Founders and bosses of major Internet firms including Facebook, Google and Amazon will meet in Paris this month ahead of the G8 summit, French President Nicolas Sarkozy said on Wednesday. "I am delighted that numerous leaders of the Internet world have responded to France`s invitation to come and discuss the Internet at the e-G8 forum on May 24 and 25," said a message on Sarko
The Winklevoss twins are taking their legal case against Facebook founder and their former Harvard classmate Mark Zuckerberg to the US Supreme Court after a federal appeals court today declined to review an earlier legal challenge from them. The Supreme Court is the final legal option open to Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, who allege that Zuckerberg stole their idea for the social networ
Thousands of Nepalese youths have launched a Facebook campaign to pressurise political parties to draft a new constitution by the May 28 deadline. The campaign - We Nepalese united for change - called for stopping paying the politicians if they failed to draft the constitution by the deadline. After the end of decade-long conflict between Maoist rebels and the state, Nepal elect
Thousands of Nepalese youths have launched a Facebook campaign to pressurise political parties to draft a new constitution by the May 28 deadline. The campaign - We Nepalese united for change - called for stopping paying the politicians if they failed to draft the constitution by the deadline. After the end of decade-long conflict between Maoist rebels and the state, Nepal elect
IT giant TCS and financial services major HDFC have been named as India`s two best managed companies in an annual poll conducted by Finance Asia magazine. TCS and HDFC are followed by IT major Infosys, telecom giant Bharti airtel and PSU behemoth ONGC in the list of the top-five best managed companies in the country The report also named TCS`s Natarajan Chadrasekaran and I
Telecom company S Tel on Wednesday announced the launch of international calls at the rate of 1 paisa per second for its subscribers in Bihar and Jharkhand as well as international tourists visiting Bihar during the festive week of Buddha Purnima. "S Tel`s Passport Pack 99 is a gift to our valued subscribers across Bihar and Jharkhand market and to the huge inflow of interna
State-run MTNL today entered into a partnership with mobile-value-added services provider DigiVive to offer mobile television and voice-interactive- response (IVR) services to its customers. "nexGTv is a mobile TV service offering live TV channels and an exhaustive list of Video-On-Demand (VOD) content on mobile. This service is available for both 2G as well as 3G users with compat
Following directives from Telecom Ministry to synergise their operations, state-run MTNL on Wednesday said it has initiated process with BSNL to streamline their business, including telecommunications, enterprise and customer care to cut costs. Both the firms are reeling under huge financial losses and the Government has directed them to synergise their resources in order to cut costs a
Indian GSM telecom operators added 11.10 million subscribers in April, taking the all-India GSM cellular subscriber base to 580.66 million, cellular operators` association COAI today said. The GSM subscriber base stood at 569.55 million at the end of March, 2011, with an addition of 14.49 million. Bharti Airtel, the largest GSM player, added 2.41 million users in April, taking i
The Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) on 2G spectrum scam Wednesday began examining the telecom policy pursued during the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) rule as it sought to know the quantum of losses incurred during that period and decided to summon the then Attorney General Soli Sorabjee in this connection. At its second meeting since being set up in February, the JPC headed by
The Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) on 2G spectrum scam Wednesday began examining the telecom policy pursued during the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) rule as it sought to know the quantum of losses incurred during that period and decided to summon the then Attorney General Soli Sorabjee in this connection. At its second meeting since being set up in February, the JPC headed by
The Government of India has instituted ‘Prime Minister’s Awards for excellence in Public Administration’ to acknowledge, recognize and reward the extraordinary and innovative work done by officers of the Central and State Governments. All officers of Central and State Governments individually or as a group or as organizations are eligible for consideration. Nominations are now
Facing lawsuit by a former employee, Infosys Technologies has said its business could be adversely affected if the US decides to restrict the visa programme as a fallout of the case. Earlier this year, Infosys employee Jack Palmer had filed a lawsuit alleging that he was asked by the company to sign on documents which said workers were heading to the US to have meetings rather than to w
Country`s largest software exporter TCS on Wednesday said it will adopt the global accounting standard IFRS from this fiscal, although the government is yet to finalise a date for its implementation for corporates. "We will be reporting our June quarter numbers in Indian and Gaap as well as in IFRS (International Financial Reporting Standards) compliant format," TCS Exe
Wipro has emerged as the leader followed by HCL, Patni, Infosys, Mahindra Satyam and MindTree in the rating of global R&D service providers across various countries like India, China, Russia and Eastern Europe, according to a study. The top six players, of the 44 companies that were assessed constitute 58 per cent of the total R&D service provider market, a study conducted by Zi
Tatas are being portrayed by Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), India`s premier investigation agency, as the "victim" in 2G spectrum scam but they are the greatest beneficiary in the allocation of the radio waves during the tenure of A Raja as Telecom Minister, a Delhi Court was told Wednesday Shahid Usman Balwa, promoter of Swan Telecom and accused in the case, alleged CB
A designer in the US has created what he claims is a computer which allows one to use a typewriter instead of a keyboard. The USB Typewriter conversion kit plugs into the USB port on a laptop, monitor or iPad via a sensor board, says its inventor Jack Zylkin. "It`s new and ground-breaking innovation in the field of obsolescence," he said. The modification is "easy
An activist who organised pro-democracy protests in ex-Soviet Azerbaijan through social networking website Facebook was jailed on Wednesday for two years for evading military service, his supporters said. United States-educated Bakhtiyar Hajiyev, 29, was arrested after he was listed among the creators of a Facebook page discussing a "people`s revolution" in the mainly Muslim s
Finnish handset maker Nokia plans to introduce a new feature on its mobile phones, `Search`, which will enable users to identify a particular locality at the click of a button. The new feature helps customers to identify a place or a shopping mall or a food joint from their mobile phones, Nokia India Director - Operator Channel V Ramnath said. "We are planning to introduce
China-based telecom equipment-maker ZTE Corporation on Wednesday said it has bagged technology expansion contracts from Sistema Shyam TeleServices Ltd (SSTL) for an undisclosed amount. ZTE has won CDMA expansion contracts and EV-DO -- a network protocol used by cell phones for wireless Internet communications -- upgrade contracts for 10 circles of SSTL, which operates under MTS brand, Z
