Novell loses appeal in Microsoft lawsuit

SALT LAKE CITY: A federal appeals court is throwing out Novell’s complaint that Microsoft undermined the Word Perfect writing programme in favour of Microsoft’s own Word programme with the Windows 95 rollout. The Denver-based 10th US Circuit

HCL Tech bags multi-million dollar contract in US

NEW DELHI: Software services company HCL Technologies said that it has won a multi-year multi-million dollar contract to modernise unemployment insurance services in the US states of Wyoming, Colorado, Arizona and North Dakota. “HCL America Inc

Alcatel-Lucent, NSN, Huawei, ZTE in race for Rs 400cr MTNL deal

KOLKATA: Global telecom equipment makers Alcatel-Lucent, Nokia Solutions Networks, Huawei Telecommunications and ZTE have put in bids for supplying gear for Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited’s much delayed 1.6-million line, over Rs 400-crore GSM network expansion plans, a director

NxtGen Expands its enterprise cloud services portfolio

NxtGen Datacenter & Cloud Technologies Private Limited announced the expansion of its enterprise cloud services portfolio.Headquartered in Bangalore, NxtGen is delivering cloud services across multiple platforms, hosting enterprise applications, e-commerce, gaming and

BlackBerry failure: A lesson for Apple, Samsung

SINGAPORE/JAKARTA: Indonesia has long been a surprising jewel in the crown of BlackBerry, a rare market where its devices enjoyed mass appeal. But the country also highlights the struggling company’s failure to

Samsung’s curved display smartphone coming in October

SEOUL: Samsung Electronics said it will introduce a smartphone with a curved display in October, as the world’s top handset maker seeks to set the pace of hardware innovation and maintain its supremacy in a fiercely competitive business.

What’s in BlackBerry buyer Prem Watsa’s India kitty?

MUMBAI: Prem Watsa, the founder of Fairfax Financial Holdings, is one of the first-generation expatriate-entrepreneurs in Canada who has built successful businesses but remains below the radar. Alongside his Canadian success stories, the India-born