Microsoft's global security advisor, Roger Halbheer, here to attend a security event, feels investment in cyber security enables economic growth. In an interview with Piyali Mandal, he talks on web censorship, government regulations and the like.

Q&A: Roger Halbheer, Global Security Advisor, Microsoft

Business Standard

With 10 million transactions, the internet may soon be your favourite shop, too.

Rising online sales make e-commerce sites confident 

Telecom major Bharti Airtel faces the largest number of complaints at 893 for rejecting mobile number portability (MNP requests), followed by Vodafone and Idea Cellular, Parliament was informed today.

Airtel faces maximum complaints for MNP rejection

Press Trust of India

Indian women entrepreneurs are successfully leveraging the power of internet to challenge the world of male-dominated business, a report said on Friday.

Internet removing gender bias in business: Alibaba.Com

HCL Technologies Ltd, a leading technology services provider whose clients include Deutsche Bank AG and GlaxoSmithKline Plc (GSK), said the European debt crisis will help it to buy and partner with local companies.

HCL eyes acquisitions amid crisis in Europe

Nokia is planning to launch its Lumia series - Lumia 800 and Lumia 710 - its first smartphones based on the Windows operating system, in a week's time in the Indian market. Lumia 800 is priced at Rs 29,999 and Lumia 710 at Rs 19,999 for the Indian markets.

Nokia's Lumia to hit market in a week

Max Healthcare has rolled out a unique solution to help its patients reach out to their doctors, even at odd hours, with just one click on their BlackBerry phones.

Max Healthcare starts blackberry app for patients

Big &mdash; that&rsquo;s how you would summarise Samsung Galaxy Note, the latest smartphone that claims to be a tablet too. The question that needs to be answered is why there is a buzz about the Samsung Galaxy Note, when the Dell Streak 5 too tried the same thing and pretty much collapsed in the process.

This will make you sit up and take Note

Dhiren Kapadia, who runs a travel agency in Mumbai, bought a Reliance Tab last month. &ldquo;I couldn&rsquo;t afford a device that costs upwards of Rs 25,000, and in addition to the charges of data usage,&rdquo; he says. Kapadia zeroed on the Reliance Tab, that cost him Rs 12,999 and for Rs 4,500 as advance annual data rental, he is now entitled to 1 GB 3G data per month. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s a very affordable deal for me,&rdquo; Kapadia says.

Low-cost tablets try hard to please buyers

Cyber threats are set to grow and social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter will be targetted the most.

2012: It's a grim internet out there

Mobile operators, including Videocon, Etisalat, Aircel and Idea Cellular, have approached the Telecom Ministry seeking a reduction in their financial bank guarantees in accordance with the licence agreement.

Telcos seek cut in bank guarantees

Though ministry under Deora jettisoned earlier view on collusion, no other government agency bought it.

MCA turnabout couldn't save Loop-Essar

&lsquo;The screen size of the tablet PC is still small and opening multiple browsers is difficult&rsquo;.

Low-cost Aakash is not the only solution, says Ncomputing

The Kindle Fire, Amazon's heavily promoted tablet, is less than a blazing success with many of its early users. The most disgruntled are packing the device up and firing it back to the retailer.

As Kindle Fire faces critics, remedies are promised

Intel Corp, the world's largest chipmaker, reduced its fourth-quarter revenue forecast by about $1 billion, citing a shortage of hard-disk drives for personal computers.

Intel says Q4 revenue to miss forecast on shortage

Somewhere at a computer last Wednesday, a developer pushed a button and the one millionth mobile app went to market.

One million mobile apps, and counting at a fast pace

Stung by sectoral regulator Trai's recommendation to charge a one-time fee for extra spectrum, leading telecom firms Bharti, Vodafone and Idea have shot off a letter to Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal proposing holding of auction to arrive at a fair price.

Telcos write to Sibal on one-time fee for extra spectrum

Pune-based outsourced software product development services company Persistent Systems on Tuesday announced that they have partnered with IL&amp;FS Education and Technology Services Ltd. to develop a series of mobile based learning applications on IL&amp;FS Education's, Exploriments learning platform.

Persistent partners with IL&FS for Mobile Apps

Information technology (IT) services companies, especially those depending on offshore to a large extent for delivery of services, are finding it difficult to complete unfinished projects. Reason: fewer number of working days in the third quarter.

Fewer working days put IT firms on their toes 

Aiming to strengthen their position in the smartphone category in India, Nokia on Tuesday announced launching of window-based Nokia Lumia Smartphone category. The Nokia Lumia 800 and Nokia Lumia 710 priced at Rs 29,999 and Rs 19,999 respectively, will be available in retail stores by the end of this week. The Nokia Lumia 800 and Nokia Lumia 710 have been unveiled in India within two months of its global launch and reflect Nokia&rsquo;s intention to strengthen their market share.

Nokia unveils Lumia series

Rationalisation and consolidation of IT has had an impact of $100 million on the firm.

EMC charts course on cloud

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