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 […]
Smartphones will make up about 25% of the total Indian mobile phone market by 2015, ‘Research and Markets’ has predicted. The research firm said sales of smartphones in India will grow at 60% every year on average till 2015, while overall mobile handset sales will grow at about 13% per year. It estimated smartphone volumes […]
ASSOCHAM has called for a big dose of political courage to halt the negativity being spread by vested global agencies and reverse the on-going decline in investor confidence. At a meeting with the Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh today the ASSOCHAM President Mr. Rajkumar Dhoot submitted a memorandum suggesting measures to tackle issues like high […]
The Indian domestic IT market, including hardware, software and services, was worth $30.4 billion, according to the latest study by advisory firm Zinnov. In the enterprise sector, 53 per cent of the money spent was for hardware, followed by IT services (32%) and software (15%). The study, which focused on the Banking, Financial Services and […]
Asian Americans are the American minority most unimpressed with how they are portrayed in mainstream TV, according to a survey about 1,500 households in the United States. 27% of the Asian respondents felt the portrayal of their community in mainstream media was inaccurate, while only 22% felt it was accurate. The rest were neutral. Similarly, […]
Subash Chandra-owned Zee Groups’ DTH platform Dish TV has bowled a googly in the ongoing scamper for snapping up subscribers during the cable digitization wave. While the whole battle was seen as DTH operators fighting with cable operators to lure away the latter’s customers at the time of digitization, Dish TV has unveiled a new […]
The following are the highlights of the Union Budget presented by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee today: Salaried taxpayers, whose tax is deducted at source by employer, will soon not be required to file a return of income (IT return) Direct Taxes Code (DTC) to be effective from April 1, 2012. Bill to be introduced in […]
Crisil Research has blamed high food prices and lower rupee value for consistent high inflation. It noted that even though growth seems to have moderated, inflation, which should also have come down, has not. “This reflects the higher-than-anticipated increase in food inflation, and the impact of the weak currency on imported component of inflation. Although […]
Bharti Airtel, which has operations in 20 countries across Asia and Africa, said it will offer a customized and co-branded version of Opera Mini internet browser for Airtel across its operations. “With this, over 253 million Airtel customers across countries including India, South Asia and Africa will now be able to leverage Opera Mini’s unique […]
Finally, the numbers from the crucial Neyyatinkara bypoll are in and both the Congress and BJP have reason to smile, while the Left parties are reeling from the shock. Neyyattinkara bypoll was crucial as a Left win there would have reduced the Congress-led UDF government’s majority in the state assembly to just 1 member and […]
Nokia has launched three new good-looking, mid-range ‘almost smart’ phones priced in the Rs 4,200-6,300 range. The phones — Asha 305, 306 and 311 — are, unfortunately, no great leap forward, either for Nokia or for consumers who are in the market for an affordable, mid-range smartphone. The new phones are essentially an upgrade to […]
Pranab Mukherjee may have just been chosen as UPA’s candidate for the Indian Presidency, but his ambition and rise was noted very early on by American diplomats in India. A cable, released by Wikileaks, from the American Ambassador to India David Mulford in June 2005 to the then U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has an […]
Two students from Bangalore and one from Lucknow are among the 15 finalists in the 2012 Google Science Fair. Including two from the United States, five out of the 15 finalists are of Indian/South Asian-origin. The finalists will be taken to Google headquarters in Mountain View, California, to present their projects to our international panel […]
India’s commerce minister Anand Sharma has called the Reserve Bank of India (RBI)’s decision not to cut interest rates as ‘disappointing’. Trade bodies have been urging the banking regulator to ease the flow of money into the economy by lowering credit rates and-or lowering cash-reserve-ratio or CRR. On Monday, RBI kept both the CRR and […]
The Samsung Galaxy S3 will cost Rs 43,180 in India, in line with its pricing in Europe (600 euros or Rs 42,000 plus). While fans may be disappointed at the high cost, it may be noted that the rupee depreciation is the primary factor behind the high cost. The S2, the previous version of Samsung […]
Opera, currently the subject of much speculation as a target for acquisition by Facebook Inc, has released version 7 of its popular Opera Mini browser for phones. Opera Mini is estimated to be the world’s most widely used mobile browser, primarily due to its ability to provide a comfortable browsing experience on even modest phones. […]
Royal Dutch Shell, Reliance Power and Kakinada Seaports have reached an agreement to construct an LNG terminal on India’s eastern sea coast, targeting the energy-hungry local market. Shell and Reliance Power will hold the majority of the equity in the terminal company and the venture would represent a significant Foreign Direct Investment in the country […]
Google Inc has applied to be allotted domain names like .google, .youtube etc. as well as those based on some generic words under the Internet authority’s new scheme for customized domain names. The company said it has also applied for certain non trademark domain names such as .docs and .lol. “We decided to submit applications […]
Google Inc has applied to be allotted domain names like .google, .youtube etc. as well as those based on some generic words under the Internet authority’s new scheme for customized domain names. The company said it has also applied for certain non trademark domain names such as .docs and .lol. “We decided to submit applications […]
If you were worried about the Rs 43,000 India price tag on the new Samsung Galaxy S3, there is some good news — the actual retail price of the phone is about Rs 39,000. The white model is available on ecommerce site Indiaplaza for Rs 38,900. Similarly, Flipkart, India’s biggest Internet retailer has put the […]
