OnMobile appoints new CEO, posts huge loss

BANGALORE: OnMobile Global, the Bangalore-based provider of telecom value-added services (VAS), has appointed Rajiv Pancholy as CEO. This follows co-founder Mouli Raman's resignation as CEO announced earlier this month.Pancholy, an IIT-Delhi alumnus,...

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OnMobile appoints new CEO, suffers huge loss

BANGALORE: OnMobile Global, the Bangalore-based provider of telecom value-added services (VAS), has appointed Rajiv Pancholy as CEO. This follows co-founder Mouli Raman's resignation as CEO announced earlier this month.Pancholy, an IIT-Delhi alumnus,...

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Turkish telecoms watchdog says waiting on ruling to unblock YouTube

ISTANBUL: Turkish telecoms watchdog BTK said that it had not yet received a ruling by Turkey's top court ordering the removal of a two-month block on video-sharing website YouTube.The Constitutional Court earlier ruled that a block on access to YouTube...

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How book publishers can beat Amazon

— By Bob KohnAmazon has caused no small controversy of late by refusing to accept presale orders on books to be released by the publisher Hachette and by understocking Hachette's titles. These punitive maneuvers, which follow a dispute between Amazon...

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Right to be forgotten: Google gets 12,000 requests on first day

BERLIN: Google received 12,000 requests from people seeking to be "forgotten" by the world's leading search engine on the first day it offered the service, a company spokesman in Germany said Saturday.The requests, submitted on Friday, came after Google...

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The sad demise of projector phones

Mobile World Congress, February 2012: A Samsung marketing executive hops on stage in front of a group of tired tech journalists, and delivers the Next Big Thing to come from the depths of Samsung's R&D caverns: A chunky, sluggish version of Samusng's...

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Smartphones, tablets to boost online sales in Asia: Report

SINGAPORE: Smartphones and tablet computers are expected to boost online retail sales in the Asia-Pacific region to more than $400 billion a year by 2018, a report said Friday.As a result, retailers are increasingly adapting their websites to capitalise...

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How Google made driverless cars legal in the US

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA: About four years ago, the Google team trying to develop cars driven by computers — not people — became convinced that sooner than later, the technology would be ready for the masses. There was one big problem: Driverless cars...

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Infosys chairman assures employees that all is well

BANGALORE: Infosys executive chairman NR Narayana Murthy tried to boost the morale of employees by assuring them the best is yet to come and that the current search process for the first non-founder chief executive is going as per plans."The selection...

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The sad demise of projector phones

Mobile World Congress, February 2012: A Samsung marketing executive hops on stage in front of a group of tired tech journalists, and delivers the Next Big Thing to come from the depths of Samsung's R&D caverns: A chunky, sluggish version of Samusng's...

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Apple’s 2014 lineup better than last 25 years’: Eddy Cue

NEW DELHI: With Apple set to host its Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) on June 2, vice president Eddy Cue has said that the company's portfolio for 2014 is the best he has seen in the past 25 years.Speaking at the Code Conference technology gathering...

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Sandeep Dadlani internal favourite for Infosys CEO post

With the exit of top CEO contender BG Srinivas from Infosys, the spotlight is now on who could be the next CEO.People familiar with the development told ET NOW that Sandeep Dadlani is the front-runner for the CEO post among internal candidates. The other...

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An iPhone app for bird watchers

LONDON: Help is now in hand for the world's die hard bird watchers.Researchers have developed Birdsnap, a new iPhone app that is an electronic field guide featuring 500 of the most common bird species.The free app, developed by researchers at Columbia...

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BG Srinivas may join Infosys rival as CEO & MD

NEW DELHI: Infosys' latest high profile exit BG Srinivas may join another IT services firm as its chief executive officer (CEO) and managing director.Considered among the top contenders for the first non-founder CEO post at the company, Srinivas who...

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With Beats buy, Apple may be eyeing stylish wearables

NEW YORK: Beats Electronics' colorful, oversized headphones serve as a fashion accessory to cool kids riding the New York City subway, but as tech companies such as Apple, Samsung and others are discovering, wearable gadgets like smartwatches and Google...

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Infosys president and board member BG Srinivas resigns

NEW DELHI: Infosys has been hit by another high-profile exit as BG Srinivas, its president and board member, has put in his papers. The resignation is effective from June 10, 2014.Srinivas, along with UB Pravin Rao, was appointed as president of the...

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Nexus 8 with 64-bit chip coming on June 15: Report

Trace of a Nexus 8 recently popped up when a mysterious "flounder" device was spotted in some Google code. Now, tech website Myce has had another sighting of the fishy tablet, believed to be the Nexus 8.One of the spotted entries confirms that the device...

