Recent elections have shown that social media can be harnessed for achieving political changes increasingly effectively. However, it has yielded little result when it comes to delivering social changes. Why? Peoples’ engagements with social...
A shift from “growth” to “sustainability” is the mantra and ICT models like cloud, big data and social media could help drive that transformation Historically, all economic growth has come at the cost of environmental as well as social developments, which...
Microsoft has made a new addition to its online listing of Lumia devices—the Lumia 638. If the model number doesn’t make the device special, the tagline does. It reads: “India’s affordable 4G LTE smartphone.” Yes, as per the specs, it does support the LTE...
Four months have elapsed since the Digital India program was first announced by the Prime Minister but few follow-up developments have taken place. Is it time to complain? I don’t think so, as the government is a gigantic machine and needs a...
An ETTelecom-BusinessandMarket Survey shows that 60 percent of the respondents considered partnerships with smartphone and tablet makers to be of high strategic importance while another 31 percent considered those to be very important but...
This is a year when the country has rekindled memories of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, a champion of farmers and the unifying force that helped shape the post-Independence India. This is also a year when the Prime Minister has unveiled a super-ambitious...
The Monsoon clouds that had arrived earlier this year would soon be retreating, marking the end of yet another cycle of rain. Meanwhile, the Cloud [computing] direction papers that Government of India had brought out earlier this year are awaiting an effective...
Operators’ financial results for the April-June quarter are a definite pointer to the improving key performance indicators (KPIs) of the telecom sector in India. Not surprisingly, potential investors and global players would be taking due note of the...
On first glance, the new recommendations on spectrum sharing by Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) appear to be a bonanza for telcos. After all, if accepted, the recommendation would give a telco the option of having shared spectrum and hence go easy with...
Two of the telcos, Idea Cellular and Uninor, recently announced their quarterly results. Both of them posted strong revenue growth. Significantly, the contribution to growth came both from voice as well as data businesses.The results underscore a fact that while data...
A news release from global IT distribution major Brightstar Corp. earlier said it would be acquiring a majority stake in Beetel Teletech Limited. It did not disclose the terms of the agreement though. Though on the surface, the deal appears to be yet another...
“I don’t think Microsoft would be keen to pursue Nokia X on a strategic level,” is what I had reasoned in a comment for Light Reading India a little more than four months ago.Now that it has come true, but is also accompanied with big job cuts, I wish it could have...