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Bharti Airtel added 2.01 million users, highest in April, taking its total subscriber base to 183.29 million.
Bharti Airtel added 2.01 million users, highest in April, taking its total subscriber base to 183.29 million.

GSM operators add 6.5 m users in April

GSM telecom operators added 6.5 million subscribers in April, taking the total user base to 670.57 million.The GSM subscriber base was 664.08 million in March.Leading telecom operato... »

Telecom Commission asks TRAI for analysis on 2G pricing

The Telecom Commission has asked the TRAI to give an analysis of the impact of the proposed spectrum pricing on the industry. Once the TRAI gives its analysis, the Empowered Group of Min... »

Smartphones push not to curb PC demand

Indians are increasingly taking to smart phones rather than PCs. However, PC makers are doing all they can to boost sales, considering PC penetration is low in India and it is the... »

A4 printer sales post flat growth in Jan-March

Weaker macroeconomic outlook and impact on hard disk drive supply chain led to just 0.4 per cent growth in overall A4 printer sales in India during January-March 2012. The overall A4 pri... »

Subramanian Swamy to file additional complaint in Aircel-Maxis deal

Janata Party President, Dr Subramanian Swamy, today told a Delhi court hearing the 2G spectrum case that he will file a private complaint in the case relating to Aircel-Maxis deal. He tol... »

No clarity on number of 2G licences to be cancelled

Is it 122 or 141 or 163? There is still no clarity on the actual number of 2G licences to be cancelled after the Supreme Court's order. While a section of the Government thinks it... »

TRAI withdraws complaints

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India today withdrew its complaint against three major telecom players – Bharti Airtel, Idea Cellular and Loop Mobiles – for violation of its regulations from a... »

Sony to swipe feature phones off India radar

Mr P. Balaji Sony Mobiles has decided to phase out its feature phones in India by September. Its focus will be on the smartphone segment only. Accordingly, it recently launched three new Xperia handsets (its s... »

Lenovo tops PC imports in Q1

Lenovo recorded the highest PC shipments in the first quarter of 2012, aided by a large order from the Tamil Nadu Government. Lenovo's PC shipments grew 64 per cent in the first q... »

2G case: Essar group, Loop Telecom promoters get bail

Charges were today framed against Mr Ravi Ruia and Mr Anshuman Ruia, promoters of Essar Group, and Mr Kiran Khaitan and Mr I. P. Khaitan, promoters of Loop Telecom, by a special court hearing the... »

Frost & Sullivan's gesture

Consulting firm Frost and Sullivan gave away 30 computers to six institutions that work on social improvement on Thursday. According to a release, the company, in association with Bengal... »

Subex consolidated net dips 36%

Subex reported a 36.76 per cent fall in consolidated net profit due to FCCB woes and a slowdown in the telecom market. The company has two tranches of FCCBs outstanding totalling $94 mil... »

Motorola India to go solo after Google buy

Motorola, whose mobility business was fully acquired by Google two days ago, said its mobility business will run as a separate company in India. “Motorola has a long-standing presence in... »

Microsoft holds hackathon before its Windows 8 launch

Microsoft CEO, Mr Steve Ballmer. Ms Monica Ahuja is one of the 200-250 developers who travelled to Mumbai to participate in the two-day hackathon organised by Microsoft. With Microsoft geared to launch Windows 8 later t... »

Kaspersky warns against new bot targeting Windows, Mac OS

Security experts at Kaspersky Lab noted that the first quarter of 2012 started with a bang after a quiet 2011, because botmasters failed to come up with anything new last year. But in the first th... »

SAIB selects iCreate's Biz$core

Hinduja Global posts flat profit growth

Bharti Airtel buys 49% in Qualcomm’s broadband venture for $165 million

HP to cut 27,000 jobs in 2 yrs to shore up earnings

Hacker gets jail term in Armenia

EMC buys cloud-based Syncplicity

Uncertainty in Euro Zone, a worry for IT firms: Tech Mahindra

Sify unveils high-definition video conference solution

EGoM to take final call on spectrum reserve price

The Department of Telecommunications Secretary has said that the Empowered Group of Ministers will take a final call on the reserve price of spectrum. It said that EGoM will take a decisi... »

Ministries object to proposals in new telecom policy

The Telecom Ministry's plans for a new telecom policy have hit a roadblock with a number of other Ministries raising objections to various proposals. While the Commerce Ministry has rais... »

‘Taiwanese City' to come up near Bangalore

The next iPad could be built out of Karnataka. Taiwanese companies are planning to set up their electronics hardware manufacturing plants in the state. Taiwanese companies and investors... »

Advantage AP to promote small, medium IT companies

Andhra Pradesh will be positioned as one of the leading intellectual capitals of the world by nurturing entrepreneurship, research and innovation, to achieve global excellence in IT produc... »

IMI Mobile wins award

IMImobile, a mobile data solutions provider, has won the multimedia content management solution of the year at the Cloud Africa Awards event hosted in Johannesburg. The Hyderabad-based co... »

Telecom Commission wants more slots of spectrum auctioned; hope for new players

The Telecom Commission wants more slots of spectrum to be auctioned. The Commission, which met on Thursday, has decided to make available at least 10 Mhz of 2G spectrum for auction. This... »

Karnataka clears Infosys' Rs 600-cr SEZ project

IT major Infosys will set up its second biggest facility worth nearly Rs 600 crore in Bangalore after it received necessary clearances from the Karnataka Government. The new facility will... »

Make work mobile with Google Docs

These days, we carry our work home, almost literally. The growing phenomenon of storing ‘data' in the Cloud has almost made it natural for us to continue what we might have trailed off with at off... »

‘Searching' to answer Google, Yahoo comes up with Axis

As it announces global layoffs, Yahoo! seems to have begun fresh efforts to catch the imagination of the youth and leisure segments by enhancing the search experience. Its other target is those ac... »

Move to bring PowerGrid under unified telecom licensing opposed

The Power Ministry has raised objections to bringing PowerGrid Corporation of India under Department of Telecom's new unified licensing regime. The Ministry has said that the proposed move will me... »

Court asks plaintiff to tell ways to serve summons to Web sites

Wipro’s Mission10X bags award

Riverbed gets Frost & Sullivan award

UBM launches Cloud Connect India

Anand Sharma opposes TRAI's 2G proposals

Tech majors looking to fund startups

Small cities, new targets for cyber attacks

‘Look for potential buys in Europe'

Mr Hans-Paul Bürkner In spite of the current crisis scenario in the Euro Zone, it is unwise for Indian companies to ignore Europe, says Mr Hans-Paul Bürkner, president and chief executive officer of the Boston Consulting Group (www.bcg.com). »
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