Guess which firm is world's 7th greenest? It's TCS

US magazine Newsweek has ranked TCS as the worlds 7th greenest company in its Green Rankings 2011.In addition, TCS is the highest ranked Asia-based company and second highest ranked globally in the Information Technology & Services company category. Newsweeks Green Rankings assess each companys environmental footprint, management of that footprint, and transparency. The Green Rankings... By sanjay.gupta gupta

Weaving 3D Dreams

Imagine a company spending millions of dollars to buy workstations, software, servers, networking and storage equipment for everyone working on one large project. Then imagine recycling those systems and buying everything again for the next project. This may seem like IT overkill, but its a way of life at Glendale, California-based DreamWorks Animation, creator of such highly successful movies... By sanjay.gupta gupta

Negotiate to Win

Negotiation promises higher value creation by matching customers individual specific needs with manufacturers capabilities. However, difficulties in terms of information asymmetry and stickiness along with conflicting incentives prevent customers from effectively tapping into the value of negotiation in procurement. This research conceptualises procurement of customised products as a transaction... By sanjay.gupta gupta

Sony Ericsson lets you do FingerTALK

With consumers demanding infotainment on-the-go, Sony Ericsson is leading the pack to build new texting experiences for smartphones users. Announcing its FingerTALK campaign, the communication entertainment brand is expanding its Xperia range in the Indian market. Packed with better social media integration, smarter features, and access to over 250,000 apps on the Android market, the new... By

Kingstons Wi-Drive now in India

Kingston, the US based independent memory products manufacturer, has announced that the Wi-Drive is now available in the Indian market. Fortune Marketing, with its impressive nationwide presence, will be the distributor for the product.The sleek, functional Wi-Drive is the perfect solution to storage limitations faced by users of Apple devices. What the Wi-Drive offers is an incredible, extended... By

Joint compliance for secure business

McAfee and RSA, The Security Division of EMC has announced a new joint solution based on their existing technology partnership. This joint solution integrates security data from the McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator platform (McAfee ePO) with business infrastructure and compliance data in the RSA Archer eGRC Platform and the RSA Archer Enterprise Management solution. By connecting this data, customers... By

SAP unleashes real-time analytics in the cloud

SAP AG has announced the launch of SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) OnDemand, powered by SAP HANA. The solution allows companies to quickly and cost-effectively perform detailed real-time analysis of any data, including data from on-demand solutions. The announcement was made at SAP TechEd 2011, being held in Bangalore, India, October 19-21.Reporting and ad hoc yet detailed... By

Googles Galaxy Nexus could upset the Apple cart

Only hours ago, at an event in Hong Kong, Google and Samsung unveiled their much-anticipated mobile device. There was speculation in the media that the device would be called Nexus Prime, but the name has turned out to be Galaxy Nexus. Samsung has made the device, which is the first to run a new version of Googles Android 4.0, more popularly known as Ice Cream Sandwich. The Galaxy Nexus is the... By

Time to re-imagine the role of IT: Gartner

Modernising technologies are not enough for CIOs to succeed; it is time for IT leaders to re-imagine IT, according to Gartner, Inc. This is the era of mass collaboration driven by the consumerisation of IT. For an IT leader to thrive in this environment, they must re-imagine their role, and they must lead from the front.During the opening keynote today at Gartner Symposium/ITxpo, being held here... By

Tidemark is the new competitor for Oracle

Cloud-based analytics company Tidemark took the wraps off its business after two years in stealth mode, and announced a new funding round.The company is another in a list of start-ups aimed at helping businesses deal with sorting through growing amounts of data. It works using the cloud -- meaning data gets stored on a network of computers and is accessible from anywhere.But in a sign of the... By

Apple sells 4 million iPhones in 3 days

Apple Inc said on Monday it sold 4 million iPhone 4S in the new smartphone's first three days on the market, setting up a strong December quarter for the world's largest technology company.Helped by availability in more countries and on more telecommunications carrier networks, the iPhone 4S, which went on sale on Friday, Oct. 14, managed to outshine the iPhone 4, which sold 1.7 million over its... By

Legacy IT to deliver on cloud computing

HP has announced that companies in the Asia-Pacific and Japan (APJ) region are turning to HP for data centre services and solutions as they outpace other regions in the race to cloud-based computing models.Globally, the market for cloud computing will grow from $40.7 billion in 2011 to more than $241 billion in 2020. APJ is a particularly dynamic region in terms of growth in this area, where,... By