In a major coup, Infosys said it has got the contract for government of India’s e-filing service, MCA21. The project was earlier being handled by Tata Consultancy Services or TCS. “Infosys will revamp the existing application, after the transition from the incumbent vendor and manage the overall transformation to MCA21 v2.The company will provide services, […]
Indians are consuming milk products like never before, according to numbers from the commerce ministry. While exports of dairy products out of India have plummeted in the last three years, their imports have soared, indicating strong demand for milk and milk products. India has the largest number of cows in the world and produces the […]
India’s National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM), the biggest association of software and services companies, has said that it now expects industry growth this year to be at the lower end of its earlier forecast. It now expects industry export revenues of $75-77 billion in FY 2013. Growth will be led by remote […]
Times Internet, part of the Times of India group, has acquired men’s fashion site MenXP. The Internet company, part of India’s biggest media group, had recently adopted a strategy of buying or tying up with small internet companies that need capital to fund growth. Interestingly, Times Internet, which owns the indiatimes.com portal which hosts the […]
Worldwide sales of mobile phones to end users reached almost 428 million units in the third quarter of 2012, a 3.1 percent decline from the third quarter of 2011, according to Gartner, Inc. Smartphone sales accounted for 39.6 percent of total mobile phone sales, as smartphone sales increased 46.9 percent from the third quarter of […]
Flipkart.com, India’s most successful and arguably the biggest online retail store, has become the first in the country to offer a large-scale collection of e-books – that can be read directly on a phone or tablet, instead of on paper. E-books, or electronic books, account for about half of all the books sold in the […]
People of Philadelphia turned out to be the most generous tippers, while those in Houston tend to eat out the most, acccording to the results of this year’s Google “America’s Top Restaurants Survey.” The survey, covering 1,822 restaurants in 46 U.S. cities and regions, also found the top-rated restaurants across the country. “Winners include perennial […]
1 REPORTABLE IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA CIVIL ORIGINAL JURISDICTION WRIT PETITION (C) No. 348 OF 2010 Centre for PIL & Anr. … Petitioner(s) versus Union of India & Anr. … Respondent(s) with Writ Petition (C) No. 355 of 2010 JUDGMENT S. H. KAPADIA, CJI Introduction 1. The two writ petitions filed in this […]
Worldwide enterprise IT spending is forecast to total $2.679 trillion in 2013, a 2.5 percent increase of projected 2012 spending, according to Gartner, Inc. Banking, communications, media and services (CMS) and manufacturing are expected to offer the largest volume of growth opportunities through 2016. However, given the overall economic uncertainty, the projection may have to […]
Idea, which was one of the four telecom operators to take advantage of the recent 2G spectrum auction to augment its holdings, said it would not have bought spectrum at such prices if it had not already sunk some money in. It said that it decided to shell out the high price for spectrum only […]
After delaying the move by five months on operator requests, the government of India has moved to cut down mobile tower radiation by 90%. According to a statement given in the Parliament, the government issued an order with effect from September that reduced the maximum power permitted for cellphone towers in the country by 90%. […]
Prashant Bhushan, noted lawyer and close associate of anti-corruption activist Arvind Kejriwal, today said the government had mistakenly appointed a person like Vinod Rai as the Comptroller & Auditor General (CAG) of India, and would not make such a mistake next time. Bhushan, who was answering questions about the new political party from Bangaloreans on […]
Even as the rest of IT spending remains more or less flat, cloud computing continues to maintain its scorching pace of growth, according to the latest numbers from Gartner. Revenue from platform as a service (PaaS) — where companies offer cloud platforms for others to develop and deploy their cloud applications — is set to […]
Gartner has cut by a third its forecast for the growth of PC industry this year due to competition from tablets. The growing popularity of devices like the iPad, which saw its second iteration on Tuesday, will bring down growth of the PC industry from 15.9% to 10.5% in 2011, the agency said. The impact […]
A strong performance in consumer laptops helped HP resist the onslaught of Acer and Lenovo in the third quarter and prevent a big erosion in its market share, according to the latest quarterly PC numbers from IDC. Lenovo and Acer have benefited from the Tamil Nadu government’s massive program to distribute free laptops to students. […]
In a recent survey undertaken by the According to the Associated Chamber of Commerce and Industry of India has found that the demand of fancy lights, lampshades, Ganesha and Laxmi idols, rangolis to crackers and other such various items are increased by over 45% than the last year. The market is surging with Chinese products […]
The PC model refresh continues apace, this time in the form of all-in-one (AIO) PCs from Taiwanese brand Asus. It has launched four all-in-one PCs, starting at a price of Rs 30,000 and going all the way up to Rs 66,000, with displays ranging from 20 inches to 23.6 inches. Two of the models, which […]
If you thought DTH antennas are only for homes, think again. Dish TV has tied up with antenna-maker Gilat to install its antennas on the Maharaja Express, a luxury train in India. The special antennas continuously turn and tilt to make sure that they are pointed towards Dish TV’s satellite, ensuring that the signal is […]
Kishore Biyani, the visionary businessman who founded Big Bazaar, India’s biggest supermarket chain, came out openly in support of foreign investment (FDI) in retail for the first time since it was permitted by the government a few days ago. Making his stand clear, Biyani said Indian companies would struggle to find the money required to […]
Three key server segments — hyperscale data centers, hosted virtual desktop (HVD) workloads and extreme low-energy (ELE) servers — will offer opportunities for growth through 2015, according to technology research Gartner, Inc. Servers represent the control points of hardware infrastructure in data centers, where workloads and applications reside, and Gartner analysts estimate that end-user spending […]
