Buoyed by improved business, IT company Mahindra Satyam on said it swung into the black in the April-June quarter, logging a Rs 225.2 crore profit, and unveiled plans to exit US stock market by 2012. Mahindra Satyam raked in consolidated profit of Rs 225.2 crore on revenues of Rs 1,433.9 crore in June quarter. The company, which is on a recovery path after being hit by one of the
Days after it was accused of hacking networks of 72 major global entities, including the Indian government, China on Saturday said it was also a victim of nearly five lakh cases of cyber snooping, half of them originating from countries like the US and India. China`s claim followed a report by US-based security firm McAfee which said hackers were found to have broken into
After a fake profile of Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan was found on Facebook, police have now received a similar complaint about Congress General Secretary, Rahul Gandhi. The Cyber Cell of the police here received this complaint about the profile of the young leader, from Bhopal District Congress Spokesman, Pankaj Chaturvedi. Investigations have begun and the
Taiwan`s main opposition party on Tuesday accused hackers backed by the Chinese state of stealing information related to its presidential campaign in the run up to elections in January 2012. The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), which favours Taiwan`s independence from China, said that in the last four months, it had traced more than a dozen cyber attacks to Chinese IP addresses.
Mobile technology such as Blackberry and social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook played a key role in organising and coordinating riots across London, according to the police. The riots over the last two days began in Tottenham and have since spread to areas such as Walthamstow, Oxford Circus, Islington and Enfield. The unrest has already been called `Britain`s first
The Bombay High Court on Monday directed Maharashtra government to approach the National Informatics Centre (NIC) by August 31 for upgradation of the present video conferencing (VC) facilities so as to reduce the cost incurred by the state on police escort for prisoners. The state government on Monday submitted a plan of action formulated by it to address the issue of under-utili
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) on Monday said it will set up iCity Lab, a hightech research lab, in association with the Singapore Management University (SMU). The TCS-SMU iCity Lab will be located at the SMU campus, a TCS release said in Mumbai on Monday. As part of the initiative, TCS will initially invest six million Singaporean dollars directly in the lab over the next thre
Telecom subscriber base in India grew by 1.29 per cent, with addition of 11.3 million subscribers during the month of June taking the total number of users in the country to 885.99 million, according to Trai report released on Monday. The net addition of new subscribers has declined from 1.53 per cent in May when the telecom operators added 13.2 million new users to reach 874.68
The website of Syria`s Ministry of Defense was offline on Monday after being defaced by the "hacktivist" group Anonymous to protest a bloody crackdown on anti-government protestors. Repeated attempts to connect to the site, www.mod.gov.sy, were met with an error message on Monday. Yesterday, the Internet vigilante group Anonymous claimed on @YourAnonNews, one of a numbe
The ruling AIADMK in Tamil Nadu on Monday said the Information Technology Parks constructed during the previous DMK regime were "unfit to be even children`s parks." The IT parks look like "real estate layouts", IT Minister R B Udhayakumar said in the state Assembly. "Seven IT Parks built across the state are unfit to be even children`s parks. They are li
Haryana Chief Secretary Urvashi Gulati on Monday said that banks has to contribute a lot to the state government`s efforts to make the system of E lectronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) through banks a success so that beneficiaries get pensions timely. Gulati was presiding over a review meeting with the representatives of banks engaged in implementation of EBT system
Trade body India Semiconductor Association (ISA) on Monday announced appointment of PVG Menon as the new President of the association. In this role Menon would be responsible for overseeing the operations of ISA and will work as a member of its executive council on strategic issues related to the growth of the semiconductor and the electronics industry in India. &q
Telecom services provider Vodafone Essar is looking to set India-specific greenhouse gas emission mitigation targets for itself as part of an initiative to reduce its carbon footprint by 20 per cent globally by 2015. "Globally, we have been acknowledged as a company which is focused on sustainability and transparency...We are working on reducing our carbon foorprint through
A working group of Department of Telecommunications (DoT) for the 12th Five Year Plan (2012-17) on Monday said it estimates an investment of Rs 6,50,000 crore during the next plan. Of the total, Rs 1 lakh crore are expected to come from the auction of spectrum and renewal of licences, the working group said in a meeting held at DoT. The telecom equipment segment is expected to lu
Social networking sites pose both risks and benefits to children as their studies get affected but at the same time the introverts learn how to socialise behind the safety of various screens, according to a study. "While nobody can deny that Facebook has altered the landscape of social interaction, particularly among young people, we are just now starting to see solid psycho
Land records in Haryana are being computerised and cadastral maps of the state being digitised under National Land Records Modernisation Programme (NLRMP), an official spokesman said in Chandigarh on Tuesday. Under the programme undertaken by Haryana Space Application Centre (HARSAC), rights of records in the state have already been computerised in the first phase and under secon
Madhya Pradesh Government has decided to observe September 25 as the `Lok Seva Guarantee Day` in the state every year, officials said. On this day last year, the Lok Seva Guarantee Act came into existence in the state and the same day is also celebrated as the birth anniversary of Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya, one of the founders of BJP. "The government has decided to
Prime accused in the Satyam Computer scam B Ramalinga Raju and six others today moved the Andhra Pradesh High Court seeking bail after a local court dismissed their pleas last week. The applications were filed on grounds, among others, that the trial in the scam was not completed before the stipulated time of July 31 and the accused were exercising their right seeking enlargement
The city police on Monday busted a racket indulged into forging receipts under the `Andhra Pradesh Online` services and arrested one person in this connection. `AP Online` is a web portal for availing numerous services being rendered by the state government. Based on a credible information, sleuths of the Commissioner`s Task Force (West Zone) apprehended one Mohammad Fayaz, who a
IBM Corp has dropped out of a project to build one of the world`s fastest supercomputers at the University of Illinois, saying it requires too much financial and technical support. The move leaves the university looking for someone to build the USD 300 million-plus Blue Waters system that it still hopes to deliver by the fall of 2012. The school`s National Center for Supercomput
