With a 43 per cent rise in net profit during the December quarter, HCL Technologies is upbeat on outsourcing opportunities in the next three months amid the gloomy global economic environment, even though competitors have hinted at tough times ahead.

HCL Tech net up 43.3% at Rs 572.7 cr

Press Trust of India

Amid the gloomy economic outlook, HCL Technologies, the country&rsquo;s fourth largest information technology (IT) services provider, has posted better-than-expected second quarter numbers. Though the company expects the uncertainty in the market to continue for at least another six quarters, it also sees new opportunities in the form of $47 billion of global contracts coming for renewal in 2012. Vineet Nayar, vice-chairman and chief executive officer, talks to Piyali Mandal on the prospects.

Vendor churn to fuel IT growth: Vineet Nayar

Business Standard

Axiata, Malaysia&rsquo;s leading telco operator, is in talks to buy out a stake in broadband wireless access (BWA) operator Tikona Digital Networks Ltd as part of its strategy to increase presence in the Indian telecom sweepstakes.

Axiata in talks to buy stake in Tikona

Mobile handset manufacturer Nokia on Tuesday said the company was ready to support Long-Term Evolution (LTE) technology when it arrives in India, a company official said.

Nokia ready to support LTE technology in India

When Amlan Chakrovorty tried to open a file-sharing website he used to visit frequently, a 'page not found' error message flashed before him. The web page Chakrovorty was trying to access had been blocked. Blocking by the government is not uncommon in India. It has blocked 11 websites and received requests for blocking more.

Page not found: Who blocked my website?

Globally, Adobe is moving its business to the cloud, with the launch of cloud-based services and applications accessible on multiple devices (handhelds to tablets), but in India, it is betting on traditional packaged software and new business verticals to take it through 2012.
Adobe's Umang Bedi, managing director (sales and marketing), South Asia, said, &quot;While we have realigned our business into digital media and digital marketing verticals, we aren't taking cloud solutions to Indian

Adobe on a different course in India

Indian computer security analysts have detected and alerted Wi-Fi users in the country against a possible virus attack that could lead to crashing and hacking of secure networks.

Indian Wi-Fi networks under virus risk: IT analysts

Research In Motion is not on Samsung Electronics Co's immediate shopping list, but the ailing Blackberry maker may still be attractive to Asian smartphone makers looking to compete against Google's Android, the world's fastest growing mobile platform.

Asian firms eye RIM platform

Reuters 

Yahoo! Inc co-founder Jerry Yang has quit the company he started in 1995, appeasing shareholders who had blasted the internet pioneer for pursuing an ineffective personal vision and impeding investment deals that could have transformed the struggling company.

Yahoo! co-founder Jerry Yang steps down

Apple Inc unveiled a new digital textbook service called iBooks 2 on Thursday, aiming to revitalise the US education market and quicken the adoption of its market-leading iPad.

Apple rolls out digital textbook service iBooks 2

The income tax department has slapped a Rs 1,067-crore demand notice on telecom giant Bharti Airtel for alleged non-payment of Tax Deducted at Source (TDS) dues in the past four financial years in connection with its operations abroad.

Bharti Airtel gets Rs 1,067-cr I-T notice, to appeal

Internet companies led by Google Inc are using their online clout to stoke opposition to Hollywood-backed anti-piracy measures in the US Congress that they say will encourage censorship and chill innovation.

Google rallies opposition to Murdoch-backed anti-piracy Bill

In today's world, logging on to social networking websites may be the most popular way to know about each others' lives, but it can also make you sad, say researchers.

Facebook can make you sad 

Nine Indian students have made it to YouTube's SpaceLab, a global science competition that challenged 14-18 year-olds to design a science experiment that can be performed in space.

Nine Indian students make it big in SpaceLab contest

TCS will end FY12 by hiring almost 66,000 employees, 6,000 more than what you had earlier indicated.

The demand environment is quite good: N Chandrasekaran

Persistent Systems has launched its 12 mobile science learning applications for IL&amp;FS Education&rsquo;s Exploriments platform for the global iPad user community. The two companies plan to develop more than 400 exploriments learning apps for the iPad. &quot;Using our expertise in iPad application development, we have developed user-friendly applications that were not previously available in market,&quot; said R Venkateswaran, Sr VP, head of strategic business at Persistent.

Persistent develops mobile learning apps

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), India&rsquo;s largest information technology (IT) services provider, said it had so far made campus offers to 43,600 engineering freshers for 2012-13, higher than the 37,800 offers made this year.

TCS offers jobs to 43,600 engineering graduates 

Clarifies that there is no question of the company getting out of Unitech Wireless or selling stake.

Telenor valuation of JV at Rs 400 cr ridiculous: Unitech board member

MyToday.com, an SMS update service provider, recently shut operations due to the new regulations introduced by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) that restrict SMS marketing to those enrolled with the Do Not Call registry. &quot;We regret to inform our services will no longer be available. This is in view of the recent TRAI regulations,&quot; announced the company website.

Mobile marketing firms bet on alternative strategies

Bharti Airtel today said it has extended its managed services pact with Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) for another five years in eight circles of the country, including Bihar and Jharkhand, Kolkata, Gujarat, Maharashtra and Goa.

Bharti extends managed services pact with NSN

The Telecom Ministry is evaluating a proposal to charge telecom service providers an auction-determined price for spectrum held by them beyond 4.4 MHz of start-up airwaves.

Telecom Min mulls auction of spectrum beyond 4.4 MHz

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