NYSE-listed technology company Hewlett-Packard (HP) is in talks with an insurance company, which has 500-odd branches across India, to offer its managed print services (MPS), said Sekhar Agarwal, director (managed enterprise solutions), India.

HP in talks with insurance company

Business Standard

Tata Communications Ltd (TCL) has pulled out of the race to buy out London-listed Cable &amp; Wireless Worldwide (CWW), the Indian global telecommunications company said on Wednesday. The reason it cited was failure to agree on a price.

Tata fails to agree on price, pulls out of race for CWW

A Delhi court on Wednesday ordered for serving summons to US-based social networking site Facebook through e-mail to respond to a suit which seeks action against it for allegedly hosting objectionable contents. Administrative Civil Judge Parveen Singh ordered serving of summons to Facebook through e-mail within three days as the internet giant has made no representation to the court and several summons issued against it have gone unserved.

Court to mail summons to Facebook 

Press Trust of India

Online retail player Flipkart may have to brace itself for competition in the area that it is known best for &ndash; books. Snapdeal.com, a &lsquo;daily deals&rsquo; e-commerce company spanning categories like apparels, gizmos, dining, travel and spas, may soon take a call on the media space, that includes books, music and movies. Rival Flipkart began as a books major and then diversified into other areas, digital music being the latest.

Snapdeal eyes rival Flipkart's speciality space of books

For Eveready Industries Ltd, cloud has provided some of the answers, but work needs to be done in the areas of vendor lock-in and data safety.

We will look at moving mission-critical applications to cloud only once there is more clarity on licensing 

Micro-blogging site Twitter has acquired social-media analytics company Hotspots.Io for an undisclosed sum. &quot;We're incredibly excited to announce that Twitter has acquired the Hotspots.Io team,&quot; Hotspots.Io said in a statement. Following the acquisition, Hotspots' staff would join Twitter's revenue engineering team which would focus on developing new analytics tools for the social networking site's advertising and publishing partners.

Twitter acquires Hotspots.Io

The Essar Group&rsquo;s decision to sell its business process outsourcing (BPO) arm, Aegis, may not be as easy as it seems. The reasons could be the pressure on the firm&rsquo;s margins and the much-needed integration of the acquisitions it has done so far. More important, promoters may struggle to get the desired valuation due to the overall pressure the industry is underway. Also, there is the need to be the least priced player in the voice segment.

Selling voice BPOs a difficult proposition

The government&rsquo;s ambitious plan for setting up a business process outsourcing (BPO) centre for RTI filing is in a limbo as the company which won the bid has had no communication since winning the bid. The government was planning to set up a BPO for the process in Bangalore through which the general public could file petitions under the Right to Information Act. The project, which was expected to be launched in June 2011, has not moved a step, said sources.

Karnataka's BPO for RTI in limbo

US-based measurement company Agilent Technologies Inc is betting big on the Indian market with its industry&rsquo;s first LTE-Advanced signal generation and signal analysis solutions, according to Gautam Awasthi, general manager (marketing &ndash; electronic measurement group).

Agilent bets big on LTE-Advanced technology

The department of telecommunications (DoT) has asked the country&rsquo;s external intelligence agency to send to the ministry of home affairs (MHA) its communication citing concerns on certain characteristics of leading Chinese telecommunications equipment and services company.

Huawei issue: RAW asked to consult home ministry 

The first smartphone with an Intel processor was launched on Thursday in India. Intel Corporation and Lava International, a mobile handset manufacturer, on Thursday announced the general availability of the XOLO X900, the first smartphone with Intel inside.

Intel-based smartphone launched in India

US-based chipmaker Qualcomm is in active discussions with telecom operators for launching its broadband wireless access (BWA) or LTE services. The firm is awaiting allotment of BWA spectrum from department of telecommunications after grant of an internet service provider license last month following a delay of over one and half years.

Qualcomm in talks for launching LTE services

Modifications have been made to para 9 of&nbsp; this report. A clarification has also been issued at the end.

Infosys reaches out to employees on wage hike

Microsoft Corp, the world&rsquo;s largest software maker, reported a third-quarter profit that topped estimates on better- than-expected sales of Windows and Office software for businesses.

Microsoft Q3 revenues up 6%

Apple Inc&rsquo;s iPhone 5 is likely to be introduced in October and will feature a new body design and work with faster wireless networks, according to Gene Munster, an analyst at Piper Jaffray Cos who had expected an August release for the top-selling smartphone.

Apple's next iPhone may debut in Oct

Pune-based Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) and the ministry of external affairs, Government of India will provide PARAM technology support and training programmes to India &ndash; Ghana Kofi Annan Centre of Excellence in ICT (AITI-KACE) in Accra for two years. Government of India is offering financial assistance of Rs 3.83 crore for this project. C-DAC made this announcement in Pune on Friday.

C-DAC provides tech support to Ghana

Sistema will take a write-down of nearly $1 billion related to the suspension of its Indian licences, as the Supreme Court has ordered the cancellation of the Russian firm&rsquo;s telecom licences in this country.

Sistema to take $1-bn write-down on India

Infosys&rsquo; continued weak performance has institutional investors worried. In an open letter to the company&rsquo;s CEO &amp; MD S D Shibulal, brokerage firm, CLSA Asia Pacific Markets, voiced the collective dismay of 100 institutional investors seeking to know the company&rsquo;s plans to correct the loss of revenues and earnings before interest and tax.

Investors show 'rare frustration' with Infosys

Two-and-a-half months after the Supreme Court cancelled its 2G licences across 21 circles, Uninor hinted on Friday that a solution to the spectrum impasse was round the corner.

Uninor hints at solution to 2G spectrum row 

GSM telecom operators added 6.87 million subscribers in March, taking the total user base to 664.08 million.

GSM operators add 6.87 mn users in March 2012

Uninor, a telecom company promoted by Telenor of Norway and domestic realty player Unitech, expects to achieve break-even by next year. &quot;I see a possibility of break-even happening during the first half of next year,&rdquo; managing director, Sigve Brekke, said. He said, Uninor's investors would like the company to be profitable within three years of its existence.

To achieve break-even by next year, says Uninor

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