Tablet PC will one day eclipse the desktop and laptop because of its portability and other advantages, while its older siblings will remain only to do sophisticated and specialised jobs, teachers of Computer Science and experts have predicted.

Will the tablet spell doom for desktops, laptops?

Press Trust of India

We&rsquo;re in the high season for the second home. Everywhere you look, as the Labor Day weekend approaches, someone is packing up for the Hamptons, the Vineyard, Nantucket or Tahoe. I&rsquo;m told that there are unbounded thrills to be had on these sojourns, but I&rsquo;ve never experienced them. Not only do I not own a second home, I don&rsquo;t even own a first.

Watching that home from afar

Business Standard

World Economic Forum includes three Indian companies in global list of 25 &lsquo;Technology Pioneers&rsquo;.

Young innovators on world stage

In 2007, when Nitin Gupta, an MBA from New York University&rsquo;s Stern School of Business and engineering degree holder from IIT-Delhi came to India from the US ending his association with some technology start-ups, what he had with him was an idea. An idea that came out of his personal as well as societal requirement to have a proper mechanism to dispose of obsolete electronic goods. He captured that idea through PowerPoint presentation and some Excel sheets.

Attero Recycling: Mining the wastes 

With the vision to provide cleaner, safer and sustainable energy solutions to people caught in the &quot;energy divide&quot; and, therefore, lacking affordable and accessible sources of energy, Mahesh Yagnaraman and Mukund Deogaonkar founded First Energy in 2006 as a part of British Petroleum. In 2009, it was hived off as a separate entity.

First Energy: Green cook to the world

Financial Inclusion Network and Operations (FINO), based in the financial capital of India, is an integrated technology platform and delivery channel, enabling sourcing and servicing micro customers on a large scale.

FINO: Doorstep banking for the poor

Code division multiple access (CDMA) players Sistema Shyam and Tata Teleservices today took on the global system for mobile communications(GSM) 3G challenge, announcing the launch of wireless broadband service on the CDMA evolution voice and data only (EVDO) Rev B platform. This would offer consumers a download speed of up to 14.7 Mbps.

Sistema, Tata start wireless broadband service

The lawsuit seeking to block AT&amp;T Inc&rsquo;s takeover of T-Mobile USA Inc shows a more aggressive antitrust stance by the US justice department that limits prospects for other big telecommunications deals, antitrust analysts said.

AT&T lawsuit marks US 'line in the sand' for telcos

The other night I did something silly. In a hurry to reach my friend K, I made the mistake of calling him on his mobile phone.

Sorry, wrong inbox

The relentless month-on-month dip in average revenue per user (ARPU) for GSM telecom operators &mdash; because of tariff competition eating into margins &mdash; seems to be over.

Slide in telecom revenue bottoming out

Oracle Corp&rsquo;s $1.3-billion copyright-infringement verdict against SAP AG, the largest maker of business-management software, was overturned by a federal judge who called the award &ldquo;grossly excessive.

SAP wins bid to reject $1.3-bn Oracle verdict

The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has decided to send show-cause notices to 83 new licensees suggested by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai), for the cancellation of licences on account of failure to meet roll-out obligations.

Heat on 83 licensees for tripping on services

The department of telecommunications (DoT) is considering the introduction of a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) model to set up a wireless broadband network in rural areas. This can be used by multiple operators.

MVNO likely for setting up broadband network 

Traditionally &lsquo;conservative&rsquo; in terms of acquiring companies, EXL Service is now acquiring smaller players and adding more domain expertise to its offerings. While its peers were busy acquiring companies in the last five years, the 12-year old company watched cautiously and grew organically. Chief executive and president Rohit Kapoor, in an interview with Piyali Mandal and Bibhu Ranjan Mishra, explains why the company is now scouting for targets.

Q&A: Rohit Kapoor, EXL Service

PC giant Dell is adding muscle to its services division in India to emerge as an end-to-end solutions provider.

Hard drive

As the rest of the world raves about 10-inch tablet PCs from Samsung and Apple, Indian vendors seem to be betting on cheaper 7-inch tablet PCs to lure buyers. But these tablet PCs have begun to crowd retail shelves, with a new model being launched every month.

Go glocal with tablet PCs

Social networking isn&rsquo;t confined to the fully-abled community anymore &mdash; the sites have opened up new avenues to connect the hearing impaired and deaf communities. Rajesh Ketkar, a 32-year-old hearing impaired person, who heads a Vadodara-based NGO, Mook Badhir Mandal (MBM), has found a solution to problems faced by the hearing impaired in RockeTalk &mdash; a mobile social networking platform.

Mobile social networking sees explosive growth

The name has a ring of alertness to it: 24/7 Customer. The Sequoia Capital-backed third-party services provider is into business process outsourcing (BPO), and is headquartered in the US. Like most other BPO firms, it uses offshore locations &mdash; like India and Philippines.

Q&A: Shanmugam Nagarajan, 24/7 Customer

Northwestern University researchers have created a new cloaking material that can render objects invisible in the terahertz range. Though this design cannot translate into an invisibility cloak for the visible spectrum, it could have implications in diagnostics, security, and communication.

Terahertz invisibility cloak

Chemists at Tufts University's School of Arts and Sciences have developed the world's first single molecule electric motor&mdash;a development that may create a new class of devices applicable to sectors like medicine to engineering.

World's smallest electric motor

Subscribers who have registered with the National Customer Preference Registry (earlier known as the Do Not Call Registry or DNCR) would get relief from all commercial communications, Trai said in its notification on Monday.

No more pesky calls from Sept 27

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