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The article discusses the benefits of using social technologies in business organizations. It explores the functionality and applications of social technologies, which help information technology (IT) professionals resolve the complex processes involved problem resolution and innovation. It also notes that social technologies help companies leverage real-time collaboration, information sharing, and improve employee engagement. INSETS: Aricent: Crowd Sourcing with Social Media;Virtusa: Collaboration and Content Management;EMC: Creating an Ecosystem;IBM: Dashboard for Team Activities

The article presents the views of several chief information officers (CIOs) and information technology (IT) executives on the future of IT in India. Arun Gupta, CIO, Cipla, says that Indian IT companies will move up the value chain, and also start designing products for global customers. Hemal Shah, CIO, Dell India, says that in the next decade, IT must increase investment for new capabilities, reduce the cost of running the business, and support a smart mobile workforce.

The article discusses the condition of the telecommunication industry in India which has been passing through an interesting phase. It notes that while the industry struggled with the conversion and development of new business models, it needs to focus on the information technology (IT) innovations. It also highlights the vision of the industry to roll out a Networked Society that will converge a universal information infrastructure from a combined mobility, broadband and cloud services.

The article reports on the move of Vserv.Mobi to use Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) and Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) across Amazon Web Services (AWS) regions in the U.S., Singapore, Ireland and Brazil. Chief technology officer Ashay Padwal says that the move aims to reduce cost of infrastructure and information technology (IT) manpower. It outlines some key differentiating factors that helped start-ups to grow including real-time elasticity and distributed architecture.

The article focuses on Vserv.Mobi, a start-up in India which used cloud platform to meet critical challenges it faced such as cost and infrastructure. It says that Vser.Mobi delivers mobile advertising and has 30 billion advertisement requests per month. It mentions that the company used Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) from Amazon Web Services LLC which had helped them reduce cost of information technology (IT) manpower and infrastructure.

The article focuses on data encryption as a defensive measure for securing mobile data. It mentions that two perspectives from mobile data encryption must be tackled by information technology (IT) such as data on devices and transmitted data. Debasis Chatterji, chief executive officer (CEO) at Netxcell Ltd., says that provided services of data encryption is an important factor because encrypted data are not vulnerable to different kinds of misuse. INSET: Encryption Essentials.

An interview with Intelenet Global Services Pvt. Ltd.'s chief technology officer (CIO) Rajendra Deshpande is presented. When asked about his progress in achieving a collaborative environment, he refers to the completion of a computing environment without investing in hardware and software. Deshpande discusses the challenges the business process outsourcing industry faces with IT infrastructure. He also explores the company's partners in networking and telecommunication products and solutions.

The article focuses on the need for the information technology (IT) industry in India to manage the new-grown IT network requirements while reducing its costs. It mentions the difficulties experienced by the IT managers in handling data while preventing the likelihood of data loss incidents. However, it emphasizes the importance for the chief information officers (CIOs) to embrace the multiple options of communication tools and strategies to increase business efficiency.

The article focuses on the business process outsourcing (BPO) which has set to attract customers by incorporating non-voice processes and social media in India. It notes that while the exchange of information about services and products has been extensively and dynamically faster, BPO needs to provide a more personalized service. It also states that with the help of the information technology (IT) and communication industry, BPOs integrated new technologies to penetrate new markets.

An interview with Shantanu Ghosh, vice president and managing director of the India-based product operations, Symantec Corp. is presented. When asked about the company's State of Mobility Survey for 2012, he refers that it was meant to gauge on how the organization are catching with the increasing trend of mobile devices in workplaces. He believes that the survey showed that mobility ranked as the leading risk in the information technology (IT) within the organizations.

The article discusses the communication technology and advent of information at the London Olympics 2012. It states that with headquarters in Canary Wharf, England, the Technology Operations Center (TOC) was the command center that monitors and controls all the information technology (IT) systems during the games. It also mentions the 180 workers overseeing operations and telecommunications which are supporting the games.

The article reports on the major information technology (IT) implementation in the public sector in India.

The article looks into five information technology (IT) projects of Indian Railways (IR) with the help of the Center for Railway Information Service (CRIS). The author mentions that IR's unreserved ticketing system (UTS) is providing a computerized ticketing system, which has been migrated to a high-end virtualized setup. The author adds that the Software Aided Train Scheduling and Network Governance (SATSaNG) project aims to build a tool for efficient scheduling.

The article discusses the advent of information and communication technology at the London Olympics 2012. The Technology Operations Center (TOC) at the Games' headquarters in Canary Wharf, was the command center and provided central monitoring and control for all the information technology (IT) systems and telecommunication supporting the games, with up to 180 workers overseeing operations.