Leading IT firm, HCL Technologies managed to bag an outsourcing project worth $350-million from Readers' Digest Association (RDA), a leading media firm headquartered in New York after a year long contention.

The Indian IT services provider would offer applications development and maintenance (ADM) services and infrastructure support to the media firm by implementing advanced technological modules using cutting edge technology.

Low demand from corporate and household sector led to decline in PC sales in the third quarter of current financial year.

The Manufacturers' Association of Information Technology (MAIT), in its quarterly industrial performance review, shows 19 per cent decline in computers and notebooks sales under the impact of global slowdown and appreciation of dollar as compared to other currencies.

To protect IPTV services to BSNL customers, Verimatrix announced that it has provided its Verimatrix Video Content Authority System (VCAS) for IPTV.

BSNL, which rolls out IPTV in India together with Smart Digivision Private Limited (SDPL), eyes more than three million IPTV subscribers in 93 cities by the next three years.

BSNL’s service offerings consist of over 140 TV channels in addition to an on-demand movie library without any additional charge.

Melbourne, Mar. 17: Australian software major Telstra has dumped scandal-ridden outsourcing partner Satyam from an applications support contract believed to be worth 32 million dollars a year.

EDS will pick up the embattled Indian outsourcing firm’s IT contracts with Telstra, sources told The Australian.

Telstra chief executive Sol Trujillo, who leaves the company on June 30, sat on the board of EDS before joining TELCO in 2005.

Washington - The space shuttle Discovery was on its way to the International Space Station on Monday as ground crews monitored a piece of space junk that could prompt a change of course.

A piece of an old satellite could require the ISS to perform an avoidance manoeuvre, forcing Discovery to slightly change course in order to arrive at the ISS on Tuesday.

Helsinki  - Finnish computer expert Jerry Javala has generated interest around the internet after word spread of how he had his finger prosthesis fitted with a USB flash drive.

Javala lost part of his left ring finger in a motorcycle accident in 2008 and his doctor, hearing what Javala did for a living, helped him fit a USB "finger drive," according to Javala's web site www. protoblogr. net.