Apple Inc sued Ericsson alleging that the Swedish company’s LTE wireless technology patents are not essential to industry cellular standards and that it is demanding excessive royalties for these patents.
Micromax subsidiary Yu is putting up for sale 10,000 units of its first smartphone called Yureka today on Amazon at a price point of will be priced at Rs 8,999. Yu had unveiled the device last month.
Continuing the New Year bonanza with the opening of bookings for the Xiaomi Redmi Note 4G, telecom major Bharti Airtel today announced that coming it would celebrate January 16 as ‘Mi Day’ across its 133 stores in 6 cities – Bangalore, Hyderabad, Chennai, Mumbai, Delhi-NCR and Kolkata.
KOLKATA: Anil Ambani-led telecom operator Reliance Communications has awarded a nearRs750-crore deal to the Indian unit of UK-based Vertex to outsource its call centre and shared services operations in an aggressive restructuring move aimed at exiting non-core businesses and reducing customer care support costs by at least a fifth.
NEW DELHI: The telecom department expects to connect 20,000 villages across the country through optic fibre by March-end under a national broadband network plan. Telecom minister Ravi Shankar Prasad will inaugurate the project commercially in Kerala on Monday.
NEW DELHI: Idukki in Kerala has become India’s first district to be linked to the National Optic Fibre Network (NOFN), the ambitious government project to offer high-speed broadband connectivity in all the villages in the country.
MUMBAI: HDFC Bank is drawing on its clout as a banker to most of the e-retailers to launch a digital wallet and an electronic marketplace for various online merchants. Once an accountholder or cardholder (even non-HDFC Bank debit and credit cardholder) registers for a digital wallet, he can transact on most websites using only wallet credentials.
NEW DELHI: Idea Cellular has said that discounts and freebies on voice and data tariffs will be reduced in the coming months, the statement coming just weeks ahead of the spectrum auctions slated for late next month.
BENGALURU: Rishad Premji, the eldest son of Wipro’s billionaire chairman Azim Premji, could assume the vice-chairman’s position in the coming months, sources close to the company said. Rishad, currently the chief strategy officer of the $7.3-billion IT company, is expected to join the board when executive director and CFO Suresh Senapaty retires from the company in March.
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