When Vidha Shukla, a resident of Delhi and a postpaid customer of Vodafone, found a sudden 45 per cent jump in her bill, she was quite shocked. A quick word with the call centre executive revealed that the company had hiked tariffs by 20 per cent in January.

Talk more, spend less       

Business Standard

Scientists in the US claim to have developed the world's first &quot;biological computer&quot; that is made from biomolecules and can decipher images encrypted on DNA chips.

World's first biological computer developed

Press Trust of India

Telenor, the Norwegian mobile phone operator with 140 million subscribers across Europe and Asia, lifted its dividend and raised the prospect of a share buyback as its big Indian unit cuts its loss.

Telenor misses f'cast, no word on India exit

Reuters 

Nokia Oyj, the world&rsquo;s largest maker of mobile phones, will cut about 4,000 jobs in its factories in Hungary, Mexico and Finland to speed up the delivery of devices and get closer to suppliers.

Nokia to cut 4,000 jobs, shift production to Asia

Cognizant Technology Solutions, a Nasdaq-listed provider of IT, consulting and business process outsourcing services, is expanding its operations in Kerala. The company will be setting up a new campus at Phase-II of Infopark here.

Cognizant to set up new campus in Kochi

Hewlett-Packard, world's second largest computer maker, is eyeing the small business segments in the state, which is poised to emerge as one of the major investment destinations in the Information Technology (IT) sector.

HP India eyes small business segment in state

India&rsquo;s largest private telecom company, Bharti Airtel, on Wednesday reported an eighth straight quarter of decline in net profit &mdash; sending its share down 6.6 per cent &mdash; on lower mobile phone use by customers.

Bharti Airtel net dips on lower mobile phone use

Tata Consultancy Services, India&rsquo;s largest information technology services provider, on Wednesday announced a joint venture (JV) with Mitsubishi Corporation, to increase penetration in Japan, the world&rsquo;s second largest IT market.

TCS in JV with Mitsubishi for Japan mkt

Sailing through the choppy business environment and gloomy global market conditions, revenues for Indian information technology (IT) and business process outsourcing (BPO) services companies will cross $100 billion mark this financial year.

IT-BPO industry to see slow growth in FY13

When Sistema Shyam CEO Vsevolod Rozanov saw the number of employees attending a &lsquo;town hall&rsquo; meeting organised at the company headquarters in Gurgaon double this Monday, he was not surprised.

Licences lost, telcos strive not to lose talent 

The rate of growth in India&rsquo;s software and services exports is declining.

IT looks closer to home

Merryl D'Silva is elated these days. For, the public relations executive finds her favourite cosmetics and personal care brands such as Garnier, L'Oreal, Maybelline and others on e-tailing or online retailing websites. &quot;There are a number of these online,&quot; the Mumbaikar says with a smile. &quot;And at good prices.

Top cosmetic brands shine online

Microsoft Corp, the world's largest software maker, will unveil the first broadly available test version of the Windows 8 operating system on February 29 in Barcelona, Spain, at a mobile industry show.

Microsoft to unveil Windows 8 preview 

After using Christmas and the year-end for spamming, cyber criminals are now busy targeting upcoming events like Valentine&rsquo;s Day, UEFA Euro 2012 and Summer Olympics 2012.
By relating their mails with widely-celebrated holidays and current events of global interest, spammers and malware authors can make their messages seem interesting, thus increasing the chances of recipients falling for these, said the Symantec Intelligence Report, January 2012.
&ldquo;We are already seeing references

Spammers ride high on upcoming events

Apple Inc, maker of the iPad and iPhone, for the second time failed to win a ban on sales of Samsung Electronics Co.'s Galaxy 10.1N from a German court.

Apple loses bid to ban sales of Samsung's Galaxy Tab 

After being at the helm of Google India and Google Asia Pacific for over seven years, Shailesh Rao is now been roped in by micro-blogging service provider, Twitter.

BS People: Shailesh Rao

A day after Bahrain Telecommunications said it was exiting its Indian joint venture (JV), Emirates Telecommunications (Etisalat) announced today it was writing off Rs 4,048 crore ($827 million) as part-losses incurred from its India operations. This came in the wake of the recent Supreme Court order which cancelled 21 licences of its Indian JV.

Etisalat takes Rs 4,000-cr charge against Indian operations

British telecom company Vodafone Plc&rsquo;s service revenue from India grew 6.3 per cent to &pound;1,024 million (Rs 7,987 crore) in the third quarter, compared to &pound;963 million (Rs 7,511 crore) in the same quarter last year.

Vodafone India Q3 service revenue up 6.3% 

The Essar and Loop group of companies, chargesheeted with its promotors on a matter related to the telecom spectrum scam, on Thursday petitioned the Supreme Court in a challenge to the proceedings in this regard before the trial court in the main 2G case.

SC to hear Essar, Loop plea for separate trial next week

Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg will get millions of dollars in salary, bonuses and stock options, but cannot work on creating a rival to the social networking giant. This has been disclosed in Facebook's amended registration document for its upcoming IPO, filed with the US market regulator Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) last night.

Zuckerberg can't create a rival to his own Facebook

Signalling consolidation in the Indian online retail space, leading e-commerce company Flipkart has acquired Letsbuy, a strong cyber player in the consumer electronics category. While the industry referred to the deal as an Amazon-Junglee effect, co-founder and CEO of Flipkart Sachin Bansal told Business Standard, &ldquo;the discussions have been on for some time. So it would be incorrect to say that it&rsquo;s a fallout of Junglee.

Flipkart buys Letsbuy in a cash-equity deal

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