Sonia salutes India’s IT success

August 12th, 2009 RAEBARELI - Congress President and UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi inaugurated 3G mobile services of Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd on Wednesday at Raebareli in Uttar Pradesh. After four major cities of the state including Lucknow, Allahabad, Kanpur and Varanasi it was a first small town where this high tech facility of mobile has been introduced.

September 22nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor met Congress President Sonia Gandhi here today and is reported to have discussed his "cattle class" comment on the social network site Twitter. Tharoor is also scheduled to meet the Prime Minister, Dr.

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.

January 27th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The government's decision on 3G spectrum auction and a cut in fuel prices is likely to be announced Thursday. The Cabinet Committee on Political Affairs met here Wednesday evening to consider a host of proposals including these two.

May 5th, 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.

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.

March 24th, 2009 SCOTTSDALE - To effectively counter the challenges of India's rapid growth, JDA Software has outlined five key strategies to help companies establish an efficient, flexible supply chain and successfully address the operational challenges facing the country's expanding market. "To keep pace with India's growth rate, companies have been focused on building production capabilities, distribution networks and retail outlets resulting in complex supply chains with long lead times," said Stephen McNulty, regional vice president, Asia Pacific, JDA Software.

January 12th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Unfazed by the mammoth fraud in Indian IT bellwether Satyam, Britain Tuesday hailed India as a 'success story', saying one rotten apple does not soil the whole barrel, even as an optimistic New Delhi urged the international community 'not to press the panic button'. 'India's economic growth is based in strong fundamentals and a zeal for reforms.

January 18th, 2005 Source: India's Choice by NYTimes For an AIDS patient in a poor country lucky enough to get antiretroviral treatment, chances are that the pills that stave off death come from India. Generic knockoffs of AIDS drugs made by Indian manufacturers - now treating patients in 200 countries - have brought the price of antiretroviral therapy down to $140 a year from $12,000.

July 29th, 2009 NEW DELHI - India's information technology and outsourcing industry is expected to grow over 7 percent this fiscal to log revenues of $64 billion with much faster expansion within the domestic market, a leading industry group said Wednesday. The National Association of Software and Service Companies (Nasscom) has forecast in its latest study that the software and outsourcing industry will log an export growth of 4-7 percent this fiscal to log $48-50 billion in revenues.

June 18th, 2009 NEW DELHI - India will continue its robust telecom story with the sector's revenue to be more than $30 billion by 2013, according to a global information technology research and advisory firm. "Total mobile services revenue in India is projected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 12.5 percent during 2009-2013 to exceed $30 billion, the US-based Gartner Inc said in a statement Thursday.

August 18th, 2009 Andreessen fund's 1st investment has familiar ringBELLEVUE, Wash. — A new fund managed by Web browser pioneer Marc Andreessen and his longtime confidant Ben Horowitz is treading familiar ground with its first investment — a high-tech startup already tied to the two partners.

June 6th, 2006 IBM is spending 6 billion USD in the next three years to extend and improve its Indian operations. In the last three years IBM has already spent 2 billion dollars in India.

April 28th, 2009 After having an exciting news of $10 laptops shaping up in India, last month we had an embarrassing disclosure of a device that was anything but a laptop.  For Rs. 500 you would have got a 2GB of storage memory, WiFi connectivity, Ethernet port(s) and USB connectivity and without a screen.

October 5th, 2009 Dealertrack upgrading identity theft trackerLAKE SUCCESS, N.Y. — Dealertrack Holdings Inc., which makes software for auto dealers, said Monday it has upgraded a service that tracks identity theft prevention.