The heat of the general strike touched the IT industry too, though partially, with agitators resorting to blockade of all the roads leading to Hitec City on Monday morning.

It's business as usual for IT

Business Standard

It may appear to be a regular shop in Pune, with the usual loading and unloading of raw materials. However, on taking a closer look, one finds there are no blue-collared workers on the floor. Instead, robots, more specifically, automated guided vehicles (AGVs), are busy transferring goods from one corner of the unit to the other.

Soon, made-in-India mobile robots at Bajaj Auto plants

The Right to Information (RTI) Act of India, 2005, advises public authorities to provide as much information as possible to the public through various means of communication. It mandates the use of the internet as one such communication tool in making information available and accessible to all.

Local domain names to widen internet reach

Facebook, the world&rsquo;s biggest social networking website, is attempting to become the one-stop media hub for its 750 million users. That is roughly what its founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced last week at f8, Facebook&rsquo;s annual conference in San Francisco. Wait, then, for the whole issue of privacy to be dredged up again.

Vanita Kohli-Khandekar: The strange quest for privacy

One after another, like moths to a flame, technology companies have been seduced into entering the market for tablets. Apple made it look so irresistible, with 29 million eager and sometimes fanatical consumers snapping up an iPad in the device&rsquo;s first 15 months.

Amazon has high hopes for its iPad competitor

Callers trying to sell insurance, SMSs offering cures for bald patches, cheap holiday packages and education consultants could be a thing of the past, after stricter tele-marketing norms come into effect tomorrow.

Call-drop for tele-marketers

Leading consumer durables firms LG and Samsung today said they had increased prices of their products by up to 3% to offset impact of weakening of rupee and rising input costs ahead of the festive season.

LG, Samsung hike prices, others to follow suit

Press Trust of India

Sistema Shyam Teleservices Ltd (SSTL), the telecom joint venture (JV) between Russia-based Sistema and India-based Shyam Group, is set to launch smartphones in the eastern region with the next month.

Sistema Shyam Teleservices to launch smartphones in Bengal

Hyderabad-based IMImobile, a provider of technology infrastructure for mobile data, has acquired UK-based&nbsp;digital agency&nbsp;Skinkers for an undisclosed amount.

IMImobile acquires UK application firm

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) plans to impose a termination charge of five paisa for every commercial SMS on service providers from where the messages originate. This means the operators will have to pay a minimum interconnect usage charge of five paisa per commercial SMS to the other, which may further reduce the number of unwanted messages.

Trai mulls 5 paise levy on commercial text messages

Imagine a scenario in which one can confirm the authenticity of a medicine bought from the local pharmacy through an SMS, within a few seconds. The notion doesn't seem far-fetched anymore.

HP set to track counterfeit drugs in India

Around five months earlier, Shrikanth Ghanekar, a city-based wholesale textile exporter, watched a 3D film for the first time. The film, Haunted, was being screened at Regal Cinema here, and Ganekar spent Rs 350 to watch it. However, what Ghanekar did not know was it was also the first 3D movie screened in the theatre.

An easy conversion of 2D screens to 3D

US-based provider of low-cost shared computing technology, NComputing Inc, is aiming at selling 250,000 units in India by the end of next financial year, according to Manish Sharma, vice-president (Asia-Pacific).

NComputing aims to sell 2.5 lakh units

Facebook wants more friends. And, it is willing to pay for them.

In turn to politics, Facebook starts a PAC

&quot;The computer will be launched next month,&quot; HRD Minister Kapil Sibal said at a function here.

Govt to launch $35 computer next month

Intel said the move is aimed at helping people, who do not own a PC yet, to gain access to computing and the Internet.

Intel partners Asus, RCom to offer netbooks at Rs 9,999

Consumers from Hyderabad have proven to be tech-savvy, yet again, when it comes to purchasing technology products online. Ranked as India&rsquo;s sixth largest ecommerce hub by online market place, eBay India, Hyderabad had the highest share of domestic transactions of technology products (50 per cent). Besides, the pearl city had the most popular imports (45 per cent).

Tech-savvy Hyd ranks sixth in eBay census

Logistical constraints and lack of broadband connectivity in non-urban areas of Gujarat seems to have caused a decline in the state's ranking as a top e-commerce hub in the country.

Gujarat lags behind in e-commerce, slips in rank

In a major repreive to Qualcomm Inc, the telecom sector&rsquo;s apex tribunal on Wednesday stayed an order by the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) cancelling the ISP licence of the San Diego-headquartered company.

TDSAT stays order on Qualcomm

Seeking to allay the fears expressed by finance minister Pranab Mukherjee, the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) will initiate measures to reduce asymmetric information about the spectrum in the market &mdash; and provide a roadmap for spectrum availability.

DoT to pursue symmetric info on spectrum

Hackers have broken into the cellphones of celebrities like Scarlett Johansson and Prince William.

Cellphones: The next lock to pick for hackers

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