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 […]
Idea has won an interim stay on the Rs 250 crore fine imposed by the Department of Telecom for allegedly violating the terms of its mobile operator license. “The interim order has been granted on Idea’s plea against DoT’s demand notice issued to Idea in June ’11,” Idea said in a statement. The issue of […]
The draft note on India’s new ‘National Manufacturing Policy’ is expected to be ready soon as the current committee is likely to finish its deliberations in 10 days, India’s trade minister Anand Sharma said. The National Manufacturing policy is India’s belated attempt to catch up with China in manufacturing and stem the tide of imports […]
Two years before Japan, India, Brazil and Germany forced a showdown over admitting the four of them to the permanent member club of the UN Security Council, the Japanese had secretly approached the US with a proposal to admit just two new members. Going by the clues in the subsequent US diplomatic cables leaked by […]
The Supreme Court judgement on Justice Dinakaran’s objection to a Rajya Sabha inquiry committee clearly exposes the motive of the former Chief Justice of the Karnataka High Court. Indeed, Dinakaran, who filed an objection to the inclusion of a particular lawyer a year after he came to know of the lawyer’s presence on the committee, […]
On the sidelines of an event on event on ‘Ethics, Governance and Technology’, India’s young and tech-savvy junior IT minister Sachin Pilot said the government had asked websites like Google, Facebook and Twitter to install “real time” monitoring system for national security. While on the face of it, the request looks like just another of […]
Many who have never been to China wonder how it would be like, how it would feel to live in a reportedly ‘authoritarian’ monolithic society where strict control is exercised on all forms of expression and, apparently, fear rules. Whether the above image of China is the correct one or simply the result of Western […]
The last month has seen mobile-phones breach two important power barriers — the 1 GHz speed threshold and the move beyond one core. LG Optimus 2X was the first phone to breach the latter, while Samsung Galaxy S2 and HTC Sensation crossed both the GHz barrier as well as the single core barrier. While all […]
The Indian Railways has warned of possible delay, diversion or even termination of trains passing through the Telengana region — one of India’s busiest rail corridors — in Andhra Pradesh tomorrow. Political organizations demanding the formation of a separate Telenagana state have called for a “Rail Roko” or railway blockade tomorrow to protest against what […]
The Bombay High Court has dismissed the petition seeking a CBI inquiry into the murder of crime journalist J Dey last month. The petitions were filed by two journalists VP Patil and Ketan Tirodkar. The duo had argued that the Police, which is currently investigating the murder, are not above suspicion in the death of […]
Online gaming revenues will overtake the revenues from selling gaming hardware in four years, according ot the latest forecast from Gartner. The IT market research firm released its latest assessment cum forecast for the gaming industry, showing a 10% increase in its revenue this year over 2010. Total revenues for 2011 will be $74.4 billion, […]
No Terrorist organization has claimed responsibility for the Mumbai blasts, but home minister P Chidambaram said many previous attempts in Mumbai have been foiled, but “unfortunately, this one slipped through.” “We live in the most troubled neighbourhood.. Pakistan and Afghanistan are the epicenter of terror.. Being in a troubled neighbourhood, every city (in India) is […]
The small enterprises have toned down their growth prospects for the next quarter thanks to increasing costs, CII’s quarterly survey of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) has found. Business confidence — a reflection of how many of the company heads think their business will do better or worse in the current quarter — dipped […]
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 […]
