India Inc`s hiring activity witnessed a marginal decline in the month of April, owing to the ongoing appraisal season, but overall industries are upbeat about their hiring sentiment and 2011 is expected to be a landmark year for job creation, job portal Naukri.Com says. The Naukri Job Speak index for April this year stood at 1062, 2 per cent below the March 2011 index and 4 per cent abo
The International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the leading United Nations agency for Information and Communication Technology, is marking its 146th anniversary of establishment on 17 May this year by recognizing eminent personalities who have made a significant contribution in using ICT for social development to unleash the digital revolution. In this regard, ITU has decided to confer the 201
IT company Tera Software today said it has received work orders worth Rs 62.74 crore from the Unique Indetification Authority of India (UIDAI) and the Electronics Corporation of India Ltd. "The company is already engaged with the national prestigious projects of UIDAI and NPR Projects with their order valued Rs 76.20 crore. In addition to that, the company received fresh wor
India`s largest private lender ICICI Bank has tied up with Colombo-based Sampath Bank PLC to launch an online cross-border money transfer facility between the two countries. Money2SriLanka (M2SL) is a web-based online platform which facilitates the sending of remittances from various geographies to beneficiaries in Sri Lanka in a convenient and economical manner, ICICI Bank said.
Info Edge, an IT firm that owns Naukri.com, today said it will pick up stake in 99labels.com, investing about USD 3.5 million in the web portal. It said that of the total investment, a small portion will go towards buying stake from some shareholders and the rest will be used for funding the portal`s growth. Officials at both the companies said they are still in th
Popular networking site Facebook is helping Goa`s longest surviving Konkani weekly printed in Roman script and promoted by Catholic priests, stay afloat. Social networking is a buzz word for `Vavraddeancho Ixtt (V-Ixtt)` the Konkani magazine which was launched to reach out to peasants during the Portuguese era in Goa. Father Feroz Fernandes, Editor-in-Chief, V-Ixtt
The MCD has made it mandatory for all city hospitals to report dengue and chikungunya cases online. Nodal officers of all the 596 hospitals in the city will provide the exact figures of dengue and chikungunya affected people undergoing treatment there via internet. The move comes after MCD`s online system for reporting such cases became functional on April 8.
The Jammu and Kashmir government is planning to put online all the data related to scholarship awards at pre-matric and post matric levels for ensuring greater transparency. "We are contemplating bringing the details of beneficiaries of pre-matric and post-matric scholarships online so that transparency of functioning is ensured," state Social Welfare Minister Sakina It
After the Internet, Google is now set to foray into the domain of household appliances - it will produce bulbs, thermostats and dishwashers, and integrate them with wireless technology, the search engine giant has said. According to Google, the new range of "almost anything electrical" household devices would be launched by the end of this year, and wireless technology
BVJS communications LLC today announced the launch of Malayalam IPTV (Internet Protocol Television) for NRKs. The new Malayalam IPTV distributes most of the malayalam channels from Kerala through the largest and fastest growing platform for the media delivery IPTV. BVJS communication is the first distributor to offer the highest quality streaming via the IPTV platf
Broadband satellite networks and services provider Hughes Communications India today said it has launched a cloud-based messaging and collaborative service for business customers using Microsoft`s Communication Services platform. The cloud service will be subscription-based and will be built on Microsoft`s Communication Services platform, Hughes Communications India said in a sta
Infotech solutions provider, Datacraft Asia, has re-branded itself as Dimension Data with effect from yesterday, and is set to launch its `One Cloud` service along with Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) through a revenue sharing venture within three months. "There will be no equity participation by BSNL. It will be purely a revenue sharing model," Dimension Data CEO Kiran
A website of Minority Affairs Ministry with improved features was launched here today. The new website -- http://www.minorityaffairs.gov.in -- has been given a new look and it groups subjects systematically under drop-down Menu bars and, therefore, allows easy navigation. The new site has also been improved in terms of content presentation, graphics design and form
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been awarded the Sydney Peace Foundation`s Gold Medal for "exceptional courage in the pursuit of human rights". According to a Foundation statement today, veteran Australian broadcaster Mary Kostakidis praised WikLeaks as an "ingenious and heroic website that has shifted the power balance between citizen and the state by exposin
Technological giant IBM today launched the virtual desktop in India that offers anytime, anywhere access to personal desktops from mobile devices including tablets, net books, laptops and thin clients. The IBM Virtual Desktop allows Windows or Linux desktops to be hosted and managed centrally, thus lowering the cost and complexity of managing Personal Computer environments throug
The worldwide supply chain management software market returned to double-digit growth in 2010, with SCM software revenue touching USD 6.8 billion, a 10 per cent increase vis-a-vis the previous calendar year, according to IT research and advisory firm Gartner, Inc. In 2009, the market experienced a 2.1 per cent decline, with revenue of USD 6.1 billion. "Despite
Indian metro cities, Mumbai and Delhi have been ranked at 18 and 20 respectively, in terms of deployment of information and communication (ICT) solutions, a study by telecom equipment maker Ericsson said. The Networked Society City Index prepared by Ericsson that analyses 25 cities around the world, site that these cities are also better equipped for the transformation required t
After penalising new telecom operators for missing out roll-out obligations, the Telecom Ministry is likely to turn to dual technology players and may issue notices to Reliance Communications and Tata Teleservices for similar violations. The draft notices for imposition of liquidated damages (LD) for 10 licences each of RCom and Tatas have been prepared and are awaiting approval
Making a strong pitch for his immigration reforms, President Barack Obama has said that he does not want the next corporate giants like Google and Intel to be created in India and China, which are giving stiff competition to American firms. "We don`t want the next Intel or Google to be created in China or India. We want those companies and jobs to take root in America,"
As the country On Wednesday celebrated Technology Day, S&T Minister P K Bansal cautioned scientists not to get carried away by the euphoria of being an "innovation nation", but ponder why Google or Blackberry did not originate in India. "Lest we get carried away by the euphoria of India being an innovation nation we must also ask ourselves why there is no Googl
