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 

Business Standard

Bharti Airtel, India&rsquo;s largest mobile operator, on Wednesday entered into an agreement with Opera Software, under which its customers across India, Africa, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh will be able to access a customised version of the latter&rsquo;s internet browser on their mobiles.

Airtel joins hands with Opera  

With the Empowered Group of Ministers (EGoM) is yet to decide on the mode of the crucial telecom licence auctions, Sistema Shyam Teleservices waits with its fingers crossed to regain the 21 licences it lost due to a Supreme Court order. Vsevolod Rozanov, president and chief executive officer, tells Katya B Naidu that as a CDMA service entity, their problems are only graver.

Hope EGoM takes all perspectives: Vsevolod Rozanov

Consumer electronics major, Sony, on Thursday said that the company was aiming at selling 40,000 units of VAIO (its laptop brand) in Andhra Pradesh this financial year, as against 28,000 units last year.

Sony to sell 40k VAIO units in AP

Slide it, flip it or snap it on and off. The way keyboards are connected to touch screens on the latest generation of computing devices is making it tough to differentiate a tablet from notebook or an ultrabook.

Hybrid 'ultrabooks' blur line between tablets, laptops

Reuters 

Today is a golden age for small businesses. Never before could an SMB do business with anyone, in any part of the world, so easily. Making all of this possible, of course, is the Internet. But there is a downside to this. The connectivity that lets money in can let information out -&ndash; intellectual property, customer information and even financial data.

Web column: Protect your small business from cyber attacks

Facebook Inc, the social-networking company that held an initial public offering last month, introduced an online directory for downloadable apps, taking a page from Apple Inc and Google Inc.

Facebook does an Apple, launches apps bazaar 

There's no screen, it was built in 1976, and the clunky design does not exactly recall today's iPads, but the first Apple computer is expected to fetch up to USD180,000 in New York. Sotheby's in New York is auctioning the rare piece of computer history, which actually still works, on June 15. The Apple I computer was designed and hand-built by Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and marketed by Steve Jobs at the birth of Jobs's career as the world's computer design guru. Sotheby's called the computer &ldquo;an exceptionally rare, working example with original Apple cassette interface, operation manuals and a rare BASIC Users' Manual.

First Apple comp heads to Sotheby`s

Press Trust of India

Swapnil Khetan, a third-year student at Sardar Patel Institute of Technology here, wanted a medium to connect with top companies to secure an internship and was finding it difficult. That is when he stumbled upon Letsintern.com. In the two years of his association with the portal, he has done internships with Philip Morris, Channel V and the Zee Group.

Click on for your dream internship

For the first time, an Indian IT and BPO services company is institutionalising the concept of allowing employees to work from home. Zensar, the RPG Group firm headquartered in Pune, has said it wants to have 30 per cent of its employees working from home, locally and in towns and cities near its centres. The move will be implemented in three-four years.

Situation vacant - at a couch near you

Finnish mobile phone manufacturer Nokia is planning to launch three smart phones, including its Pureview model with 41 megapixel sensor camera, in India, this year. The company&rsquo;s Sriperumbudur facility, near Chennai, which saw an investment of about $500 million so far, would also start manufacturing and marketing its two new models of feature phone series Asha in 2012, according to a senior executive from the company.

Nokia plans 3 smartphones

Industry data suggest that we lose more than 10,300 hours a year retrieving lost passwords, making new ones or talking to call centre representatives about those. And it gets much worse if a password is stolen and misused. Last week, Russian hackers published millions of passwords they collected after hacking the professional networking site LinkedIn.

Apps for managing passwords

Pranshu Diwan, who runs Travel Another India, a tourism outfit, found that his company could tap a wider set of travellers looking for offbeat destinations on the largest social networking platform Facebook. By creating a page on Facebook, the business now interacts with an audience of about 50,000 followers who share their experience on the social platform.

For businesses, it's ad-vantage point on social platform

Edutor Technologies, a Hyderabad-based tech startup in the education space, is targeting a pan-India presence by 2015. The company is currently present across schools in Hyderabad and Bangalore.

Edutor eyes pan-India footprint

Not so long ago, the online &lsquo;deals&rsquo; industry, estimated at Rs 1,000 crore, was touted as one of the more successful and exciting internet e-commerce plays around.

Groupon sticks to its winning ways

To cash in on the growing demand of smartphone in India and to have bigger pie of the market, Microsoft (Windows Phone OS) is aggressively working on apps and planning to introduce more localised applications to the users.

Microsoft to introduce more localised apps

Russian company ru-Net seems to have become the first foreign company to invest in an Indian online retail company. The Moscow-based internet and technology investment company invested $17 million (Rs 95.2 crore) in Freecultr and BeStylish, two e-commerce websites backed by the Smile group. This was also the first time a Russian company invested in India&rsquo;s internet space.

Russian firm invests in two Indian e-commerce sites

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) today published the list of 1,930 applications received for general top-level domains (gTLDs). Among the Indian applications, Directi, the Mumbai-based registrar of domain names, has applied for 31 strings of gTLDs such as .loans, .hotel, .bank, .baby and .press, among others. Also, 21 domain name suffixes have been applied for by Indian companies, including .tata, .sbi, .reliance and .lupin, among others.

1,930 applications filed for net's new domain names 

The experience of 99labels, a fashion e-retailing site controlled by InfoEdge&mdash;the same company that owns India&rsquo;s largest job search site, Naukri.com&mdash;is key to understanding big changes sweeping the e-commerce sector.

Struggling to survive, e-commerce reinvents itself

Information Technology (IT) products, services and solutions provider Zylog Systems Ltd is expecting a revenue growth in its Wireless Fidelity (WiFi) business from Rs 30 crore, last year, to Rs 65 crore this year along with doubling its retail customer base for the business. The company is planning to invest around Rs 80 crore this financial year, in the WiFi business, said senior executives from the company.

Zylog Systems expects WiFi revenue to double this fiscal

Facebook Inc plans to introduce real-time bidding for advertising on its site, a technology used by Google Inc and other Web companies to more effectively target ads to consumers.

Facebook to debut real-time bidding on ad prices

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