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

Press Trust of India

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

Business Standard

The country&rsquo;s top three mobile players &mdash; Bharti Airtel, Vodafone and Idea Cellular &mdash; have together accounted for 80.8 per cent of the 6.88 million net additions to the GSM subscriber base in March.

Top three players consolidate position in telecom market

Infosys Technologies is yet to take a decision about the quantum of variable pay it is planning to give to its employees for the fourth quarter of FY12, Nandita Gurjar, senior vice-president and group head (human resource), told Business Standard today.

'No decision on variable pay yet'

Infosys, already fighting a legal battle in the US for alleged violation of B-1 visa norms, may be heading for another trouble in that country.

US homeland security department reviews Infy's employer eligibility

The convention centre at Infosys&rsquo;s Electronic City centre on the city outskirts was packed on Friday afternoon. Almost every employee in the campus wanted to hear from S D Shibulal, the CEO &amp; MD of Infosys who convened an &lsquo;open house&rsquo;, the first after the company announced it is putting a freeze on wages following a quarter where it missed its revenue guidance.

Open house with CEO disenchanting: Infy staff

Faster Internet accessibility and ability to use more applications are the main reasons that drive people to buy smartphones, a report by Ericsson Consumerlab said.

Faster web, applications drive smartphone purchases

Imagine a scenario where you are browsing through a recipe are also able to buy all the ingredients for the dish at a tab of your figure.

Tesco's e-tail rollout has India as its innovation hub

The new iPad lands in stores on April 27, and all those who haven&rsquo;t got an iPad or a tablet PC yet, but are considering to buy the device, could go and try the third-generation model that goes on sale on Friday. Like every other Apple device, the new iPad is anything but cheap.

All about Apple's new iPad

Little Eric does not have to peer into comic books to read the adventures of his hero-Nagraj. He can now lean back and let the comic play itself with sounds and dialogues&mdash;on his mobile phone.

POW! Talking comics are here   

European consulting major Capgemini is bracing for a major play in the domestic information technology services market in India. The French company, which reported $13.5 billion in revenues in 2011, is pitching for transformational projects in India, backed by its consulting capabilities that have been Capgemini&rsquo;s forte globally, according to Salil Parekh, a top executive.

Capgemini eyes IT services mkt

Around 60 per cent of Indian companies have planned an increase in capital spending on information technology during the current year, according to an industry study conducted by Ernst &amp; Young India and CIO Klub.

60% companies plan to increase spend on IT

Audio technology company Dolby Laboratories has always set the benchmark as far as cinema sound is concerned. Now it wants to kick off a similar experience across television, tablets and mobile phones. Ramzi Haidamus, Global Head, Dolby Laboratories, spoke to Varada Bhat on the company&rsquo;s delivery strategy and growth in the Indian market.

India has been a part of the Dolby fabric: Ramzi Haidamus

Microsoft Inc should sell its Bing search business to Facebook Inc, a deal worth about $5 billion that would help both companies compete with Google Inc, said Rick Sherlund, an analyst at Nomura Equity Research.

Microsoft should sell Bing unit to Facebook: Nomura

Pune based mid-cap IT firm Persistent Systems has reported revenue of Rs 1000.31 crore for the year ended March 2012, as compare to Rs 775.8 crore the previous year, up by 28.9 per cent.

Persistent Systems crosses Rs 1,000 cr revenue

Manglore will report to Lionel Lim, president and general manager of Asia Pacific, CA Technologies. His charter includes optimising sales coverage, winning new customers, building the partner ecosystem, and managing the operations.

BS People: Sunil Manglore

Infosys Technologies, India&rsquo;s second largest IT services company, has secured an additional 42 acres of land for its proposed facility at the IT&ocirc;ITeS Special Economic Zone (SEZ) in the coastal district of Dakshina Kannada. The State High Level Clearance Committee (SHLCC), headed by the chief minister of Karnataka has recently approved the request of the company for allotment of additional land.

Infosys to expand SEZ in Dakshina Kannada district

Facebook will pay Microsoft Corp $550 million (341 million pounds) in cash for hundreds of patents recently sold by AOL, the social networking company's latest move to bulk up its intellectual property in the wake of a lawsuit filed by Yahoo.

Facebook pays Microsoft $550 mn for AOL patents

Reuters 

With Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) announcing a wage rise for its employees this year and most other industry peers going ahead with their wage increase plans, pressure is expected to mount on Infosys to reconsider its earlier decision.

Peer plans may put Infy under pressure

The paying capacity of telcos will not be the same over the next two decades. J S Sarma, chairman of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India, tells Mansi Taneja after the regulator recommended a high reserve price for the auction of 2G spectrum.

We are looking at a 20-year scenario: J S Sarma

Markets reward consistency and predictability. And through the years, Infosys has mastered the art of managing the markets' expectations. Markets don't love growth, they love predictable growth. But Infosys has shown earnings can be volatile. In fact, it has moved away from outperformance to underperformance. Over the last several quarters, the market has been rather forgiving, even as the company has started tripping on its own growth projections.

Infosys' fall from grace

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