Shashi Tharoor may be the original twitter warrior, Omar Abdullah may have 40,000 followers, but it is the comparatively low-profile Anand Sharma who is taking his ministry to Facebook. The ministry of Commerce and Industry, under a rather dynamic information officer, has put out its public relations arm on Facebook. While the ministry of external […]
Aircel emerged as the fastest growing telecom operator in the Country during the last financial year (2010-11), even as Bharti (including Africa) increased its lead over all others to become more than twice as big as any other operator in India. Smaller operator Aircel, which grew its revenues by 44.1% during the year, narrowly edged […]
Thanks to its exploding appetite for computers, phones and TVs, India has emerged as the World’s fastest growing market for semi-conductors, more commonly known as electronic chips. Electronic chips, usually black in colour, are the brains of electronic devices and are responsible for controlling their behavior through an built-in system logic which responds to user […]
With another disappointing quarter from Wipro, the stage is now all set for the ascendancy of the Chennai-based Cognizant Technology Solutions (CTS) into the hallowed group of India’s top 3 IT companies. The top 3 slot had been occupied by Tata Consultancy Services, Infosys Technologies and Wipro for as long as most people can remember. […]
HTC Corporation has launched its ‘facebook phone’, the ChaCha (or ChaChaCha) in India at a price of around Rs 16,000. The phone has been launched in association with Tata DoCoMo, which basically means that you get a lot freebies if you buy it from Tata DoCoMo. The phone is available to everyone, whether a DoCoMo […]
Disagreements have cropped up between the Department of Telecom and the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) over the cancellation of 31 licenses belonging to Loop Telecom, Sistema Shyam (MTS) and Uninor (Unitech-Telenor) See chart of the licenses While the regulator wants these licenses to be cancelled for failing to launch services within two years […]
‘Tis verily the season of mobile banking predictions. Shortly after the Boston Consulting Group surprised even the optimists with a $350 billion possible market-size for mobile transactions in India in four years, Gartner has come out with a forecast warning of lower than expected growth in developing markets. At present, the Indian mobile transaction (also […]
The newly-set up Competition Commission of India (CCI) has thrown out an appeal to prevent India’s public-sector insurance companies from forming a single, jointly-owned and powerful TPA or health insurance agency. The complaint was filed late last year by the Indian Third Party Administrators Association, which represents the interests of independent, and mostly small, third […]
Airtel digital TV-the DTH service from Bharti Airtel, has added 41 new channels to its bouquet, taking the total to 247. The move will allow Airtel Digital, which has been more of a trailer in the DTH wars as far as channel selection was concerned, to move up to the level of other players like […]
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has based its Cloud strategy on an ‘own brand’ model, CEO N Chandrasekaran told reporters in Delhi today. He said TCS’s strategy for the Cloud market — in which software is not purchased or ‘deployed’ by customers, but used through the Internet — will not be dependent on other big cloud-brands. […]
In the first VC investment in mobile advertising in India since the global downturn, IDG Ventures has invested $3 million (Rs 13.5 crore) into Vserv, an Indian tech start-up that specializes in serving ads within mobile phone applications. Vserv is one of the few Indian start ups in the mobile eco-system to make an impact […]
CSC, one of the biggest IT services companies in the World with 20,000 employees in India, has set up a new unit targeting the Indian market. The company, also known as the Computer Sciences Corporation, was one of the pioneer IT services firms dating back to 1959, but lost out some of the momentum compared […]
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), India’s regulator for the media and communications sector, has pulled up major broadcasting companies for violating its pricing rules for TV channels. The regulator, in separate letters addressed to Sun Network, Start Den (of the Rupert Murdoch group), Zee Turner, Taj (Ten Sports), Neo Sports & ESPN, directed […]
The Corporate Affairs ministry, headed by Murli Deora has tried to play down the ‘clean chit’ that it allegedly gave to the Essar group and Loop Telecom on violating cross-ownership rules in Telecom. The controversy arose after the Supreme Court directed the CBI not to be influenced by the Ministry’s certifications or deviate from the […]
India’s largest IT services company TCS has announced a 6.3% jump in revenues for the second quarter. Net Profit at was Rs 2,415 crore, up 26.7% year on year, but down 2% compared to the first quarter of this year. Total revenues at were at Rs 10,797 crore up 31.4% Y-o-Y. CEO N Chandrasekaran said […]
The Motorola Droid 3, or what will ultimately be launched as the Motorola Milestone 3, is no Galaxy S2 or even an HTC Sensation. In terms of technology, the Droid 3 will perhaps score 70% marks where the Samsung Galaxy S2 scores a 100 and the HTC comes up with 90% (see chart above.) However, […]
The whole world may be going ga ga over mobile payments, but a survey by consulting firm KPMG may be enough to dampen the enthusiasm a bit. According to the international KPMG Mobile Payments Outlook survey of 1,000 executives in related fields around the World, most expect mobile payments to take four years to go […]
Nuance, arguably the World’s top speech-to-text and artificial intelligence company, has lent its technology to MapmyIndia’s in-vehicle navigation devices. Unlike traditional navigation devices, which make it difficult to understand the name of the street or area due to the in-built “American accent,” Nuance will develop a technology that will give MapmyIndia devices an “Indian accent.” […]
The whole world may be going ga ga over mobile payments, but a survey by consulting firm KPMG may be enough to dampen the enthusiasm a bit. According to the international KPMG Mobile Payments Outlook survey of 1,000 executives in related fields around the World, most expect mobile payments to take four years to go […]
Economists and experts worrying of an impending economic slowdown caused by rising prices, but hiring managers in Indian companies are not, according to the latest hiring numbers from Naukri.com — India’s biggest hiring portal. The company noted a 4% rise in hiring activity in June compared to May and a 19% jump year on year. […]
