Qualcomm's ISP hopes dashed by DoT

DoT (Department of Telecom) has rejected the Internet Service Provider (ISP) license that the global chipmaker, Qualcomm, had made, following its successful bid for BWA spectrum last year, where it secured the territories of Delhi, Mumbai, Kerala and Haryana for a staggering $1 billion. Qualcomm, however, has decided to contest the stand taken by DoT. The company claims that it has fully... By

Winners of Intel-DST Challenge 2011 announced

Teams from Japan and Philippines have won the coveted Intel- DST Asia Pacific Challenge for 2011 for their innovative projects. The Japanese team led by Eiichi Yamaguchi won the first prize for its Portable UV Index Sensors and their Networking Systems. Joshua Rueben Go Aragon and Laurence Erich Chiang Co of Philippines won the second prize for their design and fabrication of a jointed... By

HCL Opens global delivery center in Washington

HCL Technologies has said it has opened a global delivery centre in Redmond, Washington, where its initial investment of $4 million will create over 400 jobs in the Seattle area over the next two years."The new centre will support the company's continued global expansion and increased focus on business innovation in software product development, test engineering and business critical platform... By

Cloud services industry to touch $650 b by 2020

The cloud market, says the report, is currently highly fragmented and estimated to be around US$40 billion globally, adding the opportunity provides deep silver lining for IT services players. Pointing out that cloud is reducing the barrier to entry and enabling non-traditional IT players to enter, it says, cloud will be a net positive impact on existing service lines while also opening up new... By

Infra management is the new growth engine

Describing infrastructure management services as next growth engine, Pradeep Kar, CMD, Microland said that the industry is all set to leverage this movement which is a the next milestone of growth.During his inaugural address at the Nasscom Infrastructure Management Services Summit 2011, Kar, while referring to the recently released Nasscom RIM Report, Kar maintained that exports from new... By

Unending financial woes for BSNL: losses mount

Hefty outgo for employee salaries and expenses borne for procurement of 3G and BWA spectrum have led to BSNLs losses mounting about Rs. 6000 crore in during 2010-11. In 2009-10, the PSU had registered a net loss of Rs 1,823 crore. The unaudited results presented by the company indicate that the loss for 2010-11 is Rs 5,997 crore. A senior BSNL official said, The reason for widening of the losses... By

Huaweis MediaPad will debut in October

It was in CommunicAsia 2011 in Singapore that Huawei showed off its flagship tablet, the MediaPad. The device is expected to start retailing from October this year. The 7-inch Android 3.2 Honeycomb tablet could carry a price tag of less than Rs 25,000. The price tag is expected to be significantly higher than what Indian companies like Beetel and Reliance are charging for their tablets. The... By

Samsung develops new chip to boost flash memory

The worlds number one memory chip maker, Samsung, has announced that it has started mass production at a new $10 billion chip line, as it seeks to raise its share in the booming flash memory chip market. The boom in the flash memory market is mostly the result of greater demand for mobile devices like, smartphones and tablets. The new production line from Samsung, the first that the company has... By

SapientNitro organises Idea Engineer Exchange

SapientNitro, a division of Sapient and an integrated marketing and technology services firm, is organising an interactive knowledge forum titled Idea Engineer Exchange on Saturday, 24th September, 2011, at The Leela Palace, Bangalore. This inaugural event will be focused on the implications of changing trends in consumer behavior on businesses and on Digital Commerce, the way people transact... By

India adds 5.34 mn GSM subscribers in Aug 2011

India's GSM mobile subscribers base grew 0.88 per cent in August with the addition of over 5.34 million subscribers. Out of this, Idea Cellular alone signed over 2.3 million subscribers.The total number of GSM subscribers in the country crossed 611.76 million in August as against 606.4 million the previous month, data released by Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) showed.Bharti... By

Googles Doodle announces the coming of Google+

Click on http://www.google.co.in/ and you will find yourself looking at an amazing Doodle, which is in form of an arrow pointing towards the link to Google+. In fact, you can click anywhere on the arrow and you will be taken straight to Google+. Clearly this is more of an ad than a Doodle. Google is boldly trying to steer its users to try out its social networking site. This new Doodle indicates... By

Samsungs Bada might soon go the Android way

In 2012, Samsungs Bada platform might become open source. The Wall Street Journal quotes a source familiar with the situation as saying that the South Korean company is planning to make Bada software an open source platform next year. The same source has also revealed that Samsung has no plans to buy a software company. This means that different device makers in the world will be able to use... By