Microsoft may be making own phone - analyst

Microsoft Corp is looking at making its own smartphone to kickstart sales of its Windows mobile software, according to a Wall Street analyst who has followed the company for many years.The talk - unconfirmed by Microsoft - comes a day after the company unveiled its latest Windows Phone 8 software, and the same week it announced an own-brand tablet, signaling a break with 37 years of focusing on software and leaving hardware manufacturing to its partners.
"Our industry sources tell us that Microsoft may be working with a contract manufacturer to develop their own handset for Windows Phone 8," wrote Nomura analyst Rick Sherlund in a note to clients on Thursday.
"It is unclear to us whether this would be a reference platform or whether this may be a go-to market Microsoft-branded handset," wrote Sherlund, who covered Microsoft for Goldman Sachs when

Priced at Rs 33,590, HTC launches HTC One S in India

Priced at Rs 33,590, HTC on Thursday launched its HTC One S in the Indian market, adding another handset in its HTC One series .


The smartphone features a super-fast dual-core processor, 4.3-inch AMOLED display and 16GB internal memory. HTC claims it to be brand's slimmest superphone yet at just 7.9mm thin.


TomTom, HTC in pact for apps in India


It also has an 8 megapixel camera with functions like autofocus and continuous shooting mode.


"In continuation to the introduction of One series in India, this is a time to bring a highly desirable lifestyle handset for everyone who want to achieve a unique artistic bling and advanced technology," said Faisal Siddiqui, country manager, HTC India.


"HTC One S is truly a complete package of style and performance. It is an easy-to-use smartphone that enriches customer experience with super fast camera with unique ImageSense technology and authentic, studio-quality sound with Beats Audio

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Mithril Capital Management Launches Growth-Stage Technology Investment Firm

SAN FRANCISCO, Jun 20, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Peter Thiel today announced that Mithril Capital Management (Mithril), a new global tech venture firm based in San Francisco, will begin seeking bold technology entrepreneurs and sponsor the growth of their businesses.

Mithril focuses primarily on growth equity opportunities across the global technology sector, investing in companies that have moved beyond the traditional venture-backed stage and prefer to remain private as

Quick learn about Technology Forecasting

Technology forecasting attempts to predict the future characteristics of useful technological machines, procedures or techniques.

Important aspects

Primarily, a technological forecast deals with the characteristics of technology, such as levels of technical performance, like speed of a military aircraft, the power in watts of a particular future engine, the accuracy or precision of a measuring instrument, the number of transistors in a chip in the year 2015, etc. The forecast does not have to state how these characteristics will be achieved.

Secondly, technological forecasting usually

Managing Innovations

Innovation management is the discipline of managing processes in innovation. It can be used to develop both product and organizational innovation. Without proper processes, it is not possible for R&D to be efficient; innovation management includes a set of tools that allow managers and engineers to cooperate with a common understanding of goals and processes. The focus of innovation management is to allow the organization to respond to an external or internal opportunity, and use its creative efforts to introduce new ideas, processes or products. Importantly, innovation management is not relegated to R&D; it involves workers at every level in contributing creatively to a company's development, manufacturing, and marketing. By utilizing appropriate innovation management tools, management can trigger and deploy the creative juices of the whole work force towards the continuous development of a company. The process can be viewed as an evolutionary integration of organization, technology and market by iterating series of activities: search, select, implement and capture.

Innovation processes can either be pushed or pulled through development. A pushed process is

Nokia launches Pureview 808 smartphone @ Rs 33,899

NEW DELHI: Nokia on Wednesday launched its much-awaited cameraphone 808 Pureview in India. It will be sold at a Best Buy price of Rs 33,899.

The smartphone has a 4-inch wide screen and runs on Symbian Belle. It boasts of 41 MP sensor and the advanced imaging innovation featuring Nokia's award-winning Pureview technology and Carl Zeiss optics. This makes it among the best smartphones available in India currently.

Nokia has a tie-up with Dolby Laboratories that has helped it introduce a rich cinematic sound output in 808 Pureview which features both Dolby Digital Plus and Dolby Headphones technology. In addition, Nokia is bundling a Dolby Headphone with Pureview 808.

Besides, Pureview has two

Microsoft Said To Hold Talks On Buying Yammer Social Site

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Yammer is a social network designed for business collaboration, for use on multiple platforms.

Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) is in discussions to acquire Yammer Inc., operator of a social network for businesses, said two people familiar with the matter.

David Sacks, chairman and chief executive officer of Yammer Inc., speaks during a television interview in San Francisco, California, U.S. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg

Microsoft may pay more than $1 billion, and a deal may be reached as soon as tomorrow, said one person, who declined to be identified because the negotiations are private.

Gaining closely-held Yammer would help Microsoft, the world’s largest software maker, add social-networking tools to the suite of products it offers corporate customers. Large information-technology companies are snapping up nimbler startups, sometimes before they reach an initial public offering, spending $17.4 billion on enterprise software acquisitions in 2011, compared with $715.5 million in 2009, data compiled by Bloomberg show.

A deal for Yammer

Opera 12 launched with new features, Themes and Do Not Track

Opera has come up with some amazing features and Addons in Opera 12 that can make spending time on web browser more fun. Opera 12 is lunched and can be downloaded for free from it's official website. It has gone through a lots of performance enhancements to compete with Mozzila Firefox, Internet Explorer and Google Chrome

Following are the features of new Opera 12:

Opera 12 has added hundreds of appealing Themes to dress up your browser just the way you like. Themes are simply attractive background images and window border colors

DO not Track is the new privacy support. Which is similar to Do Not Call lists. This feature can tell sites that you don't want browsing information collected about you.

Opera 12 also involves

Bond yeilds, swaps rise; Duvvuri Subbarao adds to caution

MUMBAI: The bond yields and swap rates rose on Friday after the central bank governor said inflation cannot be controlled without sacrificing growth in the near-term, raising some caution ahead of the RBIpolicy decision next week.

Still, the comments were not enough to derail expectations the Reserve Bank of India would deliver a 25 basis points cut in the repo rate after economic growth in the January-March quarter fell to a near nine-year low.

However, the

USD INR exchange rate: Major trends in past few years and where is it heading ?

The USD-INR exchange rate is an important indicator of investor sentiment and can significantly impact not only the fortunes of individual firms and sectors, but also the government. The exchange rate of the Indian rupee (or INR) is determined by market conditions. However, in order to maintain effective exchange rates, the RBI actively trades in the USD/INR currency market. The rupee currency is not pegged to any particular foreign currency at a specific exchange rate. The RBI intervenes in the currency markets to maintain low volatility in exchange rates and remove excess liquidity from the economy.

It is believed that there is significant downside risk to USD-INR exchange rate  and here are some risk factors behind this.

Faculty of Technology Management

  In today's globally competitive business world, technology is essential to run nearly every business and every facet of business. For companies to succeed in this environment, people who posses both business savvy and technology expertise are required. In emerging economies like India,  technology transfer and development have assumed a lot of significance. Influx of investment by global giants in technology development, setting up of research centers by global companies, government policies facilitating Industry-Institute technology transfers are some of the factors that have compelled Indian companies to understand and manage