The country has comparatively fewer Internet connections but is the second-largest mobile market in the world after China. And, the Internet is being increasingly accessed on mobiles. India and China together account for over 1.2 billion mobiles of the 4.6 billion global mobile users.
Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh said India will forward its domestic goals on climate change as its action plan under the Copenhagen Accord to the Conference of Parties (COP) of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
Cloud computing is helping corporations create new, cost-effective business models
Technology major IBM has tied up with Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) in Delhi and Roorkee to jointly promote research in areas of common interest, like green technologies, energy-efficient computing and data mining.
Cybercriminals use their best schemes during the holidays to steal people's money, credit card information, social security number and identity. These thieves follow seasonal trends and create holiday-related websites, scams and other convincing emails that can trick even the most cautious users, according to Jeff Green, senior vice-president of McAfee Labs.
The National Green Tribunal Bill, 2009, will be tabled tomorrow in the Lok Sabha for discussion and on December 21 in the Rajya Sabha.
Inderpreet S Wadhwa, a former Silicon Valley serial entrepreneur, sets up India's first commercial solar power plant Awan, Amritsar.
The international climate change talks, which started in Copenhagen today, will see a 35-member official delegation from India. The attempt will be to negotiate a new global climate treaty to replace or extend the 1997 Kyoto Protocol beyond 2012.
Almost 50 per cent of all the 350 million-odd active users on the social networking site are members of regional networks. The world's largest social networking site, Facebook, has decided to rid itself of regional networks like India and China in a bid to tighten its privacy policy.
HCL BPO, the business process outsourcing arm of HCL Technologies, is scouting for acquisitions in the media, publishing and entertainment (MPE) segment to enable it to grow its pre-press, ad production and editorial services to print, online and other mediums.
Security analysts say they have already seen all of the major online threats - Trojan horses, viruses, worms - spreading on smartphones, often through email attachments sent to the phones.
Infosys, the country's second largest information technology exporter, plans to sharpen its focus on specific segments for select regions as part of its strategy for expansion and servicing of new markets.
The companies will have to secure a minimum of 400 points out of 1,000 to be able to participate in the rating system.
Soft drinks and foods major Pepsico India Holdings Pvt Ltd has applied to the Foreign Investment Promotion Board to invest an additional $200 million (around Rs 950 crore) as equity in its Indian operations.
Intel, the world's largest chipmaker, is understood to be in talks with leading Indian telecom companies like Tata Communications (formerly VSNL), Bharti Airtel and Reliance Communications that could bid for broadband wireless access spectrum to be auctioned by the government in January 2010.
Nasscom president Som Mittal shares his view on issues such as the rise in value of the rupee against the dollar, hiring trends and the role of IT in e-governance.
Most IT companies today have multiple delivery centres, physically verifying documents is arduous and difficult to determine where the actual billing is done
More doctors and healthcare professionals are joining management schools, turned away by the limited number of seats for a post-graduate course in medicine and the prospects of a better pay package after graduating from a B-school.
The Union Ministry of Human Resource Development has indicated that it may allow the premier Indian Institutes of Technology and Indian Institutes of Management to set up campuses in foreign countries once they improve their faculty positions.
Swarms of digital ants may soon crawl all over the Internet, scouting not for food, but computer worms and self-replicating programs designed to steal information or facilitate unauthorised use of machines. Security experts have successfully deployed a new type of network security software which mimics the habits of real-world ants.
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