Airtel Broadband, India’s second largest wired broadband service, will upgrade nearly all its DSL customers to its new ‘V Fiber’ vectorization technology that offers speeds of 40 Mbps, compared to 4-8 Mbps under the traditional ADSL 2 technology. Company CEO Gopal Vittal said this would make the copper-based offering more competitive with fiber-based offerings from […]
Estranged Aam Aadmi Party leader Kapil Mishra said he will file a police complaint against Arvind Kejriwal today. The rebel AAP leader has accused the party supremo of taking bribes and acting like a dictator within the party. “It is with a heavy heart that I am doing this,” Mishra said, while reading from a […]
Airtel Digital has bounced back into reckoning in fast growing high-definition DTH market by adding capacity from the newly launched SES-9 satellite and could emerge a strong challenger to Tata Sky in coming days. The SES-9 satellite was launched last year and new transponders were made available to Airtel earlier this year. Over the last several […]
Cognizant, one of the largest employers in India, said it will let go off some of its employees and shut down some of its facilities as part of its ongoing shift away from traditional outsourcing to ‘digital transformation work’. The company said it is ‘accelerating its shift’ to ‘high value, digital transformation’ work, “while continuing […]
Tata Consultancy Services said it has opened its first research lab for drones in the US at its Seven Hills Park Innovation Center located in Cincinnati, Ohio. The lab will address the rapidly expanding demand for unmanned aerial vehicles and business Solutions across industries, the Indian IT major said. The facility will feature indoor labs, […]
SpiceJet, the airline that offers one of the most cost-effective set of fares in India, said it was starting daily flights to Patna from several cities in India, including Mumbai, Hyderabad, Bangalore and Kolkata. On Tuesday, the Bangalore flight will be replaced by a Chennai-Patna service. “We are extremely proud to induct Patna, an emerging […]
Republic TV, the English-language television channel headed by journalist Arnab Goswami will go on air on several cable and DTH platforms in India starting Friday evening. Official confirmation came from Dish TV, India’s oldest DTH platform, which confirmed that the channel will be made available starting from Saturday. Subscribers of Dish TV will get the […]
Forum for IT Employees or FITE — an organization that claims to speak for ordinary IT workers — said a group of employees of Cognizant Technology Solutions will approach the office of Labour Commissioner of Chennai today. “Affected CTS employees file petition to the Labour Commissioner in Chennai,” the organization said in a communication to […]
Larsen & Toubro Infotech, which started out as a unit of construction major L&T, has rebranded itself, dropping its parent’s name from its own and projecting a more independent brand. The new logo reads ‘LTI’ in blue, bold letters with the tagline ‘Lets Solve’, and the new branding colors are blue and orange. “The new […]
BJP spokesperson Ravi Shankar Prasad today attacked West Bengal chief minister Mamata Bannerjee using very sharp words for what he said was the pressure brought on the adivasi family to renege its connection with his party and become supporters of Bannerjee’s Trinamool Congress. “It is a matter of concern that the West Bengal, which used […]
Outsourced services provider Wipro Ltd said it was undergoing a rebranding to reflect its evolving business. “The new brand identity signifies a higher level of engagement and brand permission that helps clients leverage Wipro’s expertise to address their business requirements and drive future opportunities in this digital era,” the company said. As part of the […]
Netflix, the world’s biggest provider of video-on-demand services, rebuffed attempts by telecom companies to control viewership of online video and said consumers must be allowed to consume any legal content on the Internet without ‘gate keeping’ or interference by telecom providers. It said its position was that “gate-keepers should not be in a position to […]
Telecom companies are trying to divide Internet traffic into different ‘castes’ and treat each of them differently and want to extract money from people who create apps, websites and other content, said Internet Freedom Foundation. The IFF was responding to suggestions given to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India by telcos that net neutrality should […]
DB Corp has launched its Dainik Bhaskar Hindi daily in Surat, eyeing a large-Hindi speaking population in the city. The company said there are around 28 lakh Hindi speakers in Surat, the diamond capital of India. “Our intensive on-ground study revealed exciting prospects amongst Surat’s non-Gujarati speaking, multicultural, industrialised households who have migrated from neighbouring […]
Arnab Goswami’s Republic TV’s is reported to be readying for its launch next week, with DTH operator Tata Sky starting test transmission of the channel. The channel is expected to carry the number 616, and be officially available from 10 PM on Friday, May 5. UPDATE: The channel will be launched this weekend. Separately, the channel […]
The Supreme Court has dismissed a curative petition filed by the Kerala Government against its decision finding the main accused not guilty in the prominent Saumya rape and murder case of Kerala. The case, analogous to the Nirbhaya episode of Delhi, had shocked the state. The incident happened in 2011, when 23-year-old Soumya was travelling in […]
Fitch Ratings has upgraded its rating on Tata Motors by one notch, pointing to the automaker’s improving business performance. “The upgrade reflects the sustained improvement in TML’s Indian automotive business over the last two years, supported by growing commercial vehicle volumes, successful new product launches in the passenger vehicle segment, as well as the management’s […]
The Supreme Court has dismissed the government of India’s stand that it cannot appoint the Lokpal as there was no leader of the opposition. The court’s decision came on a bunch of petitions seeking the appointment of a Lokpal is likely to lead to the first ever appointment of an anti-corruption ombudsman in the country. […]
The Anil Ambani Group has relaunched Bigflix, the homegrown competitor to Netflix, with an expanded focus covering regional language content as well as an eye on audiences outside India. The service will have 2000 HD movies in nine Indian languages to start with, the group said. These languages are Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Punjabi, Malayalam, Gujarati, […]
The Madras High Court has asked the government of Tamil Nadu not to open any liquor shops for three months after complaints that it did not comply with the Supreme Court order on relocating roadside liquor shops. Unlike in most states in India, alchohol shops in Tamil Nadu are run directly by the state government under a […]
