AT&amp;T Inc is considering an offer to divest a significantly larger portion of assets than it had initially expected, in order to salvage its $39 billion deal to buy T-Mobile USA, Bloomberg reported citing a person familiar with the plan.

AT&T to offer bigger asset sale to save T-Mobile deal: Report

Reuters 

Communications Minister Kapil Sibal will meet all stakeholders to diffuse the growing controversy over the issue of three leading incumbent operators, Bharti Airtel, Vodafone and Idea Cellular, offering 3G services without having spectrum in the circles, thus violating licence conditions.

3G spectrum row: Sibal talks tough, but will meet telcos

Business Standard

A website that sells just shoes and customises your footwear; another that sells eye-wear; and another that deals solely in financial products to help you put every penny to use. These are a few niche e-commerce portals that have sprung up and promise an expertise that offline retail cannot.

New click on the block

The iPhone 4S is here within a month of its launch in the US and is priced at Rs 44,500. While that&rsquo;s a steep price to pay for a smartphone, there are fans out there who cannot wait to own it. New Delhi-based financial planner, Rahul Kushwah, who has pre-booked the iPhone 4S with Airtel, says, &ldquo;I know I could have got it cheaper from the US or Singapore, but I needed an Indian warranty on my device as I am prone to dropping handsets. Devices bought internationally do not carry an international warranty and then they need to be repaired in grey markets.

Price doesn't matter

A handful of internet stars turn video views into pay cheques.

How content creators make money on YouTube

India&rsquo;s fledgling online stores are bracing up for the dollar deluge. The FDI floodgates have opened mega opportunities for not only brick-and-mortar retailers, but for their virtual peers as well. With the policy leg up, global players like Amazon, eBay and Alibaba are also expected to start shopping for Indian companies to step up operations.

Global players to shop as floodgates open

The slowdown clouds seem to have steered clear of the Indian Institutes of Technologies (IITs) this placement season. The premier engineering institutions are off to good final placements with IIT Bombay bagging the highest job offer so far from Microsoft for over Rs 52 lakh ($100,000) for a position at the company's head office in Washington.

IITs beat the slowdown blues

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) on Monday said rupee depreciation cannot be called a definitive trend. An &ldquo;exchange risk is something we have to bear&rdquo; it said. Also, the Mumbai-headquartered IT solutions company said it had yet to sense a major slowdown, even as it is keenly monitoring the current global situation.

Dip in rupee not a definitive trend: TCS

The department of telecommunications (DoT) will hold a meeting with leading service providers Bharti Airtel, Vodafone Essar and Idea Cellular to resolve the issue of third generation (3G) roaming agreements.

3G roaming pacts: Govt will talk to telcos

To satisfy our ever-growing need for computing power, many technology companies have moved their work to data centres, with tens of thousands of power-gobbling servers. Concentrated in one place, the servers produce enormous heat. The additional power needed for cooling them &mdash; up to half of the power used to run them &mdash; is the steep environmental price we pay to move data to the so-called cloud.

Turn on the server. It's cold inside

Datawind, which developed 'Aakash', the world's cheapest web access device, has said it would collaborate with students to develop software applications for its tablets. The Canada-based company has invited innovative software applications from students for incorporation in its devices.

Datawind to collaborate with students for software applications

One iPad isn&rsquo;t enough for Patrick Smith&rsquo;s family.

iPad-crazed toddlers to spur holiday sales

The depreciating rupee, coupled with the floods in Thailand, are expected to hit personal computer (PC) sales not only for the fourth quarter (October-December), but also during the next few quarters, according to industry analysts.

Thai floods, depreciating rupee to make PCs dearer

A computer programming language cannot be protected by copyright, the adviser to the EU's top court said today in an opinion that could affect the competitive IT industry.

Programming language can't be copyrighted: EU court

The European Union (EU) is set to change the way Facebook gathers users&rsquo; personal information to create targeted advertising. According to an Associated Press report, the EU wants to create a uniform law for data protection, updating laws put in place long before Facebook and other social networking sites existed.

Privacy comes under EU scanner

By mid-2012, vernacular domain names in all 22 Indian languages may secure the approval of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).

Soon, domain names in all 22 Indian languages

Facebook Inc is considering raising about $10 billion in an initial public offering (IPO) that would value the world&rsquo;s largest social-networking site at more than $100 billion, according to a person with knowledge of the matter.

IPO to value facebook at $100 bn

Facebook, the world's No.1 Internet social networking firm, has admitted to making a &quot;bunch of mistakes&quot; over privacy issues and vowed to better protect the data of its 800 million users after being pulled up by the US' top consumer protection agency.

Facebook to tighten privacy controls, settles case with FTC

Press Trust of India

Internet giant Yahoo Inc is hoping to strike a deal to sell a minority stake to a private-equity firm by year's end, a media report reported.

Yahoo eyes minority stake sale by year-end: report

Group buying websites, mostly launched in the last one year, plan aggressive expansion as they see record traffic for their offerings.

Group buying sites eye expansion

Cisco Systems Inc, the world&rsquo;s largest maker of networking equipment, said its first cash dividend ever will be 6 cents a share, aiming to give a boost to investors after the shares fell 35 per cent in the past year.

Cisco declares first-ever cash dividend as sales lag

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