If you have ever used any of the numerous entry-level Android tablets in the market, you would know how buggy the user experience can be. But the same operating system combined with a reliable hardware configuration can totally elevate the experience. That&rsquo;s the first impression one gets while using the Google Nexus tab.

Power-packed Nexus 

Business Standard

Aakash Moondhra, who joined e-commerce portal Snapdeal as its CFO last month, is a man of many facets. Starting as an entrepreneur, Moondhra has worked across sectors, from banking to consulting to telecom to retail to private equity, and now, e-commerce. This has given him diverse exposure and a wide range of experience.

BS People: Aakash Moondhra

At a time when the the Indian information technology (IT) services industry is facing the heat of the global slowdown in the banking and financial services (BFS) industry, Chennai-based Polaris Financial Technology is confident its ambition to be among the top five players globally in the space is achievable in the next five years.

Amid slowdown, Polaris aims to be among top 5 in financial tech

Korean handset giant Samsung launched its Galaxy S3 handset in India, and said it plans to capture 60 per cent of the smartphone market. &ldquo;According to third party data, we have over 46 per cent share in the Indian smartphone market. We are confident of increasing this to 60 per cent this year,&rdquo; said Samsung India Head (Mobile and IT) Ranjit Yadav. The Indian smartphone market is pegged to grow to about 18 million units in 2012, he added.

Samsung Galaxy S3 takes on Apple's iPhone 4 in India

By this time next year, internet domain names ending with .tata, .reliance, .bharti, .SBI or even .Mahindra will be a reality.

India Inc ready to shift to other side of the dot on www

Google said it has filed an antitrust complaint with the European Commission against Microsoft and Nokia, saying the companies are using patents to thwart competition. The complaint focuses on a transfer Nokia, Microsoft made last year of some 2,000 patents and patent applications to Mosaid Technologies, a company known for its patent litigation, said a Google spokesman.

Google files antitrust complaint in Europe

The depreciating rupee is taking a toll on the enthusiasm of the personal computer (PC) makers who are actively participating in many of the government contracts in various state and national level projects.

PC makers shy away from govt contracts as rupee slides

Telecom tribunal TDSAT has pulled up the government for imposing fresh penalties on Idea Cellular despite an earlier order setting aside a similar fine due to the operator's alleged delay in service roll-out obligations in five circles.

TDSAT pulls up govt for imposing fresh penalty on Idea

Press Trust of India

Six-year-old Trikaaya Sharma gets two hours every day to play with her father&rsquo;s iPad and she spends a good deal of that time reading and interacting with her digital books. &ldquo;I love to sing along, colour, count objects on my iPad books,&rdquo; she responds over a telephone conversation. Her father, Tinesh Sharma, interrupts by saying, &ldquo;Although we have a number of games for her age, too, all she wants is more books on iPad.

Kids' zone: Bringing up the e-learners

Here&rsquo;s one CEO who believes in management by walking around. &ldquo;I devote a lot of time to speak to clients because that&rsquo;s the way to understand the strategic direction clients are taking and how we need to innovate in order to solve their problems,&rdquo; says N V &lsquo;Tiger&rsquo; Tyagarajan, president and CEO, Genpact.

When countries like India go for change, they go straight to best-in-class: N V Tyagarajan

Chaiti Narula, a television professional, does not buy shoes and clothes online. She would rather walk into Palladium, a high-end mall in South Mumbai. But for everything else, she wouldn&rsquo;t mind shopping online, that too for stuff not available in India, such as skating gear from Canada, passes for Singapore salsa congress, theatre tickets for her London trip and racing hats, among others.

Exclusive sites for the super-rich

The latest mobile from the Samsung stable is out. The device sports a huge display aimed at winning your heart. Besides the looks, it has also got muscle: A 1.4GHz quad-core processor.

Galaxy S3: Light years ahead

Facebook Inc, the world&rsquo;s biggest social-networking company, tumbled to a record intraday low after Sanford C Bernstein &amp; Co initiated coverage with an underperform rating and a $25 target price.

Facebook stocks hit record intra-day low

At a time when Tier-I information technology (IT) services companies are struggling to retain their high growth trajectory, some of the mid-cap firms have seen their businesses expand by more than 20 per cent in recent years.

Mid-cap IT firms benefit as deal size gets smaller

Oracle Corp violated a clear contract with Hewlett-Packard Co when it decided it would no longer make new versions of its database software compatible with HP's Itanium-based servers, a lawyer for HP said in court.

HP says Oracle violated contract, seeks billions

Reuters 

Four out of five Facebook Inc users have never bought a product or service as a result of advertising or comments on the social network site, a Reuters/Ipsos poll shows, in the latest sign that much more needs to be done to turn its 900 million customer base into advertising dollars.

Facebook comments, ads don't sway most users: poll

Apple Inc introduced its iPhone in 2007 using Samsung Electronics Co technology that it didn&rsquo;t want to pay for, a lawyer representing the Korean electronics company told a US trade judge today.

Apple's iPhone copied Samsung inventions, US judge told

Information technology (IT) services company MphasiS, a subsidiary of Hewlett-Packard (HP), reported a fall of about 4,560 in its overall headcount, compared to the year-ago period. The company, dependent on HP for the majority of its revenue, also saw a drop in the number of clients added during the quarter ended April 30. Chief executive officer Ganesh Ayyar, in an interview with Bibhu Ranjan Mishra and Pradeesh Chandran, says the company has embarked on a journey of hyper-specialisation.

Our headcount reduction is a reflection of non-linearity: Ganesh Ayyar 

The fall in market share, from 20 per cent to 16 per cent, has come at a time when the company has been aiming to boost its numbers in India to see the market here rise into its top-five club.

Sony slips in rankings of top laptop makers

The appointment of Ravi Shankar, an industry veteran with around three decades of experience in managing human resources, as the chief people officer at MindTree can be seen as the beginning of a new era for the company. The role of HR head had so far been played by senior leaders from within the company. Now, with Shankar joining, the firm is trying to reposition itself as an &lsquo;expert-led organisation&rsquo;, by bringing in people who are experts in their respective fields, in roles that are strategically important.

BS People:  Ravi Shankar

The Internet world today moved to a new addressing system, Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6), which will allow creation of trillions of new web addresses. This would prevent the Internet running out of available addresses for new devices like tablets and smartphones.

Internet widens its reach 

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