AppLabs, a CSC (NYSE: CSC) company, announced today that it has been named to The Global Outsourcing 100, by the International Association of Outsourcing Professionals (IAOP) as one of 2012’s best outsourcing service providers in the “Leaders” category.

The 2012 Global Outsourcing 100 recognizes the world’s best outsourcing service providers. These rankings are based on applications received and evaluated by an independent judging panel organized by IAOP. AppLabs’ inclusion on the list for the second time demonstrates its leadership role. The company was earlier recognized in 2009. (more…)

Maruti Suzuki Ritz achieves a record breaking fan base of over 1 million on Facebook Highest across any product brand across the auto category, in India

Maruti Suzuki Ritz has become the most popular brand in India by clocking a record fan base of over 1 million (1,018,000+ members) on popular social networking site Facebook. Maruti Suzuki Ritz made its debut on Social media in August 2010.

The success of Ritz on social media front is attributed to the various user engagement programmes and initiatives on social media activities done by the Company. Ritz took up the Social media route to engage with its customers through dedicated pages on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube etc, to engage and effectively connect with users. (more…)

Amdocs wins two 2011 Stratecast Global Market Share Leadership Awards; one for rating, charging and other core billing, and the other for total (end-to-end) billing

Amdocs (NYSE: DOX), the leading provider of customer experience systems, today announced that Stratecast| Frost & Sullivan has given Amdocs two Stratecast Global Market Share Leadership awards for 2011.By receiving these awards for rating, charging and other core billing*, and for total billing, Amdocs is recognized for its excellence in capturing the highest revenue market share for each respective category within the global communications industry.

Leading analyst firm, Stratecast named Amdocs as the top vendor in the “rating and charging and other core billing”domain with arevenue-based market share of 19.7 percent. According to Stratecast, this domain is growing in importance in the communications market and currently represents 70 percent of the global, end-to-end billing market. (more…)

Live on Apple appstore, MST is available on all versions of iPhone, iPod touch

Giving control to traders and retail investors right in their palms, Kotak Securities has become one of the few  brokerage firms to make the Mobile Stock Trader application available for iPhone users. With this initiative, Kotak Securities extends its MST app to 95% of mobile handsets including all versions of iPhone and iPod touch, Android OS, Symbian, Bada and Blackberry.

With increasing penetration of mobile handsets, especially smartphones at affordable prices, coupled with the recent thrust of apple products, demand for mobile stock trading may witness a considerable boost (more…)

Sessions discuss how to generate greater revenue with interactive technology

STRATACACHE, a leading provider of scalable, high-performance digital signage, content distribution and enterprise video acceleration technologies, is set to conduct two speaking seminars at Digital Signage Expo (DSE) in Las Vegas.

The first session, “Translucent Technology: Seeing Past Today’s Segmented Advertising Landscape,” takes place Wednesday, March 7, 2012 from 11:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. in Theater A, conducted by STRATACACHE CEO Chris Riegel. Interactive and educational, this session examines trends for enhancing the customer experience and helps businesses discover the latest translucent technologies. (more…)

SMS Taxi Cabs, a wholly owned subsidiary of Nagpur-based SMS Infrastructure Limited has created 4,000 jobs for their newly launched fleet cab services TAB Cab. The company has been awarded licenses for 4,000 phone fleet taxis by the Government of Maharashtra through a first time tender for phone fleet taxis.

~ MBlaze Services now available in 26 Towns across Maharashtra & Goa ~

• MBlaze – The high-speed mobile broadband service of MTS is supported by a robust network of over 75 branded retail outlets, 5000 mass retail outlets & 125 organised retail outlets in HSD Towns.
• MTS in Maharashtra & Goa circle has a robust network of 85 branded retail outlets and more than 10,000 mass retail outlets.
• Additionally, MTS using its High Speed Data network, also brings in the innovative MTS TV service  – provides access to Live TV and Video on Demand to customers. (more…)

Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM), the leading cloud platform for helping enterprises provide secure, high-performing user experiences on any device, anywhere, has released its Third Quarter, 2011 State of the Internet report, based on data gathered from the Akamai Intelligent Platform. The report provides insight into key India statistics such as Internet penetration, mobile traffic and data consumption, global and regional connection speeds, and observed attack traffic.

India Broadband Adoption Trends

Commenting on the report, Sanjay Singh, Senior Vice President & General Manager – Asia Pacific and Japan & Managing Director – India, Akamai Technologies, said, “Akamai is in a unique position to measure and analyze unique trends in this hyperconnected world and it is exciting to see broadband adoption in the country touching the 10% threshold. (more…)

Media Development Loan Fund (MDLF), the leading impact investment fund for independent news businesses in the developing world, today launched an early-stage fund for digital news and information businesses, Digital News Ventures.

Digital News Ventures will provide early-stage equity finance from $30,000 to $300,000 to entrepreneurs whose ideas can be used to provide news and information that is important to open societies or can help develop financially sustainable news businesses. Its goal is to foster innovative projects that will help change the way the world interacts with information. Digital News Ventures is a global fund with a primary focus on projects located in, or with particular application to, emerging and frontier markets. (more…)

CyberMedia, South Asia’s oldest and largest specialty media group, has embarked on an exercise to offer multiple digital presence for all its media properties including the likes of Dataquest, PC Quest, The DQWeek, DQ Channels, Biospectrum Asia, Biospectrum India, Voice & Data, Technology Review India and CIOL among others.

CyberMedia has adopted a state-of-the-art software package retailing for over $1 mn for this purpose and has engaged with a service provider for a period of 3 years. The project aims at monetizing CyberMedia’s content through induction of emerging technology platforms and improvements, so as to offer next-generation features on multiple media including the web, smartphones, tablets and other digital devices. (more…)