Worldwide software as a service (SaaS) revenue is forecast to reach $12.1 billion in 2011, a 20.7% increase from last year’s $10 billion, market research firm Gartner said. Nearly all of this revenue comes from companies as the research agency had put enterprise part of the SaaS market at $10 billion. SaaS is so-called because, […]
Sistema Shyam TeleServices, owner of the MTS brand and one of the most innovative operators in India, has announced that it will convert its CDMA network along all of India’s major roads to high-speed (EVDO) technology. As a first step, it has converted the 265 km Delhi-Jaipur highway stretch to high-speed CDMA and even launched […]
Web graphics and multimedia company, Adobe Systems, has acquired EchoSign, provider of a web-based electronic signature service — a move that may have far reaching consequences for how electronic documents are authenticated and certified. Digital signatures, though invented several years ago, have not quite taken off due to the cumbersome nature of creating and checking […]
Bharti Airtel, India’s biggest telecom company, has again reorganized its business structure as the company grapples with reducing profit margins in an increasingly commoditized communications market. Atul Bindal, President of Mobile Business, has been moved out and from the preliminary signs, it looks like the CEO Sanjay Kapoor’s hands have been strengthened. Bharti has moved […]
The emergence of tablets like the iPad, the Xoom and the Galaxy Tab is starting to affect the growth of the PC market, Gartner warned. Overall PC shipments during the second quarter was up 2.3% globally — below Gartner’s initial projection of 6.7%. The trend was especially visible in the US during the quarter ended […]
Even as the government was left reeling from the impact of the second cabinet minister to resign over the 2G scam, the main opposition party the BJP opened a new front of attack with allegations of a ‘coal scam’. The party released a list of coal block allocations approved by the Central government over the […]
World’s number two PC maker Acer has fallen two ranks to the fourth place in the second quarter of this year, numbers released by Gartner revealed. Acer had been the consistent number two in global PC sales — primarily because it focused on low prices, low margins and decent profits through high volumes. Acer’s global […]
Idea Cellular, the mobile service provider from the Aditya Birla group, has overtaken the state-owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) to emerge as the fourth largest mobile operator in the country. Idea, which started its life as Tata Cellular and later transformed itself to the Batata (Birla-Tata-AT&T) alliance, has been one of the fastest growing […]
Greenpeace, the World’s most vocal environmental activist group has upped the ante against private mobile operators in its fight to get them to “switch off diesel” and move to renewable energy for towers. The activist group has launched a nation-wide sticker campaign against operators under which it will distribute stickers to mock their refusal to […]
The Bennett, Coleman & Co Ltd, popularly known as the Times of India group, has decided to tweak its strategy for the online market (Internet). The group, which has always been pushing its ‘indiatimes.com’ brand, has now decided to co-opt other dotcoms in a partnership that it hopes will benefit both parties equally. Realizing that […]
As the Monsoon completes its onset across the whole of the subcontinent, latest rainfall indicate a comfortable situation for the country as a whole. At of yesterday, most of the regions of the country have received comfortable amount of rainfall and though, for the country as a whole, rainfall this season was 3% below average. […]
The return of growth has been accompanied by a strong appetite to increase spending on BPO projects, according to IT research firm Gartner. A survey of 600 mid-to-large companies in 14 countries found 54% of the respondents looking to increase their BPO spending this year by 5% or more. Out of this, 20% (of the […]
Despite Idea’s PR agency denying the accuracy of a story published by RTN almost a month ago, Vodafone India has reportedly confirmed the existence of 3g pact between itself and Idea. According to a report by the Hindu Business Line , Vodafone confirmed to the paper that the company does Indeed have such an agreement […]
Last year, consumers spent $2 trillion (out of a global GDP of $70 trillion) on communication and entertainment services and products, according to market research firm Gartner Inc. The biggest chunk, $1.2 trillion was spent on “paying the bills” — phone bills, broadband bills, cable bills etc.. while only $600 billion was spent on buying […]
Union human resources (education) and telecom minister Kapil Sibal has denied media reports that the Home ministry, in charge of India’s security, has objected the Indian Institute of Science’s agreement with a Chinese telecom company to develop testing standards. Sibal, who brought the Intelligence Bureau (IB) head to a press conference, denied that India’s security […]
The Cabinet Committee on Political Affairs (CCPA) has started a meeting on the Telengana developments. The Committee is the “executive” committee within the Cabinet in charge of taking sensitive political decisions and is headed by the Prime Minister of India. Besides the PM Manmohan Singh, finance minister Pranab Mukherjee, defence minister A K Antony, home […]
The article on Vodafone and Idea entering into a network support deal for 3G services in Delhi, enabling Idea to launch 3G services in Delhi despite not having 3G spectrum has been temporarily taken off on the request of Ms Imprimis PR private Ltd. The firm has claimed that the article detailing how Idea has […]
As the Government of India takes its own time in approving the $6.6 billion acquisition of Cairn India by Vedanta Resources, the two have decided to go ahead as much as possible without violating the law. Cairn has also agreed to receive 9% less than initially promised by Vedanta. As a result, a further 10% […]
Cairn India, the company whose sale has apparently been approved by the Indian government today, said it has not received any intimation on sharing the production royalty arising from its production in the Rajasthan field — India’s biggest onshore oil field. “Cairn has not yet received formal confirmation of any decision that has been made […]
Former oil minister and current corporate affairs minister Murli Deora has offered to resign, according to sources. Deora sent his resignation to the Congress President several days ago. The Parliamentarian from Mumbai has been coming under increasing attack for his alleged failure to save the tax-payer’s interests from oil companies. The Comptroller and Auditor General […]
