Digital media company Yahoo! is toying with the idea of floating a platform, which would accept valuable suggestions and ideas from commoners in India, and turn them into potential applications.

Yahoo! to tap India for 'open ideas'

Business Standard

Year and Q4 results keenly awaited as guide to IT sector drivers, extent.

Street guesses quicken on TCS, Infosys prospects

It&rsquo;s that time of the year when we all plan an escape to the mountains, the woods or the seas &mdash; or any other destination that helps lighten up and keep work and worries at bay. The modern traveller knows that a vacation is not a vacation without a set of handy gadgets that lets you flaunt your holiday hotspots on social networking sites. Here&rsquo;s a review of the five must haves that will add zing to your smart travel plans .

Unwind for a gadgetastic summer break

Driven by increasing sales of electronics and burgeoning telecom sector, the Indian semiconductor design industry is expected to reach $10.2 billion by 2012, an industry body today said.

Chip design industry seen at $10.2 bn by 2012

Press Trust of India

Vivendi SA (VIV) agreed to buy Vodafone Group (VOD)&rsquo;s 44 per cent stake in French mobile-phone operator SFR for &curren;7.95 billion ($11.3 billion) to win full control of its largest unit and secure more stable earnings.

Vivendi to buy Vodafone's stake in SFR for $11.3 bn

Imagine a space on the Web where you can create a knowledge base of your own and access it for years down the line. That was the thought that led Titash Neogi to create Bibkosh &mdash; a networking site where users can store knowledge as their personal &ldquo;knowledge vault&rdquo; on the Internet, share it with friends and even put it on display through their &ldquo;knowledge profiles&rdquo;. Positioned along side the general social networking websites, Bibkosh will urge users to keep their data or knowledge, as Neogi calls it, safe in an online library, from where it can be retrieved anytime.

Sharing knowledge through networking

When Bertelsmann, the German media giant, boasted of a financial resurgence last week, one of the strongest growth stories came from one of its most traditional businesses: the book publisher Random House.

Outside US, e-books have a lot of catching up to do

Cracks in the telecom joint venture Uninor became wider today when the Norwegian partner Telenor issued a statement distancing itself from the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) proceedings on Unitech Wireless.

Telenor wipes its hands off 2G spectrum probe

Idea Cellular will seek a vacation of the stay order on its merger with Spice Communications this week.

Idea to move court to lift stay order

Having invested Rs 600-625 crore on infrastructure in rolling out its 2G &amp; 3G services in Haryana, Idea Cellular would further invest Rs 40-50 crore in the state in next fiscal in strengthening its network, including 2G and 3G. The company is planning to add 1,000 more cell sites in the next financial year. At present, it has 2,161 cell sites in Haryana.

Idea to invest Rs 40-50 cr in Haryana to strengthen network

Idea Cellular Ltd&rsquo;s controlling shareholder is considering selling its stake in India&rsquo;s third-largest mobile-phone company and has held talks with potential purchasers including MTN Group Ltd, said three people with knowledge of the matter.

Idea Cellular mulls sale of stake, holds talks with MTN

Uttar Pradesh is getting the cyber savvy to attract investment in the state with an advanced single-window online clearance system, &lsquo;Nivesh Mitra&rsquo;.

UP single-window online suite to integrate with Facebook

Private GSM operator Idea Cellular today launched its third generation (3G) services in Uttar Pradesh (East) circle even as it is eyeing Rs 1,000 crore in revenues, up from Rs 769 crore last fiscal.

Idea launches 3G services in UP

British telecom company Vodafone on Tuesday said it had filed a petition in the Supreme Court against the penalty proceedings initiated by the Income Tax department. The revenue authority recently sent a notice to the company saying it plans to slap a penalty on the company for evading tax in the 2007 Hutch deal.

Vodafone moves SC against I-T Dept's penalty

Dell Services, the information technology (IT) services arm of Nasdaq-listed personal computer manufacturer Dell, on Tuesday said former Wipro joint chief executive Suresh Vaswani would lead its applications and business process outsourcing (BPO) organisation as executive vice-president. Vaswani will also assume charge as chairman of Dell India. He will report to Steve Schuckenbrock, president of Dell Services.

Vaswani to lead Dell Services' applications and BPO arm

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) orders found that PW India&rsquo;s audits of Satyam did not meet US professional standards and, as a result, did not discover the fraud underlying Satyam's 2005-2008 financial statements.&nbsp; The orders make clear that Satyam management engaged in a years-long fraud, going so far as to create scores of fictitious documents for the purpose of misleading the auditors.

SEC censures Satyam 

Country&rsquo;s largest telecom player Bharti Airtel sees 3G as a major growth propeller and says the journey of 3G to 4G and to LTE (long-term evolution) would take place much faster in India. In an interview with K Rajani Kanth, Bharti Airtel president (mobile services) Atul Mohan Bindal shares the strategies for enterprise and corporate segments, and partnerships for 3G content, including high-definition games and their growth trajectory.

Q&A: Atul Mohan Bindal, Bharti Airtel

The executives of India&rsquo;s top companies, including Reliance Communications (RCom) Chairman Anil Ambani, appeared before Parliament&rsquo;s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) on Tuesday to explain their role in the 2G spectrum allocation scam.

Anil backs 'first come, first served' policy

It has been just five days since Ashok Soota, co-founder and chairman, bid adieu to MindTree. However, Soota, who quit Wipro 12 years ago to set up MindTree with nine others, has already launched a new venture &mdash; an information technology (IT) services company called Happiest Minds Technologies.

Soota decides to trace old steps in new journey

Bharti Airtel Limited, the country's largest telecom player, started the roll out of its 3G services in Andhra Pradesh with the launch of the service in Hyderabad on Tuesday.

Airtel rolls out 3G services in Hyd

It is not good news for the fastest-growing telecom market of the world. India, which is expected to be home to four million smartphones in the next two years, is already on the cyber criminal map. The number of malicious programmes targeting mobile sets has more than doubled between August 2009 and December 2010. In 2010, over 65 per cent more new threats targeting cellphones were detected than in the previous year.

Bugs may continue to bug your cellphones

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