• iGate faces probe on any violation of Federal securities law

  The US-based outsourcing firm iGate is being investigated by a law firm to ascertain whether the company and its employees violated federal securities ...

• ‘Anti-India’ provisions remain in immigration bill

  Indian IT companies , remains in place despite a last minute deal reached between key Senators on certain provisions of the immigration bill. Continued presence of such a problematic provision in the bill, which was passed by a key Senate panel yesterday, industry sources said that it would not only badly hit Indian IT companies, but also disrupt operational capabilities of a large number of key ...

• Google Company is doing right thing on tax

  Google boss Eric Schmidt insisted that his company was trying to do the "right thing" as it faces criticism in Britain over the amount of tax it ...

• Why Kim Dotcom wants to sue Twitter Google Facebook

  Kim Dotcom said that he was considering taking legal action against tech giants such as Twitter, Google and Facebook for infringing copyright on a security measure he ...

• Higher import duties on tablets to continue Finance Ministry

  A tablet is a tablet and not a phone even if it allows for phone calls and shall face higher rate of import duty levied on computing devices, says the finance ...

• Jennifer Lopez to launch chain of cellphone stores

  cellphone stores and a website under the Viva Movil brand. The aim is to sell Verizon phones and services to Latinos. The first store will open in New York on June 15, with others following in Los Angeles and Miami. The stores will have bilingual staff and provide a "culturally relevant shopping experience,'' Viva Movil said. Viva Movil will be an authorized Verizon reseller, with ...

• Shazam overhauls iPad app as music market heats up

  Shazam's existing song-identification app is already popular, with 300 million global users. The update released on Thursday revamps the app's old features, and includes a slate of new ones focused on location data, popular tracks, social media options and faster tagging. Some of those features are available on a new iPhone app as well, but Android users will have to ...

• New startups prime targets for cyberattacks

  Cyberattackers can sniff out new businesses to target as quickly as two months after they come into existence, according to a new report from cybersecurity ...

• Amazon’s Urban Biospheres Give New Meaning to ‘Tech Bubble’

  In today's business world, disruption is a constant force that never lets up. At the annual WIRED Business Conference: Disruptive by Design, we celebrate the creative power of bold new ideas and the people that make them happen. See the event ...

• HTC and Samsung report strong flagship shipments

  Android phones are flying off the shelves, leaving the competition in a cloud of dust. Samsung has managed to ship 10 million Galaxy S4s over the last month or so, making the S4 the fastest selling Samsung phone of all time. It easily trumps the S III, which took 50 days to hit the 10 million milestone, and the S II, which took five months. It is an impressive result to say the least, although ...

• Dont fear floating space brains

  there are physicists who claim that there is good evidence that a legion of floating space brains are not spontaneously bursting into existence throughout the universe. For the last decade it was postulated that space might be full of floating brains, which were dubbed Boltzmann brains. The idea was that since space was jolly big, there was a likelihood that consciousness big enough to form a ...

• Smartphone biz gets a taste of identity politics courtesy of JLo

  Viva Movil , a self-styled "premium retailer" for Verizon Wireless products and services targeting Latino consumers. "As an entrepreneur, empowering the Latino community is at the core of what I choose to have my businesses stand for and exemplify," Lopez said during her presentation to the CTIA audience. She added that Latino smartphone customers don't have any ...

• Jennifer Lopez spills on new Viva Movil shopping experience

  (Credit: Kent German/CNET) LAS VEGAS--Jennifer Lopez and Verizon Wireless made a little noise on Wednesday after they unveiled a partnership to create a Latino-centric shopping ...

• Siri competitor Sherpa goes after Google Glass

  promises a better experience than Apple's Siri , plans to beat Google at its own game on Google Glass. Sherpa CEO and co-founder Xabier Uribe-Etxebarria unveiled the company's plans for the new app on Thursday in Spain, at ...

• HP sees profits fall 32 percent as Lenovos profits rise 84 percent

  HP reported a 32 percent drop in second quarter fiscal 2013 profits to $1.1bn, while rival PC maker Lenovo saw its profits rise 84 percent to $124m. HP's position as the largest PC maker has been under threat for some time from Lenovo and the two firms released contrasting quarterly financials. HP saw its revenues and profits fall by 10 percent to $27.6bn and 32 percent to $1.1bn, ...

• Crimes against design Gallerys bad taste exhibition

  Hamburg will be showcasing some of the most questionable items ever to be created in its exhibition 'Evil Things: An Encyclopaedia of Bad Taste'.The idea for the exhibition was conceived by the Museum der Dinge (Museum of Things) in Berlin and uses art historian, Gustav E. Pazaurek's system to categorise bad taste.Pazaurek devised his classification system for bad taste over a ...

