Ahmedabad-based Elitecore Technologies, a leading provider of network security solutions announced foray into the African market with its NGN ready billing support system and operations support system (BSS/OSS) product suits. Elitecore will offer its billing and revenue management, AAA and PCRF product suites in the African telecommunication market.

Elitecore launches network security operations in Africa

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With 17 per cent market share in the Indian mobile market, Samsung Mobile plans to add another six to seven per cent market share this year. In an interview with Business Standard, Ranjit Yadav, Director, Mobile &amp; IT, Samsung Electronics tells Chitra Unnithan about the company&rsquo;s strategy to focus on innovation to achieve its target.

Q&A: Ranjit Yadav, Director, Mobile & IT, Samsung Electronics

Sistema Shyam Teleservices (SSTL), which offers mobile services in India under the brand name MTS, expects the Russian government to infuse $620 million in the company by October this year.

SSTL expects Russian fund infusion by October

The country&rsquo;s third largest telecom company, Reliance Communications, had hoped to clean the burgeoning debt on its books through two key deals &mdash; the sale of its tower assets to GTL and the sale of 26 per cent equity in the company to, probably, Etilasat, to which it has never denied it was talking.

Gone with the deal: What RCom has lost

Is Bharti Airtel India&rsquo;s fourth-largest media company? If estimates are right, then its revenues from selling music downloads, DTH services, IPTV and digital media outsourcing were upwards of Rs 2,900 crore in March 2010. That is about 7 per cent of its Rs 41,829 crore revenues that year. This number puts India&rsquo;s largest telecom operator right at the top of the media big league.

Bharti Airtel: The making of a media conglomerate

For this music buff, the sound of last week&rsquo;s announcement by soap-to-software conglomerate Wipro couldn&rsquo;t have been sweeter. Clearly part of the grooming of Harvard-educated Rishad Premji, the group appointed the elder son of Chairman Azim Premji as chief strategy officer (CSO) for its flagship IT business.

Rishad Premji: Son rise

The combined printer, copier and multifunctional product (MFP) market in India has witnessed a growth of 39.9 per cent, showed data reveled from Gartner, leading information technology research and advisory company.

Indian IT peripheral market grows 40%: Gartner

The range will appeal to consumers across all segments, with a special focus on the youth, and are currently available across 8,000 retail outlets in the country. The company plans to ramp up the number of retail outlets to 20,000 by end-September, 2010, the company said here.

Akai enters Indian mobile mkt, launches 10 handsets

Press Trust of India

Telecom operators in the country added 17 million subscribers in July this year, taking the total number of mobile users in the country to 652.42 million, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) said today.

17 million mobile users added in July: Trai

The advent of 3G technology will boost the telecom and mobile services and play a crucial role in shaping the Indian broadband industry, business research and consulting firm Frost and Sullivan said here today.

'3G tech crucial for shaping broadband industry'

Wipro Ltd, the country&rsquo;s third largest information technology (IT) services exporter, expects higher US visa costs to have a moderate impact on its operating margins in the current financial year. It may pass the increased cost on to its clients by increasing the billing rates.

Wipro sees moderate impact from US visa rise

Telecom major loses legal battle on tax claim; to move SC.

Rs 12K-cr tax blow for Vodafone on Hutch deal

AppLabs, the world&rsquo;s largest independent software testing quality management company, which has its global delivery centre in Hyderabad, is planning to acquire a US-based company for about $50 million (approximately Rs 235 crore), according to its founder and chairman Sashi Reddi.

AppLabs looks at buyout in US for around $50 mn

Don&rsquo;t hold your breath for tariff wars; the entertainment, business &amp; commerce functions will blow you away.

Wanted: Killer applications for 3G service operators

Hewlett-Packard Co&rsquo;s lawsuit seeking to block former CEO Mark Hurd from working at Oracle Corp may be hard to win because California&rsquo;s courts favour letting employees move freely, legal experts said.

HP sues to stop Ex-CEO Hurd joining Oracle

Also talks to other firms; valuation differences an issue.

Post-GTL deal failure, RCom turns to PE consortium

The Chinese spend more time on the internet doing a better variety of things than Indians. Brazil has a higher PC penetration than India, but there are more Indians surfing the internet than Brazilians. The cost of broadband internet access in the interiors of Russia is 2-3 times that of large cities, pulling down usage.

BRICI may house 1.2 bn Net users by 2015

More than eight out of 10 Indian online consumers plan to buy products on the net in the next 12 months, while a quarter said they spend about 11 per cent of their monthly shopping budget on online purchases.

50% online consumers bank on social media sites

But MNCs like IBM, Accenture, CSC and HP likely to get affected more.

Indian IT may remain immune to Ohio ban

The demand for chipsets and microprocessors in the mobility space &ndash; mobile phones, navigation devices, iPods, music players and cameras &ndash; is virtually exploding. No wonder that chip manufacturer Intel has been trying to garner a pie of this growing market, which so far has been dominated by UK-based ARM.

At ARM&#39;s length

The World Wide Web Consortium or W3C, as it is better known, is where the industry meets to set standards for the Web. And Jeffery Jaffe &ndash; an IT industry veteran who held prominent positions at Bell Labs (Lucent Technologies), IBM, and more recently at Novell &ndash; as its CEO not only oversees the W3C's largest project in progress ( HTML5 standards group) but is also trying to ensure that the Consortium sharpens its focus on multilingual web standards for countries like India.

Multilingual Web should be a priority for India: W3C chief

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