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

Business Standard

After enjoying a few drinks, some people go dancing. Others order food. And for some, it&rsquo;s time to shop online.

Online merchants home in on imbibing consumers

Despite several controversies like 2G spectrum scam, the telecom sector witnessed over 17% increase in investment in 2010-11 over the previous financial year, an annual report of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) said.

Investment in telecom sector up by Rs 50,000 cr

Press Trust of India

A phishing scam targetting those buying via eBay was discovered recently.

Cyber criminals eye year-end online shoppers

Nasscom Foundation, the social development trust of Nasscom, the country&rsquo;s apex IT industry body, is working towards developing a new arm of the business process outsourcing (BPO) industry called &lsquo;impact sourcing&rsquo; in India, according to its chief executive officer Rita Soni.

Nasscom arm to foster 'impact sourcing' 

Tablets are the new tech gadgets to have found a favourable place in the Indian education sector.

Classpad takes a cue from Akash tablets

Siano, whose chips let gadgets receive digital TV signals, has had conversations with bankers and is weighing a US filing next year or in 2013, chief executive officer Alon Ironi said in an interview. The company hasn't set a date for the move, and the timing may depend on how quickly digital mobile TV takes off with Americans, he said.

Siano sets its sights on US mobile-TV market

Amazon.com Inc, the largest Internet retailer, said it sold &quot;well over&quot; one million Kindles a week in December, with record demand led by its Kindle Fire tablet.

Amazon sells 1 mn Kindles a week

Leap Wireless International Inc and MetroPCS Communications Inc may be takeover targets for bigger rivals AT&amp;T Inc or T-Mobile USA after the larger companies' $39 billion merger plan collapsed, JPMorgan Chase &amp; Co said. The pay-as-you-go carriers could be suitable &quot;near-term&quot; sources of spectrum for a buyer, Phil Cusick, a JPMorgan analyst, said.

'AT&T may buy MetroPCS and Leap Wireless'

Customers of Bharti Airtel, one of the leading mobile service providers, in Mumbai are still facing trouble while accessing data and mobile services due to an outage caused by a fire in the telco's Malad office on Tuesday.

Airtel's Mumbai outage continues

Bharti Airtel has seven million 3G (third generation mobile) subscribers. However, only 30-35 per cent of these are active on 3G, i.e, they use it regularly and pay for it. Idea Cellular, too, admits a fourth of its 2.5 million 3G subscribers are not active.

Telcos yet to make good money from 3G

State-owned Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd (MTNL), reeling under cash crunch, has decided to go in for revenue-sharing arrangements with other companies to launch new services.

Ailing MTNL decides to go in for revenue-sharing arrangements 

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), India&rsquo;s top software exporter, on Friday became the country&rsquo;s most valued company by elbowing out the Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) from the top spot.

TCS dethrones RIL as most valued company

Even though the understanding of cloud (a metaphor for the internet) computing in the Asia-Pacific region is the highest among Indian businesses , most of these seem to be concerned about the data privacy issue.

Businesses in India seen embracing 'hybrid cloud'

Information technology services company iGate has posted a flat growth in its net profit at Rs 70 crore ($14.3 million) for the quarter ended September 30 on account of high interest costs. Interest expenses of the company impacted its net profit by $19.5 million, the company said.

iGate's net profit flat at Rs 70 cr

Soaps to software major Wipro Ltd on Monday closed its second quarter ended September 30 with a consolidated net profit of Rs 1,301 crore, an increase of one per cent over the same quarter a year before. Consolidated revenues grew 18 per cent to Rs 9,094 crore in the quarter when compared with the corresponding one a year earlier, on the back of strong volume growth by its flagship information technology (IT) services business.

Wipro's IT biz beats street expectations

In a bid to strengthen its presence in the European market, India's third-largest information technology services company Wipro Technologies opened a data centre in Meerbusch, Germany, with an investment of euro15 million (Rs 100 crore). The opening of the centre fits into the company's strategy of going local in European market.

Wipro to invest Rs 100 cr for data centre in Germany

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL)&rsquo;s AP telecom circle will be launching on Tuesday its &lsquo;Choose your mobile number&rsquo; scheme, under which prospective customers would be able to choose any number, sans any extra cost, from a list of about 100,000 numbers that will be made available on its website &ndash; www.ap.bsnl.co.in.

BSNL-AP launches 'Choose your mobile number' scheme

Wipro has posted a better than expected financial performance and says despite global economic uncertainties, it is seeing positive indicators for growth. T K Kurien, CEO of Wipro&rsquo;s information technology business, talks to Bibhu Ranjan Mishra &amp; Pradeesh Chandran on the plans the company put in place two quarters earlier and how they are moving in the right direction.

Q&A: T K Kurien, CEO, IT Business, Wipro

Yahoo! Inc dropped the most in three weeks, as the company is leaning towards selling its Asian assets and redistributing the proceeds to shareholders, rather than selling itself to a group of buyers.

Yahoo! moving towards dividend, shares dip 4.1%

Leading mobile phone manufacturer, Nokia, which accounts for a market share of 39 per cent in India, on Monday said it would innovate on applications and features for data browsing in a bid to continue its dominance in the sub-Rs 6,000 category.

Nokia to focus on apps for low-price segment growth

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