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

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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

Press Trust of India

Jaxtr, set up by Hotmail co-founder Sabeer Bhatia and Yogesh Patel, today announced the launch of JaxtrSMS, an open texting application which allows users to send free SMSes across the world.

Hotmail co-founder launches free SMS app JaxtrSMS

Nokia Siemens Networks, the unprofitable telephone-equipment venture of Nokia Oyj and Siemens AG, would cut 17,000 jobs worldwide in its biggest cull to narrow the gap behind market leader Ericsson AB.

Nokia Siemens to cut 17k jobs to save $1.3 bn

Reiterate demand for refund of auction money if roaming pacts illegal.

Top telcos protest to PM on 3G roaming

Revving up competition in the online video space, internet company Yahoo! India today launched free online service, &lsquo;Yahoo! Video&rsquo;.

Yahoo! India launches free video service 

The public relations industry has decided it may be a good time for, well, a public relations initiative.

Public relations in the age of social media

IT biggies are publicising industry ratings to add sheen to their brand value. But there is a flip side, too.

Rankings as branding tool

Sabeer Bhatia is back at doing what he does best &mdash; being an entrepreneur. His latest offering plans to capture fast-growing mobile users across the globe. JaxtrSMS, co-founded by Bhatia and Yogesh Patel, is an application that allows users to send text messages for free anywhere in the world. It took Bhatia and a team of 50 people over a year to come out with the latest offering. While Bhatia has announced three more ventures &mdash; Arzoo, Instacoll and SabseBol &mdash; after Hotmail, JaxtrSMS would see him back at the helm as a chief executive officer. In an interview with Shivani Shinde, he talks about his second entrepreneurial stint and the dotcom scenario.

Q&A: Sabeer Bhatia, CEO, JaxtrSMS

Jaxtr Inc, founded by Sabeer Bhatia and Yogesh Patel, on Tuesday announced the launch of JaxtrSMS, a cross-platform, open texting application to send SMSs to anyone in the world for free. By the end of this year, the company expects to have 100 million subscribers and 600 million users by the end of next year.

Free SMS: the next big play for Hotmail founder

Nokia Siemens Networks said it was unable to specify the number of employees in India who would be affected by the job cuts. In response to a query by Business Standard, the company said it was still in the planning and consultation phase.

Nokia Siemens yet to decide on India headcount cut

In order to provide timely medical advice to people living in rural, semi urban and even urban areas in Northern region, Bharti Airtel has joined hands with Healthfore (a division of Religare Technologies Ltd), with Fortis Hospitals as knowledge partner -- to launch Mediphone.

Airtel launches Mediphone for North subscribers

As stock markets continue on their roller-coaster ride, even investors who profess to be buy-and-hold types have become eager users of mobile technology that allows them to track their portfolios almost on a minute-by-minute basis.

With applications, wealth management goes mobile

At a time when downloading and sharing user-generated and user-uploaded contents is the trend, Yahoo! India came up with a premium licensed video destination. Strictly featuring licensed contents, the free online platform is expected to change the video-viewing pattern of Indian netizens expected to help Yahoo! secure the ad revenues it was eyeing in India.

Q&A: Arun Tadanki, MD, Yahoo! India

Canadian firm Research In Motion (RIM) today announced the launch of three new handsets based on its BlackBerry 7 operating system in the country.

RIM launches three BlackBerry 7 smartphones in India

Google will run a bus across West Bengal from tomorrow to familiarise people with the importance and usage of the internet.

Google's internet bus to begin Bengal journey

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