Integrated healthcare knowledge service provider, BioQuest Solutions, has announced the launch of MObq, a specialised division delivering healthcare services over mobile devices. The services are targeted towards all stakeholders in healthcare delivery that involves patients and consumers, health care professionals, hospitals, primary care centres, diagnostic centres, labs and ph
Leading cellphone maker Nokia on Wednesday said it will stop using its mobile operating system Symbian by 2016 and recently showcased Nokia N9 will be the first and last handset in its portfolio on Meego platform. Nokia and leading chipmaker Intel have jointly developed the Meego platform. "We will have work on Symbian till 2016," Nokia India Director (Marketing) Viral
IT and BPO sectors saw the maximum increase in employment opportunities at about three lakh during the first quarter of this year, a government survey said on Wednesday. "The maximum increase of 2.87 lakh in employment was in the IT/BPO sector during January-March 2011 over September-December quarter last year," the survey said. This was followed by the m
Social networking site Facebook will next month introduce a payment system `Facebook Credits` for Indian users who could spend the virtual currency across various games or applications they use on the popular website. A virtual currency, Facebook Credits is already popular among gaming enthusiasts in many other countries, including the US. "Facebook will introduce a new paym
Aptech Limited, the global career education and training company, has informed the bourses that its wholly-owned subsidiary has received a dividend of an amount of USD 11,202,479 (equivalent to approximately Rs 50.3 crore) from BJB Career Education Co Ltd of China. Aptech owns 22.4 per cent stake in BJB Career Education, which is the leading vocational training company of China i
Email ID of a businesswoman in City of Kanpur was hacked and the money meant to be deposited in her account by a Germany-based client was diverted, police said. "Kailashpuri resident Prerna Verma runs a leather shoe firm and had sent an order to a client in Germany 15 days back," SP West Sanjay Kumar on Wednesday said. She had sent the invoice of the orde
Tuning in to the good old radio makes people happier and gives them higher energy levels than watching TV or browsing the Internet, a new study has found. In the British study, based on a survey, radio came out top, beating both TV and online, with respondents recording a 100 per cent lift in happiness and 300 per cent boost to their energy levels when listening to a radio show.
Online search giant Groupon`s Indian subsidiary -- SoSasta -- accidentally published the email addresses and passwords of its 3 lakh subscribers last weekend, but has taken corrective measures and said that the issue has been brought under control. The online discount portal SoSasta.com, alerted its subscribers about the security issue and asked them to change their passwords imm
The Centre is working on a 3D technology that will allow parents to have online access to any educational institution for admission of their wards, HRD Minister Kapil Sibal said on Wednesday. "One of the technology solutions we are thinking about is why should not parents sitting at home have access to any school within the region where they want to get his child (admitted)...,&qu
Computer hackers have disrupted al-Qaeda`s ability to communicate via internet by interrupting the flow of videos and messages of the outfit, an anti-terror expert said. The attack was reportedly carried out by unknown hackers in the past few days. "Al-Qaida`s online communications have been temporarily crippled, and it does not have a single trusted distribution channel ava
Computer Society of India (CSI)-Nihilent e-Governance awards instituted by the CSI’s Special Interest Group (SIG) is inviting nominations for the forthcoming ‘CSI-Nihilent e-Governance Awards 2010-11’. Instituted in 2002, CSI-Nihilent e-Governance awards have been recognising the efforts of various government departments at Center, State, Department, District and other levels
To enable easy access to cost effective business productivity solutions on the cloud, Microsoft Corporation on Wednesday announced commercial availability of Microsoft Office 365 in India. This cloud based office suite could be availed at price $2 per user per month, (excluding applicable taxes), which would allow SMBs and enterprise customers to access Microsoft’s popular
The average Briton remembers 10 individual online passwords a day, a survey has revealed. One in three people are forced to resort to writing them down while another one in three forget them completely, according to the survey. Most often the passwords people use are something like the name of a pet (12 per cent of people), date of birth (10 per cent) or their mother`s maiden nam
The Indian enterprise software market showed broad growth and recovery in 2010, with total software revenue increasing 16.3 per cent to total USD 2.5 billion, according to research firm Gartner. In 2009, enterprise software revenue in India grew just 4.2 per cent to USD 2.1 billion, Gartner said in a statement. "In 2010, major software vendors expanded their product portfoli
HP Enterprise Services on Tuesday launched new security services delivered through the cloud to "help enterprises mitigate risk by reducing security vulnerabilities". "The new HP Enterprise Cloud Services help organisations mitigate risk against potential security vulnerabilities while lowering the financial commitment often required for security contr
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa on Tuesday inaugurated the electronic challan system of Chennai City Traffic Police for spot fining traffic violators. The 300 e-challan system units worth Rs 2.83 crore would be issued to Inspectors and Sub Inspectors who regulate traffic in the city. "With this e challan system, traffic violators can be spot fined and be monitored. We
Determined to turn around loss-making PSU BSNL, Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal says he will adopt a `carrot-and-stick` policy with an aim of getting desirable results within six months. "The point is we must have targets for circles. If you don`t you will be transferred out and those who will do well will be rewarded, may be they should be given a posting of their choice,"
Amid huge shortage of spectrum, affecting the quality of services, the government is likely to allow sharing of radio-waves by two or more service providers, say officials engaged in framing the New Telecom Policy, 2011. They, however, ruled out trading in the 2G spectrum as it was never auctioned. "Even, Trai had recommended spectrum sharing. Spectrum trading was not recomm
Reserve Bank Deputy Governor K C Chakrabarty on Tuesday called up on banks to begin a journey onto the path of paperless, cheque-less and cashless banking stating that the future of banking lies there. "The next big challenge for our banks is to make banking paperless, cheque-less and cashless," he told the sixth Banking Technology Summit organised by CII here.
ZTE India, the Indian arm of Chinese telecom infrastructure provider ZTE, on Tuesday said it has built and deployed technology platform for Vodafone Essar through which it will provide news service on mobile via MMS. "While news updates have been available on mobiles, this is the first time that a mobile newspaper service via MMS has been deployed commercially by any operato
