Sunil Bharti Mittal-promoted Bharti Airtel today reported a 79% rise in net profit to Rs 934 crore for the quarter ended September 30, 2006, and said that it had connected 41.1 lakh subscribers in

Bharti Q2 net zooms 79% to Rs 934cr

Business Standard

Bharti Airtel has signed an estimated $400 million contract with Nokia to expand its networks in&nbsp;8 Airtel circles and deploy WAP solutions across its pan-India networks.<BR><BR>As per the three

Bharti Airtel inks $400mn network deal with Nokia

IT major Wipro today said it will partner with Oracle to offer an IT solution for industries to reduce fraud-related losses.

Wipro, Oracle to offer IT solution to reduce fraud losses

Press Trust of India

State-owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam (BSNL) today said it has signed an agreement with public sector firm RailTel to execute various telecom-related projects through sharing of communications infrastructure.

BSNL, RailTel in pact to share infrastructure

Infosys and Wipro are planning to use organically-grown vegetables in their canteens pretty soon. Both companies are in talks with a Bangalore-based non-governmental organisation, International Competence Centre for Organic Agriculture (ICCOA), for the supply of organically-grown vegetables to their canteens.

Infosys, Wipro to offer organic veggies for staff

As Ahmedabad-based Sai InfoSystem Ltd (SIS) establishes itself as one of the leading ICT players from the western region, it is looking to focus on new verticals. While the company's growth in the last decade was driven by IT products and IT retail verticals, according to Sunil Kakkad, chairman and managing director, SIS, the company will now also focus on the IT-based telecom vertical.

Telecom to be the next driver for Sai Info

Infosys&rsquo; chairman and chief mentor Narayana Murthy today said the company was open to a foreigner becoming his successor.

Infosys open to foreigner as chairman: Murthy

Sanjay Kalra, the man who until last week was at the helm of affairs at one of the country&rsquo;s biggest information technology service companies, Tech Mahindra, said he was &ldquo;unemployed now&rdquo;.

TechM ex-CEO may announce next move in 10 days

Even before the official process of integration of Tech Mahindra and Mahindra Satyam has commenced, execution of projects is being shared between the two companies, according to highly-placed sources.

TechM, Satyam jointly executing projects

Mark Hurd, who last month stepped down as Hewlett-Packard Co&rsquo;s chief executive officer, is in talks to join Oracle Corp as a &ldquo;top executive&rdquo;, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing unidentified people familiar with the matter.

'Mark Hurd in talks to join Oracle'

As ICICI Bank looks at exiting its 20.35 per cent stake in 3i Infotech, the mid-cap information technology services and solutions company, the latter says it would prefer to have the equity go to a financial investor than a strategic partner, say its senior officials.

3i Infotech would like exit-looking ICICI to sell stake to financial investor

Mobile makers now provide &lsquo;push email&rsquo; services on cheaper handsets.

Push your inbox on to your cells

Confession time: We have been staunch Sony Playstation fans and never actually took to Microsoft&rsquo;s console Xbox. When the first generation Xbox came, it seemed a bit too bulky and the disc tray took ages to open. Perhaps it was just our bias, but the old adage of first impressions being the lasting ones is true when it comes to gaming. But the new Xbox 360 250GB has changed all of that. Slim, sleek and shiny black in colour, it dispels all notions of Xbox being a bulky console.

Blackjack of gaming

With an ever-increasing number of tablet PCs, netbooks and affordable notebooks, it&rsquo;s becoming tougher to pick the right device from the right PC category. If visiting a computer shoppe leaves you baffled, ask yourself these questions: What will your new PC be used for? Where will it be used? What long-term support will it require? That way, you&rsquo;ll not only love what you buy but also use it the way it was meant to be.

Choosing between a tablet, netbook and notebook

Reliance Communications and GTL today called off talks for a $11-billion deal to merge both their telecom tower assets. The independent tower company thus formed would have had over 80,000 towers across the country.

Failed talks to delay telco's debt paring

Telenor ASA investors have a piece of advice for Scandinavia&rsquo;s biggest phone company: Quit India.

Telenor investors say Quit India, as losses mount

Ahmedabad-based Elitecore Technologies, a leading provider of network security solutions announced foray into the African market with its NGN ready billing support system and operations support system (BSS/OSS) product suits. Elitecore will offer its billing and revenue management, AAA and PCRF product suites in the African telecommunication market.

Elitecore launches network security operations in Africa

With 17 per cent market share in the Indian mobile market, Samsung Mobile plans to add another six to seven per cent market share this year. In an interview with Business Standard, Ranjit Yadav, Director, Mobile &amp; IT, Samsung Electronics tells Chitra Unnithan about the company&rsquo;s strategy to focus on innovation to achieve its target.

Q&A: Ranjit Yadav, Director, Mobile & IT, Samsung Electronics

Sistema Shyam Teleservices (SSTL), which offers mobile services in India under the brand name MTS, expects the Russian government to infuse $620 million in the company by October this year.

SSTL expects Russian fund infusion by October

The country&rsquo;s third largest telecom company, Reliance Communications, had hoped to clean the burgeoning debt on its books through two key deals &mdash; the sale of its tower assets to GTL and the sale of 26 per cent equity in the company to, probably, Etilasat, to which it has never denied it was talking.

Gone with the deal: What RCom has lost

Is Bharti Airtel India&rsquo;s fourth-largest media company? If estimates are right, then its revenues from selling music downloads, DTH services, IPTV and digital media outsourcing were upwards of Rs 2,900 crore in March 2010. That is about 7 per cent of its Rs 41,829 crore revenues that year. This number puts India&rsquo;s largest telecom operator right at the top of the media big league.

Bharti Airtel: The making of a media conglomerate

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