Named after Kalidasa`s famous Meghdootam, Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC) has launched Meghdoot1.0 - an open source cloud offering. Developed by CDAC’s Chennai team, Meghdoot offers features such as platform and Infrastructure-as-a-service (PaaS and IaaS), metering and monitoring, Web-based management of cloud resources and enhanced security across layers.
Women leaders in selected rural areas will now have a mobile application to quickly get information about government policies, programmes and schemes. Besides this, web application and community radio will also be in place to respond to their queries as part of a initiative taken by the UN Women for capacity building and transformation in South Asia. "This will undoubtedly
Opposition People`s Democratic Party (PDP) on Thursday expressed concern over blocking of social networking sites Facebook and Youtube on mobile internet connections across the state saying it could agitate Kashmiri youths. "The young boys and girls use internet to stay connected and express themselves... Instead of coming on streets if they express themselves on internet, it shoul
Software services firm Cognizant on Thursday said it has formed a global alliance with Monitise to develop mobile banking commerce and payment solutions. The pact will help combine Cognizant`s financial services and mobility expertise with Monitise`s leading mobile money platform, Cognizant said in a statement. It will also help global financial institutions speedily respond to
Expanding its facility, Railways have included all trains under its online train tracking service, trainenquiry.com, providing updated information about their movements. According to a statement issued on Thursday, train running information can also be sources by sending SMS to 139. All that one has to do is type `SPOT` and send it to 139. The development comes in the wake of re
Promising incentives and uninterrupted power, the BJP ruled Chhattisgarh on Thursday held a road show here to lure investors from information technology and bio-technology sectors. The road show is being organised ahead of the November 1 Global Investors Meet (GIM) in Naya Raipur, a new planned township built on 8,000 hectare by the state government. Chhattisgarh chief minister
BJP president Nitin Gadkari on Thursday said e-governance can check corruption and "red-tapism" to a considerable extent. Addressing the party`s national convention on `e-governance for good governance` in Mumbai, Gadkari said information technology (IT) should be used to bring in transparency, rule of law, speed in working process and dynamism. "Corruption can co
The squabble between Kapil Sibal and Narendra Modi over the low-cost Aakash tablet refused to end with the Gujarat chief minister returning two such devices sent to him by the Union HRD minister for his feedback. According to sources in the HRD Ministry, the advanced version Aakash II tablets, sent a few days ago to Modi, came back undelivered. Now the ministry is planning to co
State-owned telecom major BSNL will offer free mobile connection to college students across Rajasthan on the occasion of its foundation day. The free connections will be issued to college students across the state from October 4-10. Under the scheme, the students will be offered free SIM cards and plan voucher (per sec/ per min) of their choice, according to BSNL General Manager
With the government focusing on its agenda to provide affordable broadband services to the masses, revenue from data services is expected to grow 400 per cent to USD 19.3 billion by 2020, a report by Huawei has said. "The data revenue is expected to increase from USD 3.9 billion in 2011 to USD 19.3 billion by 2020, registering a 400 per cent growth," Huawei India said in its r
Madhya Pradesh will implement all core projects under the national e-governance plan (NeGP) by November this year. According to the state information technology department, the state data centre (SDC), a core NeGP project, which was initially scheduled for completion by August 2012, will be made operational by October. A state of the art building has already been set up. The state service
National Institute of Electronics and Information Technology (NEILIT) and CSC SPV on Monday signed agreement to offer technology courses through common service centers (CSC) and make one crore people e-literate by 2013-14. "People who have money can opt for computer courses from private institutions. This kind of facility is not available in rural area. But agency that can reach to
Mahatma Gandhi`s philosophies could act as a powerful tool to help create a new just and peaceful world in the age of the Internet, according to author Sudheendra Kulkarni who elaborates the thought in his new book. Kulkarni has tried to wed Gandhi`s philosophies with the power of the worldwide web and dared readers to strive via the Internet for development of life as a whole in his bo
Telecom major Vodafone India on Monday launched a new service on SMS that will allow its customers to find blood donors or become a blood donor through easy search on their mobile phones. "All the user needs to do is, send an SMS `BLOOD` to 55444 and find a donor or become a donor by replying as per the instructions in 2-3 easy steps. Search results are narrowed down to the user`s
The CIC has asked the President`s office to place on its website periodic developments taking place on the mercy petitions pending with it. Considering the "anxiety" of the petitioners, whose clemency pleas are pending before the Secretariat, the transparency panel directed the Central Public Information Officer to place the order before the competent authority to make appropr
Executives globally are demanding more unified communications (UC), with most saying that instant messaging, e-mail, phone, video and telepresence helps them be more successful, a study by telecom firm BT on Tuesday said. According to the study, 84 per cent said unified communication using multiple options like IM, e-mail, phone, video and telepresence helps them be more successful.
Market regulator Sebi has asked all the entities under its jurisdiction to submit suspicious transaction reports (STRs) electronically through a new direct online gateway to the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU). FIU-India is the country`s nodal agency for receiving, processing, analysing and disseminating information relating to suspect financial transactions to various enforcement age
Telecom industry body AUSPI has opposed a Department of Telecom`s proposal to levy a one-time charge on existing operators for spectrum they hold, saying the move was "discriminatory" and violative of licence condition." The Association of Unified Telecom Service Providers of India in a letter to Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal said the proposal to charge for all spectrum he
Telecom tribunal TDSAT has slammed state-run MTNL for deducting the disputed amount from Tata Communications during the pendency of the matter before it. The tribunal observed that "it was expected of a public sector undertaking which is a `State` within the meaning of Article 12 of the Constitution of India to seek leave of this Tribunal before any such deduction was made".
Thane Municipal Corporation (TMC) on Monday launched its recast portal which is said to be designed on the basis of the website of New York City Council. "The refurbished website of Thane Municipal Corporation includes maximum social media links and is based on the lines of the New York City Council," civic chief R A Rajeev said addressing a gathering marking the 30th annivers
