Personal computer (PC) maker Dell Inc on Saturday reported an 11 per cent dip in revenue for the quarter ended October in its Asia-Pacific markets, including India, indicating a softening of demand and poor uptick in business.

Dell's revenue in Asia-Pacific drops

Business Standard

In the fledgling software product development space in India where entrepreneurs change their focus quite often and even abandon their dream ventures while going through the grind of the start-up phase, InMobi, a mobile advertising platform and solutions provider, stands out as a beacon of hope.

Desi software product company takes global tech giants head-on

&ldquo;I had bought the first version of Aakash for my little sister, a school student, but within five days she refused to use it. It was such an underperforming tablet,&rdquo; says Ankit Sharma, who runs his family restaurant in Navi Mumbai.

Upgraded Aakash 2 is here, but will it reach the sky?

Philips may not be what Sennheiser and Bose mean to audiophiles, but with the new Fidelio M1 headphones, the company makes a point why it deserves to be on the list.

Gadgets that make the sound of music sweeter

Worldwide platform-as-a-service (PaaS) revenue is on track to reach $1.2 billion in 2012, up from $900 million in 2011. The market will experience consistent growth with worldwide PaaS revenue totaling $1.5 billion in 2013, and growing to $2.9 billion in 2016, according to information technology research and advisory company Gartner Inc.

Worldwide PaaS revenue to touch $2.9 billion in 2016: Gartner

The court objected to an undersecretary filing the reply, instead of the secretary of the telecom ministry.

SC raps Centre for 'casual' handling of 2G

Despite fears the fiscal cliff in the US would lead to that country cutting budgets next year, the National Association of Software and Services Companies (Nasscom) feels it is unlikely this would have an adverse impact on the $100-billion Indian information technology (IT) sector.

US fiscal cliff won't impact Indian IT sector: Nasscom

There are over 1.5 billion people on the internet today &mdash; that means if the online community were a country, it would be the most populous one. There are two billion searches (a quarter of which are new queries) and 100 billion emails a day. And, the amount of information that was stored in just one year (2011) was 50 times more than what was created in the entire history of mankind. Yet, Nikesh Arora says you have seen nothing yet, writes Shyamal Majumdar.

Nikesh Arora: Google's fourth musketeer

The Indian business process outsourcing (BPO) sector has recently been in the spotlight, thanks to renewed interest by private equity (PE) players. However, one deal failed to make a buzz &mdash; the acquisition of Mmodal (formerly CBay Systems) by JPMorgan&rsquo;s PE partner One Equity Partners for $1 billion.

Raman Kumar of CBay turns angel investor

India is certainly not the best place in the world as far as the acceptance of &lsquo;bring your own device&rsquo; (BYOD) is concerned. BYOD is a business policy which allows employees to bring their personal mobile computing devices to work places and connect those on corporate network.

India is not really an abode for BYOD

Hewlett-Packard Co said on Tuesday it took an $8.8 billion charge related to its acquisition of software firm Autonomy, citing &quot;serious accounting improprieties,&quot; as it swung to a fourth-quarter loss.

HP takes $8.8-bn charge related to Autonomy deal

Reuters 

Indian IT and BPO services companies who are heavily dependent on business visas can get some reprieve as the US Department of Labour (DOL) seems to have put its proposed changes to the Labour Condition Application (LCA) in cold storage following opposition by various stake-holders from who it had sought comments.

Reprieve for visa users as US defers changes to LCA

Smartphone uptake continued its strong momentum in all regions with around 40% of all mobile phones sold in third quarter of 2012 were smartphones, a report by Ericsson said today.

Smartphone uptake continues strong momentum in Q3: report

Press Trust of India

India's leading payment services provider Atom Technologies, a subsidiary of Financial Technologies (India) Limited has launched inter-bank mobile payment service (IMPS) to enable merchants make inter-bank payments 24x7 through their mobile phones.

Mobile payment service for merchants launched

Prerna Puri, Secretary - Information Technology, Chandigarh Administration while announcing the event at a Press Conference here at CII NR Headquarters in Chandigarh, said they have partnered with CII this time with the aim to mobilise industry&rsquo;s participation and enhance the scope of the event.

'Destination IT@North' in Chandigarh

Bangalore-based information technology services and solutions company MphasiS on Wednesday saw its stock fall four per cent in intra-day trade, after Hewlett-Packard (HP), its parent company, yesterday announced it was writing off $8.8 billion due to a massive accounting scandal at its British software unit, Autonomy.

HP's $8.8-bn write-off pulls down MphasiS stock

A US judge has ordered Apple Inc to disclose to rival Samsung Electronics details of a legal settlement the iPhone maker reached with Taiwan's HTC Corp, including terms of a 10-year patents licensing agreement.

US judge orders Apple to tell Samsung details of HTC deal

Social networking site Facebook which gives utmost importance to its users&rsquo; feedback on its governance process has now proposed taking away users' ability to vote on changes pertaining to its future privacy policy.

Facebook may scrap your right to vote on privacy changes

Today's teens are quite net savvy; get exposed to the world of Facebooks and Twitters quite early in their lives. But the stark reality is that many of them end of sharing more dangerous information online, many of times accessing porn contrary to their parents&rsquo; belief.

One of four Indian teens is victim of online cruelty

New eavesdropping technology could allow government agencies to 'silently record' conversations on internet chat services like Skype.

New tech allows govts to snoop on Skype    

Knimbus, a cloud-based information search and collaboration platform, outlined its growth strategy in international markets through alliances. Knimbus has inked strategic reseller agreements with two STM (Scientific, Technical and Medical) information market majors &ndash; WTCox in US and SAM (Standards and More) in EU. These alliances enhance the reach of the Knimbus platform and make the service available to users in South Asia, USA and Europe now.

Knimbus inks pacts with WTCox and SAM

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