The government is considering to change existing law in this fiscal to enable telecom users approach consumer forum for the redressal of their disputes. An amendment will be brought about in the Indian Telegraph Act, which at present allows cumbersome arbitration route for addressing consumer grievances. "It is one of the objectives under National Telecom Policy 2012. Early
With their numbers increasing rapidly, smartphones are becoming more vulnerable to attacks by cybercriminals looking for prey beyond the PC and targetting mobiles, especially those using Android operating system, say experts. "The major mobile platforms have finally become ubiquitous enough to garner the attention of attackers, and as such, Symantec expects attacks on these platfor
SAP India has launched its mobile solutions centre (MSC) in Mumbai. The MSC will help customers integrate its mobile solutions into their business strategies. SAP’s mobile industry experts will connect with businesses to help them get best practices and develop or expand their mobile strategy. According to SAP, companies visiting the centre have the ability to interact with SAP so
Citing uneven progress in some states, Government on Thursday extended by three years the duration of a project to set up a system to track crime and criminals across the country. The cabinet committee on economic affairs, at a meeting chaired by prime minister Manmohan Singh, approved extension of the duration of the Crime and Criminal Tracking Network and Systems (CCTNS) Project up to
Government on Thursday approved Rs 1,100 crore for purchase of technological equipment to kickstart the National Intelligence Grid (NATGRID) which plans to link 21 categories of databases for ready access by intelligence agencies. The cabinet committee on security, at a meeting chaired by prime minister Manmohan Singh, gave its nod to the proposal of NATGRID for acquisition of certain t
The Reserve Bank on wednesday asked banks to improve information technology (IT) governance and information security (IS) framework to enhance their business prospects. It also asked them to adhere to the March 2013 deadline to shift to automated data flow (ADF) that seeks to submit data from banks to RBI without manual intervention. "It is expected that all banks adopt app
The Labour Ministry has extended benefits of a scheme to provide health insurance facilities to domestic workers. "The Ministry of Labour and Employment has extended the Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY) to domestic workers," the ministry said in release. The main objective of this strategy is to inform the beneficiaries regarding enrollment procedures and benefits
Leading corporate houses like Reliance Industries, Airtel and State Bank of India have applied for use of word of their choice to replace .com, .net and the other usual suffixes on their website addresses. RIL, Airtel and SBI made applications for "top-level domains" such as .Indians, .RIL, .Bharti, .SBI rather than just the traditional .com and .net have been made by these fi
Taxsmile.com, tax preparation and e-filing web portal, has launched its services to file tax returns online. Taxsmile offers step-by-step guidance to enable tax payers hassle-free tax planning, preparation and filing experience, the company said in a statement on Wednesday.
UK-based Datawind on Tuesday said IIT-Bombay is in the process of testing low-cost tablet PC `Aakash` with upgraded specifications proposed by it. "IIT Bombay is in the process of testing the samples and developing applications and content for engineering colleges," Datawind CEO Sunit Singh Tuli told PTI. He added the samples are as per the Aakash-2 specifications prop
With a growth of 34 percent in the year 2011-12, Iris, one of the largest domestic IT distribution companies in the country, achieved a turnover of Rs.1,200 crore from a turnover of Rs. 823 crore. Iris has been working for projects like UIDAI and had been supplying Lenovo notebooks for data recording across numerous stations all over the country through its wide base of channel p
Wireless products based on the new technology of unified communications providing crystal clear audio quality, versatility and flexibility of movement were demonstrated in a presentation here recently by Revolabs a US based manufacturer of wireless audio products for enterprise collaboration and professional audio applications. Unified communications is an evolving set of technologies that auto
The government is planning to designate the Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA) and National Technical Research Organisation (NTRO) as the agencies for carrying out offensive cyber operations, says a report in the Times of India. The need for an offensive posture in cyberspace has also been highlighted in the recent report of DSCI-Nasscom, “Securing our Cyber Frontiers”. It ha
State Crime Records Bureau (SCRB) will be the first government office in Rajasthan to go paperless under the e-Office project implemented by National Informatics Centre. "The office under the police department will implement the project fully by July 1 and on the basis of the outcome, it will be implemented in other government departments in the state," Sharat Kaviraj, SP-SCRB
Global hacking movement Anonymous has called for protesters to take to the streets in 16 cities around India on Monday over what it considers growing government censorship of the internet. The call for demonstrations by the Indian arm of the group follows a March 29 court order issued in the southern city of Chennai demanding 15 Indian Internet providers block access to file-sharing web
Faced with strong protests from home minister P Chidambaram, the government on Thursday directed the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) to accept the biometric data collected by Registrar-General of India (RGI) under the home ministry to give unique ID number to every citizen. The decision was taken by the Union Cabinet here, a top government source told PTI. The m
In order to curb expenditure and streamline delivery mechanism, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Thursday asked states to use the Aadhaar platform for distributing subsidised ration and cooking gas cylinders, and implement other government schemes. "...given the huge potential of the Aadhaar initiative to streamline delivery and empowering the common citizen, while at the same
Telecom companies have missed the May-end deadline to comply with regulatory norms on detection of accurate user location and cited huge cost and technology unavailability as reasons for not meeting the target. The Department of Telecom (DoT) had amended licence conditions of telecom service providers and asked them to provide location details of users as part of call data records.
Quick advances in cyber war technologies could soon lead to a new generation of so-called "intelligent cyber weapons" which top global IT defence experts warn could be virtually unstoppable. "Rapid developments in cyber (technology) might lead to intelligent cyber weapons that are hard to control and it`s practically impossible to use formal methods of verifying the safet
The Indian Institute of Management-Kozhikode (IMM-K)`s Satellite campus here will be inaugurated by chief minister, Oommen Chandy on June 9. The campus is being set up at Athulya Complex in Kochi Infopark. Industries minister, P K Kunhalikutty, finance minister, K M Mani will be among those participating, a release said. IIM-K Director Debashis Chatterjee said the the sa
