Stories by John Ribeiro

Growth in Indian IT services exports to slow down, says Nasscom

Growth in India's exports of IT services, business process outsourcing and related services is forecast to drop to 11 to 14 percent in the Indian fiscal year to March 31, 2013 from an estimated 16.3 percent in the current fiscal year, the National Association of Software and Services Companies (Nasscom) said.

By John Ribeiro | 09 February, 2012 22:57

Tags: Tata Consultancy Services, services, outsourcing, offshoring, NASSCOM, Everest Group, Cognizant Technology Solutions

Outsourcer Cognizant posts strong revenue and profit growth despite uncertain market

Cognizant Technology Solutions posted strong growth in revenue and profits in the fourth quarter of 2011, indicating that a few focused players continue to grow, even as demand for offshoring is flat because of uncertain economic conditions.

By John Ribeiro | 09 February, 2012 01:43

Tags: Tata Consultancy Services, services, outsourcing, offshoring, financial results, Cognizant Technology Solutions, business issues

Google to commit to offer some Motorola patents on FRAND terms

Google is planning to send a letter to standards setting organizations, stating that Motorola Mobility's standards-essential patents will continue to be available on FRAND terms after its acquisition of the company, a person close to the situation said late Tuesday.

By John Ribeiro | 08 February, 2012 15:26

Tags: patent, Motorola Mobility, mergers and acquisitions, legal, intellectual property, Google, business issues

Large data center coming to India, as regional demand booms

Tulip Data Center Services is setting up a 900,000 square foot (83,612.7 square meters) data center in Bangalore, the largest in India, to benefit from scale and target growing demand for collocation, cloud, and managed services in India and neighboring countries.

By John Ribeiro | 08 February, 2012 01:04

Tags: Tulip, services, servers, networking, IBM, Hosted, hewlett-packard, hardware systems, Configuration / maintenance, Computing services

Anonymous claims to have released source code of Symantec's pcAnywhere

Hacker group Anonymous claimed late Monday that the source code of Symantec's pcAnywhere had been uploaded on The Pirate Bay site.

By John Ribeiro | 07 February, 2012 18:17

Tags: symantec, security, legal, cybercrime

Oracle asks for retrial against SAP in TomorrowNow case

Oracle has chosen a new trial in its lawsuit against SAP for copyright infringement, rejecting the reduction of a jury verdict by about US$1 billion by a federal court in September last year.

By John Ribeiro | 07 February, 2012 16:26

Tags: sap, oracle, legal, intellectual property, copyright

Google agrees to court order in India to remove content

Google has agreed before a court in Delhi to remove religious and other content considered objectionable, though some other Internet firms are likely to appeal the court's decision, plaintiff Mufti Ajiaz Arshad Qasmi said on Monday.

By John Ribeiro | 07 February, 2012 00:37

Tags: search engines, Regulation, legal, Internet service providers, internet, government, Google, Facebook, Civil lawsuits

India to auction 2G spectrum from scandal-tainted licenses

India initiated plans Friday to auction 2G spectrum, a day after the country's Supreme Court ordered licenses and spectrum issued in 2008 to be canceled, as they had been purchased by business entities that manipulated the system.

By John Ribeiro | 04 February, 2012 02:15

Tags: telephony, Telenor, Telecommunication, Regulation, government, Etisalat, Carriers

Amazon sets up website for Indian retailers and own products

Amazon.com has set up a subsidiary in India, Junglee.com, that aggregates products from local online and offline retailers, but does not sell them, it said Thursday.

By John Ribeiro | 03 February, 2012 02:07

Tags: Internet service providers, internet, e-commerce, amazon.com

Google introduces country domains on Blogger to aid content removal

Google is directing users to localized country domains on Blogger to provide it flexibility to comply with content removal rules in various countries.

By John Ribeiro | 02 February, 2012 22:11

Tags: twitter, Regulation, legislation, Internet service providers, internet, government, Google

India's top court strikes down 122 2G mobile licenses

India's Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that 122 mobile licenses awarded across 32 service areas in 2008 should be cancelled, giving a new dimension to investigations into alleged malpractices and corruption in the allotment of the 2G licenses.

By John Ribeiro | 02 February, 2012 20:06

Tags: Telenor, Telecommunication, Regulation, legal, government, Etisalat, Carriers

Seagate: Shortage of disk drives to continue through 2012

Seagate Technology said Tuesday that supply of hard disk drives (HDDs) this year will continue to fall short of demand, leading large customers to look to long-term agreements to ensure supply after devastating floods in Thailand.

By John Ribeiro | 01 February, 2012 18:54

Tags: western digital, storage, Seagate Technology, hdd, financial results, Drives, business issues

Oracle handed setback in HP Itanium case

A court in California rejected Oracle's bid to use a fraud claim to undo an agreement to support the Itanium processor, that it is said to have made with Hewlett-Packard.

By John Ribeiro | 31 January, 2012 16:40

Tags: software, servers, processors, oracle, legal, hewlett-packard, hardware systems, Components, Civil lawsuits, applications

Apple number one smartphone vendor again, say research firms

Apple has emerged as the number one smartphone vendor worldwide in the fourth quarter of 2011, by a small margin, after losing ground to Samsung in the previous quarter, research firms Strategy Analytics and IHS iSuppli said.

By John Ribeiro | 27 January, 2012 16:49

Tags: Strategy Analytics, smartphones, samsung, Nokia, iPhone, IHS iSuppli, consumer electronics, Blackberry, Apple, Android

Rhapsody acquires Napster operations in UK, Germany

Rhapsody has acquired the Napster service in the U.K. and Germany, following up on its acquisition last year of Napster's U.S. operations from Best Buy.

By John Ribeiro | 26 January, 2012 18:56

Tags: Rhapsody, Napster International, Music and audio, mergers and acquisitions, Internet-based applications and services, internet, business issues

 
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