People of Philadelphia turned out to be the most generous tippers, while those in Houston tend to eat out the most, acccording to the results of this year’s Google “America’s Top Restaurants Survey.” The survey, covering 1,822 restaurants in 46 U.S. cities and regions, also found the top-rated restaurants across the country. “Winners include perennial […]
1 REPORTABLE IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA CIVIL ORIGINAL JURISDICTION WRIT PETITION (C) No. 348 OF 2010 Centre for PIL & Anr. … Petitioner(s) versus Union of India & Anr. … Respondent(s) with Writ Petition (C) No. 355 of 2010 JUDGMENT S. H. KAPADIA, CJI Introduction 1. The two writ petitions filed in this […]
Worldwide enterprise IT spending is forecast to total $2.679 trillion in 2013, a 2.5 percent increase of projected 2012 spending, according to Gartner, Inc. Banking, communications, media and services (CMS) and manufacturing are expected to offer the largest volume of growth opportunities through 2016. However, given the overall economic uncertainty, the projection may have to […]
Idea, which was one of the four telecom operators to take advantage of the recent 2G spectrum auction to augment its holdings, said it would not have bought spectrum at such prices if it had not already sunk some money in. It said that it decided to shell out the high price for spectrum only […]
After delaying the move by five months on operator requests, the government of India has moved to cut down mobile tower radiation by 90%. According to a statement given in the Parliament, the government issued an order with effect from September that reduced the maximum power permitted for cellphone towers in the country by 90%. […]
Prashant Bhushan, noted lawyer and close associate of anti-corruption activist Arvind Kejriwal, today said the government had mistakenly appointed a person like Vinod Rai as the Comptroller & Auditor General (CAG) of India, and would not make such a mistake next time. Bhushan, who was answering questions about the new political party from Bangaloreans on […]
Even as the rest of IT spending remains more or less flat, cloud computing continues to maintain its scorching pace of growth, according to the latest numbers from Gartner. Revenue from platform as a service (PaaS) — where companies offer cloud platforms for others to develop and deploy their cloud applications — is set to […]
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India, which had called restricting the launch of TV news channels only to those firms that had assets of Rs 100 crore or more, reiterated its stand after the government said it favored Rs 15 crore as the bench-mark. In its comments on the government’s stand that the networth should […]
Google will hold an all-India ‘Doodle 4 Google’ competition for children in New Delhi in November this year. The event, open to children in the 5-16 age category, requires participants to send in their drawings of the Google logo by post by October 23. Google will also visit “a few hundred schools” in 40 cities […]
In a unique move, Milagrow HumanTech, which is more well known for its tablets, today dedicated its new human cleaning robot model to Saina Nehwal and promised to give a share of its sales from the model to the badminton star. Milagrow launched its range of household robots in January this year. The most popular […]
Kishore Biyani, the visionary businessman who founded Big Bazaar, India’s biggest supermarket chain, came out openly in support of foreign investment (FDI) in retail for the first time since it was permitted by the government a few days ago. Making his stand clear, Biyani said Indian companies would struggle to find the money required to […]
The net non-performing assets (NPAs) of the banking sector in India are increasing at an alarming rate and may cross Rs 2 lakh crore for the fiscal year ending March 2013 from Rs 1.57 lakh crore as in June, 2012, according to industry body ASSOCHAM. Besides, the continuing pressures on Indian economy may also result […]
IndianOil and Korea Gas Corporation (KOGAS) signed an MoU for joint participation in Exploration and Production of Gas and Oil at the global level and developing Natural Gas infrastructure projects and LNG sourcing. India is scouting for LNG to meet its growing domestic demand. It has constructed large gas transportation and distribution infrastructure, banking on […]
WishTel, famous for its IRA series of tablets, has announced what has to be the cheapest Android tablet in India with built-in 3G. The company said BSNL will launch the IRA ICON tablet, with a built-in BSNL 3G SIM, at about Rs 10,500. The specifications of the 7-inch ICON match almost exactly with those of […]
For the first time in one-and-a-half years, Ubuntu, the most popular open source operating system, will release a flavor that comes with Gnome – the most popular user interface in the open source world. Ubuntu switched Unity in April 2011 when it released the version 11.04. 18 months later, it is all set to unveil […]
The United States may be trying to isolate Iran commercially, but Assocham, one of India’s biggest trade bodies, is pushing for improvement in India’s trade with the country. The trade body has sent a 50 member delegation to the middle eastern country with the agenda of increasing Indo-Iranian trade. The delegation comprises industry heads from […]
Wikimedia, the non-profit behind Wikipedia, is holding a three-day developer camp in Bangalore from November 9. The camp is “a chance to participate and work alongside experts in development of PHP and JavaScript based internationalization and localization tools as well as mobile applications using Phonegap and LAMP technologies,” the organization said on the registration page. […]
Micromax has beaten biggies like Samsung and Apple in the Indian tablet market, numbers for the second quarter, compiled by CyberMedia Research found. It also found that tablet sales increased nearly eight fold 5.5 lakhs for the three months ended June. The number was up nearly 60% compared to the first quarter of the year […]
Bharti Airtel, which launched its 4G LTE broadband in Pune today, also introduced a new movie streaming service – Airtel Broadband TV, and a gaming service. Under Airtel Broadband TV service, 4 G customers can watch 76 channels live and various on-demand videos on their laptop or desktop by paying Rs 150 per month. The […]
As the deadline for the switch-off of analogue cable TV dawns nearer, Hathway cable has introduced a new packaging system to avoid any steep decline in its revenue. According to TRAI rules, consumers can simply unsubscribe from any channel they don’t want to watch, after digitization. This will not only lower the revenue of cable […]
