The seventh edition of CONNECT 2007, a premier information, communication and technology event promoted jointly by CII and Tamil Nadu government, will be held in Chennai from September 14 to 17.
Companies such as IBM Daksh, Aegis, MphasiS, Intelenet, HTMT Global, Sitel India are also increasing their domestic focus.
Dismissing talks that he was running for presidency as speculation, software icon and Infosys Technologies Ltd chief mentor N R Narayana Murthy on Wednesday said one should not spend time debating hypothetical issues.
Presently, there are only 2000 Indian engineers in Japan and most of them work for onsite jobs of Indian or multinational corporations.
TRAI said that Internet service providers would not be allowed to discriminate on pricing of data access for different web services.
Information technology, not manufacturing or infrastructure, should be the focus of the government while implementing initiatives such as Make in India and Start Up India.
A distinct number of new computers being sold today are fitted with counterfeit, refurbished or sub-standard components.
The third CITU strike in West Bengal and the move of unions to call the shots in Kerala's IT sector are developments that the IT industry, at large, has denounced.
As a major contributor to exports, the IT industry has greater responsibility to perform better in view of the huge Current Account Deficit facing India, said N R Narayana Murthy, whose appointment as Infosys Executive Chairman was ratified by shareholders on Saturday.
The other developers are from across the globe, including players from Dubai, Europe and Asia.
The sector, including domestic and exports segments, is growing at an estimated 28 per cent in FY07.
'Let us remember that Make in India for defence must not be our goal.' 'The goal is to have a strong military to help the nation protect its identity and assert its will.'
Infosys has topped the AC Nielsen Corporate Reputation Index for the fourth consecutive year.
The company is already planning a second centre in India, most probably on the outskirts of Maharashtra, which would supplement the Vadodara centre.
There could be rejig at top level at SpiceJet.
"The government will not tolerate any attempt at picketing or forceful implementation of the strike," the Bengal chief minister told reporters at the secretariat.
Indian IT services major TCS will open a global delivery centre in Mexico next year.
The Indian IT industry's ambitions of becoming the primary destination for legal process outsourcing may fall short as myriad issues ranging from dearth of professionals to lack of cost arbitrage would clamp it down.
President A P J Abdul Kalam asked the Indian IT industry on Wednesday to focus more on high end products while projecting that the market for information, communications and technology would touch $200 billion by the year 2010.
After visits to the US and Europe, a power ministry delegation is headed for Japan, Singapore and Malaysia for conducting roadshows to attract foreign investors in the country's power sector.
Silicon Valley-based billionaire and prominent venture capitalist Vinod Khosla on Friday condemned government's decision to ban internet-based taxi aggregator Uber following the alleged rape incident in Delhi recently.
The government plans to modify the access control norms for special economic zone, which prescribes for a wall and a fencing of a particular height, and make them flexible on demands from the developers.
Pakistan's software piracy rate has increased to 86 per cent, placing it in fifth position among the top 20 countries with the highest piracy figures.
Factors such as industrial backwardness, crime, poor infrastructure, erratic power supply and poor educational infrastructure will take a backseat to identity
Wage inflation will not blunt the country's competitive edge in the IT industry, according to software guru and chairman of Infosys, N R Narayana Murthy.
The serial blasts in Mumbai would have no impact on Indian IT industry, thriving on outsourcing, industry leaders said on Wednesday.
Notebooks sales surge; peripherals market vibrant; Q4 sales expected to be buoyant.
Free and open source software is fast taking on licenced software giants worldover, and in India too, it is catching the fancy of IT industry.
From the dingy units copying cassettes, the action has now shifted to organised IT units, manufacturing top quality CDs and passing them off as originals to consumers, causing the economy losses to the tune of Rs 650 crore (Rs 6.5 billion).\n\n
National Association of Software and Service Companies on Thursday condoled the death of former IT and Communications Minister Pramod Mahajan
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