Slain engineer’s body beings sent to India

January 16th, 2009 WASHINGTON - The body of Akshay Vishal, an employee of fraud-hit Satyam Computer Services who was murdered in a robbery attempt in the US, is expected to be flown to India Saturday. A consul from the Indian consulate in Houston has reached Little Rock, Arkansas, where the incident took place, to coordinate with the local authorities and complete the necessary paper work.

July 30th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Two engineers have proposed an alternative set of laws to Isaac Asimov's famous "Three Laws of Responsible Robotics", in order to rewrite mankind's future with robots. "We wanted to write three new laws to get people thinking about the human-robot relationship in more realistic, grounded ways," said d David Woods, professor of integrated systems engineering at Ohio State University.

January 6th, 2009 BANGALORE - Nasscom, the apex body of the IT-BPO industry in India, expressed its shock Wednesday at the confession made by Satyam Computers' erstwhile chief B. Ramalinga Raju, who admitted to a Rs.40 billion fraud before quitting his post.

January 15th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Police in Little Rock, Arkansas, are questioning a 20-year old man 'strongly suspected' to be involved in the murder of a software engineer from Hyderabad, working with the scam-hit Satyam Computers. Police declined to release the name and other details of the suspect arrested in connection with the killing of Akshay Vishal, who was shot dead Tuesday in the seventh case of young students and professionals from Andhra Pradesh being killed in the US in last 14 months.

May 4th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Over 2.5 crore owners of cheap handsets, that stood to be banned in India as these did not have the regulatory unique 15-digit identity code, can breathe a sigh of relief -- help is on the way. The Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI), the organisation representing GSM service operators, Monday said it has developed a software that can embed the code - known as International Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI) - in these handsets.

January 12th, 2009 SINGAPORE/MANILA - With a billion dollar revenue fraud dealing the Indian IT sector a body blow, BPO firms in the Philippines are hoping to make capital by getting some of the business from the West. Leading politician Representative Joseph Santiago said the unravelling of the massive revenue fraud at Satyam Computer Services would dissuade multinational companies from seeking BPO services in India.

January 11th, 2009 SINGAPORE/MANILA - With a billion dollar revenue fraud dealing the Indian IT sector a body blow, BPO firms in the Philippines are hoping to make capital by getting some of the business from the West. Leading politician Representative Joseph Santiago said the unravelling of the massive revenue fraud at Satyam Computer Services would dissuade multinational companies from seeking BPO services in India.

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.

July 21st, 2009 SAN FRANCISCO - Forty years after man first set foot on the moon, web pioneer Google launched what could be the ultimate guide to the earth's natural satellite. Google on Monday updated its popular mapping software Google Earth with a complete map of the moon that allows you to explore craters, historic sites and human artefacts.

September 1st, 2009 SAN FRANCISCO - A disruption to Google's Gmail service frustrated users throughout the world Tuesday and flummoxed engineers at the giant internet company. Google said the problems started early in the morning and were not resolved until approximately 2330 GMT.

July 23rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Microsoft founder Bill Gates is in India to receive the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development. The award will be received on behalf of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which has been providing grants for public health activities, notably in the areas of HIV/AIDS prevention and communication.

January 19th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Rs.70-billion accounting fraud at Satyam Computer will not mar the image of corporate India abroad, Minister for Science and Technology Kapil Sibal said here Tuesday. 'There are a lot of shining stars in India's corporate world who will ensure that the flag of India keeps flying high,' said Sibal.

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February 10th, 2009 NEW DELHI - IT industry body National Association of Software and Services Companies (Nasscom) Wednesday said it will form a corporate governance and ethics committee, headed by Infosys Technologies chairman N.R. Narayana Murthy.

June 9th, 2009 BANGALORE - Battered by global meltdown and lower tech spending, the Indian IT industry is looking up to the new government for extension of fiscal benefits and relief from multiplicity and inequity of taxes to mitigate the recessionary impact and protectionist measures being adopted globally. "Extension of fiscal benefits like 10A/10B sections for the tech industry under the Software Technology Parks of India (STPI) scheme is imperative to sustain the growth momentum and compete in the global market," IT sector trade body Nasscom chairman Pramod Bhasin told reporters here Tuesday.