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

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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

India&rsquo;s share of digital information is expected to grow 60-fold by 2020, driven by the roll-out of 3G and BWA networks, digitisation of television networks, and increased technology adoption among individuals, small and medium enterprises, enterprises and in Government services like the Unique ID project, Census, among others, said a study.

Digital information in India to grow 60 fold by 2020: EMC

Ahmedabad-based Elitecore Technologies, a leading network security and telecom software&nbsp;provider, has rolled out EliteAAA, a voice, video, data and VAS application for MTS wireless broadband service over CDMA network in India.

Elitecore deploys CDMA data, VAS services for MTS

Mumbai, Chennai (6 per cent each) followed by Hyderabad (5 per cent) led all the major metropolitan markets by measure of monthly rise in job opportunities in August 2010, according to online career and recruitment solutions provider Monster India's employment index.

Hyderabad, Chennai see rise in online jobs

Spain-headquartered business process outsourcing (BPO) company Accelya has acquired a 35.61 per cent stake in Kale Consultants, a Mumbai-based information technology services and solutions company, for around Rs 97 crore. The deal valued each share of Kale Consultants at Rs 172. Accelya bought the stake from the promoters of Kale Consultants.

Spanish BPO firm buys 35% in Kale Consultants

British telecom major Vodafone Plc&rsquo;s Indian telecom operations turned cash-positive in the last quarter ended June. But the relief was short-lived, as this year the parent company has had many bad experiences in India.

India biz weighs down Vodafone's books

Suresh Vaswani, Joint Chief Executive Officer of Wipro, India&rsquo;s third largest information technology services company, talks to Shivani Shinde on its aim to be a global firm, focus on new segments like the government sector and US anti-outsourcing sentiment.

Q&A: Suresh Vaswani, Joint Chief Executive Officer, Wipro

UK-based picocell and femtocell developer and manufacturer ip.access has set up a research and development (R&amp;D) centre in Pune in partnership with business services company, Quickstart Global. ip.access recently bagged a contract from Bharti Airtel to supply its nanoGSM picocells for deployment across the country.

ip.access to set up R&D centre in Pune

Delhi-based HCL Technologies is looking at emerging geographies like the West Asia, South Africa, Hong Kong and Singapore for large system integration (SI) deals, valued between $50 million and $100 million (Rs 230-460 crore), in the infrastructure management space.

HCL Tech eyes emerging markets for infra deals

India&rsquo;s second largest information technology services provider, Infosys, believes businesses in the US, including the government, will continue to favour global sourcing. This despite the increase in anti-outsourcing voices and a ban on it by the Ohio state government.

Hiring more locally, but outsourcing rhetoric has a limit, says Infosys

CA Technologies, a New York-based information technology management software and solutions company, with $4.35 billion revenues in 2009-10, has planned to hire another 900 personnel for its India Technology Centre (ITC) here over the next three to five years.

CA to hire 900 for India centre

AT&amp;T Inc, Sprint Nextel Corp and Verizon Wireless plan to sell a tablet computer from Samsung Electronics Co to rival the iPad, said three people familiar with the matter.

At&T, Sprint, Verizon said to plan Samsung tablet to rival iPad

EBay Inc, the owner of e-commerce sites and the PayPal payment service, plans to focus on exports and cross-border trades involving China, instead of competing in the domestic market, Chief Executive Officer John Donahoe said.

EBay to focus on cross-border China trades

From Google to Samsung, electronics and technology players are betting on web content delivered directly to TV sets.

Who will bring the next smart TV to living room?

It may no longer be the sexiest gadget on the block, but the Kindle isn&rsquo;t going away.

Uncool Kindle manages to thrive

There were days when a call used to cost Rs 16 a minute and an SMS Rs 5. Today, telecom service providers have shifted to per-second billing, and call rates have slipped from one paisa to half a paisa per second. So, while telecom providers are scratching the bottom with their tariff rates, handset market is evolving on its own. This is social revolution.

Socialisation of mobile phones

Having grown up in Baithania village of Bihar, Gyanesh Pandey knows how erratic electricity supply can be. Today, the 34-year-old, along with his friend Ratnesh Yadav, has found a way to generate electricity with rice husk. Husk Power Systems, founded by the duo in 2007, is helping power rural India with the use of biomass gasification technology to convert rice husk into combustible gases, which then drive a generator to produce clean electricity at affordable rates.

Electrifying India with rice husk

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