To bring small and medium businesses (SMBs) in India to the online space, internet search giant Google today launched an initiative to offer free website, domain and hosting services to SMBs.

Google to offer free websites to small enterprises

Business Standard

Nokia Siemens Networks is in talks with Indian wireless broadband players to set up the back-end infrastructure to help them provide broadband wireless access (BWA) services in the country.

Nokia Siemens to bring TD-LTE devices to India

In a first of its kind initiative, Gujarat region office of National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (Nabard) is looking for a partnership with IT major, Tata Consultancy Services Ltd (TCS) and some of the academic institutions for disseminating agricultural information.

Nabard in talks with TCS, DAIICT to offer mobile applications for farmers

Leading telecom operators Bharti Airtel, Vodafone Essar, Idea Cellular and Tata Teleservices have jointly said the government may have to refund money to operators or re-run the third-generation (3G) spectrum auction, if their roaming agreements are not considered permissible as in the licence conditions.

Private operators write to Sibal

Srini Koppolu always had an eye for innovation.

BS People: Srini Koppolu

Mobile tariffs could go up in the near future as the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) today stood by its recommendation of over six-fold jump in 2G spectrum price.

Trai stands by its spectrum suggestions, tariff may go up

Press Trust of India

Operators with 35% combined market or revenue share can merge, case-wise approval possible if joint share up to 60%; new ground rules on spectrum.

Trai rings in telecom M&A game-changer

Cognizant Technologies&rsquo; third quarter numbers have beaten the Street expectation, but many were disappointed with the firm&rsquo;s fourth quarter expectation. The growth outlook has gone up from 26 per cent at the beginning of the year to 33 per cent for the fourth quarter (earlier 32 per cent). On a sequential basis the company has guided for 3.7 per cent growth. The disappointment was evident on the firm&rsquo;s stock price.

Cognizant's guidance disappoints Street

Information technology hardware maker HCL Infosystems on Friday posted a 74.39 per cent decline in consolidated net profit at Rs 12.15 crore for the quarter ended September 30. It had recorded a consolidated net profit of Rs 47.5 crore in the corresponding period last year.

HCL Infosystems Q1 net plunges 74%

iGate Corporation&rsquo;s third quarter results showed the financial strength of the company for the first time after its integration with Patni Computer Systems. In an interview with Bibhu Ranjan Mishra, CEO Phaneesh Murthy discusses key achievements of the combined entity.

Q&A: Phaneesh Murthy, CEO, iGate Patni

Australia&rsquo;s leading telecommunications and information services company, Telstra, has entered into a joint venture with Microland, a specialist information technology (IT) infrastructure services provider with operation hub in India, to provide international and national long distance telephone and internet services. Telstra International's Director, global products and marketing, Nathan Bell, speaks to Neena Bhandari from Singapore about the company&rsquo;s India plan.

Q&A: Nathan Bell, Telstra International

Bharti Airtel on Friday said it might look at acquisitions within the country if Trai&rsquo;s recommendations on a liberalised merger policy were cleared by the government.

Bharti may look for domestic buys after new norms

Seventh straight quarterly drop but firm says growth, prospects look good; margins expected to look up.

Forex, interest costs hit Bharti's net

Indian information technology (IT) services biggies Infosys, Wipro and IBM are in discussion with tower infrastructure company Indus Tower for a contract, potentially in the range of $500-600 million (Rs 2,430-2,916 crore).

Infosys, Wipro, IBM in fray for $600-mn Indus Tower deal 

Online shopping websites are going an extra mile to ensure customers don&rsquo;t fall prey to spam offers or security scares.

Making shopping secure

You would expect a pre-school to engage toddlers with the customary building blocks, colours, alphabets and numbers. In a bid to stand apart from the rest, many schools now sport digital blackboards, tablet PCs, digital audio-visual mediums and interactive boards &mdash; replacing the abacus, blackboards and charts. Enter the age of &lsquo;smart classrooms&rsquo; for toddlers. Leading the way are schools like EuroSchool, Vibgyor, TreeHouse, KidZee and Kangaroo Kids.

Toddlers step into 'smart' classrooms 

No cut yet on acquisition of printed copies, but digital wave clearly gathering momentum.

Libraries open windows to e-books

Time to fulfil your unfulfilled desire &mdash; best apartments available in Gurgaon. This is just another telemarketing message that mobile-phone customers still get on their gadget, despite stringent guidelines to curb all commercial texts and calls that came into effect five weeks ago.

Pesky SMSs get their way through overseas servers

A location-based social networking site is attracting both businesses and users.

Care to become a 'Mayor' on Foursquare?

After Dell India, around 28,000 Small and Medium Business (SMBs) in Nashik are on the radar of Microsoft. With an aim to strengthen its base in Nashik, the company is planning to target SMBs in the city. Microsoft has said it will work directly with select partners and distributors in the city to offer its end-to-end technology solutions to SMBs.

Microsoft to target SMBs in Nashik for tech solutions

After mobile phones, India is set to see another revolution in the technology space. According to the latest report of the Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI), the number of internet users in India crossed the 100-million mark in September. This is a 13 per cent increase over last year, when the number of internet users stood at 87 million.

India's netizens: Now 100-mn strong

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