Microsoft in association with Nasscom announced on Friday three teams of student innovators from India, of which one will compete at the worldwide finals of 'Imagine Cup' in August at Seoul, Korea for a prize money of $1,70,000 (about Rs 76,50,000).
The high court court on Thursday accepted Nokia's appeal to release its local factory after its seizure by authorities in a tax dispute, removing a hurdle for the sale of the company's mobile phone business to Microsoft.
About 50 per cent of respondents said they spent close to five hours on the Internet daily.
Nokia-Microsoft transfer deal transaction is now subject only to certain customary closing conditions.
Microsoft Corp is betting a mix of old and young blood will revive the aging technology pioneer, but new Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella may find it tough to push change with co-founder Bill Gates and former CEO Steve Ballmer breathing down his neck.
Mantras from a successful professional on how young Indians can become more successful and employable.
Congress is keen to deploy Microsoft display technologies that enable projection into any surface including walls to interact with rural masses from its headquarters in Delhi, a top official of the software giant's Indian entity said on Thursday.
Tata Consultancy Services Ltd and Microsoft were selected as strategic partners by Sino-India Cooperative Office of China to set up a software joint venture company for IT outsourcing services and solutions to both global and domestic market.
Software giant Microsoft's new operating system, Windows 7, will be available in the market by Christmas 2009, the company's chief executive officer Steve Ballmer said on Wednesday.
The device is being labelled as the phone for 'selfies and skype'.
The Redmond-based company had announced in January that it would axe 5,000 jobs globally amid the ongoing slowdown.
The decision to shut down the Chennai plant will reduce valuation of Nokia for Microsoft
IT Minister Dayanidhi Maran on Monday took a dig at software major Microsoft saying the poor computer adoption in India was due to the 'high priced' software, while the MNC claimed that it has already reduced the price of one of its entry level opera
A computer with NPU can handle a wide range of tasks directly on personal devices without relying on a Cloud service.
The estimated retail prices of Microsoft Office XP business suite in India would be lesser now by about 15 per cent following the company's decision to extend the price reductions for these products to Asia-Pacific countries.
In the first part of our series on Women's Day we present Chitra Sood, staffing director at the Microsoft India Development Center. Here are her thoughts on Women's Day, the secrets to her success and her advice to young girls just starting out on their careers.
As per Microsoft's work trend index report, most Indian employees felt that their employers are too demanding and their workload has increased significantly.
Gartner expects manufacturers like Samsung to launch a whole range of budget devices that will drive Android into mass market segments.
According to sources, Nadella will be visiting New Delhi on September 30 to take part in two events to be organised by Nasscom.
In the first major realignment of workforce since India-born Satya Nadella took over as CEO, Microsoft has announced slashing of up to 18,000 jobs worldwide by next year as the software giant attempts to sharpen focus on cloud and mobile offerings.
'Today's engineering graduates have to learn the skills to solve problems which is actually a higher order skill.'
Nokia Lumia 630 will soon be launched in India.
'To those who have just finished engineering or MCA or BSc, BBA, I will say they should take up whatever internship opportunities they are getting.' 'They should look for opportunities to learn the latest tools.' 'They should think innovative and try to solve problems. Only when you sharpen your skills, you will remain relevant.'
Microsoft on Thursday announced the roll-out of fourth round of funding under its 'Unlimited Potential - Project Jyoti' programme that seeks to impart IT skills in village communities to help them improve their earning potential.
The average salary received by students during campus placements for 2021-2022 was Rs 21.48 lakh per annum. The highest salary offered was $250,000.
Microsoft's new search engine, bing.com, automatically censors certain sex-related terms when the user's 'country location' is set as India.
World's largest e-tailer Amazon is evaluating setting up a data centre in India to tap into the multi-billion cloud opportunity in India.
Google is the most attracitve employer in India followed by Sony
Microsoft India Pvt Ltd would make available its office suites, including Office 2003 and Windows 2003, in all 14 Indian official languages in the next three years
Nokia said that due to an ongoing tax dispute with Indian authorities, it would operate the Chennai factory as a contract manufacturing unit for Microsoft.
Jeanne Sheldon, corporate vice-president (office authoring solutions), Microsoft talks about the vast opportunities of mobile business.
Linux has over 300 variants, of which the offerings from Red Hat and Novell are the most popular because the firms provide support and maintenance -- the OS is free.
