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INFO-TECH
MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS:
HCL Tech offers £441 m for UK’s Axon, tops Infosys’ bid
It’s 8.3% higher than Infosys’ offer of £407 m. New Delhi, Sept. 26 HCL Technologies on Friday announced a cash offer of 650 pence a share for the UK-based SAP consulting company Axon Group valuing it at £441.1 million, ...
MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS:
Hold on, Infosys asks Axon shareholders
Bangalore, Sept 26 Taking note of HCL Technologies’ counter bid, Infosys Technologies Ltd urged Axon shareholders not to take action at this ...
IT-ENABLED SERVICES:
Sixteen BPOs in fray for Air India’s contact centre
Deadline for bids on October 6; projected need for 600 seats. New Delhi, Sept. 26 IBM Daksh, Aditya Birla, Wipro, First Source and Interglobe Technologies are among the 16 BPO companies that have shown an interest in participating in the maiden ...
OUTLOOK:
‘IT industry needs to add value’
The future of the information technology industry will increasingly depend on its strength to add value to its services, according to Mr Venkatesan Seshadri, Senior Vice-President, Birlasoft (India) Ltd. The sector has the resilience to ...
HARDWARE:
Simulator kit for troubleshooting
Computer hardware and networking training company Jetking Infotrain has introduced a computer fault simulator kit to develop troubleshooting skills of IT students. “As an average of three months’ lead time is required for the student ...
TELECOMMUNICATIONS:
Shyam mobile services next week
Shyam Telelink, a joint venture of Russian telecom giant Sistema and Mr Rajiv Mehrotra-backed Shyam Group, will launch mobile services on September 30. The company was among those who had recently bagged pan-India licence and will be the first ...
NEW PRODUCTS & SERVICES:
i-mate, Airtel tie up for PC phones
i-mate, the global specialist in Microsoft devices, has teamed with Bharti Airtel to launch the JAMA 101. Bharti Airtel is the first mobile operator to offer this device in India exclusively to its customers. JAMA 101 is the one of the ...
TELECOMMUNICATIONS:
Unitech gets spectrum for 2 circles
Unitech has been given start-up spectrum for two more circles by the Department of Telecommunications. The real estate major, which has recently acquired licences for offering telecom services said it has been informed about the allotment of 4.4 ...
NEW BUSINESS:
Educomp bags Karnataka deal
Educomp has signed an agreement with the Department of State Education Research and Training, Karnataka Government, for implementation of computer-aided education in 1,571 schools in Karnataka. The order worth Rs 109 crore will be implemented ...
MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS:
Mindteck mulls buys every alternate year
Bangalore, Sept. 26 Technology and IT services provider Mindteck India Ltd, which acquired four companies earlier this year, said a significant part of its growth would be inorganic, and the company remains opportunistic in pursuing ...
TELECOMMUNICATIONS:
FICCI chief urges PM to review spectrum pricing
New Delhi, Sept. 26 Mr Rajeev Chandrasekhar, MP from Bengaluru and FICCI President, has in a letter to the Prime Minister urged the need to have an open market-based method to establish value of spectrum so that the exchequer does not ...
SOFTWARE:
Oracle incentive for client referrals
SALES PITCH. Chennai, Sep. 26 Refer a client; earn $50,000. An employee referring another potential employee for a fee/reward is a big trend in the information technology companies to attract ...
INTERNET:
Info Edge invests in eTechAces
New Delhi, Sept. 26 Info Edge (India), owner of portal naukri.com, is investing Rs 20 crore in eTechAces Marketing and Consulting, an online aggregator of financial products especially insurance, towards a 49 per cent equity stake in ...
E-COMMERCE & E-BUSINESS:
Venture Infotek getting to be e-infra provider
Coimbatore, Sept. 26 Venture Infotek Global Pvt Ltd is in a transition mode from a transaction processing and knowledge management company to be a provider ...
OUTSOURCING:
Mr Raghu Vasu A., CEO of Transdyne; Badruka Institute of Foreign Trade
May also throw up new opportunities for the IT sector. Hyderabad, Sept. 26 While the global economic slowdown is bound to have a significant impact on the Indian IT/BPO sector, there are a few positives to look forward to, said Mr Raghu Vasu A, ...
NEW PRODUCTS & SERVICES:
Smart Infocomm webcam
Kochi-based Smart Infocomm has introduced a 12-megapixel webcam. The cam comes with built-in software for special effects with different wallpapers and backgrounds. It has five coating glass optic lens, which gives superb realistic picture, and ...
SECURITY:
Bounce back — with back-up
A computer glitch in a global marketplace this month highlights the vulnerability of large data systems — even as system and storage security players join to even the odds of recurrence.. A catastrophic computer crash on September 9 ...
SECURITY:
Perils of wireless Internet
Recent blasts expose the safety gaps in cyberspace and underscore the need for smart vigilance.. It is the same old story again. As in the case of a few past blasts, such as the series of UP explosions (November 2007) and Ahmedabad (August ...
INTERVIEW:
Astrology, online
GaneshaSpeaks.com says this space, though at a nascent stage, is opening up.. Just under a decade ago, when the online matrimonial service was being talked about as a possibility, one could not but raise an eyebrow and look at it with ...
BOOKS:
Welcome the ‘digital natives’
The world belongs to those born after 1980, so get tech savvy if you don’t want to be left out.. Soon, the world will belong to those “born after 1980, when social digital technologies, such as Usenet and bulletin board systems, ...
INTERVIEW:
MphasiS – changing to a fresher-heavy structure
New CEO at the helm explains why the move makes sense in these times of slowdown.. It’s not a great year to take over as CEO of an Indian IT services company. The US economy, from which India derives about 50 per cent of its revenues, is ...
INTERVIEW:
To your health
Texas Instruments on how chips are making a difference in healthcare.. Chips designed by researchers at TI India touch our lives in more ways than one, says the company. Besides spheres such as telecommunications, electronic gadgets and ...
CYBER QUEST:
Quiz
V.V. Ramanan. 2. With which company would one associate the new enterprise desktop client called ...
CARTOON:
Cartoon
“The way it’s going, we’ll buy your software only if it comes bundled with a technical ...
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