NEW DELHI: Homegrown PC maker HCL Infosystems, which competes with multinational giants like HP and Dell, will phase-off its manufacturing business in the next few years to improve margins and increase organisational efficiency.   The company will instead focus on strengthening the services and distribution verticals.   "We will be stopping manufacturing. My distribution today does lot of distribution of PCs of multiple brands... We will be in PC distribution and in after sales services but will not manufacture HCL branded products some time in the future," HCL Infosystems CEO and managing director Harsh Chitale told PTI.   On specific timeline, Chitale s

NEW DELHI: Cyber attacks against Indian websites have increased exponentially in 2013, despite the government supposedly building a credible cyber defence system.   According to confidential reports by CERT-In (Indian Computer Emergency Response Team), 4,191 Indian websites were defaced or hacked into in August, 2,380 in July, 2,858 in June and 1,808 in May. An overwhelming percentage of these attacks occurred in the .in domain, whose servers are in India - 80% in June and over 60% thereafter. The .in domain appears particularly vulnerable to attacks. Of the 2,380 Indian websites that were defaced in July, 1,511 were on .in domain and in June the number stood at 2,296 sites.  

CHENNAI: After pizzas and biriyanis, it's now cakes and bakery products. From the local bakery to the country's largest bakery chain, everyone is logging in, giving online food retailing in India a second shot.  Several e-commerce platforms that retail food have gone bust over the last few years, but the sudden spurt in bakery chains and the sheer size of the bakery industry gives companies the confidence that selling cakes online and on mobile will click.    Of late, home bakeries and startups have been mushrooming with several professionals and graduates turning bakers. The overall bakery market, valued at around Rs 8,500 crore and growing 12-15 %, is estimated

LOS ANGELES: Comcast Corp plans to start selling movies for download and streaming through the cable operator's set-top boxes and its Xfinity TV website, according to people with knowledge of the plan.    The effort will offer a new path for Hollywood studios to generate revenue from films after they leave theaters. For Comcast subscribers, it provides a way to purchase movies they can watch anytime on through a TV, computer or mobile devices.    The new service could start by the end of the year with a range of new releases, older movies and some TV shows from several Hollywood studios, one of the people said.    Customers will be able to buy th

NEW DELHI: Technology services major Tata Consultancy Services, launched a 10,000-seat campus, Garima Park, in Gandhinagar, Gujarat. The software development facility was inaugurated by Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi, the company said in a statement.   TCS CEO & managing director N Chandrasekaran, said, "This will help TCS scale up its presence and drive the expansion of the IT industry in Gujarat."   Developed over 25.5 acres of land with a built-up area of 1.6 million square feet, TCS Garima Park is the latest addition to the company's global network of software development and delivery centers. It features software development and delivery centers

Sitting on the 10th floor of Ramco System's office in Adyar, its relatively new CEO Virender Aggarwal is not too off the mark when he says he has "enough critics downstairs". The changes taking place in the loss-making Ramco since he took over in May 2012 are probably the most significant since its inception more than 20 years ago. Trying to bring in large-scale cultural and structural changes that meet with resistance, Aggarwal is only too aware of the challenges but says time is too short to dwell too much on them. Ramco has accumulated losses of Rs 40.75 crore as of March 2013. Referring to the necessary turnaround, he says the company "needs to succeed in about a year&

Winter is not necessarily a fun time for everyone. Follow these tips in order to not let the cold weather get to you. Exercise: Not just to maintain your weight and stay healthy, exercising daily will mean more energy throughout the day, and your metabolism with stay elevated too.  Eat a healthy diet: Try to incorporate more complex carbohydrates (whole wheat breads, brown rice, veggies, fruit) and get your daily eight cups of water. These foods help stabilize your blood sugar and your energy levels.   Get some sun: Winter days are shorter and darker than other months, and lack of sunlight can cause many people to become depressed. Try to spend a little more time outdoors.&

BANGALORE: The man who said no to Google is being pursued by the search giant all over again. Vineet Devaiah, founder of Bangalore-based startup Teliportme, the Instagram of panoramas, is building an application for Google Glass.    Devaiah has received what is said to be the first Google Glass in Asia. Though he fended off a bid by Google to acquire his company in late 2011, the offer to develop an app to crowdsource panoramas and build an app for Google Glass was too hard to resist.    Teliportme has caught a lot of attention, including that of Google, because of its app called 360 that allows users to create panoramic pictures on Android phones. The user has to

NEW DELHI: Bluetooth LE (Low Energy) is coming soon to all the Nokia Lumia devices which run on Windows Phone OS.   The news was confirmed on an official Nokia FAQ page which stated that Bluetooth LE would come with a Lumia Black software update due soon.   Bluetooth LE is already available in some Lumia handsets like the 520, 620, 625 and 720 with Amber. With the latest update, the entire Lumia range with Windows Phone OS would have this feature.   The Bluetooth LE allows the user to connect the phone to special accessories like heart rate monitors. The Nokia FAQ page also mentions that due to Bluetooth LE connection, the accessory battery will last much longer, u

WASHINGTON: Search giant Google reportedly continues to be the leader in the US search market by maintaining 66.9% of it and handling 12.9 billion searches out of 19.3 billion made in October by the people in the country.    Digital analytics company ComScore released the data on the search market in the US and found that Microsoft came second with 18.1% share while Yahoo got 11.1% of the market and AOL controlled 1.3%.    According to Cnet, the data revealed that Microsoft's Bing handled 3.5 billion searches and Yahoo saw 2.2 billion out of the 19.3 billion searches made by people in the US in October.    The report said that Yahoo lost its seco

