Microsoft India is looking at garnering a fair share of the retail business in the next three to five years. 


Microsoft eyes bigger slice of retail business

Business Standard

A decade ago, recruitment companies in India used to hardsell their services to any company worth its name. Now the things have changed, the market for these companies has rapidly expanded along with

Now, recruitment companies call the shots

HP on Monday announced the HP OpenCall Media Platform (OCMP) Video for Indian mobile operators. OCMP Video enables the rapid development of interactive multimedia services to drive penetration of

HP`s mobile software

SAP Labs India has announced that it has received the Recruiting and Staffing Best In Class (RASBIC) Award instituted by Bharati Vidyapeeths Institute of Management Studies &amp; Research. 


SAP Labs named best hirer

ID fraud, privacy and compliance with security-related regulations have shaken up financial institutions and they will be looking at creative ways to secure their business operations and regain the

Coordinated, industrialised fraud attacks will continue to rise: Unisys study

SiNett Corporation, a developer of silicon and software for network infrastructures, has announced that its OneEdge Switch Processor for unified wired and wireless networks was selected as one of EDN

SiNett switch in top 100

Vista Infotech, an HR consulting firm, has signed an MoU with Eduwiz, a Korean IT Security firm. Under this pact, Vista will develop solutions for Eduwiz in IT security training. 


Vista in pact with Korean firm

The fast-paced growth in the number of telephone connections has persuaded companies to look for new opportunities to connect service providers such as restaurants and cinema halls to potential

Info Network offers more services

US-based PC manufacturer Dell today announced it had plans to set up a manufacturing base in India, depending on incentives provided by states.


Dell seeks incentives to produce in India

Fluid Motion

Make a motion like you're swatting away a fly  you just changed channels on your television. Wave your hands about and you just turned up or down the volume. By now, with the immense popularity of devices like the Wii and the Kinect, a lot of us are already familiar with gesture recognition software. So familiar in fact, that we don't even think twice about how awesome this technology is.

Gesture recognition: Wave if you think it's the future

Google seems to be on its way to coming through a major antitrust investigation in the United States essentially unscathed. But the outlook is not as bright for Google here, as the European Union&rsquo;s top antitrust regulator prepares to meet on Tuesday with Eric E Schmidt, Google&rsquo;s executive chairman.

As Europe presses Google on antitrust, US backs away

Microblogging site Twitter announced two changes in its top management on Thursday. Twitter appointed Mike Gupta as the chief financial officer (CFO) of the company, as Ali Rowghani moved on to take the role of the chief operating officer (COO).

Mike Gupta is new Twitter CFO

An upset Russia on Friday said the issue of Sistema Telecom was not &ldquo;judicial&rdquo; but &ldquo;political&rdquo;, maintaining cancellation of the firm&rsquo;s 2G licence was &ldquo;not fair&rdquo;, to which India asserted that it was "sensitive" to their concern and hoped the issue would be addressed.

Sistema issue not judicial but political, says Russian envoy

Press Trust of India

The police were hot on my heels. Smashing through a five-car roadblock, I ducked below the freeway and made a U-turn, and headed downtown, but there was no getting rid of the wailing cars tailing me.

Burn some rubber in Fairhaven City

The Rockstand app lets you annotate text, as well as flip pages, just like in a book. It also remembers page numbers, just like other eBook readers.

Bibliophiles ahoy! Library in the virtual world

Even before Google or Facebook came up with their free SMS applications, there have been several others. Of course, the advantage of using a Facebook chat application (app) is that it is synchronised with your social site page and contacts. In case of Google, your gmail contacts and Google+ members are factored in.

Simplifying the buzz around chattering apps

Google's SMS chat application is fairly simple. From within Gtalk, one can send text messages to contacts, provided their numbers are added to the address book.

Get your address book in order

While brick-and-mortar fashion chains are not gung-ho on Christmas promotions, e-shopping portals are going full steam ahead with discounts and offers for the Christmas and New Year.

E-tailers outdo retailers on offers and promotions

The latest chargesheet by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in the 2G telecom spectrum scam has put the blame on three companies but not on any of its representatives. This, according to legal experts, will weaken the case as criminal intent is attributed to an abstract entity like a company. If charges are proven, the penalty would be a fine on these companies, they say. The court could, however, ask for compensation if the amount of fine is not considered adequate.

2G chargesheet just names telcos, weakens case: Experts

Facebook&rsquo;s Instagram photo sharing service has been hit with what appears to be the first civil lawsuit to result from changed service terms that prompted howls of protest last week.

Instagram furore triggers first lawsuit

Reuters 

China might require internet users to register with their real names when signing up to network providers, state media said today, extending a policy already in force with microblogs in a bid to curb what officials call rumours and vulgarity.

China may ask for real name registration for internet access  

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