IT news
Google, Yahoo, Intel, Microsoft, IBM and Cisco vie for UID project
12 Nov 2009
Global technology leaders are keen on being asociated with the ambitious multi-billion dollar Unique Identification (UID) project, headed by former Infosys chairman Nandan Nilekan
HP to acquire networking-gear maker 3Com for $2.7 billion
12 Nov 2009
HP will be competing with Cisco Systems, Siemens, Alcatel and Emulex in the global network equipment market, which includes routers and switches
Logitech acquires LifeSize Communications for $405 million
11 Nov 2009
Swiss computer peripherals maker Logitech plans to take on rival Cisco Systems and Tandberg in the highly competitive video-conferencing equipment market
Tandberg shareholders want Cisco to sweeten bid
10 Nov 2009
Andrew Cuomo guns for Intel
05 Nov 2009
New York attorney general Adrew Cuomo alleges that Intel extracted exclusive agreements from computer makers to use Intel’s microprocessors in exchange for payments totalling billions of dollars
ICANN to launch multi-lingual domain addresses for the web
31 Oct 2009
ICANN has approved plans to let web addresses be written in non-Latin characters, marking the `biggest technical change' as to how the internet works since its invention four decades ago.
KPIT Cummins buys out American IT firm Sparta
30 Oct 2009
Alcatel-Lucent introduces new IP routers
29 Oct 2009
Intel, HCL join hands for WiMax devices
28 Oct 2009
WiMax broadband would help people access the internet in remote parts of the country and other places where wired broadband has failed to reach
Cisco to acquire ScanSafe for $183 million
28 Oct 2009
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The Rise and Rise of HDFC Bank
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HDFC, which surged ahead of global majors like HSBC Holdings Plc and Citigroup Inc and left Indian peers like State Bank of India and ICICI Bank in market capitalisation, now ranks fourth largest among the world’s most valuable banks, after JPMorgan Chase & Co, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Ltd and Bank of America Corp
India’s Millet Revolution To Enrich Global Food Basket
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Millets, a healthier and cheaper substitute to wheat and rice, are indigenous to many parts of the world, especially in the semiarid tropics of Asia and Africa, and offers a big scope for expanding production and consumption in the foodgrain deficient African continent
Market predator Hindenburg preys on Adani stock
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Almost a month after the damning report of short-seller Hindenburg Research on the Adani Group that claimed that the seven stocks within the group were about 85 per cent overvalued, one of the group's stocks, Adani Total Gas, closed at Rs835 on the BSE, down nearly 79 per cent from its 24 January level, almost close to reaching that valuation
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