IDG News Service
Ribeiro is a reporter for the IDG News Service.
Satyam buyer does not get enough shares in public offer
Jul. 03, 2009
Tech Mahindra may have to ask Satyam Computer Services for a preferential issues of shares to continue its bid to take over the troubled outsourcer.
Dell and HP take knocks in India over recycling programs
Jul. 02, 2009
Dell and Hewlett-Packard (HP) were criticized by Greenpeace for not implementing their product recycling services properly in India.
Citibank tests out payments using mobile phones
Jun. 30, 2009
Citibank is starting a large trial of the use of mobile phones to make credit card payments at retail outlets and other points-of-sale in Bangalore, which the company is branding as "Citi Tap and Pay".
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Unisys targets secure cloud computing
Jun. 30, 2009
Unisys is announcing Tuesday a new set of services in the area of secure cloud computing aimed at addressing customers' security concerns about moving their applications and data to an external cloud.
Infosys chairman to head government identity project
Jun. 25, 2009
Infosys Technologies' co-chairman, Nandan Nilekani, has quit his post to take up a position with the Indian federal government, with the rank of a cabinet minister.
New CEO and CFO at beleaguered outsourcer Satyam
Jun. 23, 2009
Troubled Indian outsourcer Satyam Computer Services announced the appointment of a new CEO and chief financial officer (CFO) on Tuesday. The two are former executives of Mahindra Group, the business group in the process ...
Google India says it is not responsible for parent company
Jun. 23, 2009
Google India told a court in India on Monday that it was not liable for defamatory posts on Blogger, as it is not a party to an agreement between Google, the parent company of both Google India and Blogger, and those ...
Satyam uses Mahindra Satyam brand to reflect new owners
Jun. 21, 2009
Embattled Indian outsourcer Satyam Computer Services plans to use a new brand, Mahindra Satyam, to reflect its new ownership.
India to have 771 million mobile connections by 2013
Jun. 18, 2009
India's mobile connections are forecast to top 771 million by 2013 after growing at a CAGR (compound annual growth rate) of 14.3 percent from 452 million connections in 2009, research firm Gartner said on Thursday.
India bans import of mobile phones without identity codes
Jun. 18, 2009
The Indian government has banned the import of mobile phones without an IMEI (International Mobile Equipment Identity) number, and has ordered operators to block calls from phones without an IMEI from next month..
IBM allocates $100M for research in mobile communications
Jun. 17, 2009
IBM is allocating US$100 million to research in mobile communications over the next five years.
Satyam buyer in a fix, as share price rises
Jun. 11, 2009
Tech Mahindra, the Indian outsourcer that won the bid for majority ownership of embattled outsourcer Satyam Computer Services, may be in a fix following a sharp increase in Satyam's share price.
US protectionism could lead to trade war, says Nasscom
Jun. 10, 2009
U.S. protectionism targeting Indian outsourcers may be met by retaliatory measures such as blocking access to Indian markets, India's National Association of Software and Service Companies (Nasscom) said on Tuesday.
Satyam finally reveals financial data showing revenue slid
Jun. 09, 2009
Embattled Indian outsourcer Satyam Computer Services released on Tuesday the financial information that was provided to investors at the time of the bid for a majority share in the company, though it warned that the ...
Google adds editing tools to online translation
Jun. 09, 2009
Google has brought out a translator toolkit that combines the company's machine translation technology with online tools for manually editing content.
Dell bundling open source applications for SMBs
Jun. 09, 2009
Dell is planning to offer small and medium businesses globally pre-configured bundles of hardware and open source software to run their businesses, according to an executive at the company.
Report: Steve Jobs returning to work this month
Jun. 05, 2009
Apple CEO Steve Jobs is on track to return from medical leave this month, and there is even speculation that he may be present at the company's annual software developers' conference next week at San Francisco, The Wall ...
Data Domain accepts new NetApp offer
Jun. 04, 2009
NetApp has claimed victory in the bidding war with EMC over Data Domain, a vendor of deduplication storage systems, though EMC insists its all-cash offer is superior to NetApp's, which combines cash and stock.
Digg users can now vote on both ads and news
Jun. 04, 2009
Social news site Digg is introducing an advertisement platform that will allow its users to vote advertisements up and down as they now do with news stories.
Report: Hiring by tech companies under DOJ investigation
Jun. 03, 2009
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is investigating whether the hiring practices of Google, Yahoo, Apple and some other technology companies may have violated anti-trust regulations, The Washington Post [<a href="http ...
Google plans to enter the e-book business
Jun. 01, 2009
Google plans by the end of the year to give publishers a way to sell online digital versions of their books through a partner program that now allows publishers to submit books for company's search engine results, ...
3G auction a priority for India's communications minister
May. 29, 2009
India's auction of 3G licenses will be a priority, A. Raja, the country's minister of communications and information technology, told the Press Trust of India news agency on Thursday after he was sworn in to the post.
India's PC market may have bottomed out, says IDC
May. 27, 2009
India's PC market may be on the rebound, with unit shipments up 7.4% in the first quarter of this year from the previous quarter, mainly on stronger buying by the government, education, and state-owned banks, research ...
Sun and IBM score highest on Greenpeace Cool IT challenge
May. 27, 2009
Sun Microsystems and IBM scored the highest in the Greenpeace Cool IT challenge, which rated IT companies on the technologies they offer for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, their advocacy of global emission reduction ...
New Atom platform will cut off graphics players says Intel
May. 26, 2009
Intel's next generation Atom platform, code-named Pine Trail, will ease out graphics chip makers like Nvidia from designing graphic chips around the Atom processor, the company said Tuesday.
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