A suicide bomber today attacked the office of a Nigerian subsidiary of telecom giant Bharti Airtel in the northern city of Kano.

Suicide bombers attack Nigeria Airtel's office

Press Trust of India

In the digital economy, 14 years is an eternity. Fast-shifting technology means that companies, once feared and seemingly invincible, fade, while new powers rise to dominance, raising fresh sets of concerns.

One-time allies in antitrust part ways over Google

Business Standard

The police were hot on my heels. Smashing through a five-car roadblock, I ducked below the freeway and made a U-turn, and headed downtown, but there was no getting rid of the wailing cars tailing me.

Burn some rubber in Fairhaven City

The Rockstand app lets you annotate text, as well as flip pages, just like in a book. It also remembers page numbers, just like other eBook readers.

Bibliophiles ahoy! Library in the virtual world

Even before Google or Facebook came up with their free SMS applications, there have been several others. Of course, the advantage of using a Facebook chat application (app) is that it is synchronised with your social site page and contacts. In case of Google, your gmail contacts and Google+ members are factored in.

Simplifying the buzz around chattering apps

Google's SMS chat application is fairly simple. From within Gtalk, one can send text messages to contacts, provided their numbers are added to the address book.

Get your address book in order

While brick-and-mortar fashion chains are not gung-ho on Christmas promotions, e-shopping portals are going full steam ahead with discounts and offers for the Christmas and New Year.

E-tailers outdo retailers on offers and promotions

Temporary staffing has seen a surge this year, with Information Technology (IT) sector contributing to the growth seen in temp staffing this year.

IT sees surge in temporary hiring

With over 137 million Internet users in India, 7 out of 10 users access Internet through mobile.

Cybercrime to go mobile, social in India in 2013

Utilitarian services drove search volumes. With more institutions moving their services online for greater convenience, searches for them ticked up accordingly, reveals Google&rsquo;s Zeitgeist 2012, which offers a perspective on the major events and hottest trends, based on searches conducted in India.

'Utilitarian services drove search volumes in 2012'

&quot;We are targeting to sell more than one lakh smartphones in India as demand for such phones is enormous and its market is growing very fast,&quot; company's founder and CEO Prashant P Bora said.

Byond eyes Rs 400 cr turnover from phones, tablets

Viom Networks, a Tata Teleservices and Srei group telecom tower JV, is keen on hitting the capital market in a business trust structure if Indian regulations allow it.

Viom Networks prefers to hit market as business trust

Apart from his vision, what helped Ratan Tata pursue his global dreams was the phenomenal success of Tata Consultancy Services, which is 74 per cent owned by Tata Sons.

TCS provided wings to Tata's dreams

Rajeev Sawhney has resigned as head of the Europe operations of HCL Technologies, the country&rsquo;s fifth largest information technology services provider.

HCL's Europe head exits

Engineers at South Korean automobile major Hyundai have invented a new system that will allow your smartphone to double as your car keys, and the technology will be made available to buyers within two years.

Soon, your smartphone can be your car keys

The year 2012 saw an increased growth in targeted attacks that proved successful in disrupting service and fraudulently obtaining significant amounts of intellectual property. Experts say, 2013 is likely to see significantly more targeted attacks and targeted malware. This type of attack is more difficult to protect against.

McAfee's threat predictions for 2013

US based IT player Fulcrum Worldwide is setting up a new software delivery&nbsp;&amp; operations center at Hinjewadi Phase III&nbsp; in January 2013 .

IT player Fulcrum Worldwide to invest $30 mn for India expansion

The entry of Walmart and the lobbying it had done to enter India has become a point of debate but the technology sector, including those in information technology services, have been doing it for decades in America.

Allocating money to buy friends in the US

When Amazon.com Inc CEO Jeff Bezos got word of a project at Google Inc to scan and digitise product catalogues a decade ago, the seeds of a burgeoning rivalry were planted.

Amazon, Google on collision course in 2013

Reuters 

India needs more transparent rules to allow phone operators to merge, said Vladimir Evtushenkov, whose AFK Sistema is struggling to recover its wireless licences as Russian President Vladimir Putin visits New Delhi.

Sistema boss for mobile law change as Putin visits

A lawsuit is seeking to stop Instagram from changing its terms of service, saying the Facebook-owned smartphone photo-sharing service is breaching its contract with users.

Instagram sued over contract changes

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