Aviva, the UK-based insurer may drop plans of absorbing the outsourcing operations from its existing vendors, including WNS Global Services, EXL Services and 24x7 Services, sources who declined to be identified said.

Aviva may not absorb vendors` operations

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MTN extends deadline for RCom talks

Experts say the games' interactive nature may be utilised as a platform for product testing; these also have potent market research capabilities.

Advergaming: The emerging brand recall tool for advertisers

24/7 Customer, the Bangalore-based business process outsourcing (BPO) firm, started operations at a time when the very concept of offshoring jobs was not much known.

'It is really expensive to do BPO business in India'

Bangalore-based JSoft Solutions Ltd, the IT/ITeS captive arm of the Rs 14,700 crore JSW Group, is all set to become a third party service provider.

JSW IT arm to be third party service provider

The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has decided to allocate one block of 3G spectrum in each service area except Delhi and Mumbai to state-owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) at a price equivalent to the highest bid in the respective service areas.

Bidding to decide 3G price for BSNL, MTNL

Yahoo! Inc, amid criticism from billionaire investor Carl Icahn for failing to keep up with Google Inc, is inviting outside developers to tinker with its Internet search software to lure more users.

Yahoo lets outside firms tinker with search engine

Scientists have developed what they claim is a small scratch on a piece of glass, which will make the Internet nearly 60 times faster and give users unlimited, error-free access anywhere in the world.

Scientists develop Internet that is 60 times faster

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Hyderabad-based 7Seas Technologies Limited is planning to acquire a mobile and online gaming company for $1 million (approximately Rs 4 crore) to be funded through internal resources.

7Seas eyes buyout in mobile, online gaming space

WNS (Holdings), a leading provider of BPO services, has bought Aviva Global Services (AGS), the BPO arm of Aviva, the world's fifth largest insurance group, for $228 million (Rs 920 crore).

WNS buys Aviva Global for $228 mn

In what may be called a cluster-twining process, Ahmedabad-based consulting firm Global Network has been assigned the task of bringing Information Technology (IT) clusters of Switzerland and India together.

A`bad firm to help float joint venture between Indo-Swiss IT clusters

HCL Technologies, India's fifth largest IT services firm, may incur forex losses between Rs 280 crore and Rs 320 crore ($65-75 million) for the fourth quarter ended June 30, 2008, owing to a weak rupee that fell 7.3 per cent (end-of-period) in the April-June quarter.

Weaker rupee to hit HCL Tech bottom line up to Rs 320 cr

Swan Telecom, which recently received a licence to operate GSM mobile services in 13 service areas, is negotiating with Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) for a strategic alliance, under which the new operator will utilise the network of the state-owned company to roll out its operations.

Swan Telecom seeks BSNL tie-up for infra

The telecom regulator has suggested simultaneous ascending e-auction method, starting with the online auction of the lowest band, for allocation of broadband and wireless access (BWA) spectrum.

Trai recommends e-auction for broadband spectrum

Apple Inc&#39;s new iPhone 3G drew tens of thousands of buyers in cities from Tokyo to New York yesterday, with software glitches disappointing some shoppers and short supply leaving others camped out last night.

iPhone fans stay camped out

Praveen Kutty, executive vice president and head (consumer banking group) of the Development Credit Bank, has found a stressbuster in the Nintendo Wii.

Battle stations in the boardroom

Bhupendra Kumar Modi is planning to offload 24 per cent stake in Spice Mobiles, his mobile handset business, to global handset manufacturer Sony Ericsson.

B K Modi to sell 24% stake in mobile venture

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&nbsp;The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) will unveil its recommendations on the cable network industry on Monday.

Trai to recommend licence for MSOs

The next time you walk into your trendy branded mobile retail store you might come out buying an MP3 player, a Sony Play Station or even a laptop rather than a mobile phone.

New comp? Hit a mobile store!

The uproar against outsourcing work to Indian IT service providers has risen once again as Nielsen Co, the media company which signed a $1.2-billion outsourcing deal with Indian IT services provider Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) last October and is facing strong criticism for announcing it, would lay off 117 workers this month at its largest global technology centre in Oldsmar, Florida.

TCS-Nielsen outsourcing deal in the eye of a storm

&nbsp;The IT-BPO industry is becoming increasingly alert on fake biodatas. India's largest IT serivces provider, Tata Consultancy Service (TCS), has recently asked close to 20 employees at its Kolkata centre to leave after the company, during the background verification, found that these employees have used fudged resumes to get jobs.

TCS pink slip to techies with fudged CVs

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