TCS plans to hire about 60,000 people in the ongoing financial year (2011-12) MUMBAI: Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), India’s largest software services exporter, expects uncertainty in the global economy to continue for some time, and also expects to hire up to 20,000 people this quarter, its chief executive said. “The company during second quarter is [...]

Samsung is the sole supplier of the A5 chips used in the iPad 2, but Apple has hinted it is keen to diversify its supply chain from the Korean company TAIPEI: Taiwan’s TSMC has started trial manufacturing of next generation A6 chips for Apple Inc, a source familiar with the matter said, in a sign [...]

Ah, the world of tech myths! Despite countless efforts to kill them, a host of myths continue to persist. Some of them are result of plain ignorance while a few had genuine lineage but as the technology moves forward, do not hold true anymore. We take a look at 10 of these fallacies and squash [...]

Oracle is seeking as much as $6.1 billion in damages in a patent- and copyright-infringement lawsuit against Google SAN FRANCISCO: Google Inc is fighting what it calls Oracle Corp’s “harassing demand” for a deposition of Chief Executive Officer Larry Page as part of Oracle’s multibillion-dollar lawsuit alleging the Android operating system infringes its Java patents, [...]

Billionaire Mukesh Ambani-controlled Reliance Industries is conducting an advanced due diligence exercise on telecom services provider Aircel, three people said on condition of anonymity. MUMBAI: Billionaire Mukesh Ambani-controlled Reliance Industries is conducting an advanced due diligence exercise on telecom services provider Aircel, three people said on condition of anonymity. Reliance Industries has completed at least [...]

India may no longer be outsourcing hub as UK companies such as Aviva, BT & Santander move work to home country BANGALORE: India may no longer be the preferred destination for call centre work from the United Kingdom as a trend to shift back work by UK companies to their home country is gaining momentum. [...]

The report said Amazon is outsourcing production to an Asian manufacturer and would not design the tablet itself WASHINGTON: Online retail giant Amazon plans to unveil a tablet computer before October in a bid to carve out a slice of a growing market dominated by Apple’s iPad, The Wall Street Journal reported. The newspaper, citing [...]

Microsoft’s decision to launch Office 365 a few days ago represented the company’s effort to get a slice of the enterprise cloud computing pie. But for executives and travelling business folk, it meant something simpler – the option to use the popular MS Office suite (MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint) from any computer, using [...]

–TOI Tech With recession ending, IT salaries at various levels got back their sheen. The recent talent war in the sector too has boosted IT salaries. In fact, many IT companies are doling out double-digit bonuses and increments to retain and attract talent. Staffing firm Kelly Services recently released its annual Employment Outlook and Salary [...]

Infosys beat its revenue forecast by 1.8% for the April-June first quarter of the 2011-12 fiscal MYSORE: Infosys Ltd, country’s No 2 software services exporter, sees a stronger second half compared to the first half, a senior executive said, after the company’s first-quarter net profit narrowly missed expectations. “The year, it looks like, is going [...]