Apple Inc  asked a U.S. judge on Thursday to punish Samsung Electronics Co Ltd for a Samsung attorney's conduct by ordering that the South Korean company has infringed Apple's phone design patents, according to a court filing.

Apple seeks severe punishment for Samsung lawyer's actions

Reuters 

Private equity player Bain Capital Partners on Thursday agreed to buy 30 per cent stake in Genpact for $1 billion, valuing India&rsquo;s largest business process outsourcing and technology company at $3.29 billion (Rs 18,095 crore). The sale price of $14.76 a share for 68 million common shares is a 14 per cent discount to Genpact&rsquo;s share price of $17.15 as of August 1 on the New York Stock Exchange.

Bain acquires 30% stake in Genpact for $1 bn

Business Standard

Genpact, the business process management and technology services company, reported its second quarter results with a net income at $61.1 million, up 56.6 per cent from the $39 mn in the corresponding quarter last year.

Genpact Q2 net up 57%

Get ready for &ldquo;rubberbanding.&rdquo; That&rsquo;s the way the screen on an iPad or iPhone seems to bounce when you scroll to the bottom of a file &mdash; and it&rsquo;s among the terms jurors must understand as Apple Inc and Samsung Electronics Co face off in a patent trial this week.

Apple vs Samsung: Can look and feel be patented?

Rajesh Subramaniam, the managing director and chief executive officer of the Mumbai-based business process outsourcing company Firstsource Solutions Ltd, is confident that the company is back on the growth track.

Firstsource lenders commit funds to reduce FCCB gap

Now you can download a new service that will automatically replace all the baby photos on your Facebook feed with pictures of something more palatable- like cats or album covers, Los Angeles Times reported.

Now, an app that blocks out baby pictures on Facebook!

Press Trust of India

Just when we thought that web mail services were all about Google&rsquo;s Gmail and Yahoo, Microsoft redesigned its ageing Hotmail.com as Outlook.com, considered the biggest improvement in its email service in eight years.

Microsoft's changing outlook on email

The National Association of Software and Services Companies (Nasscom), along with business process outsourcing (BPO) entities, has planned to come out with a standardised framework for on getting and regularly upgrading the right type of personnel and delivery skills.

Nasscom works on standardising the human core in BPO firms

Exactly a year after it changed the pecking order of the offshore-centric IT services companies in India by overtaking Wipro, Cognizant Technology Solutions has done it again. In the quarter ended June 30, the Nasdaq-listed company has overtaken India&rsquo;s second largest IT services company, Infosys, by a comfortable margin of $43 million.

Cognizant overtakes Infy in June quarter revenues

Burdened with high costs and declining margins on account of offering goodies such as free shipping, e-commerce entities are increasingly betting on high-margin apparel segment to bail them out.

E-commerce sites turn to apparel

Worldwide spending for information technology outsourcing (ITO) services is expected to grow 2.1 per cent in 2012 to reach $251.7 billion, said a recent study by Gartner, the IT research and advisory company.

IT outsourcing to grow 2.1% globally in 2012, says Gartner 

Ever since Dell acquired Perot Systems, the US-headquartered company is going full stream in building up its IT services delivery capabilities. In a discussion with Bibhu Ranjan Mishra, Dell India chairman Suresh Vaswani who is also the Executive VP and Global Head for Applications &amp; BPO for Dell Services tells why the roadblocks like global recession and cut in discretionary spending won&rsquo;t make much impact on the company&rsquo;s services business.

We won't buy an Indian IT firm just for aggregation: Suresh Vaswani

With US and European markets facing major slowdown, Ahmedabad-based global sourcing and IT service provider, Gateway TechnoLabs is looking to tap the non-English speaking regions worldwide.

Gateway to tap new regions for IT exports

Recent statements by US regulatory authorities on the captive centres of global banking players HSBC and Standard Chartered would not affect the $70-billion Indian information technology (IT)/business process outsourcing (BPO) services industry, say experts. They add these were isolated issues that involved only the captive arms of the companies under the scanner.

'HSBC, StanChart cases won't hit industry'

Google's Internet search engine is getting more personal. The search engine giant will now highlight information drawn from its users' Gmail accounts on its main results page.

Google to include people's Gmail in search results

A few days ago, US-based Cognizant overtook Infosys to become the second-largest information technology (IT) company in India, an important milestone that saw the baton being passed from an iconic pioneer in the Indian technology space to a future contender.

Newsmaker: Francisco D'Souza

Information technology (IT) hardware and system integration company HCL Infosystems has bagged the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI)&rsquo;s managed service provider contract, one of the largest IT outsourcing contracts in the domestic market.

HCL Infosystems clinches Rs 2,200-cr UIDAI contract

Since Dell acquired Perot Systems, it is ramping up its information technology (IT) services delivery capabilities. Dell India Chairman Suresh Vaswani, also the executive vice-president and global head for applications and business process outsourcing (BPO) for Dell Services, in an interview with Bibhu Ranjan Mishra, says why roadblocks like the global slowdown and a cut in discretionary spending won&rsquo;t affect the company&rsquo;s services business much.

We won't acquire an Indian IT firm just for aggregation: Suresh Vaswani

A few days ago, US-based Cognizant overtook Infosys to become the second-largest IT company in India, an important milestone that saw the baton being passed from an iconic pioneer in the Indian technology space to a future contender.

The 'Kid' reinvents Cognizant-and himself

CA Technologies, a Nasdaq-listed IT management software and solutions company, will be launching Single Sign-On, a solution that provides users with automated access to all necessary applications through a single, secured log-in, towards the end of the current calendar year, according to Michael Denning, general manager (security, customer solutions group).

CA Tech to launch Single Sign-On solution by year-end

It looks like both Microsoft and Apple want to introduce tablet-like features for their desktop users. The OS X Mountain Lion brings more than 200 innovative new features to Apple iMac and Macbook users, in what seems to be a step closer to bridging the iOS-OSX gap. Windows 8 users will see a more Windows Phone 7-like Metro tiled home screen. Simply, the desktop operating systems (OSes) are giving a serious thought to figure out how to move into the post-desktop PC era.

Tablet treatment for the desktop

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