HCL Infosystems has denied its association with Sakshat project of the ministry of human resource development to manufacture access and computing device to be priced USD 35 a piece. "It has been wrongly reported that we are associated with the project," Ajay Chowdhry, a co-founder of HCL and chairman, HCL Infosystems said. Chowdhry mentioned that HRD mini
Knowledge Process Outsourcing (KPO) offers good business opportunities for Indian entities, and will help them in providing high value services, according to Gartner. Estimated to be worth billions of dollars, KPO market provides varied services in areas such as marketing, legal processes, clinical trials and banking. "KPO service offerings is a good opportuni
The country`s biggest jail -- Tihar Prisons -- today joined the IT bandwagon by logging in to social networking site Facebook. "We have launched our Facebook page today. Our page ID on this website is Central Jail Tihar. Since we wanted to improve our performance and also update the masses about our day-to-day activities, we opted for Facebook as there could be no better med
A three-day national seminar on Legal and Regulatory mechanism on Information Technology and Cyber Forensics will be held here from February 18 to 20. India is currently an undisputed leader in trade of services in information technology, but to retain its number one status, it requires evolving a national consensus on legal and regulatory mechanism governing information technolo
The Union Government has decided to set up a state-of-the-art institute dedicated to churning out professionals and developing technologies to tackle cyber crime. "The Union HRD Ministry recently took the decision to set up a state-of-the-art Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), which would focus solely on strengthening cyber laws, producing cyber professionals
Global IT training company NIIT and California-based Zend Technologies today announced a partnership to develop a skilled workforce within the country on hypertext preprocessor (PHP) web technology. "There is huge gap in demand and supply of PHP programmers. At present, there are only 6,000 certified PHP programmers across the world. We want to take this number to 80,000 in
Sistema Shyam Teleservices Ltd (SSTL), which offers telephony services under the MTS brand name, today said it has partnered with Meru Cabs to offer free internet services to its passengers in New Delhi and Mumbai. The customer needs to ask the cab driver for an MBlaze dongle to get free internet surfing along with unlimited data download, SSTL said in a statement.
Concerned over misuse of Finance Ministry`s name by unscrupulous elements, the government today cautioned the public against falling prey to bogus e-mails that promise huge prize money on payment of security deposits. "The general public is hereby advised not to take cognisance of any such letter or e-mail received from unscrupulous persons claiming to have backing of the Mi
Cisco today announced that it has been chosen by Gujarat Telelinks Private Ltd. (GTPL) for cable digitisation across Gujarat, West Bengal, Maharashtra and Jharkhand. As part of this digitisation program, GTPL would deploy more than 300,000 next-generation digital set-top boxes from Cisco over the next 12 months in these markets, CISCO said in a statement. "Dig
CBI Director A P Singh today contradicted Telcom Minister Kapil Sibal on his claim that the 2G spectrum allocation had caused "zero loss" to the national exchequer as he appeared before Parliament`s Public Accounts Committee (PAC). Singh was quizzed by the members of the Committee on various aspects of the 2G spectrum allocation which the CBI is investigating.
The Space Commission has recommended to the Cabinet Committee on Security(CCS) that the controversial S-Band spectrum deal between ISRO`s commercial arm Antrix and private firm Devas Multimedia be immediately annulled. The Space Commission made this recommendation in a note to the CCS, saying priority is required to be given to the country`s strategic requirements including socie
The Ministry of Corporate Affairs today said it has been providing various government agencies with the required information relating to the companies involved in the 2G spectrum scam, but is not carrying out any investigations of its own. MCA clarified that it is not carrying out investigations into the affairs of the telecom companies that are alleged to have got 2G licences an
Delhi Police today extended for another 60 days its order making it mandatory for BPOs, corporates and media houses to drop their women employees at their homes during night hours and also confirm their safe arrival. The order, which defines night hours from 8 PM to 7 AM, also makes it compulsory for the employers to ensure that a security guard accompanies the woman employee to
To provide high quality education in 3D animation and visual effects, the state-owned West Bengal Electronics Industry Development Corporation Ltd (WEBEL) today tied up with Reliance Animation to set up a WEBEL-Reliance Media and Entertainment Academy here. After signing of an MoU here in this regard between the WEBEL and Reliance Animation, West Bengal IT Minister Debesh Das sai
To tap growth potential in the evolving start-up eco-system in India, Springboard Ventures today launched the country`s first business plan advisory, development and training service portal `Mybplan`. The initiative is in collaboration with four other start-up supporters -- Nurture Talent, SME Joinup, Saarthi Consulting and Kennis Group. "Mybplan.com will help
Armed with a court order, city police today asked popular social networking site Facebook to block a page, which allegedly carried a defaced photo of Dalit icon Babasaheb Ambedkar. According to police, the photo was posted in a page `We Hate Ambedkar`, created by an unknown user. "Initially, when we contacted Facebook they said that they can`t block the link u
Google is "very, very proud" of cyberactivist Wael Ghonim, a young executive at the company who emerged as a leading voice of the Egyptian uprising, company boss Eric Schmidt has said. Ghonim, Google`s head of marketing for the Middle East and North Africa, administered a Facebook page that helped spark the uprising that toppled President Hosni Mubarak`s regime.
Famous Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz, who represented O J Simpson and Mike Tyson, is joining the WikiLeaks legal team, the online organisation said in a tweet. WikiLeaks, in same tweet, also expressed its concern about an action brought by the US government against Twitter to "disclose the names, dates and locations of all persons who have used its services to receiv
Microsoft has advocated fighting pernicious computer viruses with public health tactics used to stop the spread of SARS, H1N1 and other dangerous real world bugs. Computers could be granted health certificates to be used online to show they were checked for viruses, Microsoft vice president of Trustworthy Computing Scott Charney said at a RSA computer security gathering here yest
Accusing WikiLeaks of theft of government documents, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said that the online publication of secret cables by the whistle-blower website has endangered the lives of human rights activists across the globe. "Without commenting on the authenticity of any particular documents, we can observe that many of the cables released by WikiLeaks relate
