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

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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

Rajiv Kaul, former Microsoft India chief executive and now heading CMS Info Systems, majority owned by Blackstone (the private equity investor), feels the company&rsquo;s revenue will grow by 20 per cent for 2010-11, after a tough year. The company expects to close FY11 with revenue of Rs 800-850 crore.

Blackstone investee CMS Info Systems to scale up business

HCL Infosystems Ltd, India&rsquo;s premier hardware, services and ICT System Integration Company, today announced awarding of the Rs 100-crore Re-structured Accelerated Power Development and Reform Programmme (RAPDRP) order from the Himachal Pradesh State Electricity Board (HPSEB) to the company.

HCL Infosystems awarded Rs 100-cr Himachal project

Tata Teleservices crossed the 75-million subscriber milestone to become the fourth largest telecom operator in the country. Airtel, Vodafone and Reliance have over 100 million wireless subscribers.

Tata Tele becomes 4th largest operator

US-based CDC Software is in talks to acquire the promoters&rsquo; stake in Bangalore-based information technology (IT) services and solutions company Sonata Software.

CDC Software eyes promoters' stake in Sonata Software

CAD, CAM, CAE and product life cycle management solutions provider DesignTech Systems Ltd is set to offer&nbsp;AutoCAD, Autodesk Inventor and Autodesk Manufacturing solutions to small and medium enterprise (SME) segment in India.

DesignTech to offer manufacturing solutions to SMEs in India

India&rsquo;s largest IT services provider, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), is investing Rs 1,000 crore to set up a training campus in Kerala housing 10,000 professionals. Construction will commence in 2011-12 and be completed in three years. TCS is the second IT firm to set up such a facility after Bangalore-based Infosys Technologies inaugurated its campus in Mysore last year.

TCS to invest Rs 1,000 crore in Kerala training campus

British telecom major Vodafone today petitioned the Supreme Court against the recent Bombay High Court verdict on its dispute with the Income Tax (I-T) Department.

Vodafone challenges tax verdict in SC

Gurgaon-based Broadband networks provider Hughes Communications India Limited, a majority-owned subsidiary of Hughes Network Systems Inc, inaugurated its third India satellite hub in Hyderabad on Wednesday.

Hughes sets up satellite hub in Hyderabad

Virgin Mobile India has extended its presence to Gujarat with the launch of its GSM services in the state.

Virgin Mobile launches GSM services in Gujarat

Five IT companies have received permission to set up offices in various IT special economic zones in Andhra Pradesh.

5 IT firms to set up offices in SEZs

Nasscom on Wednesday said that the protectionist moves in the US were &lsquo;disturbing&rsquo; even though it might not have an immediate impact on India&rsquo;s information technology (IT) industry. The industry body, however, said that the talk by US President Barack Obama to increase spending on research and development (R&amp;D) was expected to create a positive impact in terms of creating employment opportunities there, which will be helpful for the IT industry as well.

'Protectionism in US disturbing'

At a time when the telecom ministry is mulling a bailout package for new telecom players, a new entrant, Sistema Shyam TeleServices (SSTL), posted a net loss of $106.6 million (Rs 493 crore) for the second quarter. Its net loss in the corresponding quarter last year was lower at $22.9 million (Rs 106 crore).

Sistema Shyam net loss swells to Rs 493 cr

With unique users of Internet on mobile handsets growing at a rate of 354.6 per cent annually in India, leading mobile web browsing provider, Opera Software is planning to partner with more mobile handset manufacturers for in-built Opera mobile web browser.

Opera Software in talks with mobile handset manufacturers for browsing

The US government is going full throttle against outsourcing, but the small enterprises and individual entrepreneurs have a different story to tell.

Freelance Online work gains traction

Two years ago, after the&nbsp; country&rsquo;s leading CDMA operators &mdash; Reliance and Tata Teleservices &mdash; decided to hedge their bets by climbing aboard the GSM technology bandwagon, analysts wrote the epitaph for US telecom giant Qualcomm and its domination of CDMA technology.

Qualcomm is sending out strong signals

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