India building nuclear sub, says top scientist
· Secret military programme nears completion
· Vessels may undergo sea trials next year
India has kept its efforts to build a nuclear submarine under wraps for more than 30 years, but a top Indian scientist has confirmed that the ongoing project at the Kalpakkam nuclear facility near Chennai to develop a nuclear reactor fuelled by enriched [...]
Ness Technologies Ranked Among India’s Top 20 Best Employers
HACKENSACK, New Jersey, September 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Ness Technologies, Inc. , a global provider of IT services and solutions, today announced that it has been ranked as one of India’s Top 20 Best IT Employers by India’s Dataquest magazine and IDC (DQ-IDC) in the 2007 annual IT Best Employers Survey.
The DQ-IDC annual survey was designed [...]
Sun appoints Redington as distributor for India
Sun Microsystems India on Monday announced it has appointed Redington (India) Ltd, a Chennai- based provider of IT products and support services, as a value-added distributor for India.
Having established and consolidated its presence in the growing Indian IT industry, Sun Microsystems, through this partnership, is now gearing up for the next phase in its market [...]
INSAT-4CR in good health: VSSC chief
A day after the successful launch of the GSLV-F04 from Sriharikota, Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC) director B N Suresh said ISRO’s immediate plan was the launch of two more PSLV flights this year and a GSLV launch early next year.
Speaking to reporters at the airport here today after arriving from Sriharikota, he said the [...]
India set to launch new satellite on Sunday
India is set to launch a new communications satellite on Sunday, the Press Trust of India (PTI) reported Friday.
The countdown for the launch of a rocket carrying INSAT-4CR from Sriharikota, about 100 km from the southern city of Chennai, was slated to begin Friday, the PTI said quoting official sources.
The 49-meter rocket will be launched [...]
GSLV-F02 launch rescheduled
The launch of GSLV-F02 carrying India’s communication satellite INSAT-4CR scheduled for September 1, has been rescheduled by a day owing to inclement weather and will now blast off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota on September 2, according to Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) sources.
“The launch is scheduled for 4.21 p.m.,” the sources [...]
HP inaugurates centre in Chennai
Hewlett-Packard India will establish 20 hi-tech Business Solutions Centres across the country to provide the latest HP products and solutions to customers, a top company official said on Tuesday.
Talking to reporters after inauguration of the first centre here in partnership with Precision Informatic, a leading software solution company, HP Solution Partners Organisation Director Sameer Mathur [...]
Cognizant to invest $100 million more in India
Cognizant Technology Solutions said it will invest an additional $100 million in India, taking its total investment in the country to $300 million over the next two years.
The IT and BPO major said the additional investment will be used to expand its new Chennai campus — located in a special economic zone — which will [...]
Apples stock down - Dell Begins Computer Production in Chennai
Rumor sends Apple’s stock down; the market goes up and down; is Facebook outage to blame?
There’s an unconfirmed bit of gossip floating around that Apple of Cupertino may be cutting production of either the iPod, or the new Iphone, or maybe both. Or maybe neither. Nobody seems to know how this got started or where [...]
Dell gives 1st Made in India system to Infosys
Dell handed out its first Made in India desktop computer system to Infosys.
The PCs have been manufactured at Dell’s new manufacturing facility at Sriperumbudur near Chennai. Located on a 50-acre site with a planned five-year investment of about $30 million (about Rs 120 crore), Dell expects initial capacity for the Chennai operation of 4,00,000 desktop [...]
