At a time when small and medium Information Technology companies are grappling with about 30 per cent rise in costs, West Bengal IT industry has something to cheer about. "Three neighbouring countries, Bangladesh, Nepal and Bhutan have expressed interest about West Bengal IT industry and want to know the capabilities," Nasscom head (east) Suporno Moitro said here today on the s
Acting tough, the government has imposed fines of Rs 700 crore on various telecom operators for carrying out illegal and clandestine activities in their services, particularly for non-compliance of the subscriber verification process. The penalty was imposed by Telecom Enforcement, Resource and Monitoring (TERM) Cells till January 2011 on various telecom service providers operating in di
Idea Cellular, in its petition before TDSAT, had said that following its merger with Spice Telecom, the latter doesn`t exist and all its rights be treated by DoT as those of the Aditya Birla group firm. It submitted that despite several requests by the group, DoT has not amended Letter of Intent (LoI) and failed to issue 3G licence in Punjab to Idea Cellular. It further submitte
The Supreme Court today directed the telecom tribunal TDSAT to go ahead and decide the plea of Aditya Birla group firm Idea Cellular against DoT to issue it 3G spectrum in Punjab where the allocation has been pending because of Idea`s merger with Spice Telecom. A bench comprising justices G S Singhvi and A K Ganguly asked the Telecom Disputes Settlement and Appellate Tribunal to take a
The government today said Idea Cellular, Etisalat and state-owned BSNL subscribers are facing the problem of frequent call drops and they are not meeting the TRAI benchmark regarding it. "As regard the parameter (laid down by TRAI with regard to call drops)...BSNL, Etisalat and Idea are not meeting the prescribed benchmark," the Minister of State for IT and Communications Sach
The Defence Ministry is likely to computerise records of all the 17 lakh acres of land under its possession by the end of this month, the Rajya Sabha was informed today. In written reply to a question in the Upper House, Defence Minister A K Antony said, "Computerisation of land records is already going on and is likely to be completed by March 2011. Two projects, one on digitisati
Google is working on a potential partnership with electronic-payments company VeriFone Systems, as the search giant moves to convince shoppers to use their mobile devices to pay for goods in retail stores, according to a media report. "Google, as part of its goal to allow shoppers to use their mobile devices, rather than physical credit cards, to pay for goods in retail stores, is
Software major HCL Technologies today said its employees in Japan are safe and a senior-level delegation will be travelling to the country to ensure on- ground support soon. "The company continues to keep a close watch on the situation and is in touch with all diplomatic and related agencies to ensure the safety and security of its employees in Japan," HCL Technologies said in
Business application software provider Infor today said it is planning to expand its engineering organisation for which the company will hire about 400 additional software developers. "We will ship significantly more new features and new releases this year than ever before. This investment in core research and development is a milestone in Infor`s commitment to innovation," co
IT firm Tech Mahindra today announced the inauguration of `Cloud Competency lab` at its Hinjewadi facility in Pune, marking its foray into the cloud computing space. "The strategic intent is to be an advisor, enabler and manager in cloud services ecosystem. This will enable clients to choose from best-of-breed technologies and integrate them to meet their business objective of grow
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The government today said the country`s security agencies have expressed dissatisfaction over the solution provided by BlackBerry smartphone maker Research-In-Motion (RIM). "For Blackberry Messenger (BBM) services, a solution has been offered by RIM but the Security Agencies are not satisfied with the solution," Minister of State for IT and Communications Sachin Pilot said in
Maharashtra Government will soon begin an emergency response service that will reach accident sites in 15-20 minutes, the state assembly was informed today. Health Minister Suresh Shetty told the legislative assembly during the question hour that tenders in this regard would be issued in a day or two. "Trained paramedics would be involved in the service," Shetty said w
IT firm Ingenico today said it has entered into an agreement with leading infrastructure firm IL&FS`s education and technology arm to provide a smart card-based biometric financial inclusion solution for banking services. The electronically operated banking system infrastructure has created banking Points of Service (PoS), spread across geographies, to provide banking service to the
The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has issued its 3.5 millionth identification number under Aadhaar, nearly six months after the launch of the world`s largest biometrics-based identity programme. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and UPA chief Sonia Gandhi had rolled out the ambitious project, where biometric data is used to provide unique identification numbers to India`s
Education is all set to go digital in Goa with Chief Minister Digambar Kamat saying that smart classes would be introduced in all the colleges across the state on a priority basis. "The concept of smart classes is a digital initiative, new age technology driven movement that is fast becoming imperative for schools and colleges," Kamat said in his budget speech before the state
A proposal has been given to set up a bench of Cyber Appellate Tribunal at Bangalore, according to Karnataka IT secretary M N Vidyashankar. Currently the CAT is located in Delhi, but efforts are on to have a Bangalore bench to decide appeal cases, he told reporters. Vidyashankar was providing details of the two-day Bangalore Cyber Security Summit 2011 to be held on
With the import bill of telecom equipment rising, the government today said preferential treatment would be given to its indigenous production in the New Telecom Policy, which is under formulation. The industry imported telecom equipment worth Rs 36,256 crore in 2007-08, 46,809 crore in 2008-09 and Rs 42,444 crore in 2009-10, Sachin Pilot, Minister of State for Telecom said in Lo
With Japan facing the danger of nuclear radiation, IT giants TCS, Infosys and Wipro have offered their employees there the option of coming back home while allowing local workers to shift to safer locations. "The safety of our employees is our top priority...We are ready to relocate our Indian employees and their families back to India as well as move our local Japanes
The government will soon invite bids from telecom firms to provide broadband services in rural areas of the country under which the service providers get subsidy from the Universal Service Obligation (USO) Fund. "Department will come out with tender for rural wireless broadband through USO Fund by the end of this month and is likely to cover 60,000 without giving the timefra
