The Kerala High Court has also directed oil distribution companies like Indian Oil Corporation, Bharat Petroleum Corporation and Hindustan Petroleum Corporation to supply diesel to the Kerala State Transport Corporation at subsidized rates. The Madras High Court had, yesterday, asked the companies to supply subsidized diesel to the local transport corporation. KSRTC is currently getting […]
If you needed a reminder of who actually rules the Indian stock markets, yesterday’s sale of 78.3 crore shares of National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) was as good as any. Nearly all the shares were bought by institutions and foreign investors, including banks and mutual funds, and very little by ordinary investors. According to the […]
Google has launched its third annual science fair for children and the deadline for submissions is April 30. As always, the Google Science Fair 2013 will also have two rounds. The first round will be in June when 90 regional finalists will be selected – 30 from the Americas, 30 from Asia Pacific and 30 […]
India’s biggest cloud computing company, Ramco Systems, has inked a deal with Dubai-based Emirates aviation group for supplying cloud-based services to its engineering group. The revenue size of the deal, involving Ramco’s ‘Aviation Suite’ of software, was not disclosed. The suite of cloud-based software offers complete ERP functionality including HR, Finance, and Materials. “We have […]
After being postponed seven times over two months, one of the strongest Linux operating systems – Fedora – has released its latest version — Fedora 18, or the Spherical Cow. The biggest attraction about the release probably that it’s finally out. Unlike the six months that it usually takes, the release has taken about eight, […]
The transition of public vehicles from diesel to CNG, achieved after a struggle of several years and after much pain by commuters and vehicle owners, is now being undone by an unexpected force — the government’s higher tax rate on petrol. In a significant move that may have big implications for India’s car industry, particularly […]
If you are wondering why Ubuntu, arguably the third most popular operating system for the PC, thinks it can take on Android, the top mobile OS also built on top of Linux – the answer may lie in two aspects – speed and a hybrid nature. Ubuntu says its phone will be “blazingly fast” as, […]
A strong performance in consumer laptops helped HP resist the onslaught of Acer and Lenovo in the third quarter and prevent a big erosion in its market share, according to the latest quarterly PC numbers from IDC. Lenovo and Acer have benefited from the Tamil Nadu government’s massive program to distribute free laptops to students. […]
Even as the rest of IT spending remains more or less flat, cloud computing continues to maintain its scorching pace of growth, according to the latest numbers from Gartner. Revenue from platform as a service (PaaS) — where companies offer cloud platforms for others to develop and deploy their cloud applications — is set to […]
India’s National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM), the biggest association of software and services companies, has said that it now expects industry growth this year to be at the lower end of its earlier forecast. It now expects industry export revenues of $75-77 billion in FY 2013. Growth will be led by remote […]
Three key server segments — hyperscale data centers, hosted virtual desktop (HVD) workloads and extreme low-energy (ELE) servers — will offer opportunities for growth through 2015, according to technology research Gartner, Inc. Servers represent the control points of hardware infrastructure in data centers, where workloads and applications reside, and Gartner analysts estimate that end-user spending […]
iBall has launched the first dual-core powered and IPS-display enabled low-cost tablet in India – the PC i9702 Slide – priced at Rs 15,000. The tablet, as already noted, is the most advanced tablet ever launched by any Indian or Chinese low-cost company in India, and has a 1.5 GHz dual-core processor. It also has […]
It is a much debated question – Cloud computing results in enormous savings for companies, but will all that saving mean IT budgets (and the IT market) will shrink, hitting jobs everywhere? In other words, when you don’t need an army of IT engineers to install and maintain a huge array of local software in […]
In a coup of sorts to Chennai-based cloud-solutions provider Ramco Systems, Dell has agreed to offer Ramco’s ERP cloud solution to its mid-market clients. ERP or enterprise resource planning helps big organizations and companies manage their resources and assets by tabulating and generally keeping track of assets, people and inventories. It helps companies figure out […]
Worldwide spending for IT outsourcing (ITO) services is on pace to reach $251.7 billion in 2012, a 2.1 percent increase from 2011 spending of $246.6 billion, according to the latest outlook by Gartner, Inc. India’s share of the total global outsourcing market (including BPO services) is estimated at about $88 billion, according to Nasscom. The […]
The decision by the Joint Parliamentary Committee to ascertain the ‘loss of revenue’ due to a shift in telecom policy 12 years ago is likely to open another can of statistical worms. The move is also likely to be aimed at obfuscating the core issue of a minister manipulating existing policy for favoring a handful […]
Google and NIIT joined hands to introduce a training service for young professionals in India. The program named ‘Google Web Academy’ aims to bridge the digital skill gap in the country and help students and professionals capitalize on the emerging job market for the online industry. Under the initiative, NIIT will be Google’s first partner […]
It’s finally here – the first major global Cloud-based platform rolled out by an Indian IT services major. Wipro Technologies, the fourth largest Indian IT services provider, announced it was expanding its Cloud platform by offering a global-level Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) product. IaaS is the basic level of Cloud offering. On top of IaaS is built […]
Chinese PC brand Lenovo was able to snatch the number 1 position from Dell and HP in India in the first quarter, but the overall Indian PC market showed signs of a definite slow-down. PC sales to consumers in India was down 3 percent in the January-March quarter compared to the October-December quarter. Overall PC […]
The Indian IT infrastructure market comprising of servers, storage and networking equipment will reach $2.05 billion in 2012, a 10.3 percent increase over 2011, according to Gartner, Inc. The IT infrastructure market is expected to reach $3.01 billion by 2016, the research agency said. Revenue growth will be primarily driven by ongoing data center modernization, […]
