US telecom giant Qualcomm Inc will rope in an operator as partner, who would initially pick up the 26 per cent stake held by Tulip Telecom and GTL Group in its India broadband wireless access (BWA) venture. The two hold 13 per cent each in the venture.

Bharti may buy 26% in Qualcomm venture, get a leg-up in BWA space

Business Standard

The first month of the fiscal quarter has begun on a positive note, with hiring activity in Bangalore rising sharply, by 36 per cent, in April, 2012, over the corresponding period last year.

Hiring up 36% over last year:  Naukri survey

The possible resignation of Ashok Vemuri, Board member and head of Americas and Global Head of Manufacturing and Engineering Services verticals, did not elicit a response from an Infosys spokesperson, who termed it as rumours.

Infosys refuses comment on board member exit

Aegis, the business process outsourcing and information technology company from the Essar Group, is aiming to be a $2-billion company in the next three years.

Aegis eyes $2 bn in revenue by 2015

Value &amp; Budget Housing Corporation (VBHC), promoted by former Citibankers Jerry (Jaithirth) Rao and P S Jayakumar, plans to launch six budget housing projects in the country by the end of this year.

IT entrepreneur Jerry Rao goes deeper into budget housing 

Flourishing online purchase of gift items, especially jewellery and flowers, on auspicious occasions have prompted banks, along with existing e-retail marts, to jump into the discount business. Generally, banks and online retail companies take additional delivery and other administrative charges from customers to execute orders.

It's raining discounts for online shoppers

RailTel Corporation of India Limited, Indian Railway-owned bandwidth provider, plans to provide telecom data services to non-telecom players. The move has been prompted by the fact that telecom operators have built their own optic fibre infrastructure, resulting in 20 per cent squeeze in RailTel's business.

With telcos putting their own infrastructure, RailTel targeting non-telecom players

Indian information technology (IT) services companies are slowly gaining market share in Europe, with European buyers opening up to offshoring services.

Despite economic uncertainty, Europe offers scope for Indian IT firms

India may be embracing latest technologies like mobility and cloud, but factors like privacy concerns and cultural fabric could restrain social media growth in the country as compared to other nations, a report by research firm Gartner today said.

Social media growth falling in India, reveals study

Press Trust of India

Mobile phones with a computing speed that is equivalent to that of computers four years ago will hit the market by this year-end, said a senior official of Qualcomm, a global leader in mobile technologies.

Mobiles with speed of computers by year-end

An explosion of people checking into social networks is being exploited by mobile application makers and private detectives, who say they can use people's online chatter and photos to track them and find out where they live.

How internet detectives find out where you live

Reuters 

Just as the way people consume music is changing, the devices they use have also come a long way&mdash; from the clunky cassette players of yore to Apple&rsquo;s iPod. To keep up, audio device makers are constantly trying to spot the major trends and incorporate those into their products.

Music in tune with a seamless world 

Every day hundreds of thousands of dictations, court orders and petitions are dictated and converted to text documents using Nuance Communications&rsquo; Dragon NaturallySpeaking software across the high courts of Mumbai, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh (AP), Delhi and the judicial offices of Karnataka. Dipen S, a practising attorney in AP High Court says, &ldquo;I regularly give dictations running into hundreds of pages. But availability of stenographers was always an issue.

Voice-recognition apps: No small talk this

HCL Infosystems has said it will not make any new investment in its computing hardware business, as it wants to focus on growth engines such as services, learning and multi-brand distribution.

HCL to freeze investment in hardware business

Personal computer (PC) shipments in the country increased 3.5% in the first three months of 2012 to 2.63 million units, driven by revival in consumer buying and spurt in commercial spending, according to a report by research firm IDC.

PC shipments up 3.5% at 2.6 mn units in Jan-March

Yahoo Inc said chief executive officer Scott Thompson is stepping down after failing to correct errors in his credentials and the company is revamping its board, handing a victory to activist investor Daniel Loeb, who had pushed for the overhaul and said the web portal is mismanaged.

Yahoo! CEO departs amid inquiry

Apple Incmaker of the iPhone and iPad, can pursue efforts to win a sales halt of Samsung Electronics Co (005930)&rsquo;s Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet computer in the US while a patent-infringement case is pending, a US appeals court ruled.

Apple wins review of tablet patent in Samsung dispute

One of the youngest MDs of the Tata Group on why the Indian IT story is not over yet and what it takes to push the envelope in personal and professional life write Shyamal Majumdar and Shivani Shinde.

Lunch with BS: Natarajan Chandrasekaran

The information technology industry body, National Association of Software and Services Companies (Nasscom), today said it would maintain its annual guidance for growth despite the sombre outlook given by many analysts and tepid March quarter performance by IT companies. &ldquo;We are not relooking at it right now. When we came out with the annual forecast in February, we had said that we will relook at it in October.

Nasscom sticks to its guidance despite analyst scepticism

IT industry body Nasscom has invited Australian companies to look for ventures and exploring market opportunities in India. &quot;There is a potential for partnership and pool of capitals is already available in India for investment for such ventures,&quot; NASSCOM Chairman Som Mittal was quoted as saying by The Australian.

Nasscom invites Australian firms 

With a whopping 97 per cent market share in India according to StatCounter data, Google Search looms ahead of others like Yahoo Search (one per cent share) and Microsoft&rsquo;s Bing (less than one per cent share) by a huge margin. So, how Google&rsquo;s search engine manages to stay at the top of its game? Last year, Google introduced 500 changes to its search engine technology and tested over 50,000 changes in real time while billions of users were searching for their queries.

Google Search retains lead with 97% share

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