After missing March 31 deadline, the Telecom Ministry is planning to float a tender in next two weeks for providing wireless broadband connections to over 5 lakh villages in 18 months. "Due to some internal issues it (issuing of tender) has been delayed. The work is almost finished from our side. Now this will be sent for legal vetting. I hope all this process will be comple
Mumbai police faced some anxious moments hours before the high-voltage World Cup final match between India and Sri Lanka began as its official website had received an email stating bombs were planted inside the stadium, but thorough search did not find any explosive. It was a prank email sent on April 1 night to make the security agencies "April fool", a senior police o
Taking the 2G probe to the doorstep of the Prime Minister`s Office, PAC is likely to ask Principal Secretary to the PM, T K A Nair, and Cabinet Secretary K M Chandrasekhar to appear before it this fortnight in connection with the telecom scam. Sources said Parliament`s Public Accounts Committee, headed by senior BJP leader M M Joshi, has called Nair, Chandrasekhar and CBI directo
Korean handset maker LG Mobiles is eyeing a turnover of Rs 3,000 crore this year with the launch of new smartphones and other feature-rich phones in the country. The company, which will launch 10 smartphones this year, registered an about Rs 2,000 crore revenue in 2010. "We have a strong product lineup for this year. This will include 10 smartphones and other
Hiring activities improved in most of the sectors in the first three months of 2011, says leading job portal Naukri.com. "The first quarter of the 2011 witnessed a healthy hiring sentiment as the Naukri job speak index for March 2011 is at 1,085 as compared to 1,050 in February 2011...," Naukri.com said in a statement today. The job speak index is a broad
The Supreme Court today ordered the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) to maintain status quo on its demand for Rs 617 crore income tax from Satyam Computer, while asking for a list of the actual liabilities of the scam-hit information technology (IT) firm. A three-judge bench headed by Chief Justice S H Kapadia directed the CBDT to submit a chart by Friday showing the actual i
Shares of Satyam Computer Services, now Mahindra Satyam, jumped by over 9 per cent in early trade on the BSE today after the company reached a settlement with the US Securities Exchange Commission, which concludes the SEC`s investigation of accounting issues related to the firm. Following the settlement, the scrip of the IT services provider witnessed heavy buying interest and su
Suresh Vaswani, former Wipro joint CEO, has been appointed Chairman of Dell India and chief of applications and business process outsourcing organisation of Dell Services. Vaswani at Dell Serivces will report to Steve Schuckenbrock, the President of Dell Services. Vaswani`s focus will be to build next generation service offerings and grow Dell?s process capabilitie
The government today issued a notice to Sistema Shyam Teleservices (SSTL) to terminate licences for Kerala, West Bengal and Assam for delay in roll- out of services in these three circles. "We have sent a termination notice to SSTL for the delay in network roll-out in three circles -- Kerala, West Bengal and Assam," a senior Department of Communications (DoT) official s
The Supreme Court has dismissed Mumbai-based Glodyne Technoserve Ltd`s plea against Madhya Pradesh government that awarded the tender for computerisation of Public Distribution System and Biometric enrolment of UID Aadhar beneficiaries to HCL Construction Ltd. A bench of Justice Altamas Kabir and Justice Cyriac Joseph rejected Glodyne`s plea that its bid was lower than that of HC
The Department of Information Technology (DIT) has published a draft policy on mobile governance that aims to enable government departments to provide services, including payment of utility bills and filing of tax returns from mobile phones. A platform called Mobile Service Delivery Gateway (MSDG) will be set up, on which all ministries and departments will be able to start their
Even as the battle over Spice acquisition continues, the Aditya Birla group firm Idea Cellular is believed to be in talks with global telecom operators to sell its stake in the company. According to reports, the group is scouting for buyers for the telecom company and has held discussions with several international players. When contacted, Idea Cellular spokesperso
An association of senior officials of state-owned BSNL has demanded a probe into the allocation of broadband spectrum to the company, saying that it is not standardised and is inferior to the one given to private telcos, despite having paid the same price. In a letter to Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal, Sanchar Nigam Executive`s Association (SNEA) has demanded that BSNL be give the
Driven by increasing sales of electronics and burgeoning telecom sector, the Indian semiconductor design industry is expected to reach USD 10.2 billion by 2012, an industry body today said. According to the India semiconductor Association, the Indian chip design industry, which comprises VLSI design, embedded software development and board design, is estimated to grow 17.3 per ce
West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee has termed as "distorted" and "one-sided" the WikiLeaks revelation that he had invited Dow Chemicals to a proposed chemical hub, saying invitation was made on condition that the company owned responsibility of compensating Bhopal gas tradegy victims. "I had categorically stated that we want Dow Chemicals
Telecom major Bharti airtel today launched third generation (3G) services in the cyber city of Hyderabad, in Andhra Pradesh. On the business-to-business front, Bharti airtel said in a statement that it now offers special programmes catering to the 3G needs of enterprise customers. "In keeping with our commitment to bring the best to our customer, we today brin
Against the backdrop of the attack on its website by "Pakistan Cyber Army", the CBI is considering to send its team to the US and Europe to trace hackers involved in the defacement. Sources said the agency officials have pin-pointed three Internet Protocol (IP) address -- a unique numerical label borne by each computer in a network that use worldwide web for communicati
A Swiss court has ruled that Google Inc. must guarantee anonymity before publishing faces and license plates in its Street View service in Switzerland. A ruling published today by the Swiss Federal Administrative Court affects any new ground-level pictures that the popular Internet search engine publishes. A court statement said the ruling upholds principles of pri
IT firm HCL Infosystems today said its subsidiary HCL Infosystems MEA has bagged a project to provide ICT products to Dubai-based GEMS Education. Financial details of the deal were, however, not disclosed. HCL Infosystems MEA will provide ICT products to GEMS Education, the world`s largest private K-12 education provider, which will enable both students and teacher
With private operators seemingly going the TD-LTE way, WiMax Forum is now betting on state-run telecom operators BSNL and MTNL for growing its subscriber base in India. "Outside of India, WiMax is going great, but in India, it is a bit more challenging. Here, we are focused on BSNL, its roll-out plan and franchise and the anticipated MTNL franchise effort," WiMAX Forum