• Gadgetwise Blog Tip of the Week Touring the Library of Congress Digital Collections

  Gadgetwise is a blog about everything related to buying and using tech products. From figuring out which gadget to buy and how to get the best deal on it to configuring it once it’s out of the box, Gadgetwise offers a mix of information, analysis and opinion to help you get the most out of your personal ...

• Intl data protection forum focuses on cybercrime

  An international data protection forum that started in Vladivostok Thursday will focus on cybercrime and other computer issues.Other topics to be discussed at the Positive Hack Days Vladivostok forum include the safety of mission-critical information systems, government and corporate security in the era of WikiLeaks, cyber war and cyber espionage.The forum gathered 1,500 people, including ...

• Panel clears cold fusion device

  has released a paper confirming that a device made by a secretive Italian might be cold fusion. The paper, penned by a team of independent scientists, has yet to receive a peer review, but appears to suggest that Andrea Rossi's cold fusion device might be the business. The cold fusion device being tested has roughly 10,000 times the energy density and 1,000 times the power density of ...

• HP starts to improve

  HP to turn the outfit around is starting to work. The maker of expensive printer ink raised its 2013 earnings outlook after quarterly results beat low expectations. Analysts believe that Whitman's turnaround plan helped offset falling PC sales by boosting enterprise computing services. It was not all good news, in fact, if the company had not been in Dire Straits playing back up for Mark ...

• Paul Allen cuts an album

  Microsoft Paul Allen has not done a lot with his life. He has been a philanthropist, inventor, investor, cancer survivor and author. Yesterday he tweeted that he is going to become a recording artist and put out an album. Allen shared ...

• Lenovo reports record shipments market share

  it off again. Although most PC peddlers are in the red, the company reported record PC shipments, annual sales, global market share and annual pre-tax income. In its fiscal fourth quarter, ending 31 March, Lenovo reported sales of $34 billion, up 15 percent year-on-year, as well as a record full-year pre tax income of $801 million, up 38 percent over the previous year. Better yet, ...

• Top 10 cloud tools

  Cloud vendors are delivering boatloads of new tools to help enterprise IT build, buy, manage, monitor, tweak and track cloud services. These tools are designed to help IT execs free up their budgets and their staff so both can be used towards more strategic, line of business projects. [BUT ARE THEY ...

• Google X acquires kite-power start-up Makani

  Makani Power, a start-up building power-generating cable-tethered flying wings , and is incorporating the technology within its Google X "moonshots" division. "We look forward to working with our new colleagues at Google[x] to make airborne wind a cost-effective reality," the company said on ...

• HP raises outlook for 2013

  Hewlett-Packard raised its 2013 earnings outlook after quarterly results beat low expectations, as CEO Meg Whitman's turnaround plan helped offset shrinking personal computer sales with enterprise computing services. While fiscal second-quarter profit plummeted 32 per ...

• Murthy scandal iGate staff gets social media code

  iGate employees in India received an email from the company's communication team at around 8 am, explaining the situation and telling them not to discuss it on social ...

• Twitter adds two-step verification process

  Twitter is adding an extra security measure to users' accounts in an effort to prevent unauthorized logins. Twitter said in a blog post Wednesday that users will be able to enroll in a login verification program. For those who sign up, Twitter will send a six-digit code using a text message each time they sign in to Twitter.com. Besides their username and password, users will have to enter ...

• How Lenovo outshines PC rivals

  Lenovo Group Ltd's bold acquisitions in its flagship PC business, a foray into mobile gadgets, and a relatively light debt load are setting it apart from PC rivals as industry shipments take their steepest fall in decades. Lenovo, a sliver away from unseating Hewlett-Packard Co as the world's top PC maker by shipments, posted on Thursday an estimate-beating 90 percent rise in quarterly ...

• Indian company blamed for global cyber attacks

  NEW DELHI: A Norwegian cyber security firm has alleged that a sophisticated cyber attack infrastructure appears to originate from India, conducted by private actors with no evidence of state-sponsorship. Norman Shark, Norwegian firm, has also named an Indian company that is known to work with Indian military and intelligence as one of the possible suspects behind the attacks. The Indian company, ...

• SAP hunts for autistic workers

  SAP said that it will provide job coaches to act as mediators between autistic workers and their colleagues. In a statement, the company said that it wanted to find workers that "think different", and will recruit hundreds of people with autism within the next few years. It wants to train 650 workers with autism to become IT specialists by 2020. The figure amounts to one percent of ...

• Lenovo says quarterly profit up 90 percent

  BEIJING - Computer maker Lenovo Group says its latest quarterly profit rose 90 percent as sales of smartphones and mobile computing technology expanded.Lenovo Group said Thursday it earned $127 million, or 1.22 cents per share, in the three months ending March 31. Revenue rose 4 percent over a year earlier to $7.8 billion.Lenovo ranks a close second behind Hewlett-Packard Co. as the biggest ...

