Young people`s fascination with television, the Internet, video games and other electronic entertainment is making it more difficult to protect the world`s biodiversity, a UN official warned on Tuesday. Because many young people are urbanised and alienated from nature, they may not realise the value of protecting natural ecosystems and species, said Ahmed Djoghlaf, the United Nations ex
Global scientific publisher Springer on Tuesday said it has selected Verizon`s integrated networking solution to help unify its global network infrastructure. Verizon is providing Springer with a fully managed virtual private networking solution with professional services support. This flexible advanced Internet Protocol (IP) environment can quickly be scaled to accommodate the future d
A 27-year-old man has been detained by Maharashtra ATS for allegedly sending terror mails to CBI`s Mumbai office warning of strikes on August 13 in 10 cities, including Delhi, an ATS official said on Tuesday. Tushar Sawant, a resident of suburban Vidyavihar, was detained last night by ATS which handed him over to Kurla police today for further investigations. Sawant, who holds a
The Reserve Bank on Tuesday pitched for better use of technology and robust enforcement of law to deal with cyber crimes in the banking sector. "It is possible that total eradication of computer crimes may not be achieved. It can, however, be reduced through public education, robust law enforcement, compliance using effective security technologies and the establishment of foolproof
The US may soon classify major cyber attacks as acts of war, which may face possible military retaliation. Classifying computer sabotage, coming from another country as constituting an act of war is likely to be unveiled in Pentagon`s first ever cyber strategy, the Wall Street Journal reported, quoting from unclassified portions of the strategy expected to become public next month.
The People`s Liberation Army, of China has formed a special cyber warfare unit, called Blue Team, to safeguard the Internet security of the military, Chinese Defence Ministry has said. It is important for the military to strengthen its defence capabilities against the Internet attacks, Defence Ministry spokesman Geng Yansheng has been quoted as saying in the official media in Beijing on
The Rambhau Mhalgi Prabodhini has undertaken a project to digitalise former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee`s speeches, articles and interviews for reaching out to the "new generation." Titled "Samagra Atalji," the project would be formally launched in New Delhi on June 8. Former President of India A P J Abdul Kalam is expected to be the Chief Guest at the functi
EMC Corporation and Cisco on Tuesday launched their `Cloud Experience Centres` in Bangalore. This is a first-of-its-kind collaboration between two information technology (IT) industry leaders with the twin facilities located at the EMC Centre of Excellence and at the Cisco Globalization Centre East, creating a lab that provides Indian customers with an opportunity to experience the bene
The Jammu and Kashmir government has launched a website of its Social Welfare Department to enable the beneficiaries of various Centrally-sponsored and state government schemes in the state to get all the information through a click of the mouse. Minister for Social Welfare Sakina Itoo launched the official website, jksocialwelfare.nic.in, here yesterday. It is extremely importa
For Ambala Division of the Northern Railway RJD Chief Lalu Prasad Yadav is still the Railway Minister. A link on the official website of the Ambala Railway Division provides access to a format a 11-page telephone directory in adobe which still lists Lalu Prasad Yadav as the "Rail Minister". The two Ministers of State mentioned in the list-- Narain Bhai J Rathwa and R V
A new system is being worked out for linking block, district and state for animal diseases with a nodal central agency for better monitoring and control of trans-boundary diseases. The National Animal Disease Reporting System (NADRS) will link each block, district and state headquarters through computer with a central disease reporting and monitoring centre in New Delhi. This pr
The government on Tuesday made it mandatory for operators to introduce Location Based Service, which may cost service providers about USD 5 billion to upgrade their networks that may promt them to hike tariffs, as one of the steps to enhance security against misuse Location Based Service (LBS) provides details of mobile customers in the area in which the subscriber is using the phone. T
The government on Tuesday made it mandatory for telecom operators to appoint only Indian nationals for maintaining networks and said any security breach would lead to Rs 50 crore penalty besides initiation of criminal proceedings. Putting complete onus on operators for any security breach, the government said that Location Based Services must be introduced across the country within thre
Global chip maker Intel sees big opportunity in RBI`s financial inclusion program and is all set to launch its Universal Handheld Device (UHD) for banking operations by the end of this year, according to a top company executive. "The UHD reference design has been developed in India for Indian market. We are taking to companies, who are willing take it up with their brand name,"
PricewaterhouseCoopers auditors, Subramani Gopalakrishnan and Srinivas Talluri, accused in the Rs 14,000 crore Satyam accounting fraud, on Tuesday received a jolt as the Delhi High Court rejected their pleas against the disciplinary proceedings initiated by the ICAI. A bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justice Sanjiv Khanna dismissed the petitions filed by the two auditors, who had
Cybercrooks do not go on a holiday and innocent kids may be victimised by them as children spend a lot of time on the Internet during vacations, say experts. Online stalking, spams, phishing attacks and illegal content including pornography are the various tools used by cybercrooks and parents need to exercise extra caution to protect children, they say. "Children being inexperienc
The embedded systems market in India has the potential to triple in size to about USD 14.4 billion in 2015 from USD 4.95 billion in 2009 but there are some areas of concern, according to a report released in bangalore on May 27. The study on "Embedded Systems Opportunity: Powering Indian IT up the Value Chain" was conducted by National Association of Software and Services Comp
The Hero Group, which owns and manages HEROtsc, one of the UK`s leading business outsourcing firms, on May 27 announced its foray into the domestic outsourcing business in India. Hero BPO has been set up as a new flagship customer support centre in Gurgaon and would provide back-office and contact centre services to domestic clients, it said Hero Corporate Service Ltd Chairman S
National Payments Corporation of India on Tuesday said it will be launching a pilot project of making merchant payments through mobile phones in three months with the involvement of six banks, including country`s largest lender State Bank of India. "Six banks, including State Bank of India, ICICI, UBI and Kotak Mahindra Bank have volunteered to start the merchant payments through m
Mobile phone users may be at increased risk from brain cancer and should use texting and free-hands devices to reduce exposure, the World Health Organisation`s cancer experts have said. Radio-frequency electromagnetic fields generated by such devices are "possibly carcinogenic to humans," the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) announced at the end of an eight-d
