Social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter continue to lead, but Google&rsquo;s bid to reverse its curse has got everyone interested.

Users give Google+ the big thumbs up

Business Standard

Have you ever lied to your boss to avoid going to work? Or lied to your wife to attend a late-night office party? Lie no more, says Intex mobile&rsquo;s latest television commercial for its handset IN 4470 N. It is the first handset in the country to offer the facility of video chatting on a 2G platform, a feature that was thus far associated with 3G phones. To highlight the unique offering, the company&rsquo;s new campaign tells the viewers &ldquo;Ab jo bolna hai muh pe bol.

Intex Technologies: In your face

It&rsquo;s been just nine months since the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) gave its nod to mobile trading. But the trend has caught up with trades through uniform resource locator (URL)- and wireless application protocol-based systems.

Mobile trading gathers steam

Software exports from Orissa have grown by 15 percent in 2010-11 compared to the previous year.

Software exports from state grows by 15%

You wouldn&rsquo;t probably go looking for a projector built into your gadgets, but when someone bundles one handily so, it always is a good add-on.

Weighing the worth of projector add-ons 

The Group of Technology Companies (G-Tec), a 175-member&nbsp;organisation of IT &amp; ITeS companies in Techno Park and Info Park, has proposed that the state government start an 'Invest in Kerala Mission', on the lines of 'Invest in Sweden' and 'Invest in Scotland' campaigns to attract IT-sector investments into the state. In an interview with George Joseph in Kochi,&nbsp;G-Tec chief executive officer Binu Sankar says the prosopsals are expected to be included in the new IT investment policy.

Q&A: Binu Sankar, CEO, G-Tec

The PE player holds 9.99% stake valued at Rs 2,687 crore.

Providence eyes exit from Idea

Last November, Idea Cellular ran a campaign called &lsquo;No Idea; Get Idea&rsquo; with its brand ambassador Abhishek Bachchan urging fellow mobile subscribers to subscribe to Idea rather than wait endlessly for another telecom operator&rsquo;s contact centre to respond to their service query or to bring down their monthly mobile bill, among other things. Major telcos ran similar campaigns around that time.

Better connection

The India IT services market is on pace to reach $9.5 billion in 2011, an 18 per cent increase from 2010 revenue of $7.6 billion, according to Gartner.

India IT services to reach $9.5 bn in 2011

In a befitting tribute to its co-founder and chairman, N R Narayana Murthy, who is set to retire in August, India&rsquo;s second largest information technology services firm, Infosys, on Monday decided to rename it&rsquo;s Mysore campus after him. The 337-acre campus which houses the company&rsquo;s Global Education Centre (GEC) will henceforth be known as 'Narayana Murthy Centre of Excellence&rsquo;.

Infy names its Mysore campus after Murthy

Etisalat&rsquo;s cup of woes is brimming over. The DB group, Etisalat&rsquo;s partner in India, today moved the Company Law Board (CLB) against the UAE-based company.

DB group drags Etisalat to CLB

A Massachusetts psychiatrist, says he has practiced &ldquo;telepsychiatry,&rdquo; via video teleconferencing, for five years. Its &ldquo;adoption by psychiatrists and patients,&rdquo; he predicts, &ldquo;will proceed quickly if the organisers cope with the irrational responses of some users.

Therapist will see you now, via the web

Business process outsourcing (BPO) major Genpact today said it had acquired the human resources (HR) services subsidiary of Japanese automotive company Nissan Motor in Yokohama for an undisclosed amount.

Genpact acquires HR arm of Nissan Motors

Surendra Jain (name changed), a small-time merchant from Rajasthan, was recently on a business trip to Nizamabad district in Andhra Pradesh. While travelling, he remembered he had to make an urgent phone call. However, when he whipped out his cellphone, he realised his prepaid calling card balance was not enough to make a call. Caught in the middle of a highway, Jain was weighed down and it was only after much hunting that he could find a counter to charge his account.

Now, mobile balance and recharge alert on the move

Bangalore-based EAFT Technologies is set to launch the 'Marathon' tablet PC tomorrow. Priced at Rs 29,900, it sports a 10.1-inch screen and runs an Android (Version 2.2) operating system powered by an NVDIA Tegra2 chip. It also boasts of a USB and HDMI port (through which it can be connected to a television).

Homegrown tablet PCs on the rise

IT solutions provider CMC on Monday posted a 24.89 per cent decline in its consolidated net profit at Rs 34.88 crore for the quarter ended June 30, 2011, on account of increased staff costs.

CMC Q1 consolidated profit slips by 25%

Press Trust of India

An oddly-equipped car made its way last week through the rubble in the tsunami-stricken port city of Kesennuma in Japan.

Quick action helps Google win friends in Japan

Researchers have discovered a way to capture and harness energy transmitted by sources like radio and television transmitters, cellphone networks and satellite communications systems. By scavenging this ambient energy from the air around us, the technique could provide a new way to power networks of wireless sensors, microprocessors and communication chips.

Drawing power from the air

Industrial safety regulations permit contact between people and robots only under certain conditions, given the risk of injury to humans. However, researchers are working on ways to collaborate and define workplaces and safe zones that would help avoid conflict between humans and robots. The ViERforES project, being carried out by researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Factory Operation and Automation (IFF), is one such effort.

Robots without industrial barriers

Researchers at Columbia Engineering School have built optical nanostructures that enable them to engineer the index of refraction and fully control light dispersion. They say it is possible for light (electromagnetic waves) to propagate from point A to point B without accumulating any phase (resulting in no delay), spreading through the artificial medium as if the medium is completely missing in space. The study was led by Chee Wei Wong, associate professor of mechanical engineering, Columbia Engineering.

Controlling the flow of light

Sony India aims to double its VAIO brand sales in India to 5 lakh laptops and is eyeing 20% market share in the country's notebooks market in the current year, a top company official said today.

Sony eyes 20% market share in notebooks this year

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