More than 90 per cent of business executives in India spend anywhere between 30 minutes and 6 hours every day on social media sites like Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Skype and Google+ from their notebook PCs, smartphones and tablets, reveals a recent study

Networking on the net

Business Standard

For years, Mac users have been told that not only are they cooler than their PC counterparts, they are safer too. Apple has always held that computer viruses and malware only dogged its competitors.

Widespread virus proves Macs no longer safe

Once viewed as a corporate tool for busy executives, tablet PCs are fast metamorphosing itself into an essential tool for students. Buoyed by increasing demand in the education sector, scores of vendors have launched tablets targeting students over the last one year. The latest entrants: Micromax and HCL Infosystem.

Post Aakash, tablet makers eye lucrative education sector

Britain-based Vodafone, embroiled in a tax controversy in India, was in the eye of a storm in its home country where, as late as December last year, a parliamentary panel alleged the company&rsquo;s deal with UK&rsquo;s tax authorities waived a potential tax of about &pound;6 billion and might have been illegal. Vodafone has strongly denied the claim.

Vodafone denies tax dispute, waiver in home country

The potential job losses in the Indian telecom industry are &quot;enormous&quot; in the wake of 2G licence cancellations and many of the affected entities have started trimming their workforce, according to HR experts.

Potential job losses in telecom sector enormous: experts

Press Trust of India

With all the innovation in technology and business, as well as new consumer behavior, it&rsquo;s sometimes difficult to separate what will shape the future of payments from what is just hype. Hundreds of great ideas are generated every day, but only a few may have the right combination to get traction and scale right now.

How will Indian consumers pay in the future?

Justin Watt, a Web engineer, was browsing the Web in his room at the Courtyard Marriott in Midtown Manhattan this week when he saw something strange. On his personal blog, a mysterious gap was appearing at the top of the page.

Hotel's free WiFi comes with hidden extras

Going for a tablet purchase? Don't let price points persuade you. Frugal innovation in tech may be grabbing headlines these days, but the bottom line remains very much the same &mdash; 'cheap ain't better'. The 'affordable' breed of tablet PCs are in stores, but their ilk may not be relied upon.

The low-end tablet PC: A cheap hook-up and a killjoy affair 

At a time when the Indian information technology services industry is the focus of anti-outsourcing rhetoric, the global in-house centres (GICs) or captive units of multinational companies are increasing their offshore penetration.

Global firms' captive IT units in India gain importance

Sistema Shyam Teleservices, one of the two pan-Indian licensees impacted by the Supreme Court decision of February 2 for cancellation of 122 licences issued in January 2008, continues to add subscribers and invest money in its operations, despite the uncertainty around. Vsevolod Rozanov, president and chief executive officer of MTS India, the mobile telecom service brand of Sistema Shyam, talks to Mansi Taneja about the situation.

Onus is on govt to suggest way out of 2G mess: Vsevolod Rozanov 

Ted Tewksbury wants to get rid your iPhone cable.

Can't find a socket to charge your phone? IDT's got a solution

Despite the euro zone crisis, HCL Technologies, India&rsquo;s fourth-largest information technology services company, has seen a huge success in Europe in the past year in clinching deals. Watchers say the share of Europe in its overall revenue in 2011 improved from the previous year by five percentage points to 27 per cent.

HCL continues to have a good run in Europe

The potential job losses in the Indian telecom industry are &quot;enormous&quot; in the wake of 2G-licence cancellations and many of the affected entities having started trimming their workforce, according to HR experts.

Potential job losses in telecom sector enormous, feel experts

Despite 1300 job cuts globally, Finland's IT major Tieto Corporation is planning to restructure the business and may exit some unprofitable markets. Tieto will downsize 1,300 jobs including about 500 in Finland and 300 in Sweden. The company is planning to save over 50 million euros in annual costs by cutting these jobs.

Despite job cuts, Tieto focuses on strategy revamp

Nasdaq-listed information technology services company iGate has accepted minority shareholders&rsquo; offer of Rs 520 a share to delist Patni Computer Systems from Indian bourses.

iGate accepts Patni delisting offer

Loop Telecom is planning to shut down operations in all the circles where licences were cancelled by the Supreme Court in February. The company operates in 21 circles. Mumbai will be in exception, which has a separate licence.

Loop Telecom to shut operations outside Mumbai

Kolkata will see India&rsquo;s leap to the fourth generation (4G) of telecom technology today, as the country&rsquo;s largest service provider Bharti Airtel launches the service, giving a data download speed of 100 Mbps, compared to 21 Mbps in 3G. Bharti is the first to launch 4G since BWA spectrum was auctioned in June 2010. It has spectrum in four circles &mdash; Kolkata, Maharashtra, Karnataka and Punjab.

A Giant Leap?

AOL agreed on Monday to sell a portfolio of over 800 patents, and license about 300 more, to Microsoft for $1.056 billion, amid an arms race within the technology industry over intellectual property.

AOL strikes $1.1-bn patent deal with Microsoft Corp

If TCS is the crown jewel of the $83-billion diversified Tata Group, then the group&rsquo;s chairman-in-waiting Cyrus Mistry is its richest board member.

Cyrus Mistry is richest member of TCS board

Bharti Airtel plans to launch its 4G services in Bangalore within 30 days, an executive said, after the country's largest mobile phone carrier launched the service in Kolkata earlier on Tuesday.

Bharti Airtel launches 4G in Kolkata, Bangalore next

Reuters 

Research In Motion (RIM), makers of BlackBerry phones, has taken one more step in its bid to relate to teenagers and young professionals, even if that means having fun at the expense of the original &lsquo;BlackBerry boys&rsquo; (grown men in black suits) in its brand new campaign.

BlackBerry makes a virtue out of necessity

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