Sprint has just announced the two most powerful Blackberry phones ever, including the Torch 9850 which has a 3.7 inch full touch screen — the biggest ever to adorn a Blackberry handset. The other phone, the Blackberry Bold 9930, is similar in specifications to the already announced Blackberry Bold 9900 and has a 2.8 inch […]
Huawei, World’s second largest mobile network equipment provider, has just launched a data-card product that may turn out to be crucial to the roll-out of wireless broadband in India by players like Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries. The data-card is the World’s first such device to support a host of technologies, including TD-LTE — seen as […]
Indian finance minister Pranab Mukherjee rebutted the argument that well-to-do owners of private cars are sucking up the tens of thousands of crores of rupees spent by the Government in the form of diesel subsidies. Quoting figures, he said only 15% of India’s total diesel consumption is consumed by diesel cars. “37% is used by […]
Google has retired its first public outreach program, the monthly email digest Google Friends, launched 13 years ago. The mailing list, aptly name ‘Google Friends’ as Google grew up more like a open source community than like a company, saw its final edition on Friday. “..the number of subscribers to this newsletter has remained flat, […]
India is famous for its World-beating wireless telecom expansion, but an analysis of the latest data reveals that its mobile subscriber base is increasingly getting filled up by junk, unused connections. Though showing signs of a slowdown of late, India’s wireless telecom market continues to add around 15 million telecom subscribers every month. The market […]
Mphasis, one of India’s biggest BPO companies (majority owned by HP), has acquired a US-based firm that makes insurance management software for an undisclosed sum. Mphasis, listed on the Indian bourses, said the acquisition is part of its strategy to focus more and more on specific verticals, one of which is insurance. The move is […]
India’s exports set a new high in June, while imports showed a welcome slippage from the high levels shown in May, according to the latest foreign trade data. The oil bill, which had cross the $10 billion mark in the previous month, remained stable at around $10.2 billion in June too. Proving critics wrong, the […]
Essar Energy has said that its $350 million acquisition of Shell’s oil refinery at Stanlow in the UK, will help it export the products of its India refinery to the UK market. The Stanlow refinery, whose acquisition was completed today, is the second largest refinery in the UK and supplies approximately one sixth of the […]
Indian e-retailer Letsbuy.com has brought to India the qwerty-enabled Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini Pro priced at Rs 15,399 ($340) The phone, despite having decent specifications like a 1GHz processor, 5 Megapixel camera, WiFi and Android 2.3 Gingerbread, is not exactly the ‘latest and greatest’ in the league of smart-phones. The biggest factor that differentiates the […]
The Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei, the second largest equipment firm in the World, has appointed John Suffolk, former Chief Information Officer (CIO) of the British Government as its chief cyber-security officer. The firm said the move is aimed at developing a state of the art security system for the company which can be deployed to […]
Bharti Airtel clarified that media reports on its Chairman Sunil Bharti Mittal’s salary being raised to Rs 70 crore per year this year are inaccurate. Media reports had reported that his salary may go up from the current Rs 27.5 crore per year, giving the impression of an immediate hike. Bharti said the there will […]
The news has been confirmed — Apple has indeed emerged as the World’s single biggest smartphone vendor displacing Nokia, according to market research firm Canalys. Not only did Nokia surrender the first place, but it also lost the second place to Samsung during the quarter ended June, Canalys said. In all, nearly 107.7 million smartphones […]
India Against Corruption (IAC), the umbrella body leading the fight against the Government’s ‘toothless’ Lokpal bill, has unveiled an elaborate and ambitious agitation program for the two weeks leading up to India’s Independence day. The highlight of the program would be distribution of pamphlets, mass burning and tearing of a copies of the Government’s version […]
Taj Mahal, Shah Jahan’s eternal tribute to his beloved wife Mumtaz, retained its honor as the biggest tourist attraction in the country, grossing almost Rs 20 crore out out of the Rs 87 crore earned by the Archaeological Survey of India from monuments last year. Taj’s earnings were up by 15% in the year ended […]
The adoption of genetically modified BT Cotton, from Monsanto, has reached 90% of the total cultivated area, the Government said today. It has, meanwhile, slightly revised the cotton production for the just concluded financial year (2010-11) downwards from 33.5 million tonnes to 33.43 million tonnes. The 90% achievement for Monsanto’s Bt Cotton in India has […]
37% of India’s IT-BPO workforce is comprised of Women, while 88% of all employees are 35 or younger, Nasscom’s latest HR survey revealed. The proportion of women in India’s newest industries is bound to increase in the coming years as they made up 40% of the new hires in the last three years, the survey […]
Defending against former telecom minister A Raja’s allegation that neither the Finance minister and the Prime Minister raised objections when the alleged scam beneficiaries were benefiting from foreign investment into their ‘tainted’ companies, telecom minister Kapil Sibal said there was nothing wrong with the funding. In a statement, he said that the under the rules […]
Wimax’s biggest win Sprint Nextel has inked a $13.5 billion, 15-year deal with wholesale connectivity provider LightSquared to construct and operate an 4G LTE network on the latter’s spectrum. Sprint’s role will be that of a technology and operations partner and it shall have preferential status to buy 50% of the capacity created by the […]
India’s biggest oil producer, the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) saw a decline of 2.4% in its crude oil and 5.5% in its natural gas production in June due to declining supply from its star performer – the Mumbai High. However, rising production from Cairn India’s Rajasthan fields more than made for the decline, […]
Earlier this year, when AMD released their new Fusion chips combining the power of ATI graphics with its own processors, they were touted as Atom-killers. Despite the hype, however, actual models based on the revolutionary and bold architecture were few and far between to be seen in the Indian market. Sony was the first to […]
