Telecom Ministry will spend upto Rs 5,000 crore from the Universal Service Obligation fund (USOF) to give subsidy to the telecom operators for providing broadband services in rural areas of the country. The size of the tender will be between Rs 2,000 and Rs 5,000 crore, a source close to development said. USO Funds was set-up in 2002 in order to provide mobile services and broad
UK-based British Telecom (BT) and telecom equipment manufacturer ZTE Corporation on Wednesday entered into a partnership to explore next generation of fixed line, wireless and mobile telecommunications services. The partnership will use ZTE`s knowledge of equipment and network solutions combined with BT`s capabilities and experience of delivering communications services in m
Technology and business solutions provider ElectraCard Services has tied-up with IndusInd Bank to offer technology and processing services for the bank`s credit card business with immediate effect. Through the association, ECS would cater the technology, processes and expertise to ensure a seamless integration and meet the bank`s requirements, a company statement here said. With
China on Thursday denied any official involvement in cyber attacks after Google alleged the nation`s hackers broke into hundreds of Gmail accounts, saying that putting all the phishing blames on it is "unacceptable." "To put all the blame on China is unacceptable. The Chinese government pay a great attention to cyber security and administer internet according to law,"
In a phishing attack, hackers based in China broke into hundreds of Gmail accounts, including those belonging to senior US government officials and military personnel, Internet serach giant Google has said. "Through the strength of our cloud-based security and abuse detection systems, we recently uncovered a campaign to collect user passwords, likely through phishing," Google
The Birmingham City Council led by the Conservative party has become the first council or local authority in Britain to cut jobs and outsource them to India, sparking protests from employee unions. Reacting to the council`s move, Unite union national officer Peter Allenson said: "This is an outrageous decision and Unite will fight tooth and nail to stop this Tory-led council from e
Setting aside the Sebi order, appellate tribunal SAT on Wednesday allowed PriceWaterhouse to cross examine witnesses in the Satyam fraud case and asked the regulator to complete the enquiry within four months. "The Board is directed to allow the appellants (PriceWaterhouse) to cross examine the persons . The Board is further directed to complete the enquiry expeditiously preferably
With WHO indicating that heavy use of mobile phones could possibly cause brain cancer, the ICMR on Thursday said it will analyse the details of that research along with the ongoing work on its own independent study, the results of which may come out next year. "We will look into all the details of the WHO study to find out the data on the basis of which they have brought out these
The requirement of office space is expected to shrink substantially in the near future, thanks to the increased use of technologies by businesses worldwide. According to a joint study by office space provider Regus and research firm Unwired, out of 600 executives surveyed around the world, nearly 60 per cent of respondents from large organisations predicted a decrease in the need for of
Fortinet, a leading network security provider and the worldwide leader of unified threat management (UTM) solutions, has announced a new release of its FortiOS 4.0 operating system for the FortiGate product family, including FortiGate-3140B multi-threat security appliance. The broad advancements offered in the FortiOS 4.0 MR3 operating system introduce wireless controller extensions tha
Two young men and two women were found dead in a car on Thursday in an apparent Internet-based group suicide, South Korean police said. Police said the four, including a 25-year-old woman identified only as Park, left suicide notes in their bags in the car parked next to a river in Seongju, 210 kilometres (126 miles) southeast of Seoul. They apparently inhaled toxic fumes after
The Japanese Foreign Ministry began disseminating information through social media sites Facebook and Twitter from Wednesday to more effectively reach out to people, Foreign Minister Takeaki Matsumoto said. The ministry will send information in both English and Japanese. At a press conference, he said yesterday that the ministry`s decision is not related to the devastating March
Indian scientists have developed for the first time a Local Area Network (LAN) based online `Gamma Dose` logger to continuously monitor ionising radiation in the environment around nuclear reactors and associated fuel cycle facilities. "Such continuous monitoring also provides for early detection of excess release in case of an untoward incident and also to estimate the source term
If he had another chance, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt would have pressed the Internet search leader to focus more on mounting a challenge to Facebook while he was still running the company. "I screwed up," Schmidt said late yesterday during a 75-minute question-and-answer session at the D: All Things conference in Rancho Palos Verde, California. The Associated Press
Search engine giant Google on Wednesday announced the launch of its new tool `Global Market Finder` in India, which will help advertisers find new markets overseas for their products. "The new tool is designed to help Indian businesses expand their business and reach out to potential customers in international markets," Sridhar Seshadri, Head Online Sales, Google India, told m
The Jammu and Kashmir government is mulling to introduce e-governance in the state-run hospitals to streamline their working and bring transparency. "To begin with, Government Medical Colleges at Srinagar and Jammu and associated hospitals like Gandhi Nagar Hospital, Jammu and JLNM Hospital, Srinagar will be taken up in the first phase," an official spokesman said after a join
To provide easy access to state government data and bring in transparency, the Jammu and Kashmir government has launched a project to connect all its offices through broadband cables and wireless links. The project estimated at a cost of over Rs 60 crores will be completed by August 2012. "Jammu and Kashmir will have SWAN for e-governance. We have set the process in motion.
China, which has over 470 million Internet users, has banned its military personnel from socializing on the global search engine as it considered it a threat to military secrets, a media report said today. The People`s Liberation Army`s (PLA) Headquarters of the General Staff and the General Political Department jointly issued the decree, which bans soldiers from making friends, bloggin
Software and services company Ramco Systems Ltd reported net profit at Rs 4.77 crore for the year ending March 31, 2011. The city-headquartered company reported a net loss of Rs 1.09 crore in the same period of previous year, a company statement here said. The total income for the year ending March 31, 2011 grew to Rs 157.73 crore from Rs 108.55 crore, it said. "The
Britain is developing "virtual weapons" to counter growing threats to national security from online hackers, Armed Forces Minister Nick Harvey has said. According to him, the "cyber weapons programme" will provide the country with a "toolbox" of offensive options to counter online hackers targeting Britain`s critical services and government departments.
