Apple Inc. and book publishers that haven't settled e-book price-fixing claims will face trial next year in a case filed by the US Justice Department, a federal judge in New York decided.

Apple e-books price-fixing antitrust suit set for trial

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Knowing the exact location of a train was never so easy as one can now track it on a mobile phone.

Now, track your train on mobile phone

Press Trust of India

Unlike the old adage, first impressions are more often than not last impressions. This certainly holds true in the context of Micromax&rsquo;s tablet PC Funbook. At an attractive price of Rs 6,500, the Funbook will surely catch the attention of first-time tablet PC buyers.

Funbook: Affordable and packed with smart courses

With Kindle and Barnes &amp; Noble introducing tablets with e-readers users now have an option to buy a single gadget, either a tablet or an e-book reader. Rather the debate has been going on for some time as tablet manufacturers, Apple, Samsung and others have incorporated the features of an e-book into the tablet.

Gadgets for e-readers

Last week, software major Microsoft announced its intent to launch a tablet PC, christening the hand-held device as Surface. The company detailed that there will be two models of the Surface &mdash; one featuring an NVIDIA Tegra processor and the other is the Windows RT version of Windows 8 meant for devices with ARM chips. There will also be a version with an Intel Core processor and Windows 8 Pro.

The tablet has Surfaced: Windows opening for new devices

The executive council, which met today in Chennai, stated, &ldquo;Som Mittal is doing an outstanding job in leading Nasscom as president.

Nasscom president Som Mittal gets extension till 2014

If the answers are yes, help is at hand &ndash; or, rather a mouse. Three IIT Kharagpur engineers have come up with a first-of-its-kind dating platform, called dateiitians.com. The brainchild of Layak Singh, Kinshuk Bairagi and Nikhil Kaushik, the website says it &ldquo;attempts to connect IITians with non-IITians through a social networking medium&rdquo;.

Dating an IITian is now just a click away 

Telecom major Vodafone India today launched a new international roaming package under which its subscribers can avail up to 60 per cent discount on voice, data and SMS charges across 40 countries.

Vodafone launches international roaming package    

Information technology company HCL Infosystems Ltd is planning to hive off its hardware business into a separate unit in a bid to give &ldquo;sharper focus&rdquo; on the &ldquo;rapidly-evolving computing technology market,&rdquo; the company said on Tuesday.

HCL Info to hive off hardware business into separate unit

If the answers are Yes, help is at hand &ndash; or, rather, a mouse. Three Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, engineers have come up with a first-of-its-kind dating platform, called dateiitians.com.

Dating an IITian just a click away

Google Inc will soon unveil a tablet co-branded with Taiwan's Asustek Computer Inc and priced to compete with Amazon's Kindle Fire device, an Asustek executive said on Wednesday.

Planned Google tablet to rival Amazon

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Venkat Raghavan is the new senior VP of R&amp;D at Blue Coat Systems which provides proactive, intelligent security for any user on any device in any location, protecting against malicious attacks even before they are mounted by cybercriminals.

BS People: Venkat Raghavan

Google Inc unveiled a handheld computer called the Nexus 7 that features a 7-inch screen and is designed to help the company vie with Apple Inc and Microsoft Corp in the surging market for tablets.

Google introduces Nexus tablet

The National Association of Software and Services Companies (Nasscom), which represents the Indian software industry, has to watch data for the next two quarters to decide whether to revise the revenue guidance for the IT industry this financial year, said its president Som Mittal.

Nasscom to wait for two quarters before looking at guidance

Information technology services company HCL Technologies Ltd has handed pink slips to some of the former Xerox employees in the US, who had joined the company a year ago as part of an outsourcing agreement.

HCL shows the door to former Xerox staff

Core competency&rdquo; is a buzz phrase generally employed as a post-facto rationalisation for strategic decisions. The B-School mantra is that a focus on core competency generates more economic value (EV) while unrelated diversifications destroy EV. This theory is applied selectively in practice.

Devangshu Datta: Core competence and convergence

For the first time, the titans of the Indian IT industry will show their financial muscle on the same day.

Infy, TCS to announce results on same day

Industry experts, electronic goods manufacturers and recyclers feel the E-waste (Management and Handling) Rules, 2011, which come into force on Tuesday, are unlikely to solve the pertinent problems. The reason, they mainly suggest, is a lack of set target and incentives for producers and consumers.

E-waste rules come to force today doubt stay

Information technology (IT) services provider Wipro on Monday announced it had signed an agreement to acquire Australian analytics company Promax Applications Group (PAG) for A$35 million (around $36.5 million or Rs 192 crore).

Wipro to buy analytics firm Promax for $36 mn

So what if the likes of Infosys announce increment freeze, retention rates have still gone up in the Information Technology (IT) sector, especially for higher skilled talent. According to the Salary Primer 2012 by TeamLease Staffing Solutions, profiles like business analyst (BAN) and program manager (PRM) have delivered significantly higher, longevity scores despite being rewarded lesser than the last year.

Retention rates up in IT despite modest increments

Wilson Wang, the newly-appointed chief operating officer of Huawei Technologies in India is going to be a busy man.

BS People: Wilson Wang

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