• Phaneesh Murthy scandal iGate to face tough time

  It has been a tough two days for IT services firm iGate, which fired its chief executive Phaneesh Murthy for not disclosing a relationship with his ...

• Start and sell India’s new Valley success stories

  Abheek Anand is no ordinary product manager working out of Facebook's California headquarters. The 32-year-old, along with fellow IITian Sohan Majumdar, sold the mobile-based customer loyalty startup Tagtile, which they had jointly launched, to Facebook last year. Anand and Majumdar represent the new generation of tech entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley. This breed thrives by soaking up the ...

• PEs may look at CEO penalty clause in deals

  Private equity and entrepreneurs form a heady mix. While private equity firms look for individuals with cracker business ideas, the latter look for capital to back their dreams. And so in their attempt to strike gold, private equity takes risks on the entrepreneur as well as on the project. London-based Apax Partners, which manages assets worth $35 billion globally, also did the same. ...

• $1.2bn Patni buyout still a drag on iGate

  acquisition for $1.2 billion. The now-ousted iGate CEO had previously tried to acquire Satyam, but failed. Acquiring Patni involved a long and hard battle with other bidders, and he, in association with private equity firm Apax Partners, eventually emerged victorious. Today, two years after the acquisition, it's far from clear whether the acquisition will pay off. iGate had to take a $700 ...

• BotObjects opens preorders shows printed objects

  drawn scepticism from the public . Not only had we not seen an image of an object printed by the ProDesk3D, but the company has also yet to release an actual photograph of the printer. To date, all we have seen are renders. This last part is still true, but BotObjects has now posted some images to its website of ...

• Apple We pay every single dollar of taxes we owe

  Apple Inc. has been dragged front and center into the debate over the U.S. tax code, lawmakers are hoping that the spotlight on such a high-profile company could be the catalyst for Congress to take action to close loopholes or reform the law. At a hearing Tuesday, members of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations grilled Apple ...

• AFP seeks social monitoring tools

  Browser Click Tools> Internet Options>Privacy>Advanced Check Override automatic cookie handling For First-party Cookies and Third-party Cookies click Accept Click OK and ...

• AMD lifts the lid on Temash and Kabini chips

  AMD has revealed details about its Temash and Kabini chips for tablets and mainstream laptops ahead of Computex. AMD's Jaguar core is best known for powering ...

• Review Google music plan solid serendipitous

  LOS ANGELES -- Google Inc.'s new music service offers a lot of eye candy to go with the tunes. The song selection of around 18 million tracks is comparable to popular services such as Spotify and Rhapsody, and a myriad of playlists curated along different genres provides a big playground for music lovers.The All Access service represents Google's attempt to grab a bigger piece of the ...

• Aer Arann creating 50 jobs this year

  Aer Arann is eyeing up franchise agreements with other airlines - in Europe and further afield - as it seeks to boost its passenger numbers to two million by 2018 and become one of Europe's leading regional airlines by ...

• Hackers Find China Is Land of Opportunity

  Name a target anywhere in China, an official at a state-owned company boasted recently, and his crack staff will break into that person's computer, download the contents of the hard drive, record the keystrokes and monitor cellphone communications, too. Pitches like that, from a salesman for Nanjing Xhunter Software, were not uncommon at a crowded trade show this month that brought together ...

• Apple wants patent lawsuit to include Galaxy S4

  Apple has asked a federal judge in Silicon Valley to add Samsung's new flagship Galaxy smartphone to the list of devices targeted in a patent lawsuit involving Siri personal assistant software. The motion to amend the lawsuit to include the Galaxy S4 will be on the agenda of a June 25 hearing before US District Court Judge Paul Grewal in the California city of San Jose. ...

• Tesla repays government loan early a boost for electric cars

  (Credit: Tesla) In what could be viewed as a shot in the arm for U.S.-made electric cars, Tesla has repaid a government loan nine years early. "Today, Tesla Automotive repaid the entire remaining balance on a $465 million loan from the Department of Energy nine years earlier than originally required," the U.S. Department of Energy said in a statement Wednesday. That clean-energy ...

• Chevy sets Spark EV price below 20 grand

  (Credit: Wayne Cunningham/CNET) Forget pricey Teslas; Chevrolet announced pricing for its Spark EV model at $27,495. If a buyer qualifies for the full federal tax credit of $7,500, that price drops to $19,995. The Spark EV goes on sale in June but will be limited to California and Oregon. California owners will be able to apply further credits up to $2,500. Oregon may be less friendly, ...

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