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

Business Standard

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

Silicon Valley is one of the few places where a 27-year-old Web entrepreneur can parlay a photo-sharing application with no known source of revenue into $1 billion &mdash; in two years.

Instagram goes from $0 to $1 bn in two years

Hewlett-Packard Co is unveiling a tool that will give companies access to computing power over the internet as an alternative to buying expensive servers, taking on Amazon.com Inc in the market for cloud services.

Hewlett-Packard takes on Amazon over cloud services

Mobile carriers led by Verizon Wireless and AT&amp;T Inc agreed to disable smartphones that are reported stolen to help stem an increase in device thefts.

Carriers to turn off stolen smartphones

Bharti Airtel, the country&rsquo;s largest telecom service provider, on Tuesday launched the country&rsquo;s first 4G service in Kolkata. It will offer data speeds more than 10 times faster than 3G but at nearly the same tariff.

Airtel 4G 10 times faster than 3G

Infosys Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer S D Shibulal prefers to stay out of the limelight himself, but doesn&rsquo;t seem to have any such hesitation in putting the spotlight on his better half.

Infy CEO puts spotlight on better half

Sony Mobile Communications on Tuesday launched Xperia S handset in the Indian market at a price of Rs 32,549, along with three other devices. These are the first phones to be made available in the country since Sony Mobile Communications became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sony Corporation earlier this year post its split with Ericsson. The flagship smartphone Xperia S has a 4.3-inch scratch resistant TFT touchscreen, along with 12.1 mega pixel camera.

Sony Mobile launches Xperia S at Rs 32,549 

Press Trust of India

Artworks from the National Museum and the National Gallery of Modern Art would now be accessible at the touch of a keystroke with culture ministry on Tuesday announc-ing a partnership with Google, that allows people to view art and stroll through museums across the world, online. The two art institutions have joined Google's Art Project that features over 30,000 artworks in gigapixel super high resolution with street view images from 151 partners in 41 countries, including the art collection of the White House and Palace of Versailles in France.

Art from national museum goes online 

At the launch of the India&rsquo;s first 4G services by Bharti Airtel, telecom minister Kapil Sibal, uttered what was in everyone&rsquo;s mind. DNA has quoted him as saying &ldquo;I dare say that though 3G was launched, the benefits are not yet seen by the aam aadmi.

4G story: Why Bharti may fail to make waves

Mouse eRetail, an online retail company, is mulling to expand its customer base to tier-2 and tier-3 cities. The Bangalore headquartered company had been concentrating its attention on online buyers in metros and tier-one cities till date.

Mouse eRetail targets tier-2 and tier-3 cities

Google India&rsquo;s name was today dropped from the suit for trial of various social networking websites for allegedly hosting offending contents, after it was pointed out to a Delhi court that it is merely a software developing firm.

Content row: Case against Google India dropped, six firms still in suit

If you want to get a sense of what awaits the BPO industry in India you only have to take a look at HCL BPO's see-sawing fortunes in the last several years and how the company has re-aligned itself after swallowing some bitter medicine.

HCL BPO: Back in black?

Technology giant International Business Machines (IBM) has come out with an integrated system that, it claims, would help companies reduce time and money spent on managing information technology (IT) systems.

IBM's PureSystems to lower IT cost

Nokia Oyj&rsquo;s loss reporting has prompted analysts&rsquo; suggestions that the Finnish phone maker sell its low-end phone business, whose revenue slumped by a third last quarter.

Analysts say Nokia should sell low-end phone biz

Samsung Electronics, the South Korean company may have shipped about 92 million mobile phones, including basic types, in the first quarter, according to the median of five estimates in a Bloomberg News survey.

Samsung probably overtook Nokia in handset sales

Social networking company Viadeo on Thursday said it had raised $32 million in its latest round of funding, a part of which would be invested in its Indian brand, ApnaCircle.

Viadeo raises $32 mn from investment firms

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