While the previous decade may have seen business process outsourcing (BPO), knowledge process outsourcing (KPO) and software services leading IT growth in Gujarat, the next decade is set to witness a new vertical - mobile applications.

Mobile apps to drive IT growth in state

Business Standard

Identifies spectrum for 4G services; eight&nbsp;firms to be accommodated; discussion paper to be out by Aug and recommendations by Oct.

Trai speeds up 4G auction process

HTC Corp will appeal a US International Trade Commission ruling that it infringed two patents of Apple Inc in producing Android-based mobile phones.

HTC to appeal US ruling on Apple patents

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), India&rsquo;s largest information technology (IT) services company, says visa rejections have gone up significantly compared to a few years ago. Other than increasing local hiring in the US, it also plans to increase applications under the H-visa category in its bid to counter the rise in visa rejection.

Visa rejections soaring, says TCS

Infosys, India&rsquo;s second-largest IT services firm, has expanded its executive council&mdash;the second-highest decision-making body in the company after the board of directors.

Infosys expands executive council, inducts 6 new faces

Even as the Indian government is exploring all angles to ferret out the terrorists behind the serial blasts in Mumbai city on July 13, University of Maryland researchers led by a computer science professor, V S Subrahmanian, are using mathematical models and multi-player game theoretic models to make forecasts based on terrorist behaviour patterns.

Software could provide lead on Mumbai terror attacks

With just the state-owned BSNL offering dedicated Apple iPad 3G data plans, tablet PC users claim it has hampered the adoption.

RCom to offer iPad data plan 

HTC Corp, Asia&rsquo;s second-biggest maker of smartphones, plans to buy back as much as 2.4 per cent of its outstanding shares after a US International Trade Commission ruled that it infringed two Apple Inc patents.

HTC to buy back shares after patent ruling

Google Inc Chief Executive Officer Larry Page added about $1.9 billion in personal wealth today after the company announced second-quarter results that beat analysts&rsquo; estimates amid growth under his new leadership.

Google CEO adds $1.9 bn in personal wealth 

Wipro&rsquo;s Rs 1,182-crore contract with Employees&rsquo; State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) for IT services may be in troubled waters on account of technical problems with the government health insurer&rsquo;s internet portals that have caused inconvenience to users.

Wipro-ESIC Rs 1,812-cr deal may hit hurdle

Press Trust of India

Almost all 3G ad campaigns harp on delivering live video and TV content on mobile handsets. But irregular billing, poor network coverage and lack of relevant content have put a spanner in the works of the nine million 3G users.

Mobile TV: Disruption matters

Little Brother is watching you. That is the premise for the webcam that a top government official has installed in his office, as an anticorruption experiment.

Transparent govt, via webcams

If you're happy with 140 characters that help you Tweet, what would you do with 500 characters? Perhaps write a shorter email? Twitter, which has come up with a solution, Shortmail, seems to thinks so.

Emails get snappier with 'Shortmail'

The relationship between Twitter and the outside developers that build its apps is a little like the one between sharks and the small fish that latch onto their backs&mdash;beneficial for both, until it isn&rsquo;t.

Ties between Twitter, app makers hit rough patch

For physicists and information scientists, the quantum computer can safely be called the Holy Grail. Such a computer would be capable of performing specific calculations, with capabilities that far exceed the most advanced modern supercomputers. This computer could be used for breaking computer security codes, as well as for incredibly detailed, data-heavy simulations of quantum systems.

Breakthrough in quantum computing

Polaris Software Ltd today forayed into Bangladesh market by launching a joint venture company along with Bangladesh-based public sector Bank Sonali Bank Ltd.

Polaris takes core banking product to Bangladesh market

The best manner in which autonomous machines, networks and robots can improve themselves in the future would be to publish their own upgrade suggestions on the internet. This would help humans to guide and trust them, according to a research published in Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part I: Journal of Systems and Control Engineering. In his paper, &lsquo;Knowledge of machines: review and forward look&rsquo;, Sandor Veres of the University of Southampton says the leap to autonomy would be facilitated by machines and humans publishing information online.

Machines to compare notes

Bharti group company Beetel Teletech, which is into fixed-line equipment market, is likely to launch a seven-inch tablet PC by next month.

Beetel Teletech to launch tablet PC by next month

After auto makers, PSA Peugeot Citro&euml;n and Ford, IT major Infosys Limited is vying for land in Gujarat. N R Narayana Murthy, chairman and chief mentor of the company, will meet Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday to discuss setting up of a campus in the state.

Infosys eyes Gujarat for setting up new campus

After IT exports remaining almost stagnant last year in Gujarat, the industry expects the numbers to rise again. Small and medium IT firms in the state have been registering growth in their exports by 10-15 per cent.

IT exports in Gujarat grow at 15% for Q1

Despite global economic concerns, IT major Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has clinched deals at a premium of 2-3 per cent in recent times.

TCS expects at price hike despite debt concerns

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