Three years ago, when digital media entertainment firm Hungama decided to expand its operations, Chief Information Officer Manan Chhatrapati felt cloud computing was the best option. This, even at a time when there were hardly any vendors in India offering these services. “We were in the process of launching new products and services, for which [...]
Mahesh Verma, a sales manager, often has to park his car at odd places. He has installed an alarm in his car. However, even if the motion sensors detect an intruder and start beeping, he would not be anywhere close to hear it. There are countless executives like Verma who encounter similar situations. Some have [...]
Voice-control is a feature that not many of us use on our smartphones (available in iPhones & iPads, BlackBerry, Nokia and Android smartphones). But, app developers have taken the voice function a step ahead with voice-activated apps — facilitating hands-free computing. It takes time to masters the commands, but once you are familiar with the [...]
The Home Affairs Committee of the House of Commons has asked Indian IT major HCL Technologies to provide information about its relationship with Rupert Murdoch’s News International, which has been the focus of the phone-hacking controversy in Britain. Keith Vaz, chairman of the committee that has been in the forefront of investigating the phone-hacking issue, [...]
Engineering export body EEPC India has registered a growth of 54 per cent during the 10 month period of 2010-11 (April-January) to USD 215 million over the corresponding period last year. The potential of export of engineering goods to Canada is enormous as its 33 per cent of engineering imports are outside the Nafta bloc [...]
This is against Rs 5.29 crore in the same period last year, Nucleus said in a statement. Net income also dipped 2.82 per cent to Rs 64.27 crore in the reported quarter from Rs 66.14 crore in Q1 FY’11. “We have enriched our portfolio of services and products during our operations in the last 25 [...]
Second quarter guidance disappoints, but the big deals are back. WiproIn the midst of all the noise surrounding performance of India’s top software services companies, Wipro’s commentary on the business environment makes far more sense than its quarterly numbers. The company has set the record straight by stating: “As IT budgets come under pressure, businesses [...]
Opera Software and UTV Indiagames plan to offer gaming content on Opera Mini browsers, which are optimised for surfing on cellphones. Starting this month, Opera Mini browsers will sport a UTV Indiagames icon that would allow users a one-click access to play games—from puzzles to action and strategy. Existing users, however, would have to upgrade [...]
With over three million Indian users on Google+, the site is fast becoming the new rage with the social networking crowd. However, Beware! Security solutions provider, Kaspersky Lab has warned Internet users of targeted attacks on the social networking site. Even Experian data suggest that social media in India reaches out to 60 per cent [...]
A Chinese city government website says local trade officials have found five fakeApple stores in a southwestern city. The Kunming government website says authorities in the city inYunnan province took action against two of the stores, which were found to be operating without a business license. It says officials couldn’t do anything about the other [...]