Enterprise-wide Governance, Risk and Compliance solutions provider MetricStream, today partnered with Aegis Software to deliver a comprehensive solution for total quality management (TQM) to manufacturing entities. The solution combines Aegis` shop-floor and process-level quality system with MetricStream`s solutions for CAPA, regulatory compliance, supplier quality and enterprise
Technology giant IBM today announced a USD 38 million investment to set up a data centre in Singapore that will provide businesses in India with solutions and services for cloud computing. An user of cloud computing service can save on purchasing software for his IT related need as it is provided by the service provider and is charged on a pay per use model. Schedu
Indian non-profit Information Technology organisation Manufacturers` Association for Information Technology today published guidelines for laptops and notebook computers on its website. Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE) had announced BEE Star Label version 1 energy standards for IT products. The guidelines announced by BEE are based on United Sates Energy version 5
Bilateral trade between India and South Africa is expected to surge by a whopping 50 per cent at around USD 15 billion in FY 12 against USD 10 billion in the current fiscal, a senior South African Minister today said. "The bilateral trade between both the countries is growing and we have almost touched our target of USD 10 billion for FY 11. We expect to reach USD 15 billion
The Defence Ministry will file a complaint with Delhi Police tomorrow against unknown persons for sending fake e-mails to media organizations and government officials on its behalf using fictitious email-IDs. "An advisory has been issued to not open or use contents attached to these fake mails generated through fictitious email-IDs. We are lodging a complaint with Cyber Cell
Google today revealed that an army of citizen cartographers is behind its widely used mapping service, helping the Internet search giant chart the world, including often inaccessible places. Volunteers from various countries post updates on their neighbourhoods or travel to remote places to map the area before uploading their findings to Google Map Maker, the company said at a co
Idea Cellular today announced the launch of its 3G services in Haryana. "We are happy to flag off Gold Standard 3G services in select locations in Haryana today, and will continue to expand 3G services in centres of learning, and high potential rural hinterlands where broadband is yet to make a breakthrough," Rajat Mukarji, Chief Corporate Affairs Officer, Idea Cellular
Online food ordering firm JustEat.in today said it will invest upto USD 10 million in the next three years to scale up its operations across India on geographical expansion, sales and marketing. "We have an investment plan of anywhere between USD 5 million to USD 10 million to expand our presence across India in the next three years and in strengthening sales and marketing,&
The Government today set up a Central Registry to prevent fraud in loan cases involving multiple lenders on the same immovable property. "Setting up of a Central Registry will enable creation of a database which will provide information about mortgage property across the country to banks, housing finance companies and public at large", National Housing Bank (NHB) Chairm
Union Bank of India today started a 24x7 facility for its customers to pay income tax through ATMs. Union Bank of India has a network of 2,600 ATMs and plans to increase the number to 5,000 by end of March, 2012, bank`s Chairman and Managing Director M V Nair told reporters after launch of the facility here. "Implementation of income tax payment on ATMs is exp
US computer giant Microsoft today declared war on Internet king Google when it joined officially an anti-trust complaint in Europe that could result in billions of dollars in fines. It is the first time Microsoft, which was itself hit with eight-figure fines during a decade of Brussels anti-trust action along with US chip-maker Intel, has gone public with submissions to European
The international regulation of the internet, which is yet to take shape, may have a multi- stakeholder system once it is formed, inventor of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee said today. Berners-Lee, who is the director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), a body that sets benchmarks and standards for the Internet, said a lot of discussions and deliberations are underway on
IT firm LinguaNext today unveiled new solutions which will help translate enterprise resource planning solutions like SAP and Oracle into Indian languages. "The solutions called Indify SAP and Indify Oracle enable SAP ERP and Oracle E-Business Suite to be used entirely in 22 official Indian languages," LinguaNext President and COO Rajeevlochan Phadke told reporters here
Public cloud spending across Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa and South Korea (BRICSS nations) is expected to reach USD 3.48 billion by end of 2015, growing by 38.3 per cent (compounded annual growth rate), according to consultancy firm Zinnov. This is against a spending of USD 688 million on public cloud in BRICSS nations by end of 2010. Cloud computing
Telecom Ministry today said it will send the national broadband policy, aimed at setting up networks estimated to cost Rs 60,000 crore to facilitate high-speed data and e-governance, to the cabinet in the next few weeks. "The telecom department will send the National broadband policy to the Cabinet in the next few weeks before which it will be cleared by the Telecom Commissi
Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal today met mobile operators to discuss the National Broadband Plan, which aims at providing high-speed Internet access and e-governance services to over 160 million people by 2014. The meeting was attended by representatives of various operators as well as telecom industry lobby groups COAI and AUSPI. "A presentation was made by the
The small northeastern state of Mizoram with a population of around 10 lakh, has over six lakh mobile phone users as of February 2011 against over 5.5 lakh in February 2010. With the communication revolution having reached even the remotest corners of the state, mobile phone connections increased by 6.98 per cent during the past one year -- from 6,01,189 to 5,61,917, according to
Andhra Pradesh High Court today directed IT company Mahindra Satyam to deposit Rs 350 crore with Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) and also issue it bank guarantee of Rs 267 crore in its ongoing tax dispute with the I-T department. CBDT has demanded Rs 617 crore from the company as tax. Mahindra Satyam Chairman Vineet Nayyar had earlier said that CBDT turned dow
Leading internet company Yahoo! is all set to unveil its latest search offering `Search Direct` in India by the second half of this calendar, said a top official of Yahoo! here today. Prabhakar Raghavan, Yahoo!`s chief scientist, senior vice-president and head (Yahoo! Labs) said the Nasdaq-listed digital media company has already rolled out the public beta version of Search Direc
Bill Gates plotted to grab Microsoft shares from his cancer-stricken business partner Paul Allen, the software firm`s co-founder has claimed in a new memoir. Painting a unfavorable view of Gates and his rise to the pinnacle of global business, Allen details Gates` 1982 scheme "to rip me off," just as Microsoft was becoming a computing powerhouse with its MS-DOS operatin
