IT industry body National Association of Software and Services Companies (Nasscom) today announced that Harsh Manglik will take over as the chairman of its executive council for the year 2010-11, effective from today. Manglik, who replaces Pramod Bhasin, will take on the role as the country`s IT sector recovers from the impact of the global economic slowdown. Mangl
Madras High Court today directed the Tamil Nadu Government to provide free laptop computer to a Class X student, deprived of the benefit under a scheme for meritorious students due to `negligence` in evaluating his maths answersheet last year. Petitioner R Ravindran of Nagapattinam district had secured 94 marks in maths but on retotalling it was revised to 97 and his overall tota
32 banks have been given approval to provide mobile banking facility in the country by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and 21 out of these have already started providing the mobile banking services. This information was given by the Minister of State for Finance, Namo Narain Meena in written reply to a question raised in Rajya Sabha today. Mobile banking is a secure applicat
The website of the Indian Embassy here has been attacked twice by Chinese hackers, prompting the mission to boost its cyber security. Reliable sources in the Indian Embassy said at least two cyber attacks were traced to Chinese servers, but denied leakage of any confidential information, which is processed by "standalone" computers. The embassy`s Local Ar
DTH operator Airtel Digital today advised its customers to avoid responding to suspicious/fraudulent messages offering free connections, which ask for personal information. In an advisory, Bharti Airtel`s DTH arm, Airtel Digital said some customers are arbitrarily being targeted by fake messages sent on their GSM mobile numbers on behalf of Airtel digital TV/Airtel Advertising Se
Two private technical educational institutes in Orissa are among the 22 institutes in the country selected by the Union Ministry of Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) for establishing incubators for entrepreneurs. The two institutes - National Institute of Science and Technology (NIST), Berhampur and KIIT, Bhubaneswar - would host the fully-government-funded incubator, NIST sour
Keen to turn agriculture-driven Punjab into an IT hub, state-owned IT promotion body Punjab Infotech said today it hopes to have a sizeable land bank available for companies like Infosys and Wipro to set up shop in the near future. "In due course of time, we think we will have about 2,000 acres of land for developing IT and IT-related projects in the state, which will provid
Micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) need to adopt information and communication technology (ICT) to increase the efficiency and productivity of the sector, IT industry body Nasscom today said. In a joint report with the National Manufacturing Competitiveness Council (NMCC) titled, `A Roadmap of ICT Adoption in the Indian Manufacturing Sector`, Nasscom said ICT adopt
Constables of Haryana Police would be provided with laptopS to enable them to keep track of activities of criminal gangs and exchange information with forces in other states. A National Level Crime and Criminal Trekking Network System project will soon be started at Madhuban, Haryana Director General of Police (DGP) Ranjiv Singh Dalal said at a passing out parade held at Haryana
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister K Rosaiah today launched a project for online receipt and processing of mining concession application system in the state. Andhra Pradesh is the first state to launch the online process in accordance with the National Mineral Policy 2008. Project Khanija will be implemented on a pilot basis in Kadapa district which is rich in barytes.
The Central government today expressed concern over the use of Bangladeshi SIM cards by militants taking advantage of the signals of service providers in the neighbouring country. "Yes, it is a matter of grave concern and at no cost it shall be allowed as security is the top most priority," Union Minister of State for Communication and Information Technology Gurudas Kam
People will be able to withdraw cash and transfer funds using their mobile phones in rural areas with the government approving the framework for introduction of such facilities by the banks. Banks have been advised to start mobile banking services in rural areas by July 31, and complete the roll by the end of next year. "With the acceptance of the report of in
The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has issued directives to 12 unified access services (UAS) and cellular mobile telephone service (CMTS) licensees providing service in Jammu & Kashmir service area on short message system (SMS) management. As per the directive the service providers will immediately stop schemes offering free SMS service, withdraw SMS services to post-paid s
While delivering his address at the Nasccom regional council meet at Noida, Nasscom President Som Mittal said that the software association will establish an e-governance portal by July this year which will facilitate Indian IT companies to showcase their products. “Nasscom is also working with government to refine the government procurement process and has b
With the government pushing e-governance in a big way, software firm Adobe India sees a huge opportunity in this segment. "With the government going forward with e-governance, we have very big opportunities here," Adobe India sales director Sandeep Mehrotra told reporters here today. Adobe has made its mark in the Indian market in document management syst
The third day of spectrum auction for 3G telephony saw the all-India licence bid touching Rs 4,324 crore at the end of 16 rounds, ensuring that the government would get a minimum of Rs 17,636 crore. With today`s closing, the bid has gone up nearly 24 per cent more than the base price of Rs 3,500 crore and 5.85 per cent higher than Rs 4,085 crore in the last round on Saturday.
With its success in a similar task, France today offered expertise to India for its challenging project of allotting Unique Identification Number to 1.2 billion people in a single database. Maintaining that "never before in political history has India and France been so close and so intimate," French Ambassador to India Jerome Bonnafont said the Embassy was committed to
Staying connected to your favourite social networking site on a train journey could soon become a reality if the Railways have their way. As part the drive to offer new infotainment solutions, the PSU behemoth is exploring the possibility of providing access to a passenger`s e-mail or twitter account, shopping channel or an auction site through a touch-screen based computer unit.
The Department of Public Enterprises (DPE) has taken the initiative to build and maintain a database of incumbents of Boards of Directors of central public sector enterprises (CPSEs). The database which was launched on March 9 is accessible through the department’s website www.dpe.nic.in . In its results framework document for the year 2009-10, DPE had committed to
Hackers had wrecked the country`s cyberspace and defaced over 900 websites in March, raising serious concerns of cyber security threats from neighbouring countries. According to statistics by Computer Emergency Response Team (Cert-In) which handles computer securities incidents in the country, 901 websites were defaced in March compared to 510 in February this year.
