February from 267.54 million in January 2009, a growth of about 3.43 per cent during the month.

Feb sees 9.2 mn new mobile users; Bharti leads

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