The government today said it follows a proper procedure in ordering interception of telephones and a high-level committee reviews each case individually before giving its final approval. Union Home Secretary Gopal K Pillai said all the interception of phones as well as e-mails follow the prescribed procedures and the judgement of the Supreme Court and the rules laid down under th
IT major, Tech Mahindra, has entered into an alliance with Microsoft Corp to offer Business Intelligence (BI) solutions for telecom service providers. As part of the initiative, Tech Mahindra will deploy Mahindra Satyam?s `iDecisionsTM for telecom` onto a Microsoft platform which will enable both companies to offer customisable BI solutions to their customers, a press release iss
HCL Technologies Ltd, a leading global IT services provider, today unveiled its Global Enterprise Mobility laboratory in Singapore. The laboratory, which would spearhead HCL?s global research and development efforts towards enterprise mobile solutions, was inaugurated by HCL Vice-Chairman and CEO, Vineet Nayar, a company statement said. "The 35,000 sq ft Juron
Twitter CEO Dick Costolo has dismissed as rumour reports that Google and Facebook were in talks of acquiring the micro-blogging site for USD 10 billion. "People write that stuff all the time ? I don`t know where these things come from, it`s just a rumour," Costolo, who took over as CEO from Twitter co-founder Evan Williams last October, said. Costolo said
`Sports Mechanics` cricket monitoring web portal was today launched here in the presence of senior India batsman Sachin Tendulkar, skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni and coach Gary Kirsten. The portal named "cricketmentor.tv" is an online mentoring platform that uses cutting edge technologies and methodologies for fostering effective interactions between the player, coach and
Washington`s efforts to get Twitter to hand over information on the accounts of people connected to WikiLeaks is "outrageous," WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has said. "This is an outrageous attack by the Obama administration on the privacy and free speech rights of Twitter`s customers -- many of them American citizens," Assange said in a statement yesterday
Faced with a herculean task of managing and resolving lakhs of investor complaints, market regulator Sebi is putting in place a web-based centralised system for speedy redressal of these grievances. Sebi`s existing investor grievance redressal mechanism lacks a centralised database and the resolution of the complaints often gets delayed due to physical movement of files from one
The online activists, who had helped galvanise the pro-democracy movement in Egypt, met the military leadership today and said the caretaker government has set a 10-day timeframe to rewrite the Mubarak-era constitution, to be put to referendum within two months. The unlikely hero of the Egypt uprising, young Google executive Wael Ghonim, along with seven others, discussed the fut
Central Adoption Resource Agency (CARA) today launched a web-based information management system which will link all adoption agencies across the country to make the process of adopting children more transparent. The website "Carings" will be monitored online by CARA and also provide a national database to enable policy making in this regard. Launching th
The State Bank of Patiala (SBOP) today said it has signed a MoU to become a Registrar for the Unique Identification Authority of India. The bank has become a partner in the efforts of UIDAI in enrollment of residents under the UID Project and will assist the authority at various stages of the project, SBOP Managing Director Ashok Nayar said. SBOP will engage enroll
A British surgeon has saved his long-lost friend`s life by diagnosing his burst appendix online, thanks to popular social networking site `Facebook`, a media report said. Rahul Velineni, 30, logged on mid-shift and saw posts from his former schoolmate telling friends that his stomach was in agony. The medic did not have his phone number because they had lost touch
ADA Group company Reliance Communications (RCom) today announced plans to roll-out a next generation mobile portal, R World, for delivering mobile Internet and data services to its over 125 million customers. RCom will use Motricity`s m-Core platform to deliver advanced services and applications on its 3G, GSM and CDMA mobile platforms. "We believe the future
The government today constituted an inter-ministerial task force under UIDAI chairman Nandan Nilekani for evolving mechanisms to provide direct subsidies on kerosene, cooking gas (LPG) and fertilisers to intended beneficiaries. "In order to evolve a suitable mechanism for direct subsidies to individuals and families who are entitled to kerosene, LPG and fertiliser ... the Go
Acting on a directive by the Centre to modernise the police force, the West Bengal Government has submitted a proposal to set up a Crime and Criminal Tracking Network and Systems covering all police stations. State Chief Secretary Samar Ghosh said that the CCTNS proposal involving an expenditure Rs 104 crore had been sent to the Centre for its approval. The central
Apple is developing a new lines of smaller and cheaper iPhones and overhauling its software to facilitate users` access to entertainment, photos and video, The Wall Street Journal has reported. The new device -- code-named "N97" -- will be about half the size of the iPhone4 and cost about half as much as Apple`s main line of iPhones, the Journal said, citing a person wh
The popular social network website Facebook, has launched redesigned pages that more closely mirror its recently revamped profiles, with newly added features and capabilities. Soon these pages are getting an upgrade that will make them look more like user profiles. The redesign has already begun and will take effect for everyone from March 10. Unlike
Computer maker HP today said it has partnered with the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) to bring in mobile computing resources to schools all across the country. Called the `Lab-in-Box`, the classroom is housed in a shipping container that can be readily transported. It includes furniture, PCs, printers, wireless connectivity and an electrical generat
Finding a date online for this Valentine`s Day or sending a gift to your partner through a website? Well, it can be troublesome as cyberscammers would be preying to exploit gullible Internet users through e-cards, spams and viruses in this season of love, say experts. From fake online dating profiles used to fool people, to phony eCards, be aware of cybercrooks who
In a rapidly changing technology scenario, threat perception has shifted from conventional border and economic issues to cyber platform, prompting the need for India to develop a "robust" and "trusted platform" to counter these new age security threats, a top official said. "Once upon a time people used to be worried only about the border issues and thing
Hardening its stance against Blackberry for not providing a solution to intercept Enterprise mail services, the government today said telecom operators will have to stop any such services that can not be monitored as per the satisfaction of law enforcement agencies. BlackBerry-maker Research in Motion (RIM) has been saying that it cannot provide access to the popular BlackBerry E
