Telecom 2011

Topics for discussionLegislative initiatives in regulating telecommunicationsProspects and issues of LTE development in RussiaMergers and acquisitions in the Russia telecommunication market. Legal aspects of M&A transactionsNew opportunities for technological partnerships in the industryMobile commerce: foreign experience and Russian business cases. Integration of banking and... By

The Future of Telecom in India

As an important pillar for speedy augmentation of various industries, telecommunication can indicate our overall socio-economic development. Today, telecom is the catalyst of growth and expansion much beyond simply IT/ITES, e-Commerce and BPO. The transition, reforms and transformations that Indian telecom has witnessed are colossal with doubling, quadrupling figures. Current growth is... By

Your Storage buying guide

As businesses are growing, so is the amount of data at their disposal. Irrespective of the size, be it small, medium or a large enterprise, storage and retrieval of the ever increasing data has become one of the most critical aspects of organizational IT infrastructure. Selecting the right product that could solve current problems and is still flexible enough to be up-scaled in the future is the... By shubhendu.parth

Tulip, IBM to build largest data facility

New Delhi: Tulip Telecom, the Enterprise Data Services provider has announced that it has chosen IT major IBM and data centre consultant Schnabel to establish a data centre in Bengaluru, which the company said will be Indias largest and the the worlds third largest data centre According to the agreement, IBM will be spearheading the design consultancy services for the overall data center as... By

Osama bin Laden's death spurs web media frenzy

Celebratory users have marked multiple possible sites of the late Osama bin Ladens mansion hideout on Google Maps and Google Earth. They also posted scathing reviews of the amenities and architecture of the fortress-like compound. Following President Barack Obamas May 1 announcement that the United States Navy SEAL forces killed Osama bin Laden, users celebrated by tracking down the hideout... By

How the Apple iPad is changing the IT industry

Apple's iPad has been selling extremely well. In 2010 alone, Apple reported that it sold 15 million tablet units. During its last-reported quarter, Apple sold 4.69 million iPads, helping to further solidify its position as the most dominant and arguably most influential company in the tablet market. Now, all others, including Google, Motorola, Research In Motion and Samsung, are trying to catch... By

Cisco Unveils Containerised Data Center

New Delhi: Cisco Systems famously shut down one of its businesses recently when it closed the Flip camera operation, but it is also expanding in other sectorsnamely, the data center arena.Now the Internet networking giant is moving its Unified Computing System, or UCS, into the portable container data center market, similar to what IBM, the former Sun Microsystems (now part of Oracle), Hewlett-... By

R.K Upadhyay joins as new BSNL MD

New Delhi: The government has appointed Rakesh Kumar Upadhyay as the chairman and managing director of state-owned telecom operator Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL). The Panel, headed by Sam Pitroda, adviser to the Prime Minister on public information infrastructure and innovations chose Upadhyay, the CMD of Telecommunications Consultants India Ltd, for the BSNL chiefs post, says the... By

It wasn't bullets but technology that killed Osama

As 4 helicopters ferrying scores of US Navy Seals landed on the isolated mansion standing just 800 yards from the Pakistan Military Academy on the outskirts of Abbottabad city, the fate of its infamous inhabitant had long been sealed, in fact months in advance. 54 year old Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden, the leader of the jihadist organisation Al-Qaeda and America's enemy number 1, might... By

Google Chrome eyes 12% share as Chrome OS nears

Google's Chrome Web browser notched 11.9% market share through April, a modest gain from 11.5% through March, according to Net Applications. Apple's Safari browser share grew to 7.1% from 6.6% through April. There were no big market share losers for the month, though Chrome appeared to continue to nip at its rivals. Microsoft Internet Explorer continued to lose share, dipping from 55.9% to 55.1... By

Small businesses underutilize e-Commerce: Survey

Newtek Business Services announced the findings of its SB Authority Market Sentiment Survey, a monthly window into the concerns of independent business owners. Based on a poll of approximately 1,200 respondents, one of the key findings from Aprils survey was small business owners apparent lack of e-Commerce initiatives. The low percentage of clients taking payments online 20-25% suggests that... By

PDF malware using new tricks to avoid detection

Malicious PDF files are using a new trick to avoid detection by almost all major antivirus scanners on the market, according to security researchers. Researchers from Avast and Sophos independently noticed PDF files making the rounds in March that werent being flagged as malicious but had the ability to compromise a machine just by being opened. The originating address was often suspicious, and... By