Asian telecommunications giant Singapore Telecommunications (SingTel) today said it had more than 400 million customers by the end of March, a figure lifted by its Indian associate. SingTel said its mobile customer base of 403 million was up 37 per cent from a year ago. Indian associate Bharti registered the largest rise in customers, up 66 per cent on the year, or
Coming down heavily on GSM players like Vodafone Essar and Bharti Airtel for trying to scuttle Trai`s move to review network interconnect charges, Auspi backed the telecom regulator`s initiative saying it will lead to reduction in call charges. "We support Trai initiative to review, which will pave the way for further reduction in the telecom tariffs and subsequent benefit t
IT firm Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), which has recently launched its integrated pay-per use, cloud based business solution `ION`, would go for hospital management products in the near future, a senior company official said on Wednesday. The company would soon come out with a solution in the illness segment and also hospital management, Global head, ION, V Ramaswamy told repor
People in Rajasthan will now be able to file online their complaints related to different government departments. The integrated online grievance redressal system `Sugam` comprising of a portal and call centre will be inaugurated tomorrow by the Minister of state for public Grievances and Pension V Narayanswamy and Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot here, an official said. Th
Three more mission mode projects (MMPs) in the area of education, health and public distribution system (PDS) will be included in the national e-governance plan (NeGP) as per Shankar Aggarwal, Additional Secretary in the department of information technology (DIT). "It has been decided that we will expand this basket of 27 MMPs and the cabinet secretary has given a direction
Haryana will become the first state in the country to directly deposit all kinds of social pensions in the bank accounts of the beneficiaries through Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) System by June 2011. This was disclosed in the meeting held under the chairpersonship of Haryana Chief Secretary Urvashi Gulati here in a release issued here today. It was informed th
Facebook has 7.5 million users who are underage and are "not supposed" to be using the social networking site, according to a new report. Of the 20 million minors who actively used Facebook in the past year, more than one-third or about 7.5 million were younger than 13 and not supposed to be able to use the site, Consumer Reports, an American consumer advocacy publicati
Sony said on Tuesday it aimed to fully restore its PlayStation Network, shut down after a massive security breach affecting over 100 million online accounts, by the end of May. Sony also confirmed that personal data from 24.6 million user accounts was stolen in the hacker attack last month. Personal data, including credit card numbers, might have been stolen from a
Google Inc is preparing to unveil a new online music service, similar to a service recently launched by Amazon.com Inc, a move that escalates the battle to create the next generation of internet businesses for storing and listening to music, says a media report. "Google is preparing as early as Tuesday to unveil a new online music service similar to a service recently launch
Online marketplace eBay India today announced the appointment of Muralikrishnan B as its Country Manager, with immediate effect, replacing Ambareesh Murty. In his new role, Muralikrishnan will be responsible for the eBay portfolio in India, Philippines and Malaysia, eBay India said in a statement He has taken over from Murty, who has led eBay India as Country Manag
In one of its biggest buyouts in over three decades, Microsoft will snap up Skype for USD 8.5 billion in cash, a move that would bolster the software major`s presence in the highly competitive Internet market. The deal, announced today, would be a shot in the arm for cash-rich Microsoft in competing with strong rivals such as Google and Apple apart from strengthening its footprin
North Korea`s defence ministry on Tuesday denied it carried out a cyber-attack on one of South Korea`s largest banks, calling allegations that was behind last month`s hacking "absurd" and a "farce". South Korean prosecutors say the North brought down the computer system of the National Agricultural Cooperative Federation, or Nonghyup, by hacking into an offici
Observing `Smart Card Week` seemed to have worked wonders for the Delhi Metro. On the first day of the `Smart Card Week` on Tuesday, there was a 30 per cent increase in the sale of the smart cards, which helps commuters to avoid grueling queues. On an average, about 10,000 new Smart Cards are sold at Metro stations every day. "However, DMRC regi
Tech major IBM has projected that revenue from value-added services (VAS) would touch Rs 21,000 crore by 2014 if telecom operators adopted an aggressive VAS strategy, as their average revenue from voice is on a steep decline due to fierce competition and regulatory nudging. "Telecom operators need to find a solution to the imminent further revenue loss as Arpu keeps declinin
Indian Telecom product manufacturer Kavveri Telecom today announced launch of a linearly Polarised customer premise equipment (CPE) antenna, for North American market. "The 4G or LTE (Long Term Evaluation) technology in frequency band of 698 to 960 Mhz. This antenna will serve need of companies for providing LTE and other services in the these frequency bands," Shivakum
Indian IT and Telecom companies will participate in a joint international show, CommunicAsia 2011 and BroadcastAsia 2011, which will be held at Singapore next month to showcase their company`s strength and strike business deals with international players. "Telecom major Bharti Airtel, Tata Communications, Shyam Telecom, VNL and many other companies have confirmed their parti
Telecom giant BSNL is negotiating with leading private operators to enter into tower sharing agreement, a move that would help the ailing PSU to turnaround. "We are in talks with various service providers in order to make arrangement so that we can share our idle tower infrastructure with them and generate revenues in order to make our bottomline healthy," BSNL CMD R K
Hundreds of thousands of Facebook users account details could have been "inadvertently" leaked to third parties, in particular advertisers, over the years, according to data security solutions provider Symantec. "Symantec has discovered that in certain cases, Facebook IFRAME applications inadvertently leaked access tokens to third parties like advertisers or analytic plat
The government of India and the World Bank today signed a loan agreement of $150 million for the e-delivery of public services development policy loan under the national e-governance plan (NeGP), a flagship e-governance initiative of the government of India aimed at transforming the service delivery system across the country. The Agreement was signed by the representatives from t
The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) on Minday launched its Unique Identification (UID) number project `Aadhaar` in Orissa. All residents above the age group of one year shall be enrolled in the project. In a symbolic ceremony at Raj Bhawan, the state`s first citizen Governor M C Bhandare was enrolled under the project by Smart Chip Limited, an enro
