Apple Inc won sanctions against Samsung Electronics Co for its failure to produce source code in a patent-infringement case in federal court in San Jose, California. US Magistrate Judge Paul S. Grewal wrote in his order that Samsung &ldquo;plainly violated&rdquo; a court order requiring it to turn over code to Apple, and ruled that Samsung won&rsquo;t be able to offer evidence in the case about its efforts to &ldquo;design- around&rdquo; three patents at issue in the case. In its lawsuit, Apple claims that Samsung&rsquo;s 4G smartphone and Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet computer infringe its patents.

Apple wins patent infringement case against Samsung

Business Standard

The SlideShare engine, which helps users upload presentations online and embed these on blog, websites, intranets and social media, was mostly developed by the company&rsquo;s Indian developers. The company that was recently acquired by online professional networking company LinkedIn for a handsome $119 million (about Rs 640 crore) has majority of its developers and designers in New Delhi.

SlideShare success an inspiration for Indian developers

Delayed decisions by clients and project ramp-ups have returned to haunt the Indian outsourcing industry, with leading business process outsourcing firm ExlService Holdings saying its new clients were taking longer to finalise projects. In an interview with Piyali Mandal, EXLService Vice-Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Rohit Kapoor said the company might lower its annual guidance if such a situation persists.

We are seeing delays in project starts: Rohit Kapoor

Yahoo! Inc is under pressure from Third Point LLC, one of its largest investors, to dismiss Chief Executive Officer Scott Thompson for failing to correct false academic information on his biography.

Board to review CEO credentials 

Infosys, the country&rsquo;s second largest information technology services company, has strengthened the Whistleblower Policy it instituted in 2003, to enable any staffer to complain to the management about wrongdoing in or by company officials.

Infosys stiffens whistleblower policy

It just had to happen. With the mobile phone customer base growing rapidly, it was a matter of time before M2M or machine to machine communication started taking giant strides to become an integral part of the digital world. M2M, in simple words, means combining technologies that allow both wireless and wired systems to communicate with other devices of the same ability. M2M depends heavily on cellular technology and Indian companies are primed to cash in on its popularity.

The next step in communication

EBay Inc and Walmart Stores Inc are developing Web search engines to better compete against Amazon.com Inc in the fast-growing e-commerce market.

EBay, Walmart to develop search engines in web marketing push

Reuters 

Apple wins ruling, sanctions in Samsung suit

HomeShop18, a leading e-retailer, is in the process of building an intelligence team responsible for slicing and dicing consumer data, says founder and chief executive officer Sundeep Malhotra.

The importance of who bought and why

The performance of India&rsquo;s top four IT services companies in the just-ended quarter and fiscal has made one thing quite clear&mdash;that growth, or a drop in growth, is now more a company-specific phenomenon, rather than something that captures the health of the entire industry.

A report card for India's top four IT players

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has been named as the world&rsquo;s fourth most valuable information technology (IT) services brand by leading global brand valuation company Brand Finance. The top three most-valued IT services brands are IBM, HP and Accenture.

TCS is fourth most-valued IT services brand globally

Almost a year after it completed the acquisition of Patni Computer Systems, information technology services company iGATE Corporation on Monday said it had removed &lsquo;Patni, from its brand name. The Nasdaq-listed company said its new go-to-market brand would be known as iGate.

iGATE removes Patni from brand name

Press Trust of India

Information technology services company Cognizant Technology Solutions on Monday met its revenue guidance given for the quarter ended March 30 and projected its April-June revenues to cross those of Infosys, something long anticipated in industry circles.

Cognizant sounds alarm, lowers its revenue guidance on 'slow demand'

Even as Infosys, the poster boy of Indian information technology services, maintains it will review later this year on whether to raise pay, quite a few of its staffers have begun to look for greener pastures.

More Infosys staffers get fidgety

In 2009, Samsung had 11% share of the Indian mobile handset space. Today, that market share stands at 34%, a jump of almost 210%. Also, the South Korean mobile handset manufacturer now boasts of 43% market share in the Indian smartphone market.

Samsung, eyes 60% of smartphone segment in India

Norway&rsquo;s Telenor distanced itself further from the Indian market on Tuesday, excluding the country from its 2012 forecasts for the first time after licencing problems there led to massive writedowns that weighed on its quarterly results.

Telenor gives new guidance minus India signals exit

The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) on Tuesday allotted broadband wireless access (BWA) spectrum to US telecom giant Qualcomm Inc but with its validity reduced from 20 to 18.5 years. The DoT also made the roll-out obligation tougher by reducing it from five years to three and a half.

Qualcomm gets spectrum with reduced validity

Red Hat, an open source software provider, announced the expansion and launch of its engineering centres of excellence in Pune and Bangalore for an undisclosed investment. With the expansion in India, Red Hat said it hopes to incubate, sustain and support, local talent and maintain high quality of contributions to the open source community locally and internationally.

Red Hat opens new centres

State-owned Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited (MTNL), which provides telecom services in Delhi and Mumbai regions, will offer voluntary retirement scheme (VRS) to about 20,000 employees, as part of its efforts to turn profitable.

MTNL to offer VRS to 20,000 employees seeks refunds for BWA licence

India&rsquo;s second-largest IT services company, Infosys, on Wednesday said it was planning to offer an apprenticeship programme with the National Apprenticeship Scheme (NAS) in the United Kingdom (UK). Through this programme, the company will provide apprenticeship in fields like marketing, human resources, among others, Infosys said in a release.

Infosys to offer training programme in UK

US telecom giant Qualcomm Inc will rope in an operator as partner, who would initially pick up the 26 per cent stake held by Tulip Telecom and GTL Group in its India broadband wireless access (BWA) venture. The two hold 13 per cent each in the venture.

Bharti may buy 26% in Qualcomm venture, get a leg-up in BWA space

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