User-generated content (UGC) will soon get a monetisation model. By March 2011, Google&rsquo;s popular video streaming site YouTube will start allowing users to monetise their videos.

Make easy money with YouTube

Business Standard

Mobile gaming in India is on the rise. Djuzz, a free mobile gaming portal from BuzzCity, said India continued to dominate its charts for the most games downloaded with four million downloads in November.

The rise and rise of mobile gaming in India

Moving ahead from being the sole value-added distributor in India for Nasdaq-listed Blue Coat Systems of California, Ahmedabad-based Virtual Netcomm Pvt. Ltd. is now eyeing foray into the Asia Pacific region sans Japan and Australia.

Virtual Netcomm eyes Asia-Pacific entry

Mobile handset brand of UK based Meridian Group, Fly Mobile is eyeing the entertainment-on-the-move and social networking space for the Gujarat market. Looking primarily at urban areas like Ahmedabad, Vadodara and Surat in the state for these segments, Fly Mobile expects a 15,000-20,000 handsets per month sales in Gujarat.

Guj entertainment space on Fly Mobile's radar

Gujarat High Court (HC) on Friday admitted Vodafone Essar Gujarat Ltd's (VEGL) appeal challenging the order passed by a single judge bench dismissing the demerger scheme for transferring the passive assets of VEGL to Vodafone Essar Infrastructure Ltd(VEIL).

HC admits VEGL&#39;s appeal against rejection of demerger

With the rise of the internet, people began looking for love on websites such as Match.com and EHarmony.com. With the growing popularity of social networks, they&rsquo;re turning to services like AreYouInterested.com.

Facebook friends in search of romance drive app growth

Operators to miss January 1 deadline, express inability to upgrade system before 4-6 months.

Pesky calls: No relief as telcos stall Trai fiat

Precisely two weekends ago a new Facebook group was launched &mdash; &lsquo;The best of JNU&rsquo; &mdash; and within a week 200 members joined in. &ldquo;Let us enroll 1800 by 1st January&rdquo;, wrote a hopeful member. Grey-haired middle-aged men and women, many of them grandparents now, are re-discovering old friends and reliving old days. &ldquo;The last I marched in a demonstration was against the Emergency,&rdquo; writes a group member, now an official of the government! Many of the members have not met each other since they left campus more than three decades ago, but they are all equally excited logging onto the internet and socialising with imagined communities. The JNU group is just one of many such internet groups that now help reconnect old friends. High school sweethearts long separated, now grandparents and sitting at home and surfing the net, are establishing contact and meeting long-lost friends and loves. Surely, the global level of happiness must have gone up.

Cyber groups, hidden persuaders

Expedia Inc&rsquo;s travel website is hiding airfares for American Airlines after the third-largest US carrier pulled data from Orbitz Worldwide Inc as part of a legal dispute.

Expedia hides American airfares after row

As 2G and 3G telecom licences create a chaos of tapes, the mobile operators are busy luring consumers in the countryside with multiple services.

Sreelatha Menon: Some positive 2G

By 2015, your mobile phone will project a 3D image of anyone who calls and your laptop will be powered by kinetic energy. At least that&rsquo;s what International Business Machines Corp sees in its crystal ball.

IBM expects to see holographic phone calls by 2015

With private equity company Advent withdrawing from the Patni Computer Systems stake sale deal, the combination of iGate-Apax International is the clear frontrunner. The deal is likely to be signed early this week.

Patni deal likely this week; iGate-Apax frontrunner

State-run Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd is expect to finalise agreements for sharing its third generation (3G) mobile network with private service providers by early next year.

MTNL to ink 3G network sharing deal by January

Two decades after its birth, the World Wide Web has started influencing consumer habits. The way we communicate, conduct business and entertain ourselves, has undergone a visible change in 2010. Consumer preferences have also been the driving force behind major innovations in wireless data and just about every other area that involves the internet and consumer electronics. Based on the 2010 experience, all signs point to a year in which we should gain more control over how we use and pay for services on the internet, mobile broadband and consumer electronics.

WWW shaping your online behaviour

Sistema Shyam Tele Services Limited (SSTL) today launched its CDMA mobile service under the MTS brand in the Uttar Pradesh East and West circles, which also comprises Uttarakhand.

MTS launches services in UP, Uttarakhand

Tata Consultancy Services has emerged the lowest bidder for the Delhi government&rsquo;s liquor bottle bar coding project with a bid of 15 paise per bottle. The state cabinet is likely to approve awarding of the project to the company soon.

TCS lowest bidder for Delhi contract

Pune-based Zensar Technologies Limited, a global software solutions provider promoted by Kolkata-based RPG Enterprises, is planning to hire 1,200 people by the end of the next financial year.

Zensar Tech to hire 1,200 by next fiscal

Indian software services firms Wipro and HCL Technologies will join global firms IBM, HP and CSC in a bid to snare an IT consolidation project of ArcelorMittal, the world&rsquo;s largest steelmaker. The deal is expected to be worth up to euro 400 million (around Rs 2,360 crore).

Indian IT firms eye Mittal deal

The corporate affairs ministry today said it had sent its report on Swan Telecom&rsquo;s alleged connection with Reliance Communications to the Department of Telecommunications (DoT).

MCA sends probe report on Swan-RCom link to DoT

Press Trust of India

The field of technology in the year 2010 was quite exciting and eventful especially in the segment of mobile phones, which returned as status symbols in India in its latest avatar &mdash; the smartphones.

Phones turn up smart and smarter in '10

The year 2010 has been good for India in terms of technology and 2011 holds the promise of taking the country one step forward in harnessing technology to make a dent in some of the problems that continue to challenge it. The most obvious sign of the robustness of India&rsquo;s technological capability is the way in which IT-ITeS exports have been able to pick up even though recovery in the developed world remains weak and much of the year has gone by amidst speculation whether there will be a setback through a double-dip depression. In fact, the revival in IT-ITeS exports indicates that businesses, particularly the large ones, in the developed world are using India&rsquo;s technology offerings to retain their competitiveness when they are weighed down by the extremely weak domestic demand.

Technology rolls on

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