CSC, one of the biggest IT services companies in the World with 20,000 employees in India, has set up a new unit targeting the Indian market. The company, also known as the Computer Sciences Corporation, was one of the pioneer IT services firms dating back to 1959, but lost out some of the momentum compared […]
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), India’s regulator for the media and communications sector, has pulled up major broadcasting companies for violating its pricing rules for TV channels. The regulator, in separate letters addressed to Sun Network, Start Den (of the Rupert Murdoch group), Zee Turner, Taj (Ten Sports), Neo Sports & ESPN, directed […]
With another disappointing quarter from Wipro, the stage is now all set for the ascendancy of the Chennai-based Cognizant Technology Solutions (CTS) into the hallowed group of India’s top 3 IT companies. The top 3 slot had been occupied by Tata Consultancy Services, Infosys Technologies and Wipro for as long as most people can remember. […]
The newly-set up Competition Commission of India (CCI) has thrown out an appeal to prevent India’s public-sector insurance companies from forming a single, jointly-owned and powerful TPA or health insurance agency. The complaint was filed late last year by the Indian Third Party Administrators Association, which represents the interests of independent, and mostly small, third […]
Airtel digital TV-the DTH service from Bharti Airtel, has added 41 new channels to its bouquet, taking the total to 247. The move will allow Airtel Digital, which has been more of a trailer in the DTH wars as far as channel selection was concerned, to move up to the level of other players like […]
No Terrorist organization has claimed responsibility for the Mumbai blasts, but home minister P Chidambaram said many previous attempts in Mumbai have been foiled, but “unfortunately, this one slipped through.” “We live in the most troubled neighbourhood.. Pakistan and Afghanistan are the epicenter of terror.. Being in a troubled neighbourhood, every city (in India) is […]
The Motorola Droid 3, or what will ultimately be launched as the Motorola Milestone 3, is no Galaxy S2 or even an HTC Sensation. In terms of technology, the Droid 3 will perhaps score 70% marks where the Samsung Galaxy S2 scores a 100 and the HTC comes up with 90% (see chart above.) However, […]
World’s number two PC maker Acer has fallen two ranks to the fourth place in the second quarter of this year, numbers released by Gartner revealed. Acer had been the consistent number two in global PC sales — primarily because it focused on low prices, low margins and decent profits through high volumes. Acer’s global […]
As the Monsoon completes its onset across the whole of the subcontinent, latest rainfall indicate a comfortable situation for the country as a whole. At of yesterday, most of the regions of the country have received comfortable amount of rainfall and though, for the country as a whole, rainfall this season was 3% below average. […]
The Indian Railways has warned of possible delay, diversion or even termination of trains passing through the Telengana region — one of India’s busiest rail corridors — in Andhra Pradesh tomorrow. Political organizations demanding the formation of a separate Telenagana state have called for a “Rail Roko” or railway blockade tomorrow to protest against what […]
On the sidelines of an event on event on ‘Ethics, Governance and Technology’, India’s young and tech-savvy junior IT minister Sachin Pilot said the government had asked websites like Google, Facebook and Twitter to install “real time” monitoring system for national security. While on the face of it, the request looks like just another of […]
The emergence of tablets like the iPad, the Xoom and the Galaxy Tab is starting to affect the growth of the PC market, Gartner warned. Overall PC shipments during the second quarter was up 2.3% globally — below Gartner’s initial projection of 6.7%. The trend was especially visible in the US during the quarter ended […]
The Supreme Court judgement on Justice Dinakaran’s objection to a Rajya Sabha inquiry committee clearly exposes the motive of the former Chief Justice of the Karnataka High Court. Indeed, Dinakaran, who filed an objection to the inclusion of a particular lawyer a year after he came to know of the lawyer’s presence on the committee, […]
The draft note on India’s new ‘National Manufacturing Policy’ is expected to be ready soon as the current committee is likely to finish its deliberations in 10 days, India’s trade minister Anand Sharma said. The National Manufacturing policy is India’s belated attempt to catch up with China in manufacturing and stem the tide of imports […]
India’s largest IT services company TCS has announced a 6.3% jump in revenues for the second quarter. Net Profit at was Rs 2,415 crore, up 26.7% year on year, but down 2% compared to the first quarter of this year. Total revenues at were at Rs 10,797 crore up 31.4% Y-o-Y. CEO N Chandrasekaran said […]
The small enterprises have toned down their growth prospects for the next quarter thanks to increasing costs, CII’s quarterly survey of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) has found. Business confidence — a reflection of how many of the company heads think their business will do better or worse in the current quarter — dipped […]
The Bombay High Court has dismissed the petition seeking a CBI inquiry into the murder of crime journalist J Dey last month. The petitions were filed by two journalists VP Patil and Ketan Tirodkar. The duo had argued that the Police, which is currently investigating the murder, are not above suspicion in the death of […]
The family of the murdered Lucknow deputy chief medical officer (CMO) YS Sachan will move the Supreme Court tomorrow, requesting for a CBI inquiry into his mysterious death. Sachan was tortured and killed in a hospital in a jail in UP a few days ago, on the eve of being produced in Court. The doctor […]
Despite Idea’s PR agency denying the accuracy of a story published by RTN almost a month ago, Vodafone India has reportedly confirmed the existence of 3g pact between itself and Idea. According to a report by the Hindu Business Line , Vodafone confirmed to the paper that the company does Indeed have such an agreement […]
IBM, the World’s largest IT company has expanded its IT services contract for Bharti Airtel’s telecom services in Africa, expanding it to provide “comprehensive end user services to Airtel employees.” The American firm already had, late last year, inked a deal to manage the “computing technology and services” for the operators’ network in 16 African […]