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Yahoo to debut YouTube rival this summer: AdAge

Just a week after reports claiming that Yahoo is in talks to buy video streaming startup RayV emerged online, a rumour has said that the company helmed by Marissa Mayer will launch a YouTube rival this summer.In order to make its upcoming video streaming...

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MTS offers to provide Wi-Fi services in Delhi Metro

NEW DELHI: After enabling Rapid Metro Rail trains with Wi-Fi internet service, Sistema Shyam Teleservices, which operates under MTS brand, has approached Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) for providing the facility to its commuters."We have successfully...

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Infosys president BG Srinivas resigns

BANGALORE: Infosys president and board member BG Srinivas has resigned from the company marking the eleventh top-level exit in the company since NR Narayana Murthy's return to the helm as executive chairman in June last year. Srinivas's sudden exit comes...

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L&T Infotech to soon join $1 billion club of mid-tier firms

BANGALORE: L&T Infotech, part of Mumbai-based infrastructure and engineering conglomerate Larsen and Toubro (L&T), would soon be joining the $1-billion club of mid-tier IT firms, said a senior executive of the company, adding that the company...

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Nokia to launch mobile security unit on June 1

NEW DELHI: Beefing up its security efforts, Finnish telecom equipment maker Nokia will launch a dedicated security unit that will act as its central office for security processes, partnerships and guide for developing product.The new unit will help ensure...

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Cert-In issues security warning against Internet Explorer 8

NEW DELHI: Cybersecurity sleuths have alerted Indian users against a "high" level virus activity in a select version of Microsoft's web browser Internet Explorer.The vulnerability, which once activated may compromise the privacy of a user's computer...

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Amazon strategy raises hackles in Germany

BERLIN: It was German authors, carefully monitoring their Amazon rankings, who were among the first to notice something was amiss.In a country where efficiency is prized as highly as the written word, Amazon was suddenly saying it could take as many...

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Apple supplier Renesas to sell display chip business to Synaptics: Sources

TOKYO: Renesas Electronics plans to sell its majority stake in a maker of iPhone display chips to Synaptics, another smartphone chip supplier, according to sources familiar with the matter. Apple had also been in talks about a possible purchase of the...

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EBay initially believed user data safe after cyberattack

BOSTON/SAN FRANCISCO: EBay Inc initially believed that its customers' data was safe as forensic investigators reviewed a network security breach discovered in early May and made public this week, a senior executive told Reuters. EBay has come under...

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Sony aims to expand PS 4 sales in network services drive

TOKYO: Sony aims to expand sales of its PlayStation 4 games console as the key driver of its fast-growing network and streaming services business, Chief Executive Kazuo Hirai said on Monday.Hirai said gaming was the one area where Sony would chase higher...

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Concentrix to invest $25 million in India over next 2 years

NEW DELHI: After completing acquisition of IBM Daksh, Concentrix is now focusing on strengthening its analytics and developer base in India with plans of investing up to $25 million (over Rs 146 crore) in the next 24 months."India is a very important...

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Tata Teleservices to use DoCoMo name for a year after split

MUMBAI: The Tatas have reached an understanding with NTT DoCo-Mo to use the Tata DoCoMo brand name for the GSM services offered by Tata Teleservices for at least a year after the Japanese company exits the telecom joint venture, people familiar with...

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Is Samsung working on a Moto E rival?

NEW DELHI: It's been a while since Samsung updated its entry-level smartphone line up. With Motorola's all-new Moto E hotting up competition in the segment, the South Korean giant Samsung too is reported to be all set to refresh its line-up.A Samsung...

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Samsung India mobile chief Vineet Taneja joins Micromax as CEO

NEW DELHI: Stepping up the battle in the Indian mobile handset market, homegrown firm Micromax has roped in Samsung India's mobile and IT business chief Vineet Taneja as its new chief executive officer. Micromax, the country's second largest smartphone...

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Samsung Gear 2 review: The second coming?

Samsung was one of the first mainstream device makers to jump into the smartwatch segment. It launched the Android-powered Galaxy Gear smartwatch as a companion device with its Galaxy Note 3 flagship phablet.The watch did not receive much favour among...

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Sony still a Walkman in an iPad age, say analysts

TOKYO: Sony's latest bid to halt years of losses and resuscitate its brand has provoked snorts of derision among analysts who say it falls a long way short.The criticism came after Sony president Kazuo Hirai on Thursday pledged to drag the electronics...

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