Worldwide spending on enterprise security software and services will grow 8.7% in 2012, technology market research firm Canalys said. The total enterprise market will be $22.9 billion in 2012, even smaller vendors such as Kaspersky Lab, Panda Security, F-Secure, ESET and AVG make gains in market share. “Smaller vendors are working to displace Symantec, McAfee […]
Reliance Industries Limited and BP announced BP taking a 30% stake in 23 oil and gas production sharing contracts that Reliance operates in India, including the producing KG D6 block, and the formation of a 50:50 joint venture between the two companies for the sourcing and marketing of gas in India. The joint venture will […]
The Centre for Science and Environment or CSE, the most vocal of India’s homegrown environmental organizations, has punched holes in a government move to set fuel efficiency and emission norms for cars. It accused the Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE), the Government body that came up with a draft proposal, of playing into the hands […]
Thanks to the combined effect of the festival season and overall caution about India’s slowing economic growth, hiring dipped to a year-low in October this year. According to the Job Speak Index compiled by India’s largest recruitment site Naukri.com, recruitment activity levels were at 921 points in October, a fall of 16% from hiring levels […]
India’s largest and oldest angel investor group, Indian Angel Network (IAN), has announced a program to fund 24 start ups in the mobile and Internet space with up to Rs 75 lakhs each. An ‘angel’ network is one that typically comes in even before the firm is in a position to seek venture capital. ‘Angels’ […]
Americans continued to buy more online during the September quarter despite the economic uncertainty and high unemployment rate, latest data from digital tracking agency comScore suggested. Total spending by American consumers online was $36.3 billion, up a healthy 13% compared to the same quarter of 2010. The growth, however, owed more to a higher acceptance […]
One of the world’s biggest trade unions, the Switzerland-based UNI Global Union has called the Indian government’s decision to allow foreign retail majors into the country a ‘sell out’. The Union, which has around 20 million (2 crore) members, said it is ‘appalled’ by the decision, particularly the lack of regulatory oversight, and will stand […]
HLL Lifecare, India’s largest contraceptive maker and the firm behind Nirodh, Moods and Mala D, has launched a new product based only on the female reproductive cycle. Called CycleBeads, the product is comprised simply of a string of coloured beads. As the beads are moved one by one on each day, the woman is able […]
China may emerge as India’s largest trading partner this year, going by a 20% jump in trade numbers in the first eight months. India’s northern neighbour was in the second place according to the numbers for the year-ended March 2011 — the latest full year for which trade numbers are available from the Government of […]
After a string of failures to successfully launch IPTV and true video-on-demand services by telecom players, it seems to be the DTH operators who are taking the lead in India. Tata Sky, one of India’s biggest DTH operators, announced it had launched a true video-on-demand and a free recorded-TV service using broadband. To avail of […]
Even as rumors fly of a meeting between Afghan President Hamid Karzai and Taliban leaders during the former’s visit to Saudi Arabia last month, a Wikileaks cable has revealed that the Saudis were initially against such a meeting. The cable, dating back to February last year and sent from the Islamabad embassy of the United […]
The Centre for Science and Environment, headed by one of India’s most vocal environmental activist Sunita Narain, has raised alarm at the increasing rate of destruction of India’s forests for industrial purposes. Responding to an ‘open letter’ by industry leaders, the CSE pointed out that despite the projected image of increasing protection for the environment […]
Former Pakistani cricketer Imran Khan, who has a reputation as one of the least corrupt politicians in the country, had warned the US government against the Pakistani government’s exaggeration of the terror threat and “stage management” of attacks to fleece money from it. In a meeting with a delegation of the US Congress Representatives led […]
The latest foreign trade figures for India holds both good news and bad news. The good news is that the export-growth that has been the most significant aspect of the numbers since January this year has held up in September too. The bad news is that despite that, the higher price of oil is creating […]
India’s manufacturing technology for fighter jets, helicopters and planes is “decades” behind those of the West, but it has made “remarkable progress” in the last few years, the then American ambassador to India Timothy Roemer wrote after a tour of India’s biggest plane factory in Bangalore last year. Roemer saw models and under-constructions fighter helicopters […]
Bangladesh’s attitude towards terrorists underwent a sea-change after the Mumbai attacks, according to the evidences of the US diplomatic cables leaked by Wikileaks. While India had to bear with a poisonous neighbour from where terrorists could walk into India almost at will for several years, after the election of Sheikh Hasina’s Awami League into power […]
US wireless operator Sprint has just launched an application that may literally save a few lives. The application, currently launched for Sprint’s Android phones and soon to be extended to others, automatically locks the phone when it is moved at more than 10 miles per hour. Most modern phones have the ability to figure out […]
India’s biggest IT company, Tata Consultancy Services, has decided to join hands with the IT arm of Malaysia’s Federal Land Development Authority (FELDA) group for its operations in the country. FELDA is a government agency that focuses on resettling farmers in newly development farm areas. It holds 49% in FELDA Holdings which in turn owns […]
The Chinese are pouring in massive amounts of money into the Tibetan region and creating huge infrastructure, some of which may be militarily used against India, noted David Brown, the US Consul General for Chengdu according to a cable released by Wikileaks. The official was describing the massive ‘overinvestment’ he saw in the Tibetan town […]
Suddenly it is raining Android-touch-screen-qwerty-candy-bar phones. Days after Motorola created ripples in the market by launching a very functional Android-touch-screen-qwerty-candy-bar Fire for Rs 9,000 ($200), LG’s followed suit with the LG Optimus Pro C660 on Letsbuy and Flipkart. The phone, priced at around Rs 10,000 by the online retailers, is very very similar to the […]
