Dell Services, the rapidly growing IT services business of Computer maker Dell has picked up Suresh Vaswani, former joint CEO of Wipro, to head the business in India. Vaswani left Wipro in January after a 25-year stint, partly due to the poor performance of the company. India is Dell’s core services hub and is home […]
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is working on a new feature to enable users to easily turn off user tracking by websites. J Alan Bird, head of business development for W3C — which sets the standards for the Web — said the organization is working on evolving a mechanism that will allow users to […]
Even as India has earned the reputation of becoming the only country with eight different domain names allotted to it, sources revealed that the Tamil language will have the .india domain, written in Tamil. Other languages have opted for .bharat written in the same language. Media reports have pointed out that ICANN, the Internet URL […]
IT and BPO sectors saw the biggest up-tick in hiring during the first month of 2011, according to numbers crunched by Naukri.com, India’s biggest job portal. Hiring in these two sectors jumped by a whopping 11% and 6% in January compared to the immediately preceding month of December 2010, indicating, in Naukri’s opinion, an optimistic […]
Mahindra Satyam, the new avatar of Ramalinga Raju’s Satyam Computer Services will pay $10 million (Rs 46 crore) as penalty to the US stock market watch-dog, the Securities and Exchanges Commission or SEC. It will also have to comply with “certain” unspecified condition, according to a statement issued by the company a few minutes ago. […]
Six months after most of the senior developers of Mandriva Linux, arguably the most user-friendly flavor of the Linux distribution, left the company, the ‘renegade’ group have announced a new beta release of their Mageia Linux distribution. Mandriva, based in France, had been forced to shrink its operations in France and relocate its development activities […]
These are videos from ground zero (Jantar Mantar Road, New Delhi.) There will be a total of around 12 videos for day one, uploaded one by one. .
The agitation for the passing of the Jan Lokpal bill entered a crucial stage on Thursday, the third day of fasting by Anna Hazare and his aides. Compared to just a few hundred supporters who trickled in on Wednesday, thousands poured in on Thursday to express support. More than a thousand people marched with candles […]
Day four of the Janlokpal agitation saw the Government capitulate even as the movement threatened to disrupt normal life across the country. Reminding political observers of Gandhi’s independence stuggle, spontaneous rallies were held across the country in support of the fasting Gandhian. The government, which tried to toss a ‘fake committee’ to the agitators on […]
India Against Corruption (IAC), the umbrella body spearheading the Jan Lokpal bill agitation, reiterated its opposition to watering down the bill proposed by Anna Hazare. “The Lokpal and Lokayukta, according to the version of the Bill the protestors want, must be completely independent of any governments – on the lines of the Election Commission or […]
Kapil Sibal has denied that his comments — that the Lokpal bill won’t address issues close to people’s hearts — was disrespectful of the bill he is supposed to help frame. Speaking to reporters in Delhi today, he said Lokpal bill will only address the issue of corruption, but the biggest problems facing people in […]
The following are links to the pictures of the first day of Anna Hazare’s fast unto death demanding the passing of the Jan Lokpal bill (and scrapping of the Government’s lame-duck version.) The pictures are being uploaded over the next 1-2 hours. Videos [a total of around a dozen, being uploaded over the next 2-3 […]
Jairam Ramesh, the flamboyant environment minister is used to hearing others praise him for rejuvenating the environmentalist movement in the country. Sharp and witty, he’s also almost impossible to beat when it comes to repartees and retorts; until on Monday. Ramesh, who introduced Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwali and Water Resources minister Salman […]
After dropping to an alarminng 1,411 adults in 2006, Indian tigers are back with a bang at 1,636, according to the 2010 ‘tiger census’ released today. Including Sunderbans, which was not counted in 2006, it is at 1706 adults. The census is the second ‘scientific’ or double counted census of tigers in India. The first […]
Short on the heels of Sony, which launched India’s first AMD Fusion powered notebook, World number 3 laptop brand Acer introduced two new full-sized models with full day computing. Unlike other manufacturers such as HP and Sony, Acer has launched full sized notebooks — 14 and 15.6 inch — on the AMD Fusion E series […]
UP is the state most vulnerable to Islamic terrorism and extremists seemed to operate with impunity in the state, worrying the community elite; according to the US embassy’s survey after 2006 Mumbai bombings. An embassy survey among Muslim intellectuals in Lucknow, including Maulvis (both Sunni and Shia), Urdu language journalists, political and community leaders, scholars […]
Telecom secretary R Chandrasekhar has set a deadline of one month for taking action against companies found to be involved in the 2G scam. Talking to reporters in Delhi today, Chandrasekhar, who has a reputation as a clean and no-nonsense technocrat, said all the 70 or so companies that have been sent notices for misrepresenting […]
The World will spend a whopping $29.4 billion (Rs 1.35 lakh crore) this year on media tablets, a market where Apple had almost 90% marketshare last year, according to Gartner research agency. The number is three times the equivalent figure for 2010, the researcher said in its latest prediction. Gartner had earlier predicted tough times […]
Novelist,Anuja Chauhan, of ‘The Zoya Factor’ fame is going to be a script writer. Taking a predictable route that most of the writers of non serious faction takes the dashing author of two novels will be writing a script for Nikhil Advani’s next film, ‘Guppie-Mein Liar Nahih Shayer Hoon’. ‘Guppie…’,a love story,will hit the floor […]
India’s trade deficit for the first eleven months fell to $ 97.1 billion from $100.2 billion registered during the same period a year ago, thanks to booming exports and a dip in oil imports. India’s exports continued their outstanding performance in February, rising 50% during the month. During January too, exports were up by more […]
