The declining prices of mobile handsets and low connectivity costs have helped in doubling Internet access through cellphones this year.
The Essar group firm is in talks with 7-10 companies for a "strategic fit", as it races to become a $500 million company by 2010. In some of these cases the due diligence process is in progress. Aegis is looking at firms in the US, South America and the Philippines.
Consider these numbers. The latest figures from the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India reveal that the number of Indians using their mobiles to logon to the internet has increased from 16 million in 2006 to 38 million in 2007 (both GSM and CDMA).
If you earn enough to afford a smart PC-cum-TV, you'd probably go for this one. The guts of the HP TouchSmart IQ770 are laptop-like components that have been custom-fitted into a compact desktop unit. The base unit houses an Asus motherboard built around an Nvidia GeForce Go 6100 chipset, a dual-core AMD Turion 64 processor running at 1.6GHz, 2GB of dual-channel DDR 2 memory (a realistic amount to run the full version of Vista).
Samsung India, which claims to be number two in India, is planning to get into Blackberry's shoes. The company is expected to officially announce the launch of two handsets, one a touchscreen and another slider phone, in the business phone segment.
Having graduated from the days when his Windows machine gave up mid-presentation, Ajay Adiseshann, managing director and founder, PayMate, has found true love in Apple iPod and iPhone.
Players such as Net4, Sify and Worldphone Internet Services are offering International long distance (ILD) calls that work out to less than a rupee a minute by using a technology called Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP). Around 80 million minutes worth of calls are made via VoIP every month (legally), according to Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI).
Canon's Digital IXUS series - the premium-priced ultra-compacts - and now, the current models in the PowerShot S-series for the "family" are bound to give Kodak, Nikon, Fuji and Pentax products a tough time this season.
If real life isn't good enough, try reincarnation into a Second Life.
The cellphone giant is slowly turning into an Internet services firm.
A gaming summit is being organised by IAMAI in Mumbai today.
There's no end to what designers can do to mobile phones. Here's a look at some unique phones that are likely to hit the market next year, and do their owners proud.
The latest N-Series launch from Nokia - the N81 - is an entertainment powerhouse.
The effects of the sub-prime crisis and the resultant slowdown of the US market is evident on the margins of Indian information technology (IT) and IT-enabled Services (ITeS) firms. Business process outsourcing (BPO) firms such as Firstsource, Pune-based HOV Services, Zenta, Aegis BPO and others have been receiving inquiries from existing as well as new customers for ramping up their account receivables management (ARM) business.
Gregory Wade, vice-president (customer accounts), RIM, spoke to Business Standard about how the company is planning to fight the challenges as rivals offer similar devices across price segments.
Players in the Indian animation industry, who primarily cater to movie studios in the US, are increasingly looking at the domestic market, especially after the commercial success of animated movie Hanuman. Of the total revenues generated by the Indian studios, approximately 70 per cent comes from outsourced work.
Messaging services are becoming increasingly vulnerable to fraudulent attacks called smishing
As Adobe inches towards the $3 billion revenue mark, a new Indian-born CEO, Shantanu Narayen, replaces Bruce Chizen. He will be joining Adobe's board of directors on December 1 this year.
Sony has added an Vaio CR - Apple MacBook-like notebook - to its Vaio line of notebooks. It promises to be functional, faster and more appealing than its predecessors.
With the rupee going from strength to strength and attrition a continuing concern for Indian business process outsourcing companies, the new poster child of private equity investors is witnessing adjustments in valuations in the changed scenario.
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