A world leader in wireless solutions, Research in Motion (RIM) on Tuesday introduced its smallest and lightest smartphone ‘BlackBerry Curve’, which will be available from Airtel and Hutch. Introducing the large display, easy-to-use keyboard and intuitive trackball navigation system, RIM Vice-President for Asia Pacific region Norm W K Lo said that ‘Blackberry Curve combines consumer […]

Loyola College of Chennai will represent India in the annual competition of the US-based Students in Free Entrepreneurship (SIFE), a world body promoting community projects among students. Students from 48 nations will participate in the three-day event to be held from October 10 in New York this year. The college recently won the national-level competition […]

PayPod Technologies, a US-based IT solutions provider with offshore development facilities in Chennai and Minsk, Belarus, has launched a technology-driven advertising service to tap the growing Indian market for ad space on the Internet. Targeted at the advertising and publishing industry in India, PayPod’s Digital Advertising Network solution will help deliver ads on the Internet […]

Gartner says phones are largest piece of country’s overall rising electronics manufacturing revenue India’s mobile handset production is growing fast, fueled by rapid growth in the number of mobile subscribers in the country. India produced nearly 31 million mobile phones last year, at a value of about US$5 billion, according to a report by Gartner […]

The percentage of households in Chennai that are financially at risk due to ineffective saving habits and misplaced financial optimism is very high, according to a recent study. As much as 99.9 per cent of households in the city felt that they could not survive for more than one year on their current savings in […]

Victorious: Radhika Sarathkumar and G. Jayachitra at the biennial election of the Film and Television Producers Guild of South India in Chennai on Sunday. Ms. Jayachitra (right) was elected president of the Guild. Actor-director turned producer G. Jayachitra was elected president of the Film and Television Producers’ Guild of South India at its 42nd biennial […]

Seated between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress president Sonia Gandhi, United Progressive Alliance (UPA) candidate Pratibha Patil Saturday filed her nomination to fight the presidential election in which she will be pitted against Vice President Bhairon Singh Shekhawat. The 73-year-old former Rajasthan governor was in a yellow silk saree with red border as she […]

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Six Indian companies figure in the 2007 Information Technology 100 list, which is BusinessWeek’s ranking of the top 100 global technology performers. Bharti Airtel, Tata Consultancy Services, Infosys, Wipro, Satyam Computer Services and HCL Technologies are those mentioned in the list. US-based, Cognizant Technology Solutions, which has most of its development centres in India, is […]

The feverish last-lap campaign to Madurai West bypoll is peaking as top leaders and the allies of the two main political parties ? the DMK and the AIADMK have taken to the nook and cranny of the tense town. Besides political heavyweights, Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) N Gopalswami also arrived at Madurai in the afternoon, […]

Brazil’s steel producer Gerdau said on Friday it has signed an agreement with the Kalyani Group to operate a steel plant in Tadipatri, in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. The SJK Steel Plant, located close to India’s three cities of Bangalore, Chennai and Hyderabad, comprises two companies, each holding 45 percent of shares, […]

  Tamil Nadu may lose the distinction of having one of its citizens as India’s President. But it may acquire its first Vice President if Chief Minister M Karunanidhi has his way. The chances of A P J Abdul Kalam, who hails from Rameswaram in Tamil Nadu, getting a second term in the Rashtrapati Bhavan […]