When Apple Inc releases a product, the store lines are typically led by fanboys clamoring to be first to get the latest gadget. However, the gray market was the first to reach a downtown San Francisco store, for the iPad 2 debut.

Apple byte: Grey marketers queue up

Business Standard

&ldquo;Data subscribers comprise about 13.5 per cent of revenues on Saturday and broadband penetration in the country hovers at under one per cent.

3G users key for Airtel, Vodafone

Research In Motion's BlackBerry operating system is world-renowned as being virtually impossible to exploit, but a new study has exposed a virus that specifically targets SMSes sent using the high-end smartphones' Messenger service.

New virus targets data on Blackberry phones

Press Trust of India

The Indian IT industry will add over 2.25 lakh employees in 2011 and will clock revenues of $71.7 billion by the end of the year, consulting firm Deloitte has said.

Indian IT industry to hire 2.25 lakh in 2011: Deloitte

Karnataka, better known for its leading Indian and global IT companies, is all set to open a business process outsourcing (BPO) centre - the first of its kind in the country &mdash; exclusively for filing petitions under the Right to Information Act. Citizens need to call up the centre, expected to be located in Bangalore, to file RTI applications, in lieu of some charges.

Karnataka to pioneer tele-filing of RTI petitions

AOL might be laying off hundreds of employees in India but at the same time, the American internet major is on a hiring spree in its home country and a few other overseas markets.

AOL fires people in India, hires in other countries

Reliance Communications Ltd, one of India's leading telecom service providers, plans to provide 3G services in 17 major towns in Orissa by the end of this month. The company has a subscriber base of around four million in the state.

Reliance Communications to extend 3G services to 13 towns in state

Research In Motion&rsquo;s BlackBerry operating system is world-renowned as being virtually impossible to exploit, but a new study has exposed a virus that specifically targets SMSes sent using the high-end smartphones&rsquo; Messenger service.

New virus targets data on BlackBerry phones

Indiaplaza.in, among the top e-commerce retailers in India, is understood to be readying itself to embark on a round of fund-raising in the near future. The company in which the Indigo Monsoon Group is a majority investor, is said to be going through the process of due diligence from a few venture capital funds.

Indiaplaza said to be eyeing funds from VCs

Even as Microsoft&rsquo;s browser rules the roost when it comes to the number of users, Google Chrome users displayed loyalty with only 35 per cent switch-outs.

Is Internet Explorer wary of Chrome?

Sixty-year-old Arun Awasthi is averse to using debit cards for online transactions and is even more averse to credit cards. However, he is also wary of using cash for every transaction. &ldquo;Exactly the kind of customers targeted by our firm,&rdquo; asserts Itz Cash Card Managing Director Naveen Surya. While cash cards are not a new concept and the user need not have a bank account, they are yet to gather steam in India.

Cash cards promise more to woo mobile users

The iconic touchscreen tablet PC Apple iPad 1 has shed its price by Rs 3,400 within five weeks of launch in India. The Cupertino-based Apple unveiled its latest version of iPad in the US earlier this month. Maintaining its value-price leader position in the domestic market, the iPad is now making competitors, including players in the e-reader market, uncomfortable. At present, Samsung and Olive Telecom have launched tablet PCs and a clutch of device makers, including Research in Motion, Acer and Motorola, will do so in the next couple of months.

Apple gears up to bite into the e-reader market with iPad

Telecom industry is vital for the socio-economic development in the country and should be given the status of a public utility service, the Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) said today.

COAI demands public utility service tag for telecom industry

Apple may have sold as many as 500,000 iPad 2 computers after retail outlets ran out of the tablet-style device on its debut weekend, said Piper Jaffray Cos analyst Gene Munster.

Apple may have sold 500,000 iPad 2 tablets

Mobile handset maker Nokia on Monday said it had set up servers in India for enabling security agencies to monitor its consumer e-mail services. The company is in the process of testing solutions for these services.

Nokia says govt security concerns met

Market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) has sought clarifications on the $1.22-billion (more than Rs 5,400 crore) takeover of India's sixth largest IT firm Patni Computer, by US-based iGate, which is awaiting a regulatory nod for about two months.

iGate-Patni deal: Sebi seeks clarification

A new tool now makes it easier to find and register &lsquo;Indianised&rsquo; Internet addresses. It has been developed by Verisign and launched by Tradeindia.com, an online B2B marketplace in India, which provides users with suggestions for Indianised domain names, as well as names based on popular lucky numbers.

New tool to help MSMEs register Indianised Net addresses

For instance, there are over 200 odd million people who can read and write in Hindi. But Hindi doesn&rsquo;t figure in any listing of the top ten languages used on the internet globally. Japanese, a cussedly difficult language to read or write, makes it to the top five. This, from a country with less than one-tenth the population of India.

Vanita Kohli-Khandekar: The mystery of missing Indian languages

Mindtree, the mid-cap information technology (IT)product and services firm, hit by a series of bad news recently, seems set to get back on track. The Bangalore-based company has revamped itself as it aims to simplify its business structure and focus on being a specialist in certain areas.

MindTree rejigs its business

On the day after the tsunami devastated Japan, Anand Mahindra, vice-chairman and managing director of the Mahindra Group, wrote on his Twitter page: &ldquo;Received numerous mails purportedly soliciting funds for Japanese tsunami victims.

Cybercrime sets sail on tsunami sympathy

As part of its diversification, state-run telecom player Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd (MTNL) plans to set up a wind power plant in Maharashtra.

MTNL plans to set up wind power plant in Maharashtra

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