BYOD trend to become mainstream by 2017, Gartner

When you walk in your office you are used to your employer providing a workspace, desktop, coffee and more. By 2017, you will still get your coffee, but might have to lug your own device at work as the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) trend becomes mainstream. 

As BYOD programs become more commonplace, 38% companies expect to stop providing devices to workers by 2017, according to a global survey of CIOs by Gartner, a research firm. 

IT hiring to grow 3 fold in next 3 years at Infopark

Despite the slow growth in information technology recruitment in the country, the Infopark in Kochi has projected a healthy growth in recruitment over the next few years. IT employment is expected to grow three times over the next three years at the Infopark. 

Since its inception in 2004, Infopark has created over 3.4 million square feet of space and has provided employment to nearly 18,500 IT professionals. Around 134 IT companies have taken space in the park. 

4G services, Ericsson sees tough fight in China

Ericsson expects cut-throat competition between telecoms equipment makers as China prepares to spend billions of dollars on high-speed networks, punishing margins at a time when profitability is already under pressure. 

A decade-long price war launched by Chinese vendors Huawei and ZTE has already forced suppliers like Nortel and Motorola out of the market while smaller players like Alcatel-Lucent are mired in losses. 

US Immigration reform will attract skilled workers

US President Barack Obama said the ongoing effort to fix the existing "broken immigration system" will not only provide a pathway to earned citizenship for the illegal immigrants, but would also attract the highly- skilled entrepreneurs and engineers who will help create jobs.

In his weekly address to the nation, Obama said the "commonsense immigration reform bill" introduced in the Senate is a compromise, which means that nobody got everything they wanted - including him.

"But it's largely consistent with the principles I've laid out from the beginning," he said.

"It would continue to strengthen security at our borders and hold employers more accountable if they knowingly hire undocumented workers. It would provide a pathway to earned citizenship for the 11 million individuals who are already in this country illegally," Obama said.

Now, book your parking slots online

Like most people, Krishna Chander, 29, has had to talk himself out of visits to malls, fearing that he may not get parking on reaching there. A couple of times he even tried the old Indian trick of leaving his car in the nearby bylanes and hoping nothing happens, only to find that it had been towed away by the police. 

Frustrated, he had begun to avoid malls and areas that he thought offered a slim chance of "easy parking" — more often than not, also the best places to shop — until he came across the Facebook page of uPark, India's first online parking network. Chennai-based uPark, founded in 2011 by Shyam Ramachandran and Rajesh Subramanian, allows customers to book parking slots ahead of their visits to shopping malls through online booking or a mobile phone application, helping them to plan better. "It has helped me big time.