The postal department would be floating tenders for procurement of hardware and development of software. Pilots will be held in rural and urban post offices and the final roll out will be completed by September 2012.
The decision was in contravention of the provisions of the master services agreement signed between the company and the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) on October 13, 2008, says TCS
Foxconn has said it is aiming to develop 10-12 facilities in India, including factories and data centres, by 2020
'The increasing mix of fixed price contracts is helping us improve productivity by bringing in more automation.'
The project involves building a network around a dozen secured centres, each priced at pound 250 mn.
Analysts see HCL's Rs 1,780 crore deal with Reader's Digest and another half-a-dozen big deals signed in the past three months by Indian IT firms, encompassing both global and domestic markets, as evidence that the outsourcing story continues to progress as the best option for companies to cut costs in the current difficult economic environment.
As part of the engagement, HCL Technologies would provide application development and infrastructure support across the application stack of Oracle, open technologies, main frame, infrastructure support for network, security, storage, end user computing and data centres, HCL said in a statement.
Its revenue from operations, however, grew 8.3 per cent to Rs 14,541 crore during the period under review from Rs 13,423.4 crore in the same quarter last year.
Vodafone to invest 1.3-billion pounds in upgrading and expanding its network in India.
There were 406 such incidents, which include IED and ordnance explosive blasts, in the country. Iraq came second with almost half the number at 221, the report by the National Bomb Data Centre said though it did not mention the casualties.
A National Security Guard team has collected samples from the site of the blast in Pune that took 11 lives.
Plans to form JV for its data centre business
That the flow of deals has resumed is evident from the third quarter Global TPI Index that tracks commercial contracts valued at $25 million or more.
The 2.1 percentage point reduction mainly reflects the impact of recent fluctuations in US dollar exchange rates.
Perceived till recently as low-budget and low-margin, the domestic market now means big business to Indian IT majors.
The data centre will act as a disaster recovery platform.
With the new facility, settling PF withdrawal claims would just take few hours.
Experts believe adoption of AI in developing countries will be much faster than in developed nations, as the magnitude of change it will bring will be far larger.
This centre will cater to the infrastructure and application management service requirements of customers across the ASEAN region through a remote service delivery model.
The investment, which will be raised through internal accruals and various funding modes, is part of the company's $2 billion capex plans announced in 2008. The company had intended to make investments of $2 billion over the next three-year period.
The government is in no mood to buy the privacy and security argument pitched by WhatsApp, whereas the American firm says traceability will undermine end-to-end encryption and the private nature of the app, creating potential for serious abuse.
In 2013, the market grew 0.4 per cent over 2012.
Tulip IT Services, a New Delhi-based data communication and software services firm, having raised $150 million via foreign convertible currency bonds (FCCB), has earmarked around $40 million (Rs 160 crore) for a acquisition.
US-based Avocent Corporation, supplier of connectivity solutions for enterprise data centres, service providers and financial institutions, said on Monday it plans to expand operations in India and is mulling a software development unit.
RCom and Aircel will hold 50 per cent each in the new company
MCX Stock Exchange on Tuesday said it has received approval from capital markets regulator.
Online desktops could be the next big step in the IT revolution -- bandwidth permitting.
Blind categorisation of OTTs with TSPs is damaging as the two are fundamentally different. It is naive to claim 'same service, same rules' when the services are so utterly different, says T V Ramachandran.
Blind categorisation of OTTs with TSPs is damaging as the two are fundamentally different. It is naive to claim 'same service, same rules' when the services are so utterly different, says T V Ramachandran.
As India reels from a severe water shortage, startups have begun offering innovative ways to help people access safe drinking water.
'We are not in the race of how much is the revenue, but how good is the revenue.'
Global IT solutions provider HCL Technologies Ltd has signed a five-year multi-million dollar agreement with US-based Autodesk Inc to provide offshore application and data centre services.
Trading in other derivative products in currency, commodities expected to begin soon.
Find out which devices are most vulnerable.
If automation is the future, these jobs will surge in 2018.
This business could also be aided by new outsourcing opportunities in IMS from Germany, France and northern Europe
Pointing out to the 133-acre Dhirubhai Ambani Knowledge City on the outskirts of the financial capital, he said there is huge realty play opportunity that RCom's erstwhile corporate headquarters possesses, and pegged the potential value creation at the site at Rs 25,000 crore.
Sun Microsystems on Tuesday said it had evolved a new sales strategy - global client solutions engagement model - in its bid to help customers focus on their problems, including business compliance, reducing costs, providing secure global access and
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