Social network website Facebook, which has around 850 million users worldwide, went down in several mainly European countries today for around two hours, users and the company said.

Facebook goes down in several European countries

Press Trust of India

GSM industry lobby group Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) has asked the Ministry of Finance to abolish the need for PAN (Permanent Account Number) at for taking a new mobile connection.

Remove PAN requirement for new mobile connection: COAI

State-run Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd (MTNL) plans to spend about Rs 800 crore in the next financial year to upgrade its network and add more capacity in the GSM segment.

MTNL plans Rs 800-cr capex in FY13

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Infosys chief Kris Gopalakrishnan on Wednesday expressed hope that DTC and GST will be pushed through in the forthcoming budget, while Genpact vice chairman Pramod Bhasin feared economic reforms will be tough going forward.

Infy hopes reforms in Budget Genpact unsure

Taking many by surprise, Japanese major- Sony has surpassed otherwise market leaders like Hewlett-Packard (HP) and Dell in the consumer notebook segment in the fourth quarter of 2011, from October to December 2011.
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Sony Vaio beats HP, Dell in notebook segment

Apple Inc debuts its most significant overhaul of the iPad on Wednesday in San Francisco. For competitors trying to get a foothold in the tablet market, the most important announcement may be what Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook does with the older models already on the shelves.

Apple pinches rivals as new iPad set to storm market

Gadget lovers in India can now own an iPad 2 for Rs 24,500, with Apple Inc slashing its price worldwide on Thursday following the launch of a new third-generation, 4G-ready tablet.

Apple cuts iPad 2 prices 

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Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim retained his position atop Forbes magazine's annual list of the world's billionaires on Wednesday with an estimated worth of $69 billion, while his Mexican rival Ricardo Salinas Pliego enjoyed the largest increase in wealth. Microsoft Corp cofounder Bill Gates ranked second at $61 billion and Warren Buffett third at $44 billion. France's Bernard Arnault, the richest person in Europe, repeated at No. 4. They were the same top four as last year.

Web moguls, Spanx whiz in Forbes list

The Justice Department has warned Apple and five of the biggest US publishers that it plans to sue them, accusing them of colluding to raise the prices of electronic books, the Wall Street Journal said, citing people familiar with the matter.

US Justice Department may sue Apple, publishers on e-book pricing: Report

Information and technology consulting and outsourcing company Mahindra Satyam (formerly Satyam Computer Services Limited) has acquired 100 per cent of vCustomer Corporation's international operations for $27 million (approximately Rs 135 crore). vCustomer is a Washington-based business process outsourcing (BPO) company.

Mahindra Satyam buys vCustomer's int'l operations for $27 mn

Come October, a new third-generation, 60 giga hertz (GHz) chipset will change the way consumers view high-definition (HD) content and will move the HD experience of mobile devices to the big screen of the television, wirelessly.

New wireless chipset to mirror mobile content on TV

With the third-generation iPad set to be launched in the global markets on March 16, Apple has announced the entry-level model of the iPad 2 will now cost Rs 24,500 (including VAT), compared to Rs 29,500 earlier.

As iPad-3 awaits launch, Apple cuts iPad-2 prices 17%

The new iPad&rsquo;s Retina display delivers four times the number of pixels of iPad 2, making web pages, text, images and video look incredibly sharp and realistic.

New iPad: A delectable Apple dish

Norwegian telecom company Telenor has applied to the Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) to be allowed to form a new entity for its operations in India.

Telenor moves FIPB for fresh Indian start

The country's largest foreign lender Standard Chartered Bank today tied-up with Google to empower the small and medium enterprises (SME) segment.

StanChart in alliance with Google to server SMEs

Nearly six million domain names were added to the Internet in the fourth quarter of 2011, bringing the total number of registered domain names to more than 225 million worldwide across all domains, according to the latest Domain Name Industry Brief, published by VeriSign.

Internet adds 6mn domain names in Oct-Dec 2011: VeriSign

The Philippines is the world's call-centre capital, but will need more graduates and better trained professionals if it's to be a major force in the broader outsourcing market, where growth is in providing research and analytics for the legal, healthcare and financial industries.

More than just talk: Philippines eyes broader outsourcing role

Software exports from the Chandigarh capital region (comprising Chandigarh, Panchkula and Mohali) is likely to increase by 15 per cent to Rs 1,800 crore in the current financial year, as against Rs 1,565 crore in 2010-11.
&ldquo;The software exports from the region was Rs 1,421 crore during April- December 2011, as against Rs 1,129 crore during the corresponding period of previous year,&rdquo; said Software Technology Park of India (STPI) Mohali, joint director, Ajay P Srivastava

Software exports likely to touch Rs 1,800 cr

Unitech Group on Friday said it will consider appropriate legal actions against Telenor Group's move to approach foreign investment promotion board (FIPB) for setting up a new company in India for its telecom business, as it is the violation of a non-compete clause in the shareholders&rsquo; agreement entered between the two companies.

Unitech to take legal action against Telenor

Microsoft International has shown interest in investing in the fields of education, e-governance and others in the state of Tamil Nadu.

MS keen on participating in e-gov projects

The US-based chipmaker Qualcomm has paid an amount of Rs 410 to the department of telecommunications (DoT) as dues of its Indian partner Tulip Telecom, which would enable it to get the licence for offering broadband wireless services in a week.

Qualcomm pays Rs 410 cr to DoT, to get BWA licence in a week

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