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 […]
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 […]
