Indian IT Observer

Airtel, HP to connect more Indians

Telecom major Bharti Airtel has announced its collaboration with HP, in a combined effort to promote Broadband and PC penetration in the country.

NDPL joins IBM-led utility network

IBM has announced that North Delhi Power Limited (NDPL), a Tata Power and government of Delhi joint venture company, which distributes electricity across north and north western part of Delhi, has joined the IBM-led global Intelligent Utility Network (IUN) coalition of a few selected global utilities.

Wipro sets up centre for Harman

India’s Wipro Ltd. has set up an embedded engineering centre for US-based Harman International Industries Inc, to jointly develop products and technologies for the maker of audio and infotainment products.

Convergys plans over biz rejig

Convergys Corporation has announced that its board of directors and senior management team are evaluating a potential separation of the company’s information management business from the remaining streams of operations.

HCL to launch 5-inch PC to take on PDAs

PC maker HCL Infosystems is working on a 5-inch PC to compete with the PDA (personal digital assistant).

Lenovo bundles EMC online backup on laptops

Lenovo Group Ltd. has started preloading some small-business laptop computers with software to access free trials for online data backup services from EMC Corp. The software, which will be loaded onto new Lenovo ThinkPad SL notebooks, uses the Internet to automatically back up data on a computer's hard drive to a remote data center.

DoT to provide broadband in 5,000 blocks with USOF support

The government has said that it would provide broadband connectivity -- high speed Internet services -- to remaining 5,000 rural blocks with the financial support from the Universal Service Obligation Fund soon after the allocation of spectrum through the e-auction process.

Bartronics gets new certification

Bartronics India has received the DESFire Certification. The certification entitles Bartronics to be among select few global manufacturers to be certified by Arsenal Research for DESFire, making it eligible for bidding for large-scale Mass Transit applications world-wide including in Indian Railways and Delhi Metro.

Calsoft to divest stake in Japan co

California Software Company Ltd. (Calsoft) plans to divest its 66 per cent equity stake in the Japan-based Codex Ltd, a trading solutions provider whose customers include Itochu Petroleum Ltd. The company will also divest its 51.28 per cent stake in the Kochi-based Team Frontline Ltd.

Airtel plans telecom, IT solutions for small cos

Bharti Airtel has created a separate business unit to offer tailor-made telecom and IT solutions to small and medium businesses (SMBs), which comprise nearly 80 per cent of India’s total industrial enterprises.