Roamware’s Innovation gets recognized at the World Brand Congress

September 22nd, 2009 SAN FRANCISCO - Yahoo Inc. said Tuesday it will spend $100 million to promote its brand globally.

September 17th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Congress party slammed Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor 's remarks on the austerity drive on the social networking site Twitter. "Certainly the Congress doesn't endorse or approve it and we find it unacceptable.

January 12th, 2009 NEW DELHI - A parliamentarian had raised the issue of irregularities in Satyam Computer Services way back in 2001 but then Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu and the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government had ignored the matter, the Congress party said Tuesday.

February 3rd, 2009 HYDERABAD - Given the growing international profile of the Indian software industry, Sun Microsystems is organising its global annual developer conference here Feb 18-20 for the third time in as many years. James Gosling, the father of Java programming language and Matt Thompson, senior director, cloud developer platform, will be the keynote speakers at the three-day event, designed to showcase how developers can leverage Sun technologies, services and products.

September 17th, 2009 World's 2 most valuable brands: Coca-Cola, IBMConsumers lost trust in brands this year as the recession deepened, according to an industry report released Thursday, although longtime staples Coca-Cola and IBM retained their spots as the world's two most valuable brands. This is the first time the combined value of the world's top 100 brands as ranked by Interbrand, a branding agency, has fallen in the 10 years Interbrand has assessed them.

May 28th, 2009 BANGALORE - Global software major Wipro Technologies has set up a virtual innovation centre for testing services on Second Life, the popular virtual world, the IT bellwether said Thursday. The innovation centre, a replica of the original lab at our campus in the electronics city will provide a one-stop virtual view of our Internet Protocol (IP)-powered solutions, the company said in a statement.

April 7th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Certiport today announced the launch of a pilot that will enable 500 eighth- through twelfth-grade students with little or no computer experience to develop and certify critical digital skills in Certiport Internet and Computing Core Certification (IC³) and the official Microsoft Office certification programs. Developed by Rotary Club of New Delhi through corporate sponsorship from Intel, SpiceT Telecom and CyberLearning, the program aims to help students to stay in school and arm them with employability skills.

February 25th, 2009 BANGALORE - Indian IT bellwethers Infosys Technologies and Wipro Wednesday expressed confidence that the US would not take any measure that would hurt its global competitiveness. Reacting cautiously to US President Barack Obama's remarks on outsourcing Tuesday, Infosys said outsourcing had enhanced the competitiveness of US corporations and had created more jobs within the US economy.

April 30th, 2009 LONDON - They changed the lexicon for the word - search. Now the phrase 'I'll just Google it' has helped make the internet search giant become world's first $100 billion brand beating other household names like Microsoft, and Coca Cola to McDonald's.

January 11th, 2009 BANGALORE - Global software major Wipro Technologies Monday admitted that the World Bank had barred it from securing its contracts from 2007 to 2011. 'The World Bank determined in June 2007 that Wipro would be ineligible to contest direct contracts from 2007-2011,' the IT bellwether said in a notification to the stock exchanges.

September 9th, 2009 SAN JOSE/CALIFORNIA - Roamware Inc., a global leader in mobile roaming solutions, announced that it has completed the acquisition of Macalla Software Ltd, a leading developer of mobile financial services (MFS) solutions. Macalla's m-commerce and mobile banking solutions are successfully deployed by banks and operators around the world; these solutions include credit transfer, international remittance, person to person transactions, top-up and bill payment.

September 11th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Twitter has become a rage, right from college students to celebrities like Ashton Kutcher, and researchers at Penn State University have now claimed that the micro-blogging site is also benefiting companies. Jim Jansen, associate professor of information science and technology, College of Information Science and Technology, Penn State, says that 20 percent of the tweets contain requests for product information or responses to the requests.

May 15th, 2009 WASHINGTON - A French software called 'MoGo TITAN', which runs on the Dutch national supercomputer Huygens, has set a new world record by defeated two professional 'Go' players at the Taiwan Open 2009. During the first two days of the event, MoGo TITAN has set two new world records by winning a 19x19 competition with a 7-stones handicap against the 9P dan professional Go player Jun-Xun Zhou, and a 19x19 competition with a 6-stones handicap against the 1P dan professional Go player Li-Chen Chien.

October 22nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - World's leading IT major, Microsoft Corporation, today launched its latest computing operating system Windows 7 here. With this unveiling, Microsoft in its most important release for more than a decade has aimed to win back customers after the disappointing Vista and strengthen its grip on the PC market.

September 22nd, 2009 EU adviser: Google ads don't infringe trademarksBRUSSELS — A European Union court adviser said Tuesday that Google Inc. does not violate luxury goods makers' trademarks when it sells brand names as search keywords that trigger its lucrative advertisements.