Burdened with debt, cutthroat competition and declining ARPUs, Bharti is the first of the telco biggies to raise prices. Others are likely to follow.

Is the telecom tariff party over?

Business Standard

Two leading mobile operators, Vodafone Essar and Idea Cellular, are understood to have increased pre-paid tariffs by up to 20%, in line with the recent Bharti Airtel move.

Vodafone, Idea hike pre-paid tariff by 20%

Press Trust of India

When in 1439 Johannes Gutenberg thought up moveable types and oil-based inks and fixed them on an agricultural screw press, no one could have thought of it as a revolution. But it was indeed a revolution, making ideas and learning available to an audience larger than ever before.

Ajit Balakrishnan: E-books near tipping point?

Despite double-digit growth across segments, profitability remains lower than peers.

HCL Tech: Margin trigger missing

Despite the world economy reeling under bad macroeconomic indicators, the Indian export-driven IT services industry has all the reasons to cheer up.

HCL Tech net profit jumps 51.7%

Wipro, India&rsquo;s third-largest information technology (IT) services company, has appointed two insiders as its chief information officer (CIO) and head of global operations. Both these roles were handled by Laxman K Badiga, who took &ldquo;voluntary retirement&rdquo; earlier this month after over three decades of service.

Wipro elevates insiders as CIO and head of operations

Facebook Inc is in talks to let developers sell virtual goods within mobile web browsers, as part of an effort to generate more revenue from smartphones and tablet computers, according to three people familiar with the matter.

Facebook credits on mobiles likely

Infosys on Wednesday dismissed allegations by Jay Palmer, one of its American employees testifying before a US senate sub-committee on alleged misuse of B1 visas by the Indian IT major.

Infy denies charges of US employee on B1 visa misuse

Every 20 minutes, two laptops from India relay their location to researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The location is determined using Google&rsquo;s geolocation application programming interface (API) and a picture from the laptops' in-built cameras.

Where has your e-waste landed?

While many hotel rooms, recording studios, and even homes are built with materials to help absorb or reflect sound, mechanisms to truly control the direction of sound waves are still in their infancy. However, researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have now created the first tunable acoustic diode&mdash;a device that allows acoustic information to travel only in one direction, at controllable frequencies.

Making rooms 'fully' soundproof

Americans are used to drinking water from the kitchen tap, though water utilities may be vulnerable to terrorist attacks or natural contaminants. Now, thanks to CANARY Event Detection Software, an open-source software developed by Sandia National Laboratories and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), public water systems can be protected through enhanced detection of such threats.

Software to protect water utilities

Google Inc&rsquo;s new social networking service, Google+, saw fewer US visitors last week, and users are spending less time on the site, signalling its momentum may be slowing, according to Experian Hitwise.

Is Google+ losing momentum?

Mahesh Verma, a sales manager, often has to park his car at odd places. He has installed an alarm in his car. However, even if the motion sensors detect an intruder and start beeping, he would not be anywhere close to hear it. There are countless executives like Verma who encounter similar situations. Some have even landed at parking lots only to find their vehicles missing.

SMS: Someone's stealing your vehicle!

Scientists have reportedly developed a new aquatic micro-robot that mimics the amazing trait of the water strider, the long-legged insect that scoots across the surface of ponds, lakes and other waterways. The bionic micro-robot incorporates improvements over previous devices. This quality may see it being used for military spy missions, water pollution monitoring and other applications, according to the scientists. The study has been published in journal, ACS Applied Materials &amp; Interfaces.

A bionic micro-robot that walks on water

Several companies have successfully created partially transparent gadgets such as digital photo frames and cellphones with see-through keyboards. However, fully transparent e-book readers or cell phones have remained largely in the realm of conceptual art due to a missing puzzle piece.

Now, researchers develop a transparent battery

New entrants to the telecom sector might not jump on the bandwagon by going for tariff hikes like the big three &mdash; Bharti Airtel, Vodafone and Idea Cellular. Instead, they have decided to wait and watch, to see the effect of these increases on the industry.

Tariff hike: New telcos wait and watch

South Korea&rsquo;s communications regulator said today hackers from China had attacked an internet portal and blogging site operated by SK Comms, accessing the personal information of up to 35 million users in what could be the country&rsquo;s biggest cyber attack so far.

Hackers attack South Korean sites up to 35 mn users affected

Reuters 

CA Technologies, a Nasdaq-listed, IT management software and solutions company, is looking at further expanding its VAD (value-added distributors) programme to take its service assurance (SA) solutions much closer to the small and medium businesses (SMBs) in India.

CA bets big on SMBs 

Both Apple Inc and Samsung Electronics Co surpassed Nokia Oyj in smartphone shipments for the first time in the second quarter, as the Finnish company sold fewer units from its aging Symbian product lines.

Apple dislodges Nokia as biggest smartphone maker

Email service providers try newer ways to get more users from competitors.

Tug of war on the web

Major firms here began work earlier on anchoring in the stronger economies, beside varying their approach.

EU sovereign debt crisis unlikely to impact Indian IT industry

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