NEW DELHI: Gayatri Ketharaman, a 15-year-old girl, from Pune won Doodle4Google contest for 2013 with a doodle titled 'Sky's The Limit for Indian Women'. The winning doodle will feature on Google India's homepage on November 14.    Google holds the doodle contest for school kids in India every year on a particular theme and features the winning entry on its homepage on Children's Day. For this year, the theme was 'celebrating the Indian women'. Google India managing director Rajan Anandan said the company received over 1.5 lakh entries this year.    Gayatri, currently a student of class 10 at the Bishop's Co-Ed School in Pune, has be

SINGAPORE: Singapore has charged a local man with hacking a council website and posting a symbol associated with international hacker group Anonymous, amid concerns about new internet laws in the city-state.    James Raj, 35, was charged with hacking into the website of the Ang Mo Kio town council -- a district whose team of MPs representing it in parliament is led by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong -- on October 28, and posting the image of a Guy Fawkes mask.    The hacking took place three days before a self-proclaimed spokesperson for the Anonymous group appeared in a video on October 31 to demand the scrapping of a new law requiring news websites to obtain annu

NEW DELHI: Google's hotly anticipated Nexus 5 smartphone is now available for pre-orders in India. While Google and LG (which manufactures the device for Google) have not given an update on the smartphone since listing it on the Play Store, online retailer Snapdeal has started taking advance bookings for the newest Nexus gadget.   Snapdeal is taking an amount of Rs 999 from buyers to book the Nexus 5 before launch. According to the listing, the latest Google smartphone will hit the market in the last week of November. The internet giant has already announced that the handset will be launched in India soon, but has not announced a specific date.   The new Nexus 5 will be

One of the main benefits of Microsoft Office Mobile on Windows Phone is the presence of SkyDrive, and the various sharing options available. In fact, you can be remarkably productive with the slimmed down versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote!    We previously looked at Microsoft Office Mobile and Office 365, and the different ways in which Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote can be used on a Windows Phone device.    However, we overlooked the real strength of the integration - SkyDrive. Thanks to improvements in SkyDrive and Microsoft's browser-based version of Office, you can start a project on your phone, pick it up in the browser on a hot desk PC

Android 4.4 KitKat is finally here! But as longtime Android users know all too well, its official rollout will be slow, gradual, and for many, non-existent. That's why many people don't wait around for official builds to pass through carriers and hardware manufacturers, instead opting to flash custom ROMs or download leaked APKs. Yes, it's a tad impatient, but for us techie folk who like to live on the bleeding edge, it's worth it.    Now, KitKat didn't introduce that many ground-breaking features, and it didn't reinvent the mobile landscape; it simply refined what has become a solid operating system. But that's not to say that it doesn't have so

AHMEDABAD: After a stressful day in the boardroom or a failed infatuation with a classmate, what one needs the most is a place to vent out one's feelings without revealing one's identity.    Thousands of Indians are already reaching out to counselling sites such as yourcandidfriend.com, ethoshealthcare.com, onlinecounselling.in, onlinecouselling 4u.com and sharingdard.com for a shoulder to lean on. And their numbers are on the rise.    "Sharing one's emotional turmoil to a faceless friend helps me flush out the negativity from my psyche," says Rishi Gupta, a 22-year-old medical student in Mumbai, who frequents such platforms.   

The cellphone has become more of a tool and less of a toy, especially among the poor, and those trying to help them, in emerging markets. It helps deliver, via text message, water, energy, financial services, health care and even education.   The World Health Organization estimates that more than 700 million people do not have access to clean drinking water and more than 2.5 billion have no access to toilets. Yet according to the International Telecommunications Union, 96% of the world is connected via cellphone - which is why it has become a means of doing good.   Many of the aid services that employ mobile phones are Western-inspired but designed for people making $2 a da

REDMOND: Microsoft has said that it has made its latest browser, Internet Explorer 11, available to users of Windows 7 machines.    The new browser had already been part of the Windows 8.1 upgrade the company released last month.    The browser, available as a free download, improves the performance of websites that use JavaScript. Microsoft says the browser is 9% faster than Internet Explorer 10.    It also enables better 3D graphics rendering in websites, allowing users to manipulate 3D objects on-screen.     Sourse : Times of India  

New Delhi: Concerned over the country's tardy progress in innovation and scientific research, the Science Advisory Council to the Prime Minister has "strongly recommended" increasing investment in S&T including higher education, especially from private sector, and "eliminating bureaucracy and outdated" procedures in the area.

At the same time, the Council has also suggested the creation of a strong innovation ecosystem which would include a policy that encourages strong interactions between S&T and industry.

This, the Council noted would help new Indian products and systems based on new ideas emerge in a competitive world market a

Mountain View, California: Google has marked Swiss Freudian psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Hermann Rorschach’s 129th birth anniversary with an interactive inkblot doodle.

Rorschach is pictured sitting on a chair with a pen and notepad in the background while a pair of hands is seen holding a paper containing an inkblot in front of the screen.

Users can click on the arrow tabs on either side of the paper to see different inkblots and share their interpretation on Google Plus, Facebook or Twitter.

Born in Zurich, Switzerland on 8 November 1884, Rorschach grew up in Schaffhausen and was known to his friends as Klecks, or "inkblot" for