Mobile Number Portability (MNP) requests jumped nearly 24 per cent in May to 105.70 lakh subscribers, from 85.41 lakh in the preceding month, showed Trai data released on Thursday. According to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai), in all, 105.70 lakh subscribers had submitted requests until May to different service providers under MNP, a service that allows people to
The Supreme Court on Thursday declined to entertain a PIL that alleged a whopping loss of Rs 37,000 crore to the exchequer on account of private telecom operators inflating their subscribers base to garner the scarce spectrum. The petition alleged that besides causing the huge loss, the modus operandi adopted by the telecom operators posed serious threat to national securit
Private radio operators on Wednesday welcomed the clearance of FM phase III expansion but expressed concern over possible high licence fee as the government aims to raise Rs 1,733 crore from auction. "Given the amount of money the government is looking to raise, radio operators will have to pay a heavy price for new licences," Association of Radio Operators for India (A
Barack Obama has become the first US President to host a Twitter town hall meeting to reach out to weary Americans on a range of issues, including the state of the world`s largest economy. "I am going to make history here as the first President to live tweet," Obama, the 44th US President, said as he kicked off an event billed as a "Twitter Town Hall" from the
IT firm Tech Mahindra on Thursday said it has bagged a contract from technological giant Microsoft to setup a Lab for video encoders used in deployment of IPTV solutions on latter`s media room. "Tech Mahindra has been selected by Microsoft to setup an authorised Encoder Conformance Testing Lab (ECT Lab) for video encoders used in deployment of IPTV solutions on Microsoft Med
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy would launch the government scheme of providing tenant farmer credit card facility here on Sunday. The Chief Minister would launch the innovative scheme of providing tenant farmer credit card facility in the state here on Sunday and each farmer would be given identity card, said Thota Narashiham, Minister for Registrations and Sta
The Malaysian government has postponed an amnesty programme for illegal foreign workers to stem any abuse of this facility. The programme was originally slated to begin on July 11. As part of the programme, over two million legal foreign workers in the country would be registered and included in the biometric database before launching a similar exercise for illegal immigrants, sa
Domestic entrepreneurs can now easily access information related to global micro, small and medium enterprises, their products and technologies on the website launched by National Small Industries Corporation. Unveiling the website, www.msmeintelligence.com, MSME Secretary Uday Kumar Verma said: "Non availability of experts, high cost of primary data collection and higher co
HDFC Private Equity Fund has acquired 12 per cent stake in Angles Health, a global multi-speciality e-hospital service provider which manages mediangles.com. "Deepak Pareakh`s HDFC private equity fund has picked up 12 per cent seed capital recently," co-promoter of Mediangles Arbinder Singal said. "We are looking for more funds to rollout more services on mobile, f
Scientists are developing a cheap microscopic "pinhead" camera which they claim could soon revolutionise a host of applications ranging from surgeries to robotics. Researchers at Cornell University in New York produced a working prototype which is 100th of a millimetre thick and just half a millimetre across. The device, which is small enough to fit on th
With social and business life blurring at the work place because of new age media, corporates need to guard against cyber attacks and frame long term policies to combat a wide range of risks, including intellectual property theft, says a PwC study. "In today`s socially connected workplace, information flows freely between employees and their online followers. This can
The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) has launched diploma and certificate programmes in Chinese language which will be offered in both face-to-face and online mode from this month. "This is for the first time in India that the teaching of Chinese language and culture will be imparted through online demonstration via IGNOU satellite," IGNOU said in a relea
The Washington Post said that a hacker had gained access to nearly 1.3 million email addresses and user IDs on its online jobs section. The Post said on Thursday that no passwords or other personal data were compromised in the attack on the jobs section of WashingtonPost.com which occurred last week. "We quickly identified the vulnerability and shut it down, and are pursuing
Set to reach out to customers across the world, J&K State Handloom Development Corporation (JKSHDC) has launched its "e-marketing Portal" to target a business of Rs 2 crore. Minister for Industries and Commerce, Surjeet Singh Slathia inaugurated the e-marketing portal for J&K State Handloom Development Corporation (JKHDC), for online marketing of
Technology giant HP on Thursday said it is bullish on cashing in on the multi-billion dollar global opportunity from demand for printing products and services and India will play a key role in achieving the goal. "Our business is accelerating with India as a key growth engine. We are more committed than ever to growing our business in India. Some of the critical innovation a
Facebook`s popularity could well be waning with the entry of new social networking sites and a sharp drop in the number of its users, a leading media intelligence company in the Middle East has said. "According to Facebook`s data service, the social networking site lost 6 million users in the US last month, dropping from 155.2 million to 149.4 million. That is the first tim
The official website of the prestigious Presidency University has been hacked and the undergraduate merit list leaked. "Yes it has been hacked. We have written to the government to look into the matter," a top university official said on Thursday. The matter has been referred to the cyber crime department of Kolkata Police.
The global spending on the gaming ecosystem is expected to touch USD 112 billion from the current USD 67 billion in 2010, with major technology and business model transitions driving the growth of the industry, research firm Gartner today said. "The worldwide spending on the gaming ecosystem (gaming hardware, software, mobile and PC games) will exceed USD 74 billion in 2011,
In today`s world, they may be the best way to keep in contact with others, but emails and social networking websites like Facebook are disrupting family life, a new study has claimed. Researchers at Cambridge University have found that family life is being disrupted as parents and kids are overwhelmed by the huge volumes of emails and social messaging updates they are handling ea
Policing the Internet, which jihadists are using with increasing sophistication to spread their gospel of terror across the world, is a challenge for the US, a top counter-terrorism official has said. Acknowledging that monitoring the Internet was a challenge for counter-terrorism authorities to prevent another 9/11, Michael Leiter, Director of the National Counter-terrorism Cent
