The White House will host a Twitter session with President Barack Obama on July 6. The president will answer questions submitted via Twitter, which limits messages to 140 characters. The session will focus on jobs and the economy, and a video feed of Obama`s answers will be streamed online. While Obama has taken questions submitted on social networking sites in previous public m
Railways have now launched a Facebook page to inform passengers about the latest position of trains including arrivals and departures. "Through the Facebook we are informing the general public about the latest development activities and facilities being provided in the railway station and responding to queries about Railways," Northern Railway General Manager SK
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has become richer than Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page, thanks to GSV Capital Corp`s stake buy which values the popular social networking site at about USD 70 billion. GSV Capital Corp, earlier this week, bought 225,000 shares in Facebook at an average price of USD 29.28 each. This stake buy values the popular social networking si
The Commerce Ministry on Thursday extended the deadline for mandatory barcoding of pharma products meant for overseas markets till July 2012, a move which will provide relief to drug exporters. Earlier this year, the Directorate General of Foreign Trade (DGFT) had said that from July 1, 2011, medicines exported from India would be required to have barcodes. A barco
The World Bank on Thursday said Wipro is now eligible to apply for becoming a vendor, as the four -year ban imposed on the software major ended this month. "Wipro has served their full four-year sanction period (June 13, 2007 to June 12, 2011) for the sanctionable practice of providing improper benefits to Bank staff," a World Bank spokesperson told PTI from Washington.
Bringing the curtains down on Rupert Murdoch`s alliance with his one-time prized buyout, News Corp has sold its ailing social networking site Myspace, reportedly for a paltry USD 35 million. Once a popular networking site, MySpace has been grappling with tough times especially with the emergence of the hugely popular Facebook. Digital media entity Specific Media would team up wit
South Korea`s top mobile carrier SK Telecom said it would launch its super-fast 4G wireless service on Friday to meet growing demand from users of smartphones and tablet computers. The company said it would begin providing the new service, based on Long-Term Evolution (LTE) technology, in Seoul and would secure national coverage by 2013. South Korean operators now use WiBro or Wi
South Korea`s Samsung Electronics said on Thursday it had asked the US International Trade Commission to ban the import of Apple products into the United States, expanding its patent war with the US giant. The ITC has been urged to stop Apple shipping its popular iPods, iPhones and iPads into the US market from where they are manufactured, a Samsung spokesman said. It accuses App
Kochi-based technology business incubator (TBI) company MindHelix Technologies on Thursday launched Sentinel, a smartphone application which will help in improving security, especially for women. The company claims that the application is the world`s first such smartphone application, which aims to enhance security. The free application could send instant alerts in case of danger
After Nokia`s announcement to bring only one handset based on MeeGo operating system, Intel is in talks with other cellphone makers for developing handsets on the open source-based platform. "We do have a robust roadmap in place to bring the first MeeGo phone based on Intel architecture and you should begin to see Intel-based smartphones in market no later than next year,&qu
Market regulator Sebi on Thursday asked stock brokers to put in place an adequate safety mechanism to provide secure and trouble-free internet-based trading platform to their clients. "The broker system should have adequate safety features to ensure it is not susceptible to internal and external attacks", Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) said in a circular
There is some good news and some bad news for people using ATMs for their banking transactions from Friday. As per an RBI directive, banks will have to credit the wrongly debited amount to the customer`s account due to failed ATM transactions within seven days of the complaint from tomorrow onwards, as against the current norm of 12 days. However, the number of fre
Department of Posts which has launched UID enrolment, Aadhaar service, through Post offices in Karnataka Circle, on Thursday announced addition of three more post offices for the enrolment programme. Earlier 13 Post Offices were selected for enrolling the Aadhaar service. Now, additionally three post offices have been selected for enrolling the work, in addition to one mor
Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal on Thursday said the telecom department is waiting for a reply from the regulator Trai on cancellation of telecom licences for not meeting the rollout obligations. Earlier, the Department of Telecom (DoT) had sought explanation from Trai as to how it arrived at the decision of recommending cancellation of 69 licences, whereas it had recommended cancel
Taking major initiatives to modernise the postal services in Jammu and Kashmir, 86 new post offices will be computerised in the state by August this year. "As many as 86 new post Offices in the state will be computerised by August 2011. This will be a major initiative to modernise the post services in Jammu & Kashmir," Chief Postmaster General (PMG), J&K Circle,
The Trichy and Thanjavur Passport Seva Kendras (PSK), two of the 77 centres being set up across the country to make simpler and easier the process of passport issuance, were launched on Wednesday. The scheme, being carried out in partnership with IT major TCS Ltd., promises to simplify the issuance of passports whereby applicants only have to show up at the Kendras with relevant documents and t
Inviting companies to set up shops in the country, the UK on Wednesday said that it is not interested in restricting outsourcing and would promote overseas investment. "We are not interested in restricting outsourcing and there is no interest from our side to make it difficult ...for companies who operate here, we want to make it easier for companies to come to the ma
When looking for information, internet users tend to search it on Google. And, when the government wants to snoop on people, it contacts the bosses of the US-based internet search giant. Google, a favourite place to search information on internet, has also emerged as a favoured snooping ground for the government agencies and globally India ranks third in seeking user details fro
India is looking for a special "government to government" agreement with Canada to get access to all services of BlackBerry, including its enterprise mail, following differences between security agencies and the smart phone manufacturer over its interception. Taking a cue from a similar type of pact between the US and Canada, India may go for such an agreement with Canada
Terming the USD 2.6 billion tax liability on the company as "inequitable", UK-based Vodafone on Wednesday questioned the Indian authorities for not raising the tax claim on the party (Hutchison) which made profit by selling its stake. Vodafone exuded confidence that there was no tax payable on its deal for buying majority stake of Hutchison in Indian telecom firm Hutchi
