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Fear Of Losing Customers Will Drive Retailers' Investment In Tech

One of the biggest challenges that retailers will face in 2014 is the fear of losing their customers, as well as winning new ones, in a very competitive business environment.

PC Shipments Suffered The Worst Decline In History In 2013: Gartner

Worldwide PC shipments totaled 82.6 million units in the fourth quarter of 2013, a 6.9 percent decline from the fourth quarter of 2012.

IBM To Invest $1 Bn To Create New Business Unit For Watson

IBM said the investment includes a $100 million equity fund to boost innovation at its Watson Developers Cloud, which it opened up to external application developers last year.

Recipe For A Top-Notch CIO

Ajay Kumar Dhir, Executive Director & Group CIO, Lanco Infratech Ltd. shares pearls of wisdom from his vast and varied experience on what successful CIOs are made of.

VMware Appoints Ben Fathi As CTO

Fathi has more than 30 years of experience in the computer industry, with an expertise in developing operating system software.

M2M Connections Will Reach 360.9 Mn In 2018

Ovum finds that over the next five years, M2M revenues will grow to reach $44.8 Bn, with more than a third coming from APAC.

Microsoft Succession Speculation Focuses On Internal Candidates

For months, Microsoft watchers had pegged Ford Motor Co CEO Alan Mulally as the odds-on bet to succeed Ballmer as chief executive.

Bharti Airtel Appoints Manish Prakash As Director-Enterprise & Government

In his role, Manish will be responsible for overall strategy and leadership for the company's B2B in India.

Putting Your Foot In The CEO's Door

Nataraj N, Global CIO, SVP, Head Global IMS Business, Management Team Member, Hexaware offers tips on ensuring a CIO is part of the boardroom conversations and the CEO's inner circle.

BlackBerry Says Fairfax To Buy $250 Million More Debentures

Fairfax is exercising a previously announced option linked to BlackBerry's recent $1 billion debt financing, in which it had initially bought $250 million.

Outlook For Indian IT Industry Better Next Fiscal: Nasscom

Sticking to the 12-14 percent forecast for this fiscal, but outlook is qualitatively better for next fiscal, says President R. Chandrashekhar.

Outlook For Indian IT Industry Better Next Fiscal: Nasscom

Sticking to the 12-14 percent forecast for this fiscal, but outlook is qualitatively better for next fiscal, says President R. Chandrashekhar.

Worldwide Device Shipments On Pace To Grow 7.6% In 2014

Android to surpass one billion users across all devices in 2014, finds Gartner.

ManageEngine Positioned In Gartner Magic Quadrant For APM

Evaluation based on completeness of vision and ability to execute.

India's Tech Market Will Grow 8% In 2014

The biggest threat to India's economic outlook is political instability after the national elections, which could have a long-term economic impact.

Ramco Systems Selects Microsoft Office 365 On Cloud

To leverage the power of a single platform to collaborate between employees, partners and customers.

Huawei's 400G Core Router Wins 53 Customers Worldwide

The mass deployment of the router, which focuses on addressing big data challenges, kicks off the 400G era for global IP backbone networks.

Raritan Unveils Power Mgmt Software For DCs

Power IQ DCIM software for power management helps organisation to completely monitor the power distribution in datacentres and helps in further maximising the uptime and availability of power.

HP Unveils Fastest, Simplest Path To Virtualisation And Big Data

New HP ConvergedSystem offerings deliver business value out-of-the-box with workload-optimised integrated systems.

Pitney Bowes Leads Gartner's 2013 Magic Quadrant For CCM Software

According to Gartner, CCM software enables organisations to create, personalise and deliver communications to customers more effectively via any output channel.

India Emerging As A Strong Market For Wearable Technologies: Accenture Survey

Consumers in India were most interested in buying fitness monitors (80 percent), smart watches (76 percent) and Internet-enabled eyeglasses (74 percent).

Innovating With Mobility: Lessons From Wipro

Padmanabha.T.K, CTO, Wipro Infotech, India & Middle East talks about a piecemeal approach to adopting mobility in the enterprise and addressing growing biz needs.

World IT Spending To Reach $3.8 Trillion In 2014: Gartner

IT spending across all segments to grow in 2014 after a flat 2013.

Ex-Telecom Secretary Chandrashekhar To Head Nasscom

Chandrashekhar succeeded Som Mittal who was at the helm of the industry body for seven years since 2007.

MPS Adoption Amongst SMEs Will Pick Up In 2014

SMEs and businesses are looking more and more for document solutions instead of standalone printing.

App Developers See Wearable Devices As Next Big Thing

An array of new smartwatches and devices like fitness tracker Fitbit will go on display this week at the CES in Las Vegas, heralding a potential breakthrough for the devices in 2014.

Personal Cloud Storage Accounts Total One Billion In 2013, Generating 685 Petabytes

Over the next five years the global account base will more than triple, reaching 3.61 billion by the end of 2018, finds ABI research.

Global Economics & Indian IT

Sarwant Singh, Partner, Frost & Sullivan talks about the global business scenario and how that impacts IT initiatives in India.

FireEye Buys Cyber Forensics Firm Mandiant For About $1 Bn

Mandiant is the computer forensics specialist best known for unveiling a secretive Chinese military unit believed to be behind a series of hacking attacks on U.S. companies.

2014 Will Be A Big Year For Desktop-as-a-Service

Scott Davis, CTO for VMware's End User Computing B.U. shares his vision for technology in 2014.