Hinduja group company Hinduja Ventures today said the Bombay High Court has allowed the merger of HTMT Telecom Pvt Ltd with the company. The High Court approved the scheme of amalgamation of HTMT Telecom with the company in its verdict dated April 15, Hinduja Ventures said in a filing with the Bombay Stock Exchange. HVL, the holding company of one of India`s larges
Russia-based security software maker Kaspersky today launched its new solutions for mobile handsets and said it aims to sell one lakh units in 2011. Priced at Rs 599, Kaspersky Mobile Security 9 is aimed at providing security features like data backup, data erase on loss of cellphone and other privacy features for smartphones. "The smartphone market is growing
TCS, the country`s largest software maker, today said it expects to hire 6,000 employees overseas, which is ten per cent of the total 60,000 people it plans to recruit this fiscal. "The overseas hiring will be similar to the 10 per cent which we have done earlier," TCS Global HR Head Ajoyendra Mukherjee, told PTI. He, however, added that the Tata Group co
Ace Derivatives and Commodity Exchange today announced a tie-up with Dion Global Solutions Limited (formerly Religare Technova Ltd) enabling Ace members to access and trade on the Ace Commodity Exchange. This will be done using a computer link platform (CTCL)-- TradeAnywhere provided by Dion Global Solutions Limited, which is an integrated solution that allows members to have a s
Founder Chairman of Information Technology major HCL Ajai Chowdhary met Uttarakhand Chief Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank on Monday and discussed with him the possibility of expansion of company in the hill state. During the meeting at state Secretariat in Dehra Dun, Nishank told Chowdhary that state government is committed for extending full support to IT industry and the comp
IT company Canonical has announced that new version of Operating system (OS) software Ubuntu will be released on April 28 and it will be available for free download by public. Ubuntu OS is developed by members of Open Source community and is competitor to software products like Window OS of Microsoft or Chrome OS of Google. The concept of Open Source is to eliminat
The United States has botched the handling of inmates at Guantanamo, holding men for years without reliable evidence while releasing others who posed a grave threat, according to leaked secret documents. The trove of classified files released by the anti- secrecy website WikiLeaks showed US officials struggling with often flawed evidence and confused about the guilt or innocence
IT distributor Redington India today said it has been appointed as the National Distributor for global Information Technology major DELL. "DELL has appointed the company as their National Distributor for their commerical products like laptops, desktops and servers," Redington India said in a statement. Recently, Dell India appointed Redington as their dis
Five Nigerians and a local woman have been arrested for allegedly cheating a Hyderabad-based B Tech student to the tune of Rs 18.73 lakh by luring him through an email that claimed he had won a prize money of 7.5 lakh pounds, police said today. They were apprehended from the metropolis by Hyderabad Police with assistance from their Mumbai counterparts. Believing th
Iran has been hit by a second computer virus, a senior military official said today, suggesting it was part of a concerted campaign to undermine the country`s disputed nuclear programme. Gholam Reza Jalali, the head of an Iranian military unit in charge of combating sabotage, said that experts discovered the "espionage virus," which he called "Stars."
UCO Bank today said it has tied up with Religare Securities to offer online trading to its customers as part of expanding the product bouquet and has drawn up ambitious expansion plans. "We are looking forward for greater brand recall of the bank and adding new facilities like mobile banking and internet trading facility to customers," UCO Bank Executive Director Ajai R
Emirati authorities are pushing ahead with plans to impose tighter government restrictions on the most secure BlackBerry service next week, according to the CEO of one of the Gulf nation`s phone companies. But Osman Sultan, chief executive of the telecommunications firm Du, told reporters today he doesn`t expect the shift May 1 to cause problems for customers, who will still have
World famous Gulmarg ski resort was today connected to the outer world through a dedicated Wi-Fi zone which would provide internet connectivity at a high speed. "Jammu and Kashmir Cable Car Corporation (JKCCC) and Gulmarg Development Authority in collaboration with Directorate of Information Technology and Support System (IT&SS), University of Kashmir and Department of T
The Telecommunications Department (DoT) has asked Idea Cellular and Spice Communications to pay total penalty of Rs 27.65 crore by the second week of next month for delay in the rollout of services in five circles. Idea Cellular has been served notice for missing the rollout obligation in Karnataka and Punjab service areas, whereas Spice Communications has been served notice for
Bangladesh`s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today formally launched e-book, a digitised compilation of primary and secondary textbooks, opening a new horizon of easy access to textbooks through the Internet. The National Curriculum and Textbook Board (NCTB) and UNDP- funded Access to Information (A2I) Programme of the Prime Minister`s Office jointly organised the inaugural ceremony
IndusInd Bank today announced that it has selected Finacle core banking solution version 10 of Infosys Technologies, for its core banking transformation. "We are confident that Finacle will help significantly scale up our customer base and branch footprint besides improving productivity," IndusInd Bank`s Managing Director and CEO, Romesh Sobti told reporters here.
Facebook has began letting members of cozy cliques formed at the social networking service share website links or photo albums without all their friends knowing about it. A "Send" button that lets people share website links with selected cadres instead of all Facebook friends was among enhancements being rolled out to a "Groups" feature launched in October of
Telephone connection of general manager of Bharat Sanchal Nigam Limited (BSNL) residence here has been snapped for non-payment of dues, officials said today. Dues of Rs 12,950 were pending on the basic landline number installed at the residence of GM Rajiv Yadav after which it has been disconnected, they said. When contacted Yadav said that it was a departmental pr
The Telecom Ministry will soon seek a review of the recommendations by sectoral regulator Trai for cancelling 69 licences as operators had failed to roll-out networks, in view of DoT`s finding that only 17 cases required such stringent action. Last year, Trai recommended cancellation of 69 licences of six operators, including five new ones, who were sitting on spectrum and failed
Differences are understood to have emerged within the Telecom Ministry on whether to go for auction of the 2G spectrum in future to arrive at appropriate price for the scarce resource or go by the mechanism suggested by TRAI which recommended over six-time hike in rates. This will be a part of the New Telecom Policy 2011 and hectic discussions are under way to arrive at a final d
