Analysts at brokerage firms today said the transition and exit of key managers at Infosys and Wipro and economic slowdown have seperated the leaders from laggards as IT industry is nearly halfway into 2011-12 financial year. "A clear seperation between the leaders and laggards is emerging with Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) and Cognizant racing ahead of Infosys and Wipro. T
Internet service providers has approached the Competition Appellate Tribunal against the fair trade regulator CCI, which had rejected their plea, and alleged that DoT discriminated against them vis-a-vis the telecom operators by not allowing the the Internet telephony. A petition by the Internet Service Providers Association of India (ISPAI) would be placed tomorrow before a thre
China today called on the international community to work more closely under the UN to improve information security amid global concerns on the activities of Chinese hackers, who are accused of carrying out attacks on India, the US and a host of other nations. China along with Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan jointly sent a letter to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon requesting h
Union Minister of State for IT and Telecom Sachin Pilot today asked IT companies to expand their businesses into the non-Western markets. "Despite the slowdown in the US economy, that country accounts for nearly 60 per cent of our IT exports, I encourage our IT companies to diversify their portfolio and focus on markets such as Africa, Eastern Europe, China, and Russia among
In a push to India`s dream to emerge as global manufacturing hub for meeting domestic demand for electronics and other technology devices, 11 companies, both foreign and local, have evinced interest to set up semiconductor wafer fabrication plant. "Department of Information Technology (DIT ) has received proposals from 11 companies to set up wafer fabrication plant in India.
Global computer chip maker AMD today said it has achieved the Guinness World Record for the `Highest Frequency of a Computer Processor`. Frequency of a chipset is used to describe the number of calculations done by the processor in a second, and is used to assess the performance of the chipset. The AMD FX CPU, set for launch in the fourth quarter of 2011, achieved
Private telecom operators today slammed BSNL for charging higher interconnection fee in violation of TRAI and TDSAT regulations and accused the state- run company`s threats of disconnection of services in Rajasthan as "illegal and coercive". BSNL`s Rajasthan Telecom Circle has threatened to take action against leading private telecom operators for their failure to pay a
The country`s largest software exporter Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) today said it has partnered Felda Prodata Systems for joint development and delivery of IT services and solutions in the Malaysian market. Both organisations will jointly identify opportunities as part of `go-to-market` efforts to provide IT services and secure tenders from government agencies, TCS said in a
Chief Minister of Jharkhand, Arjun Munda today inaugurated the e-district project through video conferencing from the JAPIT office with Kanke Block office in Ranchi District. The project is one of the state category mission mode projects (MMPs) taken up under national e-governance plan (NeGP). The key feature of e-district project is that it is totally driven by software and comp
The Government plans to set up 5 lakh km long broadband network as part of its infotech infrastructure, Union Minister of State for IT and Communications Milind Deora said today. "At the telecom level, we are trying to bring about a new revolution by laying 5 lakh km optic fibre (OFC) broadband network which will be used by various institutions to share information. This wil
IT major Wipro today announced that it has won the 2011 Microsoft Country Partner of the Year Award. Wipro was selected from among a global field of top Microsoft partners for demonstrating excellence in innovation and implementation of customer solutions based on Microsoft technology, it said in a statement here. The award recognised Wipro Ltd as succeeding in eff
Come Thursday, an MCD official will be penalised if he or she does not move your application for a birth certificate for more than seven days or delays the booking of a park by more than a day. The MCD today announced that six services -- issuance of birth and death certificates, health trade licence, park booking, community hall booking, general trade licence and factory licence
Former finance minister in the Left Front regime Asim Dasgupta today criticised the ruling Trinamool Congress in West Bengal for allegedly giving legal status to lottery business by imposing taxes and charges. "Imposing any charge or tax on lottery, including online lottery, is nothing but giving legal status to them," Dasgupta told reporters here, countering the claim
In the latest twist to the phone-hacking case, Indian IT major HCL Technologies has said that it was asked to delete thousands of emails of Rupert Murdoch`s News International (NI) on four more occasions than had been previously disclosed. Responding to the latest disclosure by HCL, Keith Vaz, chairman of the Home Affairs Select Committee, said: "The request for deletion of
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon will log on to social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter tomorrow for a live "global conversation" on a range of pressing UN issues ahead of next week`s annual debate at the UN General Assembly. More than 5,500 questions across the six official UN languages ? as well as Portuguese and Swahili ? have already been submitted by peop
Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal has given in-principle approval to draft National Frequency Allocation Plan-2011, which would help in efficient spectrum management and higher mobile penetration in rural areas. "Minister has given in-principle approval to new National Frequency Approval Plan-2011 (NFAP) draft that will surely help in better spectrum management and will also incr
Amazon is in talks with publishers for launching a Netflix like service for digital books, where customers would pay an annual fee to access a library, says a media report. "Amazon.com Inc is talking with book publishers about launching a Netflix Inc like service for digital books, in which customers would pay an annual fee to access a library of content," The Wall Stre
Japanese electronics and appliances maker Panasonic today said its Indian operations are expected to contribute about 5 per cent to its global sales by 2015 driven by local manufacturing, exports and enhanced R&D capabilities. "India currently contributes around two per cent to Panasonic`s global sales, but we expect it to become 5 per cent by 2015 with an expected turno
In an effort to make education more engaging and inclusive, the Karnataka government`s Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan and software giant Intel India today launched the e-learning pilot `Computers On Wheels` programme in five districts of the state. The programme, which includes digital instruction material from Educomp, will see a total of five Government Higher Primary Schools in Karwar,
Computer maker Hewlett-Packard (HP) today announced a service pack priced between Rs 4,000 and Rs 4,800, which will provide on-site and extended warranty to its customers of notebook across India. "The introduction of HP Service Care Pack is in line with our commitment to the Indian PC market. We consider services such as Care Packs to be an important part of our effort to e
