A different breed of celebrity seems to be taking over Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, with a British study revealing that one in 10 pets is on the popular social networking websites. The study has found that more than half of pet owners post about their animals on social networking sites and one in 10 of all pets in the UK have their own Facebook page, Twitter profile or YouTube
Sachin Pilot, Minister of State for Communication s and Information and Technology, Government of India today stressed on the need for driving down the national digital agenda to the mass level for reaping out the benefits from e-Governance initiatives in the country. Delivering his address at the conference organized by industry association ASSOCHAM and AMD on
Remote sensing data and imagery with a very high resolution will now be made available under a new policy unveiled by Government to benefit more users in a move that will help infrastructure development in urban areas. The 2011 Remote Sensing Data Policy (RSDP), which lifts some restrictions in force for the past 10 years, came against the backdrop of a CAG report had found that
Kanpur District Jail has become the first prison in Uttar Pradesh to launch video conferencing facility for hearing cases. Those accused of petty crimes or against whom a charge sheet has not been submitted in court will be brought before a magistrate for questioning through video conferencing, Rudresh Narayan Pandey, Superintendent of Jail, said. A video camera, b
Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) was against giving any adjournment to auditors accused in the multi-crore accounting scam case in Satyam Computers, a top official of the ICAI said in Coimbatore on Sunday. ICAI president G Ramaswamy, who is in Hyderabad in connection with the case, told PTI that the committee which was conducting investigation against the audito
Telecom retail vendors in Tamil Nadu today threatened not to sell new pre-paid SIM cards of Airtel, Aircel and Vodafone from July 13, alleging lesser commission by operators, and rising number of complaints that customers are charged for unsolicited value-added services. "We were told that we will be getting seven per cent from the recharged amount as a commission, but today
State-run telecom company BSNL has invited bids for 14.37 million lines under phase 7 of its mobile network expansion in North, East and South Zone. The tender floated by BSNL includes planning, financing, engineering, supply, installation, testing, commissioning and annual maintenance of 14.37 million lines for this phase. The company has priced this tender at Rs
Anil Ambani-led Reliance MediaWorks (RMW) today said it has partnered with Los Angeles-based Digital Domain Productions for visual effects and 3D Stereo Production services studios in Mumbai and London. As part of the agreement, RMW will set up a new studio at its Media BPO in Navi Mumbai and deploy an additional team of up to 650 artists for projects allied with Digital Domain,
Hackers claim to have stolen over 90,000 email addresses and passwords in a cyber attack on a major US military contractor, a media report said. An arm of the online collective Anonymous has said that it broke into the computer systems of Booz Allen Hamilton and then posted the details on Internet, `The Daily Telegraph` online reported. They apparently were able to
In the cut and thrust of British tabloid journalism, the fact that `News of the World` illegally accessed mobile phones to ferret out information to be used in sensational stories is not exactly breaking news. What really `changed the world last week` - as Labour leader Ed Miliband put it on Sunday - was the fact that the targets of phone hacking were no longer only celebrities,
Punjab National Bank on Monday said it has integrated its website with Haryana Urban Development Authority (HUDA) whereby allottees of HUDA could pay their dues online. Under this system, HUDA customers can pay their dues from any location to any of estate offices while sitting in any other city through PNB portal, said Punjab National Bank CMD KR Kamath said in Panchkula.
Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh on Monday said he did not regret being abused on social networking site `Facebook` for his stance on RSS and will continue his fight against saffron elements. "I am subjected to abuses on the `Facebook` but our fight against `fascist RSS` will continue uncompromisingly," he told party workers in Pune. Singh recall
BSNL is targeting 40,000 Fibre to the Home (FTTH) customers this fiscal, of which 16,000 customers are to be from state`s commercial capital Kochi, a top official said on Saturday. Thiruvananthapuram and Kozhikode are the other cities in Kerala being targeted by the telecom provider to offer the advanced Gigabit Passive Optical Network (GPON) customer service. Alr
Now railway passengers can get their e-tickets on their cell phones instead of normal print-outs. Named as `m-ticket`, the mobile phone-based ticket booking system envisages a passenger to book his train ticket through mobile phones and carry the display ticket, sent to his cell phone through an SMS. "The passenger need not carry a print out of his or her ticket and will hav
The prestigious Stanford Medical Centre in San Francisco has entered into an educational teleconferencing relationship with Jaslok hospital under which top doctors and experts from this US medical institution would impart latest education to those from this Mumbai hospital. "Indian doctors will benefit significantly as it will obviate the need for travel to the US, to learn
US is set to release its much awaited cyber strategy on Thursday, but the public version of it is unlikely to carry details into the execution, the Pentagon said. Noting that the cyber strategy does not focus on acts of war, Pentagon spokesperson Col Dave Lapan said it is about an overall cyber strategy, and how the US would defend against cyber threats. "People made a big d
Prodded by the Centre, several states have taken initiatives to computerise system and adopt best practises of management to streamline distribution of subsidised food items through ration shops. Ministry of Food and Consumer Affairs has given top priority to public distribution system (PDS) reforms which include improvement of infrastructure for distribution and storage of PDS f
An Empowered Group of Ministers (EGoM) headed by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee is likely to consider on Tuesday limiting supply of subsidised domestic LPG cylinders to 4-6 per household in a year. The EGoM meeting will take into consideration the recommendation of the Task Force on Direct Transfer of Subsidies on Kerosene, LPG and Fertiliser. Sources said if app
Keen to roll out cash payouts for kerosene subsidy, Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit has sought Prime Minister Manmohan Singh`s intervention in allowing the city government to launch the ambitious scheme. If allowed, Delhi will become the first city in the country to dole out cash payouts instead of subsidised kerosene to the BPL families. The move is aimed at controlling wid
Asserting that Companies that have not filed annual returns and balance sheet to Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA) for past five years have been put on notice, a senior official of MCA today said there were 80,000 such companies in Northern India. "About 80000 defaulters (defaulting companies) are there in northern India. There are various type of defaulters and most of t
