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

Forex, interest costs hit Bharti's net

Business Standard

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

To fly his own Batmobile-type vehicle is every child&rsquo;s dream, and that of several adults as well. Which of us hasn&rsquo;t ever thought how wonderful it would be to be to just soar off the earth into the sky above, in our own little flying machine, without needing to book tickets, drive to an airport, take our shoes off and be frisked by suspicious-eyed security personnel? The more adventurous of us may have even tried to build our own wings, or air machines, or rockets.

Fancy a Batmobile of your own? Look no further

Search giant Google has tweaked its search algorithm to include recent results for searches. The Google search engine will now produce results with the most recent information related to trending, recurring and frequently-updated search topics.

Google refreshes search algorithm

Internet giant Google Inc has decided to extend its social networking service, Google Plus, for businesses and brands also, in addition to the individual users being tapped till now.

Google Plus starts service for businesses, brands

Press Trust of India

Nokia India's Managing Director and Vice-President D Shivakumar, will take over as the head of the newly-formed India, Middle East and Africa global sales region, next year. The restructuring has been announced at a time when the company is steadily losing its market share. In an interview with Bibhu Ranjan Mishra and Pradeesh Chandran, he discusses the company&rsquo;s strategy after the launch of its much-talked Windows-based smartphones.

Q&A: D Shivakumar, VP & MD, Nokia India

Research in Motion (RIM), the $20 billion company, and makers of the iconic Blackberry phones, on Tuesday reiterated their stand that the issue of security concerns over encryption data is an industry problem and needs a larger solution.

RIM re-confirms stand over Blackberry encryption data sharing

Infotel Broadband Services, an arm of Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL), has picked up a 38.5 per cent stake in digital learning solutions firm Extramarks Education for an undisclosed amount.

Infotel Broadband buys 38.5% stake in Extramarks 

As mobile application stores see a boom, phone manufacturers are using these to vie for more consumers and sales.

App developers adopt new ways to rake in cash

Facebook Inc has broken the language barrier.

Facebook wins battle of clones in Europe 

MediaTek, a fabrication-less semiconductor company for wireless communications and digital multimedia solutions, and Facebook on Tuesday announced a global partnership that would see Facebook embedded into MediaTek's mobile platform solutions.

MediaTek, Facebook sign pact 

Harman, the premium global audio and infotainment group, which retails brands such as JBL, AKG and Harman-Kardon, is training Indian engineers based at its research and development centre in Bangalore to work on audio components for brands like BMW and Audi. This business contributes an estimated $600 million to the company's sales.

Harman tunes in to India

Spending on information technology security services worldwide is estimated to touch $35.1 billion this year, up from $31.1 billion in 2010, according to research firm Gartner.

Gartner: It security spend to cross $35 bn in 2011

Deal spread over 15 years to serve life and pension insurance clients of Friends Life, is largest-ever for the company.

TCS wins $2.2-bn UK order

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