Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), an IT services, consulting and business solutions firm has launched iON an integrated information technology solution for Small and Medium Business (SMB) in Pune today. The company will mainly focus on the sectors like manufacturing, education, health care, retail and hospitality. TCS targets a business of Rs 4500 crore for next five years and 2000 plus customers for iON across India. Over 150 customers have signed up for iON in Pune.

TCS launches iON in Pune

Business Standard

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has postponed the implementation of new telemarketing guidelines, which was scheduled to be operational from March 21. This means, there will be no relief for consumers from pesky calls and messages in the near future.

No relief from pesky calls any time soon

India is among the top four nations across the globe where businesses use social media in some capacity or the other and the country is well ahead of emerging market peers China and Brazil in this regard, says a survey.

Indian bizz tap social media more than mature mkt peers

Press Trust of India

Hewlett Packard Co equipment worth more than $500,000 has been installed in computer rooms in Syria, underpinning a surveillance system being built to monitor e-mails and Internet use, according to documents from the deal and a person familiar with the installation.

HP computers underpin Syria surveillance

Targeting the domestic business process outsourcing market in India, BPO services provider Vertex Customer Services is expanding its presence in the country The UK-based company, which acquired the Mumbai-based BPO firm Shell Transource last year, expects its Indian revenues to cross $100 million by 2013 from $25-35 million at present. Vertex has presence across 11 cities in India, including Chennai, Hyderabad, Noida, Bangalore and Kolkata. The company is also planning to open four more centres in the next 12 months.

BPO firm Vertex ramping up India presence

Lakshman Sharma has been on Google+ since it was launched in July. Ask him how many times he logs on to the social networking site, and he says &ldquo;once in 2-3 days.&rdquo; Sharma, who mainly uses Google+ to follow celebrities like Shah Rukh Khan, and a few Hollywood stars reasons, &ldquo;It started with a lot of interest but then it dipped. Then it was open for all and got a lot of interest but went down.

Google+ continues to confuse users

Just prior to an important festival, the Future Bazaar website came under a vicious DDOS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack, which made it inaccessible for two to three days. For an online shopping site, which relies heavily on festive season to increase sales, this was the worst hit. However, FutureBaazar activated shopping via telephone.

Beware of the virus attack

A smartphone needs a smart operating system. Here&rsquo;s what you should keep in mind while getting yours.

The mobile operating system guide

A pet peeve of most Apple (iPad, iPhone) users or anyone with fixed in-built memory on their devices is the inability to connect to an external storage. But solutions are at hand. Here are a few.

When you fall short of storage

Canadian firm wants to develop mobile game for local tastes.

XMG Studio scouts for partner in India

Rajan Anandan, managing director and country head of Google India, has been inducted into the board of directors of the Advertising Standards Council of India (ASCI). The move comes at a time when ASCI, the advertising industry&rsquo;s self-regulatory body, is looking to strengthen the monitoring of online ads.

Google's Rajan Anandan inducted into ASCI board

Handset maker Motorola is back with the new version of its best-selling smartphone 'Razr', which is sleeker and more powerful than the earlier models.

Motorola launches flagship model Razr in new avatar

GSM operators added 7.12 million new subscribers in October, compared to 6.52 million additions in the previous month.

GSM operators add 7 mn subscribers in Oct

Having already employed 5,700 odd employees at its Chandigarh facility, Infosys Ltd is looking to further expand in the Northern region.

Infosys plans to expand in Northern region

Massachusetts, USA-headquartered Dassault Syst&egrave;mes SolidWorks Corp., founded in 1993, is a player in 3D software tools that can be used in creating, simulating, publishing and managing data. Pravda Godbole spoke to Bertrand Sicot, the company&rsquo;s CEO, about one of the company&rsquo;s focus areas &mdash; Indian small and medium enterprises.

Q&A: Bertrand Sicot, Dassault Systemes SolidWorks Corp

Wapr, a business-to-business (B2B) collaboration platform created by Core Software, a Hyderabad-based web development outsourcing company, enables just that. Wapr gives SMEs a platform that helps keep everyone up-to-date in real-time.

Core Software creates B2B platform for SMEs 

IT finishing school, 3Edge Solutions, is all set to launch a specialised training programme on mobility and cloud computing shortly to meet the demand for these emerging technologies, according to Prashanth Reddy, director.

3Edge Solutions to launch training course on mobility, cloud 

Information technology (IT) spending in India is projected to touch $79.8 billion in 2012, a 9.1 per cent rise over the spending of $73.1 billion in 2011, according to Gartner.

India's IT spend to hit $79.8 bn in 2012

Telecom operators Bharti Airtel, Vodafone Essar, Idea Cellular and Tata Teleservices have demanded 3G licence fees be returned, if intra-circle roaming pacts are considered illegal.

Return licence fees if roaming pacts are illegal: Top telcos to DoT

Cloth and metal badges have long been worn by boy scouts, soldiers and others to show off their accomplishments.

Now, digital badges for job hunters

Mobile handsets market in India is likely to increase 8.5% to 231 million units in 2012, compared to 213 million units expected this year, research firm Gartner said today.

Cellphone sales to reach 231 mn units in 2012: Gartner

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