Major investment plans for a fabrication facility put off due to the slowdown.

Dreams of Indian fabs fading away

Business Standard

There is a snowballing chorus across various stake holders in Bangalore city that there should be an effective disaster management programme and it should be backed by robust communication tools and technology.

'Public agencies should adopt interoperability'

The term business process outsourcing (BPO) is rapidly becoming obsolete. The phenomenon we are witnessing is that India is driving the globalisation of business services&rsquo; industries, similar in size, scale and impact to the globalisation of many other industries such as manufacturing, electronics, etc.

More than just BPO

Valentine&rsquo;s day passed by peacefully for young lovers. However, the online world was far from peaceful. The day was used by spammers to launch a spam attack on gullible users. Valentine&rsquo;s day mails with erotic subject lines did the rounds.

Will u be my Spamentine?

In an effort to slash hiring and increase efficiency, Wipro Technologies, one of the leading IT companies in the country, is training its employees to turn into a multi-skilled workforce.

Wipro eyes multi-skilled workforce

Close on the heels of the Satyam Computer Services (SCS) fraud, the Orissa government plans to introduce a new manual for corporate governance of the state- owned public sector undertakings (PSUs).

New corporate governance manual for state PSUs

Internet users in the country may be growing&nbsp;substantially, but when it comes to networking online, India has been placed among the nations with least exposure to social networking sites in the Asia-Pacific region.

Indians lag behind in online social networking

Press Trust of India

The information technology spending budgets by companies in India for calender year 2009 will fall sharply to 5.52 per cent from 13 per cent reported in 2008, according to a study by research firm Gartner.

IT spending budgets to fall by 7% in 2009: Study

The telecom watchdog Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) is presently evaluating stakeholders' response on the issue of need for cross-media ownership, a senior official said.

Trai studying stakeholder views on cross-media ownership

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), the country&rsquo;s largest IT services provider, is working on five requests for proposals (RFPs) for e-commerce deals worth $75-100 million (around Rs 350-500 crore). This is despite the fact that the retail segment has been under pressure globally.

TCS works on big e-commerce deals

An average Indian visitor to these social networking websites spent about 110 minutes in December 2008 (at work or home) against 277 minutes spent by a visitor in South Korea, according to a study on Indian social networking websites released by US-based marketing research firm comScore Inc.

Indians remain shy online social networkers

Nasdaq-listed network infrastructure supplier 3Com Corporation has appointed Inspira Enterprise India as the exclusive distributor for all its networking products and solutions in India. Inspira is an IT services and solutions provider and will be responsible for all of 3Com&rsquo;s sales, marketing, distribution and servicing activities in the country.

3Com appoints Inspira as sole distributor

The downturn, which has made its impact on the IT industry too, has not deterred the Karnataka government from venturing into a new IT Park in Mysore.

Foundation stone laid for Mysore IT Park

Handset giant Nokia plans to provide subscription-based music service, that will be offered under its yet-to-be launched Ovi Store to its users in India this year. Ovi is Nokia's online application portal, where users can download applications like music, gaming, maps and other multimedia services.

Nokia to start subscription-based music service

IBM Global Services, business and technology services provider has emerged as the largest vendor in the IT Services market in India with a market share of 10.8 per cent, according to a research report.

IBM now largest IT services vendor in India

Reliance Globalcom, the international arm of telecom and Internet arm of Reliance Communications, has bagged a multi-year contract from British optical retailer Specsavers for its enterprise solution.

R-Globalcom gets order from Australian firm

The violation of the terms and conditions of the telecom licenses held by private mobile operators may have caused the government exchequer a loss of Rs 2,500 crore says&nbsp;&nbsp; Ramesh Dube, a Lok Sabha MP who has shot off a letter to the Prime Minister in this regard. Dube is&nbsp; also a member of the Standing Committee on Information Technology.

DoT suffers Rs 2,500 cr loss due to pvt operators

GSM service provider Bharti Airtel has hiked its stake in Bharti Hexacom, the operator of GSM services in Rajasthan, to 70 per cent by acquiring 1.11 per cent from a Kuwaiti firm. However, the financial details of the acquisitions were not disclosed.

Bharti Airtel hikes stake in Bharti Hexacom to 70%

Reliance Globalcom, the international arm of Reliance Communications, has bagged a multi-year contract from British optical retailer Specsavers for its enterprise solution.

R-Globalcom bags  order from UK firm

IBM the largest vendor in Indian IT services mkt

Wipro today said it has employed 30 cost-cutting measures, especially in the area of operational efficiency, to tackle the current downturn.

Wipro goes for cost-cutting measures

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