Nasscom receives 4,000 applications for start-up programme

As part of the recently launched '10,000 Start-ups' programme, National Association of Software and Services Companies (Nasscom) recently released insights on the tech entrepreneurial landscape announcing the receipt of 4,000 applications for angel funding and acceleration. Nasscom had started inviting applications for the 10,000 start-ups...

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Google patents photo-capturing walking stick

Google has got its new invention, a walking stick that takes pictures whenever it hits the ground, patented.  According to the patent text, the stick has a sensor that provides location info about the elongated member's position, Discovery News reported.  According to Geekwire, a patent application sketch shows the camera...

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Life is awesome at Google: Rajan Anandan

At Google India, Rajan Anandan is on a roller-coaster high that does not have any dips. But in his firm, the don'ts are more clearly defined than the dos. For the India head, silo worship, long drawn-out meetings and hierarchy are strictly off-limits at Google. And as for the dos, the Googlers have to just think 100-fold bigger and the...

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How to make your feature phone a smartphone

An Israeli technology company has developed a methodold or outdated phones can run apps available only on smartphones. The system developed by the VascoDe company allows users to obtain apps with the firm's cloud-based system that requires no downloads and uses the text-based Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD), similar...

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IT companies gear up to fake interview calls

Fake job interview letters and agents claiming to be working on behalf of companies to hire people have become a menace again, and those looking for jobs should watch out. It's expected to get particularly bad this year with fewer jobs on offer and many more students passing out of colleges. Intel India has just filed a police complaint...

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I want Intel to be known for best in class ops

Kumud Srinivasan of Intel India does not play the gender card. She has a clear roadmap chalked ahead for the company and aims to pump up the engineering muscle for India operations. When did you realize joining Intel was the right decision? This was right after I joined the company. I was called for a meeting and saw that a lot...

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Startup City- Asia‘s Largest Event for Startups Held in Bangalore

Startup City, Asia's largest startup event culminated in Bangalore on June 22, 2013. The event which gave budding entrepreneurs a rare opportunity to explore new and upcoming genres of idea implementation was a roaring success. The 14th edition of startup city was an enriching experience for entrepreneurs. It aimed at helping them...

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Dell India goes the Solar Way at its Whitefield Campus in Bangalore

Installs a Solar Photovoltaic (PV) Grid Connected System targeting a reduction of 54.9 tons of CO2-equivalent per year Becomes the second Dell campus globally and the first in the Asia Pacific & Japan (APJ) region to deploy a solar PV system 22.6% of Dell’s global electricity came renewable sources in FY13 Reinforcing...

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Sony: Smartphones second-fastest growing category

Japanese consumer electronics giant Sony will focus on increasing penetration in the Indian mobile phone market to tap the potential of the segment, which has become its "next most emerging category." "TV is the biggest category for Sony India but the next most emerging category is mobiles. The current share of mobile phone is around...

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Soon, smartphones to warn you of impending heart attack

A new smartphone being developed is set to revolutionize the way we manage healthcare by warning people of impending heart attack.  Nano-thin silicon heart-and blood-monitoring "tattoos" on people's arms, which will send a signal to a smartphone if the data indicates a health problem are the basis of the new technology, Stuff.co.nz...

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Oracle‘s Q4 miss highlight fears about cloud missteps

"What the hell is cloud computing?" Oracle chief executive Larry Ellison said during a diatribe against the whole concept at an investor Q&A in 2008.  Asked to describe his strategy for expanding into a then-small but rapidly expanding sphere, the software giant's head said he had no idea what people were talking about when...

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Apple, Microsoft‘s tax strategy in India

It's a company that earned $30 billion in profits over three years, but effectively resided nowhere, filed no income tax return, and paid no tax to any government for five years.  Tax planners and tax consultants have a name for that $30 billion in profits and it's a term that sums up perfectly both the aim of those who set up...

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