Haryana would develop a roadmap for IT application and e-governance for the next 10 years. The state government wants to achieve efficiency, transparency and accountability in governance by providing Information and Communication Technology (ICT) enabled access and opportunity for all, anytime anywhere, state Chief Secretary, Urvashi Gulati said here. It has been decided to set
IT solutions provider Connectiva Systems on Wednesday announced launch of cloud computing service, ConnectivaCloud for the telecom industry, accessible as a service over the cloud. "ConnectivaCloud gives operators the flexibility and capabilities to effectively monitor, manage and monetise their revenue and customer data," Avi Basu, President and CEO of Connectiva Systems said
Hyderabad-based information and communication technology company Prithvi Information Solutions on Wednesday said it has bagged the Mizoram State Data Centre project worth Rs 12.5 crore by competing with players like Reliance, HCL, TCS and Sify. The project is primarily for design, site preparation, supply, installation, commissioning, maintenance and operations of SDC. Prithvi e
Computer hackers have breached Citigroup`s computer network and have accessed data on hundreds of thousands of its card customers, the Financial Times said. Citigroup said the breach, which affected about 1 per cent of its card customers, was discovered in early May through routine monitoring, the newspaper said. According to the bank`s annual report, Citi Cards has about 21 mil
A worldwide test was under way on Wednesday of the next generation of Internet addresses designed to replace the dwindling pool of 4.3 billion unique identifiers in the original system. Hundreds of companies, organisations and institutions around the world are taking part in "World IPv6 Day," including Internet giants such as Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Yahoo! Inte
Tapping online resources to boost her campaign for the IMF chief post, French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde will personally answer questions about her bid through Facebook and Twitter on Thursday. After whirlwind tours of India and China to drum up support for her candidature, Lagarde would on Thursday hit popular social networking site Facebook and microblogging site Twitter.
The Employees Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) on Wednesday said account details would be available online from July 1. "You can watch the account balance of your PF online from July 1," Assistant PF Commissioner Kanchan Roy said at an interactive session at Bengal National Chamber of Commerce and Industry. "This indeed would be a great help to about 5 crore PF
Beijing, June 8 (PTI) China, which has launched its own internet mapping services this year to rival Google`s Earth Maps has made it mandatory for overseas web companies to operate mapping services only through a tie up with Chinese companies. The only permissible way for overseas organisations and individuals to provide Internet mapping services in China is to set up joint ventures, a
The next growth driver for telecom industry is mobile Value Added Services (VAS) which is expected to be USD 4 billion industry by 2013, says a study. The focus of operators is to provide MVAS services in the areas of Banking (for better banking facilities, penetration), Healthcare (for better infrastructure in rural areas), and Education (for better access to knowledge), according to a
Betting big on the government`s fibre-to-home broadband plans, Radius Infratel on Thursday said it will invest around Rs 500 crore in the current fiscal for expansion, research and development of its business and technology. "We will invest Rs 500 crore during current fiscal year (FY`12). These funds will be raised through loans and debt, we are currently talking with some financia
NATO wants to beef up its cyber defence capabilities with the creation of a special task force to detect and respond to Internet attacks, an alliance expert said on Wednesday at a conference on cyber security in Tallinn. "NATO is planning to establish the Cyber Red Team that would provide a significant contribution to the improvement of NATO`s cyber defence capability," Luc Da
Telecom major Bharti Airtel today commenced 3G services in Jammu and Kashmir, starting with the summer capital Srinagar. "Powered by 160 sites in Srinagar alone, Airtel 3G services will gradually be launched across the state in weeks to come," Chief Executive Officer, Upper North, Mobile service, Shashi Arora told reporters in Srinagar. He said with the launch of 3G se
Police in Greece have arrested an 18-year-old star hacker suspected of breaking into the website of crime-fighting agency Interpol and a number of US state agencies, a senior officer said on Wednesday. The unidentified teen, who reportedly lives with his mother in the working-class Athens district of Agios Dimitrios, had originally broken into the Interpol site when he was just 15 years
CBI today carried out searches in the premises of former top officials of MTNL and Noida-based HCL Infosystems for allegedly inflating the cost of setting up a broadcast network for the Commonwealth Games by nearly Rs 400 crore. Soon after registering a new case, sleuths of the agency swooped down on the residential premises of MTNL`s the then CMD R S P Sinha, Executive Director S M Tal
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Facebook is coming under fire for a feature that uses facial recognition software to allow members to tag pictures of their friends on the social network. The "Tag Suggestions" feature made its debut on Facebook in the United States six months ago but has drawn renewed attention this week after the social network began rolling it out to other countries. Tag Suggestions
As part of expansion moves, particularly in smaller cities in India, software major IBM plans to increase its presence in another 25 cities, besides the existing 22,by 2013, a senior company official said on Wednesday. The expansion was part of company`s strategy to establish its presence in growth markets, which at present were spreading to smaller cities, Nipun Mehrotra, Vice-Presiden
Pakistan has rejected the US offer to upgrade a border security watch system supplied by it and instead decided to replace it with locally-developed software so that "the integrity of data will be secured." "The government was inflexible on the matter" and insisted it would develop its own system, Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) Additional Director-General of Immi
Come January 2013, National Intelligence Grid (NATGRID) will become operational and facilitate robust information sharing among law enforcement agencies to combat terror threat at home and abroad. With the approval by the Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) for the first and second phases of the NATGRID, the Home Ministry has set the boll rolling for setting up of the Rs 1,200 crore amb
Malaysia is expected to fully implement its biometric system at all border entry points by end of this month in a bid to check cross border crime involving foreigners. Malaysian Home Minister Hishammuddin Hussein said the system, which was studied and tested for one and a half years by the ministry, had so far been implemented in several entry points since June 1. "We have
