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Google expands free Wi-Fi service to 3 more railway stations (09/05/16)
Google and RailTel, the telecom arm of the Indian Railways, have rolled out free Wi-Fi services at three additional stations, bringing the total to 10 areas where it will offer high-speed Internet to a projected 1.5 million passengers.
Mindtree co-founder to lead Odisha youth skill dev't programme (03/05/16)
Subroto Bagchi, IT entrepreneur, was invited by Shri Naveen Patnaik, chief minister of Odisha, to develop a unified body to guide, implement and head all skill development programmes in the State.
Smartphone domination spells digital camera demise (02/05/16)
An ASSOCHAM study revealed that the demand of smartphones has increased by over 120 per cent while digital cameras sales with heavy discounts drastically dropped to mere 35 per cent in 2015.
BMSCE team tops Capgemini's competition with e-learning platform (21/04/16)
BMSCE's Team Technetium bags the first prize of Capgemini's global Innovators Race competition with their comprehensive e-learning platform designed to bring education across India.
Japanese semicon industry plummets (13/04/16)
Japan Semiconductor Inc. bids sayonara as the cartel-like strategy of major Japanese chip vendors fell short in the world market.

LPDDR4 DRAM memory controller compatible with DFI 4.0 (08/04/16)
The LPDDR4 IP solution from Arastu Systems is developed using verilog and supports speeds up to 3200MTps for applications where faster response rates and faster processors are required.
China's FD-SOI plan: A mystery yet to be revealed (07/04/16)
Soitec, a French company that specialises in developing semiconductor materials, went to China, as its top executives discussed with locals everything China should know about FD-SOI technology.
Gov't seeks Project Loon telco partner (29/02/16)
Capable of beaming 4G Internet 20km above the surface to an area of 40km diameter, Project Loon, if implemented successfully will help telecom companies cut setup and management costs of signal towers.
IT firm Wipro teams up with Verveba (28/02/16)
The partnership aims to offer optimisation especially in 4G and single RAN technologies. The companies will also work together for advanced mobile network technology deployments.
LIGO-India gets the go-ahead from Modi (22/02/16)
LIGO will provide Indian researchers with the components and training to build and run the new Advanced LIGO detector (ALIGO), operated by an Indian team.

Apple set to build a dev't facility in Hyderabad (22/02/16)
Apple seeks to enhance its local presence in India, aiming to take the lead in the smartphone market and overtake cheaper counterparts like Micromax, Xiaomi and Lenovo.
Make in India: New opportunity for manufacturing, start-ups (Part 4) (19/02/16)
This is the fourth in the series of opinion on the Indian government's Make in India programme as it affects the electronics industry. Read what India Electronics and Semiconductor Association has to say.
Make in India: A long road getting off the drawing board? (Part 3) (12/02/16)
Here's the third in the series of articles focused on the impact of Make in India on the electronics industry. Read opinion from the renewable energy sector.
Nokia, IIT-M to connect rural India with broadband (11/02/16)
The joint project aims to build low-cost rural access solutions, enhance broadband connectivity in rural India, and enable the government's vision of "Digital India" possible.
Make in India: A story of success? (Part 2) (11/02/16)
With the Make in India week starting this weekend, we decided to ask the industry how they feel about the government's programme—is it just marketing hype or is it transforming the electronics manufacturing ecosystem.

Growth spurt of 4G in India to be evident this year (02/02/16)
According to a report from Deloitte India, 2016 will see a breakthrough for 4G telecom services in the country as nearly one-third of the mobile phone users in India will adopt 4G by December.
India to design first 64bit RISC-V processor (28/01/16)
The projects show the increasing sophistication of India's semiconductor sector. However it's not clear if either effort will result in commercially deployed products.
Japan builds 4th floating solar power plant (26/01/16)
Kyocera TCL Solar's fourth floating solar project, which it claims to be the world's largest, will rise on Japan's Yamakura Dam reservoir. It is expected to start operation in 2018.
Microsoft to donate $1B cloud resources to NGOs, researchers (22/01/16)
The billion-worth cloud resources will be delivered to 70,000 NGOs in addition to 900 university researchers. It will also expand broadband for 20 communities in 15 undisclosed countries.
Foxconn to expand facilities, products in India (15/01/16)
At present, the contract manufacturer has facilities in Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh. It has also started building a new plant in Maharashtra with a $5-million investment.

2,500 more Wi-Fi hotspots to rise across India (12/01/16)
As part of the Digital India programme, the government will set up more than 2,000 Wi-Fi hotspots in several locations across the country and plans to reach 50 crore Internet subscribers.
How did 'Make in India' fare in 2015? - Part 1 (21/12/15)
Has the Make in India initiative managed so far? Although it is too early to say if the programme is a success, many companies have already responded to the government's invitation.
Chinese nationals arrested for stealing military-grade chips (14/12/15)
The charges stem from a counterfeit semiconductor trafficking investigation against Jiang Guanghou Yan and HK Potential Electronics Co. Ltd, a Chinese firm.
Why manufacturers are starting to leave China (09/12/15)
The main impetus is increasing production costs. The need for manufacturers to reduce their dependence on China's production base and companies seeking more localised production play a role as well.
LED plant in Telengana to provide 2,000 jobs (01/12/15)
India's Syska and China's Advanced Optronic Devices will set up a LED manufacturing plant in Telengana, which is expected to provide jobs to approximately 2,000 people.

Dell's $300M venture fund arm to invest in Indian start-ups (27/11/15)
Dell Venture's investment will focus on start-ups that are developing disruptive solutions, particularly in areas such as analytics, security and cloud computing.
Optiemus, Wistron team up to bring $200M tech investment (25/11/15)
The investment, which is expected to generate more than 15,000 jobs, will focus on infrastructure, technologies and processes in response to the growing demand for telecom products.
Indian start-ups get funding from Cisco (09/11/15)
The investment will come from the ₹240.9 crore allocation to the India Innovation theme, which was launched in June 2014. The fund focuses on connected mobility, big data and IoT.
Google taps gov't to test balloon-enabled Internet (03/11/15)
Internet giant Google is said to be working with the government to test Project Loon in India, which will provide Internet connection to remote places using a network of balloons.
Netmagic Solutions to build 3 more data centres (29/10/15)
Netmagic will build the new data centres in Mumbai, Bengaluru and Noida. The company plans to double its data centre capacity as it sees huge growth opportunity in this business.