Electronic consumer device maker Sony today launched its first tablet PC in India and unveiled 3G tablets which will be launched in the mid of next month.

Sony to launch 3G tablets next month

Press Trust of India

The combined serial inkjet and page printer, copier and multifunction product (MFP) market in India totalled 666,859 units in the third quarter of 2011, a 2.4% increase over the year-ago period, according to research firm Gartner.

Printer, copier, multifunction product mkt up 2.4% in Q3

State-run telecom company MTNL has extended the date for submission of bids to roll out wireless broadband service by the third party in Delhi and Mumbai circles.

MTNL extends bid submission for BWA

Two leading telecom firms, Bharti and Vodafone, have come under the scanner of the Telecom Regulatory allegedly Authority of India (Trai) for violating mobile number portability (MNP) norms.

Vodafone, Bharti under Trai scanner for MNP violations

Indian organisations are not adequately prepared to adopt cloud computing yet mainly because of lack of skilled IT staff, according to a survey by Symantec, the maker of Norton security products and a cloud services provider.

Indian firms not ready for cloud yet: Symantec

The festive season has failed to give a fillip to online daily deal sites this year, with most of these showing a decline in user traffic. According to ViziSense data, leaders in the segment, Snapdeal and Mydala, have seen a drop of 46 and 34 per cent, respectively, in October.

Online deal sites falter as e-commerce gets stronger

Business Standard

EBay Inc&rsquo;s PayPal business, aiming to challenge Groupon Inc and LivingSocial.com in the market for online daily deals, plans to start offering coupons tailored to users' buying habits and mobile-phone locations.

PayPal bets on 103 mn users to target Groupon

The Rs 1,850-crore Indian online advertising market, estimated by Avendus Capital to reach Rs 7,000 crore by 2015, is set to witness aggressive action from Google. The advertising pie may be large but global majors like Google and Facebook are the biggest beneficiaries &mdash; accounting for 29 per cent of direct ad spends and 55-60 per cent of overall spends.

Google wants its share in online display advertising

Amid controversy over screening of content in the cyber world, the government today held a dialogue with Google, Facebook and Twitter seeking their views on effective usage of their platforms but asserted that there was no question of censorship of Internet.

Govt meets social media cos, asserts no censorship

Nokia Lumia smartphones, the first devices running on Windows Phone operating system from the Finnish giant, will be available in the markets starting tomorrow.

Nokia Lumia to hit stores tomorrow

Telecom incumbents are using 3G roaming to offer services without having paid for spectrum&mdash;the legality of which is being scrutinised. Surajeet Das Gupta reveals why what happens here can shape rules for the next big battle in telecom.

Inside the high-stakes game for 3G roaming

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) is spreading its wings outside Delhi to set up new units across all major cities, to keep a check performance parameters of telecom service providers in the field.

Telecom regulator to set up units in major cities

If you are charging items to your phone bill, you have limited protection, according to a new study by Consumers Union, which is telling consumers not to use pay-by-phone programs that pass charges through the phone company.

Charges to cell phone bills have limited protection, says study

Reuters 

Four years ago, Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) realised that external and internal challenges were affecting its profitability. An increasing pressure on margins due to telecom price wars prompted the state-owned telecom giant to initiate the implementation of enterprise resource planning (ERP).

BSNL's quest for IT: Challenges, solutions and results

Telecom and IT Minister Kapil Sibal on Thursday said the government had no plans to censor the contents on social networking websites. After a meeting with Internet firms like Google, Facebook and Twitter, the minister said the government was trying to find ways to use these social media platforms effectively to reach out to the masses.

Sibal says no to censorship, wants social media support

BlackBerry smartphones-maker Research In Motion has reported a nearly 71% decline in net income to $265 million for the third quarter ended November 27, 2011, primarily due to the recent service outage that hit users worldwide.

RIM Q3 net income dips 71% on BlackBerry service outage

The government will soon issue show-cause notices to five leading telecom firms, including Bharti Airtel, Idea, Reliance Communications (RCom) and Tatas, with regard to special audit that found discrepancies in payment of licence fees.

DoT to issue show-cause notice to 5 telcos

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) on Friday launched its &lsquo;Choose Your Mobile Number Scheme&rsquo; across the country.

BSNL launches 'Choose Your Mobile Number Scheme' pan-India

The recent news about deals site Taggle.com having shut shop evoked a sense of d&eacute;j&agrave; vu among skeptics, who started fearing another information technology (IT) bubble burst. But market watchers, players and investors feel the e-commerce sector has yet to reach the pinnacle. For them, the party is far from over.

360 & counting! Party's just begun for e-commerce firms

Schools and institutes switch to tablets to make learning fun for students.

Apple logs in to school labs

Nokia CEO Stephen Elop described Nokia Lumia as &ldquo;the first real Windows Phone&rdquo;. Admittedly most Windows Phone failed to elicit much response, including the recent HTC Radar and Samsung's Windows phone. Lumia range is make-or-break for both Nokia and Microsoft where each is desperate for a successful device that can take Windows operating system to the masses.

Nokia's Windows phone Lumia shines

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