Indian oil & gas companies embrace IT

The Information Technology revolution has seen many sectors moving towards the adoption of IT to enhance business productivity. Among these, the Oil and Gas sector has been one of the fastest adopters of IT solutions. Oil and gas companies were forced to look at adopting IT due to growing competition and fluctuations in crude prices and to optimise performance and plant assets.Frost &... By

Dell announces the India launch of Latitude XT3

Dell has expanded its Latitude series with the Latitude XT3 laptop to get the flexibility of a tablet with the power of a laptop. Whether at your desk or on the move, the Latitude XT3 enables one to work from almost anywhere. Latitude XT3 offers an ideal balance between usable workspace and mobility. Dell Latitude XT3 laptop comprises features like the flexibility of a touch-screen tablet,... By

SAP ERP deployed at Automotive Axles

Automotive Axles Limited, a joint venture of Kalyani Group and Meritor Inc., USA roped in IBM as the deployment partner for SAP ERP ECC 6.0 implementation to increase its operational efficiency. The enterprise SAP implementation will help Automotive Axles create a scalable system to obtain better access and control over information flow within the organisation. By bringing all the functions on a... By

Aspect Platinum Sponsorship for Gartner Symposium

Aspect, a leading provider of customer contact and Microsoft platform solutions, is pleased to announce its platinum sponsorship for the Gartner Symposium to be held in Mumbai later this year. The goal of the event, which is primarily attended by key IT and industry decision makers, is to share best practices in delivering real business value by leveraging fast-evolving, industry-changing... By

PlayUp India registers highest user base

PlayUp India, a pioneer in the field of LIVE sports gaming, has become Indias No. 1 mobile generation sports Entertainment Company to register the highest numbers of user base on Facebook within a short span of three months. Riding on the popularity chart of the worlds most visited social platform, PlayUp has crossed a fan following of over 1 million. With an active daily user base of 0.3... By

Get ready for heftier mobile bills

The chairman of Airtel, Sunil Bharti Mittal, has said that mobile tariffs are set to rise significantly in days to come. Mittal said, The pressure on this industry will be acute as the operators will have to serve rural markets as well as low-end customers, who use only voice calls and SMSes. Only days ago, major telecom companies had raised their tariffs in some segments. Factors like the entry... By

Dell teams up with Baidu Yi for mobiles, tablets

Till now the Chinese hardware market has been dominated by the likes of Apple and Lenovo. Now with Dell joining hands with Chinas top search engine, Baidu Yi, the coming years could see lot of new churning happening in the countrys hardware market. Dell and Baidu plan to jointly develop tablet computers and mobile phones to be marketed to Chinese customers. Dell has declined to give a timeline... By

DoT working on exit policy for telcos

India's apex policy-making body in the sector, the Telecom Commission, has directed the department of telecom (DoT) to prepare an exit policy for operators. In an interview, J.S. Sarma, the chairman of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India, has said that the Indian government is considering the regulator's views on the new M&A rules as part of a broad telecom policy to be announced... By

HP and VMWare roll out VirtualSystem in India

HP has announced HP VirtualSystem for VMware, a highly-optimized, turnkey solution that gives organisations a virtualised infrastructure that speeds implementation and provides a foundation for cloud computing.As virtualisation has gained adoption, multi-tier network architectures, virtual sprawl, inflexible storage, unpredictable workloads and security concerns have increased complexity and... By

TCS bids $500 million for Lufthansa unit

Tata Consultancy Services, India's biggest software services exporter, has put in a $500-million bid to buy a controlling stake in the information technology unit of German flagship airline Lufthansa, a leading business daily reported on Tuesday.TCS is also in talks to negotiate a multi-year contract from Lufthansa that could add revenues of more than $2 billion for the company, the newspaper's... By

Are there too many useless and dumb apps?

Apples iPhone and iPad are ruling the gadget space because they have access to more than 400,000 apps. Android is popular because it is backed by prolific developers who have been able to write a large number of apps in a very short time. Yeah, right. The truth is that a vast majority of these apps are outright silly. Perhaps they even have a number of apps for being silly. No one downloads them... By

Tring! No pesky calls, SMSes, after 27 Sept: TRAI

No more unwanted SMSes trying to sell anything from properties in far-flung areas to insurance policies, gadgets, insurance policies and credit cards. From September 27, users will have the power to block such messages by registering their number with the national do-not-call (NDNC) registry, the database of subscribers who dont want to receive unwanted marketing messages.In a statement, TRAI... By