With uncertainties of the global economic volatility still looming, hiring by information technology companies is set to hit the slow lane this year. According to estimates by industry analysts and experts, campus hiring by the IT industry is expected to drop 50 per cent, while lateral hiring (of experienced employees) is going to be purely need-based.

Slowdown blues: IT firms set to halve campus hiring

Business Standard

For photographers and photo enthusiasts selling pictures online or having an independent profile online has limited options. They either can work with stock photography agencies, where they get paid a certain percentage of the pictures sold. The other option is to create a website, which if done independently, is a long-drawn process.

Click all the way to the bank, virtually

Its been some months since Windows 8 was launched. And while reactions have varied from &ldquo;oohs&rdquo; and &ldquo;aahs&rdquo; to the unprintable, here&rsquo;s what my experience has been over the past few months.

Living life with Windows 8 

The writer is advocate, Supreme Court of India

Cyberlaw is a constantly evolving discipline.&nbsp; Each year contributes substantially to the growth of jurisprudence pertaining to use of computer systems, networks, computer resources and communication devices.

Significant cyberlaw trends of 2013

Leading manufacturers of household appliances have created smart devices that can send a text message when your clothes are dry or notify you when a power cut knocks out your fridge.

Soon, smart household appliances that text you

Press Trust of India

While 2012, had been a year of subdued consumption, budget cuts and guideline revisions, 2013 is expected to start on a brighter note for $30 billion domestic IT market.

Top 10 trends that will drive growth of domestic IT market in 2013

Call it phablet, phonelet, tweener or super smartphone, but the clunky mobile phone &mdash; closer in size to a tablet than the smartphone of a couple of years back &mdash; is here to stay.

Handset makers scurry to join 'Year of the Phablet'

Reuters

American Express (Amex) has halted projects starting November 22 citing &ldquo;lack of clarity&rdquo;, sources said, resulting in the loss of about six weeks of billing for vendors. TCS, Infosys, Cognizant Technology Solutions and Syntel are the major vendors for Amex. Infosys declined comment, so did TCS, citing the silent period ahead of results. Cognizant could not be reached. Amex did not respond to an email. Sources at one of the IT firms said some onsite employees had started returning to India, as work had reduced.

IT firms hit by Amex project pause

After failing to attract any bidder for CDMA spectrum in the auction last November, the Empowered Group of Ministers (EGoM) on telecom today decided to slash the reserve price for the 800-MHz radiowaves by either 30 per cent or 50 per cent.

EGoM for up to 50% cut in CDMA  spectrum base price

India&rsquo;s e-commerce sector, the poster child of the venture capital (VC) investment in 2012, is heading for consolidation in 2013, according to industry experts. The consolidation will be driven by the need for better capital efficiency, VCs taking multiple bets on the sector, and shutdown in cases where performance has been low.

E-commerce heading for consolidation

Samsung Electronics, the world leader in mobiles and memory chips, said it likely earned a quarterly profit of $8.3 billion, as it sold close to 500 handsets a minute and as demand picked up for the flat screens it makes for mobile devices, including those for rival Apple Inc products.

Galaxy phones power Samsung to record $8.3 bn profit

Researchers have developed a revolutionary tablet screen as thin as a sheet of paper that can be twisted and dropped without damage - and it could replace your laptop within five years.

Now, flexible 'paper tablet' that can be twisted and dropped

Researchers have developed a revolutionary tablet screen as thin as a sheet of paper, that can be twisted and dropped without damage &mdash; and it could replace your laptop within five years.

A flexible 'paper tablet' that can be twisted and dropped

IT and engineering services company, Defiance Technologies, owned by the S P Hinduja group, is now looking at acquiring companies in Europe and the US, and strengthening its footprint in the enterprise IT market.

Defiance Tech considering acquisitions in Europe, US

Professional networking site LinkedIn, which has over 18 million users in India, on Tuesday said it has appointed Nishant K Rao as the new country manager. Rao would replace Hari V Krishnan, who has moved to a larger role as the managing director for Asia-Pacific and Japan.

Nishant K Rao is LinkedIn country manager

South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co said it is on course to achieve its goal of becoming the world's top home appliances maker by 2015, with sales growing an estimated 50 per cent by then.

Samsung on track to become top home appliances maker

Karnataka ICT group chairman TV Mohandas Pai on Tuesday said the state had the potential to become world&rsquo;s largest technology cluster in the next five years provided the government implemented infrastructure projects here and other emerging cities.

'Karnataka can become world's largest tech cluster'

South Korean electronics giant Samsung unveiled a new television that lets two people watch two different shows at the same time. The F9500 television is the first in the world to offer this feature, dubbed &ldquo;multi-view,&rdquo; the company said in Las Vegas, attributing the advance to the use of the latest generation of screen technology called &ldquo;organic light-emitting diode&rdquo; or OLED. The feature allows two people &ldquo;to watch completely different Full-HD content simultaneously on the same screen with corresponding audio and controls,&rdquo; the company said on the eve of the 2013 Consumer Electronics Show, the world's biggest for the electronics trade.

Samsung offers 2 shows at once on new OLED TV

Pune based product engineering solutions provider for the automotive industry, &nbsp;KPIT Cummins, and Livio, provider of in-vehicle mobile apps to cars, on Tuesday announced a strategic partnership to enable seamless connectivity between multiple consumer devices, mobile apps and the infotainment head unit.

KPIT Cummins partners with Livio for car apps

The $100-billion IT services industry over the years has been evaluated on parameters like wage index, volume and pricing. But with the industry in the midst of a shift, analysts are asking if it is time for a shift in the financial model.

Time for shift in financial model of IT services: analysts

Consumers will now have to pay up to 30% extra for data services as leading telecom players Bharti Airtel and Vodafone are hiking tariffs and others may soon follow suit.

Data services to cost up to 30% more

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