Buoyed by increasing number of mobile phone users, India is expected to see sales of about 220 million mobile handsets in 2011, as per latest estimates from global research group Gartner. India, one of the fastest growing handset markets in the world, has millions of mobile phone users whose count are rising every month. Based on current trends, Gartner has projected that about
A start-up company based in Noida is winning great praise from the world for doing what many IT giants have failed to do on mobile phones - break the language barrier! Luna Egronomics, the company behind the innovation, Panini Keypad, has enabled its clients to type and send messages directly in their native language, using even a basic, under Rs 2000 phone. The v
A high level delegation of the Nagaland Government visited Technopark, the hub of IT in Kerala, to study the Kerala Model of IT development and replicate it in the northeast state. The delegation also explored possibilities of association with Technopark and Tecnology Business Incubator set up in Nagaland, a Technopark release said on Saturday. The team, comprising
US President Barack Obama`s Indian-American infotech czar Vivek Kundra is headed to Harvard University this year for a fellowship programme and is expected to leave his post at the White House as Chief Information Officer in August. Kundra, who has been CIO in the Obama administration for the past two and a half years, will serve a joint fellowship later this year at Harvard. He
Facing frequent cyber attacks, the US is developing a new generation of tools to scan e-mail and other digital traffic to thwart hacking into defence firms by foreign adversaries, a media report said on Friday. Since last month, the National Security Agency (NSA), America`s largest spy agency and a part of the Defence Department, is working with Internet service providers AT&
A court has issued notices to the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) and the Religious Affairs Ministry to respond to a writ petition seeking a permanent ban on "access to pornographic websites". Taking up a petition filed by a man named Sohaib Ahmad, Lahore High Court Justice Malik Shahzad Ahmed Khan directed the respondents yesterday to file their replies with
Apple Inc, Intel Corp and Ericsson AB are among the technology giants that will vie with Google Inc to buy patents from bankrupt telecom-equipment maker Nortel Networks Corp, says a media report. "Apple, Intel and Ericsson AB are among the technology giants that will vie with Google to buy a trove of patents from the bankrupt Canadian telecom-equipment maker Nortel Networks
Betting big on online retailing, Future Group On Friday said it is targeting daily sales of at least Rs one crore from its online portal FutureBazaar by the end of the current fiscal. "We are targeting orders worth Rs one crore everyday on FutureBazaar.com by the end of this financial year," FutureBazaar.com President Kashyap Deorah told PTI. He said the
Online shopping in India is taking a new shape beyond the usual apparel or electronics items, as FMCG firms and modern retailers attempt to reach out to consumers to sell essential items such as grocery and personal care items like soaps and shampoos through the internet. Companies, including Dabur, Himalaya Herbal Healthcare, Neutrogena, Oriflame, Amul, Future Group, Aditya Birl
US President Barack Obama has kicked off his re-election bid for 2012 through popular online mediums like Facebook and Twitter, trying to replicate the huge success he had in the 2008 campaign. Obama`s campaign said in a posting on its website that he will tweet regularly from the popular social media service and his personal tweets will be signed "-BO." The campaign sa
The ambitious `Aadhaar` project was able to bring about reformation in the delivery system of various welfare schemes, Chairman of the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), Nandan Nilekani, said in capital of Jharkhand on Friday . "The delivery system can be reformed through Aadhaar. And from October the Unique Identification Authority of India will start enrolli
The indigenous alternative in the payments space to Mastercard and Visa, RuPay, took a big stride with Reserve Bank-promoted National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) launching the card in partnership with Bank of India. Bank of India has become the fourth partner bank for NPCI. Over the past two months, it has tied up with three regional rural and co-operative banks and dist
Redundant government paperwork could soon be a thing of the past in Jammu and Kashmir as the state gears up to launch a State Service Delivery Gateway (SSDG) to facilitate e-governace in the Valley, officials said in the state capital on Sunday. The SSDG, expected to be launched by September this year, will route requests from citizens to government departments and send res
From punch cards to mainframe servers to now cloud computing, the Big Blue has come a long way since it was established a century ago. Technology titan IBM was founded on June 16, 1911 as the Computing Tabulating Recording Corporation through a merger of four companies. These were the Tabulating Machine Company, the International Time Recording Company, the Computi
In a move that could be a breather to the Essar Group, the Corporate Affairs Ministry has communicated to the Telecom Ministry that the Ruias-led group held only 2.15 per cent stake in Loop Telecom at the time of obtaining 2G licence. In a letter, the Registrar of Companies (Mumbai) has pointed out that "the Essar Group, directly or indirectly, held only 2.15 per cent of Loo
State-owned telecom engineering and consultant firm TCIL has accused Bharti Airtel of suppressing demands of its representatives on the board of their joint venture Bharti Hexacom and is considering to approach company law board against the same. "We have discussed it in a board meet and are seeking legal opinion on it. This issue will be discussed again in upcoming board me
The Madras High Court on Thursday dismissed the writ petitions by state-run Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd challenging an order of the Regional Provident Fund (RPF) Commissioner on PF coverage of BSNL employees. The court rejected the public sector telco`s stand that pre-induction training could not be considered for the purpose of EPF (Employment Provident Fund) Act. Th
Canadian firm Research In Motion (RIM) has partnered Ingram Micro to offer BlackBerry mobility solutions to large corporate and small and medium businesses (SMBs) in the country. "Given the reach of Ingram, the partnership will help RIM capture a bigger share of the market. The opportunity in India is huge and we are looking at offering value proposition to enterprise custom
The competition is hotting up for `tablets` in India, with Taiwanese handset maker now bringing its `Flier` to India in the next few weeks. "HTC Flyer will be launched shortly, in the next couple of weeks," HTC Corporation President (South Asia) Lennard Hoornik said. HTC Flyer`s competitors in India include Samsung`s Galaxy Tab, Blackberry Playbook and th
Yahoo! India, the leading digital media company, plans to take its `Learn with Yahoo` programme to schools in the near future. Yahoo! India Senior Director (Marketing) Nitin Mathur told newspersons here that based on the findings of internal research, the company chose an educative route to help users discover the power of the internet and started its `Learn with Yahoo programme`
