Apple Inc security officials met with police in Palo Alto, California, this week to notify them that Steve Jobs was close to death, a spokeswoman with the police department said.

Apple talked with police before Steve Jobs's death

Business Standard

Steve Jobs&rsquo;s death leaves Hollywood without the trusted technology envoy who helped push the film, TV and music industries into the digital age.

Jobs's death leaves Hollywood without tech envoy

A private funeral for Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, who died on Wednesday after a seven-year battle with pancreatic cancer, was held, according to a media report.

Private funeral held for Steve Jobs

Press Trust of India

Adobe Systems Inc is overhauling the way it sells its most popular software to spur more frequent purchases by distributing programs such as Photoshop and Dreamweaver over the Internet.

Will sell software online to spur sales: Adobe

Hollywood is keen to bring the life story of Steve Jobs on the big screen soon.

Sony Pic to buy film rights to Jobs' biography

Oracle Corp, the world&rsquo;s second-largest software maker, aims to eschew big acquisitions and promote growth from within, relying on hardware sales and a new cloud-computing service to broaden use of its products.

Oracle embraces cloud to fuel growth without buys

Under Steve Jobs, Apple Inc sold billions of dollars worth of electronics without much help from the world&rsquo;s biggest buyer, the US government.

Jobs's focus may have hurt Apple's govt sales

Apple CEO Tim Cook has revealed the hardware that would be packed inside the iPhone 4S. It will sport the same look as iPhone 4 &mdash; a Gorilla glass-front, a sleek glass back and an aluminium antenna band that runs along each side. The device will also have the same Apple A5 CPU as the iPad 2, which is a dual-core, ARM-based chip, running at 1GHz. This should power up 4S considerably for streaming multimedia content, running apps and emails.

Smart rivals of iPhone 4S

An increasing number of people are turning to the web seeking health care support. Cashing in on the growing trend are sites offering medical counselling and bringing you closer to the best possible professionals in town.

Safety net: Doctor on call

Peter Sondergaard, senior vice-president at Gartner, thinks Indian service providers are capable of dealing with the shift mainly because of their broad understanding of business processes.

PC architecture should give way to mobiles 

The phone maker seeks to protect market share via budget smart phones, dual-SIM devices and more.

Nokia fights back

Imagine a robot that can help guide the visually-impaired climbing stairs and play air hockey, or those that can sort or trash objects. It&rsquo;s no more rocket science, but the handiwork of school-going kids aged seven to 19 years.

Child's play: GenX robots from GenY

In some relief to BlackBerry, the Telecom Ministry is understood to have said that a complete ban on encrypted communications is not desirable as long as solutions exist to have the data intercepted in a readable format.

Ban on encrypted communications not desirable: DoT

The new telemarketing norms that recently came into effect could play spoilsport to unlimited SMS packages that telecom operators have designed for the consumers.

Limits on SMSs to impact telcos' bundled plans

The 31st edition of the Gitex Technology Week, the leading ICT event in the Gulf region's calendar, was officially opened on Monday by Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai.

40 Indian firms at Dubai's Gitex Technology Week

Nokia Tej, an enterprise solution devised by mobile handset maker Nokia that leverages the mobile device to help small and medium enterprises (SMEs) streamline complex and time-consuming business processes and become more competitive, has caught the fancy of SMEs.

SMEs adopt Nokia enterprise solution to enhance efficiency

Microsoft India on Monday launched the 'Touch Mouse' that makes everyday tasks more fluid and intuitive by using natural gestures instead of clicks. Designed exclusively for Windows 7, the new Touch Mouse combines the virtues of the old familiar mouse with multi-touch gestures.

MS launches Touch Mouse for Windows 7

Chennai-based IT solutions firm Zylog Systems Ltd is looking to increase its presence in Australia by setting up its own office there with an initial investment of around $2.5 million (around Rs 12 crore). Besides, its plans for acquisition, mainly in the ERP space, in the range of $75 million to $100 million, is ongoing, said company officials.

Zylog Systems plans offices in Australia

Sumant Kasliwal, a banker and board member to some of India&rsquo;s best known companies in e-commerce, undoubtedly got a little bored watching all the recent action in the industry from the wings. So much so that Kasliwal, a private equity veteran with more than ten years of experience, quit his job at ICICI Venture to start his own e-commerce firm.

BS People: Sumant Kasliwal

At a time when e-mail and many other forms of electronic communication are essentially free, wireless carriers are still charging as much as 20 cents to send a text message to a phone, and another 20 cents to receive it.

Free texts may snatch a chunk of wireless carriers' profits 

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd has discussed providing financing to buy the 40 per cent stake in held by Yahoo! Inc with Singapore&rsquo;s Temasek Holdings Pte, according to people familiar with the matter.

Alibaba in talks with Temasek for Yahoo! stake

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