E-waste, or electronic waste, implies discarded computers, mobiles, refrigerators or any other electronic appliance at the end of its life. With growing consumerism, discarding e-waste has become a big challenge in the country.

Time for mobile users to ring in recycling

Business Standard

Gaming is going to get a makeover this November. And yes, that means you had better start saving some extra bucks to buy Microsoft&rsquo;s Kinect &mdash; a controller-free, gesture-based gaming device that allows one or more people to play.

A Kinect with energy

Bharti Airtel today announced the launch of daily use packs for its prepaid customers in Himachal Pradesh.

Airtel launches daily use packs in HP

Says nothing should move until system is in place to enable full tapping of lines.

Home ministry asks DoT to stop all 3G services

Mobile internet and data services are fast emerging as the new front for a rate war among service providers. Telecom companies are eyeing a piece of the market share where data usage generates a higher amount of revenue, once 3G services are launched later this year.

Telcos cut mobile internet, data service rates

On the verge of its third anniversary Makaan.com is an Indian real estate website belonging to the People Group who also run other real-time websites like Shaadi.com, Astrolife.com and Mauj Mobile. Pravda Godbole spoke to Aditya Verma, Chief Operating Officer, Makaan.com about the findings of its latest survey Pune&rsquo;s real estate market and the way ahead.

Q&A: Aditya Verma, Chief Operating Officer, Makaan.com

Olive Telecom, a Gurgaon-based convergence solutions device developer, is expecting to garner 40 per cent of its revenues to flow in from India operations, primarily driven by machine-to-machine (M2M) devices and smartphones, said its chairman Arun K Khanna.

Olive Telecom sees 40% revenues from India

Chinese PC maker Lenovo is preparing the ground to occupy the top position in the enterprise PC market in India. The company, which is yet to catch up in the overall PC market in India with its competitors &mdash; Dell, HP and Acer &mdash; is eyeing the top slot in the enterprise space (Lenovo clubs enterprise business along with government as key account businesses) this calendar year.

Lenovo to focus on enterprise market

The South Korean police raided the offices of Google Korea on Tuesday as part of an investigation into whether the company illegally collected and stored personal wireless data.

South Korea police raid Google office

Employee stock option plans (ESOPs) seem to be back in action, as the domestic information technology (IT) industry is witnessing an upsurge in attrition rate. Indian IT companies, which had put ESOPs on the back burner during the global slowdown, are understood to be revisiting it. Most IT companies witnessed double-digit attrition rates during the last two quarters, compared to single-digit rates a year ago, due to an uptick in demand.

ESOPs back in vogue in IT companies

India today termed the US proposal to increase visa fees to fund its internal border security plan as discriminatory and said it will cost Indian firms $200 million extra a year.

India calls proposed visa legislation discriminatory

Indian industry seems sanguine on the latest bit of political rhetoric from the US on the outsourcing of work and jobs from there, culminating in a reported statement from President Barack Obama on the process being reversed.

India Inc not worried over latest US outsourcing rhetoric

Infosys co-founder and chairman N R Narayana Murthy today said his company would get a suitable successor well before his retirement in August 2011, as the hunt for a replacement had already begun.

New chief well before my retirement: Murthy

Dell India on Tuesday announced changes in its leadership team in the country, especially in its Large Enterprise (LE) business unit. Sameer Garde, the country manager of Dell India who was also responsible for Dell&rsquo;s LE business in India, will now move into an expanded role as the Asia Pacific and Japan (APJ) director for services, sales and marketing. He will continue to head Dell India as the country General Manager.

Dell India announces senior-level changes

An Indian-American CEO of an information technology (IT) company has been sentenced to 20 months imprisonment and ordered to pay over $800,000 in restitution for his role in a bribery and kickback scheme.

Indian-American CEO sentenced to 20 months in prison

Press Trust of India

Oracle Corp Chief Executive Officer Larry Ellison said Hewlett-Packard&rsquo;s board was wrong to force the resignation of CEO Mark Hurd, comparing the move to the firing of Steve Jobs in the 1980s.

HP was wrong to oust Hurd: Ellison

May buy from Quippo Telecom, which is looking at selling 15-20%.

WL Ross likely to pick up stake in WTTIL

Chinese computer maker Lenovo is eyeing 30 per cent growth by expanding its footprint in India by this fiscal. To that end, it will launch 400 Lenovo Exclusive Stores (LES) Lite.

Lenovo eyes 30% growth this fiscal

Google Chief Executive Officer Eric Schmidt has doubled the anticipated pace of acquisitions this year and expects to maintain that rate after some internal projects have failed to spur growth.

Google doubles acquisition pace

Movil Mobile, a handset brand of Bling Telecom Pvt. Ltd., has launched its new phone, MC 100 in markets including Gujarat.

Movil Mobile launches new handset in Gujarat

The companies have started increasing the number of American employees in US workforce.

US visa move to hit Indian IT firms

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