Technology Sector

Satyam’s New Owner To Be Announced On April 13

Satyam’s New Owner To Be Announced On April 13Satyam Computer Services is ready to have a new owner on April 13.

Deepak Parekh, Satyman board member and HDFC Chairman, announced that suitors will now have more time to submit their financial bids for the company.

He said that the financial bids will be opened at 9 am on April 13.

Moreover, the winner will be declared on the same day.

Research In Motion posts stronger-than-expected fiscal fourth quarter profit

Research In Motion posts stronger-than-expected fiscal fourth quarter profitThe manufacturer of Blackberry smart phones – Research In Motion (RIM) on Thursday beat market forecasts, announcing stronger-than-expected fiscal fourth quarter profit. The Waterloo, Ontario based Canadian wireless device company, RIM reported that its revenue surged 84 percent in the fourth quarter, against the revenue in the same quarter a year ago.

NEWS FEATURE: YouTube shuts out German users in dispute over fees

YouTube shuts out German users in dispute over feesHamburg  - Users of YouTube, the online video service, lost access Wednesday to a vast array of contemporary music in Europe's biggest nation after a dispute with a German fees agency escalated.

"This video is not available in your country," said a message when computers connected to the internet in Germany tried for example to open YouTube's Viva la Vida clip by British rock bank Coldplay.

AMD announces its $899 ATI FirePro V7750 graphics card

AMD announces its $899 ATI FirePro V7750 graphics card AMD has made available the $899-priced ATI FirePro V7750 graphics accelerator for the high-end market, meeting the needs of professional content creators, who use graphics in engineering, digital content creation and scientific fields.

The DisplayPort outputs and a Dual Link enabled DVI output capabilities of the ATI FirePro V7750 generate in conjunction an over 5000 pixels wide multi-monitor desktop in a single-slot form factor. AMD says that its ATI FirePro delivers precise color reproduction and visual quality of intricate and huge data sets.

As April 1 deadline looms, researchers advance on Confiker worm

As April 1 deadline looms, researchers advance on Confiker worm San Francisco - Researchers have discovered the first easy way to detect the presence of the Conficker computer worm on networked computers, just days before the worm is scheduled to morph into a new form that could seriously compromise millions of computers, PC magazine reported Monday.

Twitter to offer premium paid accounts to businesses; users list to follow

TwitterWith speculations making rounds of late about the micro-blogging service Twitter's crescendos, the free and popular site intends offering premium paid accounts to businesses with extended services to generate revenue; raising its profile to Twitter newcomers; and a recommended users list to follow.

Talking about the new offerings, San Francisco-based Twitter's co-founder Biz Stone told Reuters: "We think there will be opportunities to provide services to commercial entities that help them get even more value out of Twitter. If these services are valuable to companies, we think they may want to pay for them."

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