British firm to provide technology services to Gujarat plant

January 18th, 2009 GANDHINAGAR - The Gujarat government is waiting for a decision by the new board of the beleaguered Satyam Computer Services, which had committed to set up a Rs.600 million (Rs.60 crore) IT park in this state capital, an official said Monday. 'Since Satyam Computer Services has already invested Rs.11 crore (Rs.110 million) for purchasing land for the IT park in Gandhinagar, we would like to await the decision of the new board,' the IT department official said.

April 7th, 2009 GANDHINAGAR - Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi is recording short speeches for YouTube to keep in touch with voters across the country. According to Shashiranjan Yadav of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Modi records the speeches at his residence in between his campaign tours.

October 15th, 2009 CHENNAI - The Nasdaq-listed software services firm Cognizant Technology Thursday announced it would acquire Hyderabad-based UBS India Service Centre, the captive service provider to the UBS Group for an undisclosed sum. As part of the multi-year agreement, Cognizant will provide a range of services relating to business process outsourcing (BPO), knowledge process outsourcing, information technology and remote infrastructure management to UBS divisions around the globe.

July 29th, 2009 LONDON - A decision to recruit at least 100 Indian workers, if not more, to fill finance and IT posts at the British Council in New Delhi and other parts of India has infuriated unions, who fear that this could be the blueprint for Whitehall. Final decisions about which jobs will go to India will be taken in the next few weeks, but they are expected to include 58 finance posts, up to 40 IT posts and 15 posts for a new centre of excellence, The Times reports.

October 7th, 2009 Dell to close Winston-Salem, NC plant, lay off 905ROUND ROCK, Texas — Dell Inc. says it will close a desktop computer manufacturing plant in Winston-Salem, North Carolina by the end of January.

April 16th, 2009 Police have started a massive drive across Gujarat's cities and towns to check the records of visitors to the various cyber cafes as a precautionary measure ahead of the polling for the state's 26 Lok Sabha seats April 30. A senior police official involved with the drive here told IANS that police constables on various beats have started carrying out checking of the visitor entries made in the logbooks of cyber cafes in about 25,000 cafes across Gujarat.'The records are being checked from the month of March this year,' the official added.

March 5th, 2009 CHENNAI - Global audit firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) is cleaning up its Indian stables in the wake of the accounting scandal in Satyam Computer Services. According to a statement by the firm, an advisory board is being set up to provide guidance to the PwC leadership on its strategy and actions.

July 20th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Only three telecom operators can roll out third generation (3G) services in Delhi due to a spectrum crunch, Communications and IT Minister A. Raja said Monday.

January 26th, 2009 BANGALORE - The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has given security clearance to British telecom major Cable & Wireless (C&W) to roll out voice, data and Internet services in India, a top company official said. 'We are the first overseas telecom service provider to secure the DoT approval for launching our multi-services platform (MSP) in India's booming telecom market,' C&W India operations Managing Director Sunanda Das told IANS from Mumbai.

June 30th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Software service provider HCL Technologies Tuesday said it has won a contract from US-based beverages producer Dr Pepper Snapple Group (DPS) to provide IT application support and infrastructure management services. According to the contract, HCL will deliver application support to DPS and manage and monitor its infrastructure for a period of five years, the company said in a regulatory statement.

October 6th, 2009 IBM signs $200M outsourcing contract with telecomSAN FRANCISCO — IBM Corp. says it has won a $200 million contract to handle some technology chores for a company called Datacom Solutions as it rolls out telecommunications services in India.

January 6th, 2007 Nigeria's aviation minister has accused British airlines of treating Nigerian passengers with the "utmost contempt". Mr Fani-Kayode said he "would not sit by and allow our people to be treated like animals by anybody or for any reason".

January 27th, 2009 BANGALORE - Norwest Venture Partners (NVP), promoted by angel investor Promod Haque, will invest Rs.200 million (Rs.20 crore) in infrastructure management services firm Appnomic Systems, it was announced here Wednesday. The venture fund will be invested to expand into the US market and build innovative product and service offerings, the Bangalore-based Appnomic said in a statement.

March 4th, 2009 BANGALORE - The city-based IT solutions firm Sonata Software has set up a wholly-owned subsidiary at Dubai Internet City in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) as its regional hub for expanding its presence in the Middle East and Africa, the company said Wednesday. 'Operating from the Dubai Internet City free zone, we will provide value-based IT solutions and strengthen our presence in the region by targetting market segments such as travel, tourism, hospitality and construction industry,' Sonata managing director B.

February 26th, 2009 BANGALORE - IT infrastructure solutions and services firm Frontier Business Systems has set up a $4-million (Rs.200 million/Rs.20 crore) green data centre here to expand its operations across the country, the company said Thursday. 'The data centre's green virtualisation solutions will enable enterprises to reduce cost while improving business service availability, agility and performance,' Frontier chief executive Ravi Verdes said in a statement.