Tata Communications is betting big on cloud technology to help clients increase productivity and cut costs on the back of solutions such as Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and e-mail.

Tata Comm bets big on cloud technology 

Press Trust of India

Smartphones have been in vogue for several years but in 2011 they really became the soul of the handset industry. Every vendor claims to have a smartphone portfolio that can be used by masses and classes. A few brands succeeded and a few are yet to shine through.

Smartphones that stole the show in 2011

Business Standard

In an attempt to reduce movie piracy, Reliance Communications (RCom) shuts file-sharing sites when flicks produced by its sister company Reliance Entertainment are released. Currently, a number of such sites are not accessible on RCom&rsquo;s internet, as Reliance Entertainment&rsquo;s Don 2 is running in theatres.

RCom shuts access to file-sharing sites

Earlier having introduced their low cost tablets PC($99 upwards) few months back, , LACS Magnum on Monday announce rolling of their retail initiative &lsquo;Easy EZ&rsquo;, the retail chain for the low cost tablets. LACS part of Bengaluru based Devraj Group of companies, has launched 14 variants of tablet PCs ranging from $99- $799. Eyeing fortifying their share in the tablet PC market in India the company in addition to having EMI plans for purchasing of tablet PCs is also planning to introduce &lsquo;tablet &ndash;on- rent&rsquo; concept.

LACS Magnum launches its retail operations

Matrix Cellular, known for its international SIM cards for travellers, is now increasingly focusing on data roaming business. As smartphone users grows, the company hopes that such users who would buy international data roaming plans would also go up. &quot;A large number of people are hooked to smartphones, and their number in business travellers is high,&quot; said Arun Batra, chief executive officer of Matrix. Almost 60 per cent of business travellers use smartphones.

Matrix focuses on international data roaming

The company assured it would respect the users and their privacy settings.

Facebook to post sponsored ads in news feed

Atom Technologies, a leading provider of m-commerce solutions has tied-up with www.mybustickets.in, one of the leading bus reservation platforms in India to provide ticket booking and payments services over the mobile phone. This facility will be available to customers across the country and they can book their bus tickets to travel anywhere in India.

Atom joins hands with mybustickets.in 

In base economic terms, the value of individual Twitter updates seems to be negligible; after all, what is a Twitter post but a few bits of data sent caroming through the Internet? But in a world where social media's influence can mean the difference between a lucrative sale and another fruitless cold call, social media accounts at companies have taken on added significance.

Dispute over who owns a Twitter account goes to court

The Telecom Commission on Monday made some key policy changes. While it favoured auction of 2G spectrum in future, it permitted spectrum-sharing between operators and allowed mergers and acquisitions between players with a combined market share up to 35 per cent.

Telcos with up to 35% market share can merge

The Telecom Commission&rsquo;s decision on mergers and acquisitions (M&amp;A) may pave the way for consolidation between larger companies in the telecom sector.

M&A norms to help consolidation

Customers of Bharti Airtel in the western part of Maharashtra are experiencing a service outage due to a technical glitch in the service provider's systems that cropped up today.

Bharti Airtel users face network outage in Mumbai

The year 2011 clearly belongs to India&rsquo;s e-commerce story, both in terms of investments the sector received and actual transactions made by customers. The year 2012, say industry experts, will be about consolidating growth and increasing market share.

Indian e-commerce players bullish 

KSRTC is in the process of implementing an Intelligent Transport System to track its vehicles in real time.

Using ITS to make bus travel reliable

Canada-based Research in Motion (RIM) today cut the prices of its tablet, PlayBook, by almost half.

BlackBerry slashes PlayBook's prices by 50%

Infosys BPO, the business processing outsourcing arm of Infosys, the country&rsquo;s second-largest exporter of information technology services, is setting up a new centre in Dalian, China, with a 500-person capacity, Swaminathan D, the managing director and CEO of Infosys BPO told Business Standard.

Infosys BPO to expand in China

The Madras High Court today issued notices to 10 mobile companies on a petition seeking to bar them from charging extra for SMSes during festivals and other important days.

HC notices to telcos on charging extra for SMS

They are realising unstructured data generated from social media and mobiles is vital for business decisions.

Indian CIOs prepare to take on the big data challenge

Steve Jobs, the co-founder of Apple Inc, told his biographer that he'd rather wage &quot;thermonuclear war&quot; with Google Inc. than make deals to share its technology with the maker of the Android operating system.

Apple's patent war may hurt shareholders

The launch of third generation services have helped Tata DOCOMO increase its revenue. The company claims its revenue per subscriber (RPS) has shown an average increase of 10-15 per cent ever since it launched its 3G services.

3G services drive Tata Tele's margins 

Google Inc is adding 625,000 new users a day to the Google+ social-networking service, which may total 400 million members by the end of next year, according to independent analysis of its growth.

Google+ service may expand to 400 mn users

Shopping will become a lot easier when Reasoning Global eApplications, a Hyderabad-based multi-channel solutions provider for the retailing industry, rolls out its native applications (or apps) for BlackBerry, iPhone and Android-based platforms by the end of the current financial year.

Now, shop on the move with the help of apps

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