The big Social Media puzzle: To enable or not?

Social networking websites such as Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, iVillage, Yahoo! Answers, TripAdvisor, del.icio.us, LinkedIn, Craigslist, Amazon and many others have changed the way we operate our businesses and live our personal lives . The prevalence of Social networking has exploded in the past few years. This combined with mobile technologies have completed changed the way... By shashwatdc gupta

Devendra Thakkar, AGM IT, Torrent Pharmaceuticals Ltd.

Next 100 gave me visibility within the company The Next 100 Award was well appreciated by the VP- IT & HR in the company. I got more respect from by subordinates and form my colleagues. The communication went to my VP-IT from IT NEXT 100, helped me gaining score to get nominated for the promotion. It also helped me to prove my skill and talent.I felt very proud and was much happy when... By shashwatdc gupta

Enterprise software revenue to grow 9.5% in 2011

Worldwide enterprise software revenue is on pace to surpass $267 billion in 2011, a 9.5% increase from 2010 revenue of $244 billion, according to Gartner, Inc. The enterprise software market is projected for continued growth in 2012, with revenue forecast to reach $288 billion. "The market for enterprise software continues to recover well following the 2009 downturn, with signs of ongoing growth... By shashwatdc gupta

Maxx Mobile to set up a 320 crore plant

The home grown handset company, Maxx Mobile plans to invest 320 crore for setting up a handset and lithium ion battery manufacturing plant in India. While talking to PTI, Maxx Mobile Communications Managing Director, Ajjay Agarwal, said, "We have a vision of being a true Indian mobile handset company. Hence, we have decided to set up a mobile handset manufacturing plant at Haridwar in India. At... By shashwatdc gupta

Is Chromebook the future of Computing?

It has now been a few weeks since Chromebook made an entry into the market. The launch of the device was rather lukewarm by present day standards; the hype was nothing compared to what we usually witness in case of any new product from Apple. It is still not clear what kind long-term impact this device is going to have on our computing habits. Some analysts have placed the Chromebook into a... By shashwatdc gupta

RILs 4G plans will revolutionise broadband

When Reliance enters any field of business, expectations tend to soar to stratospheric levels. There could still be months, if not a year, before the 4G services from Reliance actually get launched, but we are already hearing about an innovative 4G tablet that the company would offer to its customers. According to market rumours, this feature packed 4G tablet is going to sell for mere Rupees... By shashwatdc gupta

RILs 4G plans will revolutionise broadband

When Reliance enters any field of business, expectations tend to soar to stratospheric levels. There could still be months, if not a year, before the 4G services from Reliance actually get launched, but we are already hearing about an innovative 4G tablet that the company would offer to its customers. According to market rumours, this feature packed 4G tablet is going to sell for mere Rupees... By shashwatdc gupta

Cloud services spending will hit $72.9 billion

The new press release from International Data Corporation (IDC), indicates that cloud computing will continue to reshape the IT landscape. Public cloud computing services, expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 27.6%, will be a $72.9 billion market in 2015, up from $21.5 billion in 2010. In the IDC lexicon, public cloud is defined as a service that is commercially offered to... By shashwatdc gupta

Huawei unveils new tablet; plans big investments

Huawei Technologies, the telecom equipment maker from China, has unveiled a new seven-inch capacitive touchscreen tablet device called MediaPad, which the company plans to start selling from the third quarter of the year. Running on the Honeycomb version of Googles Android OS, the MediaPad weighs less than a pound and uses a dual-core 1.2-gigahertz processor from Qualcomm Inc. There are two... By shashwatdc gupta

In May India had 590,198,359 GSM connections

The latest data from Cellular Operators Association India (COAI) indicates that while new connections in the GSM space continue to be added, the pace of growth might be slowing down. In April 2011, the numbers of new connections were more than 11 million, whereas in May 2011 only 9,533,357 new connections got added. In May 2011, Bharti Airtel had 167,065,289 users and it enjoyed a market share... By shashwatdc gupta

The era of .com is over

On June 20, 2011, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which is the organisation that regulates the worlds domain names, approved a new set of guidelines that will potentially enable anyone to register any name they like, in almost any language, as a Web address. So you could potentially end your domain name with the name of your company. For instance, you could have a... By shashwatdc gupta

Enterprises warm up to smartphone & tablet apps

Users of enterprise B2E (business-to-employee) and B2C (business to customer) smartphone and media tablet mobile applications are forecast to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of nearly 90 percent and exceed 830 million active users by 2016, according to a report from IT analytics firm ABI Research. These numbers include B2E apps such as line-of-business apps and B2C, branded company... By shashwatdc gupta