?Google and Facebook are among 21 companies whose executives have been summoned to appear in person in a lower court in Delhi on March 13 for allegedly hosting obscene and objectionable content. "I`m hoping there will be a balanced debate around it and eventually the right thing would happen," Google`s Chief Business Officer Nikesh Arora said. The companies have challe
?Currently, 73 services offered by over 20 departments are in the ambit of the Delhi Right of Citizen to Time Bound Delivery of Services Act which had come into effect on September 15 last year. Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, who has personally been monitoring implementation of the legislation, today said the number of services to be made available under the act would go beyond hundred
?The understanding over the issue of providing unique identity numbers to residents seems to have been reached at a meeting of senior Cabinet colleagues called by Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh here Wednesday. "I think we have come to an agreement on how both the projects can proceed together without any difficulty ... the Cabinet Committee (on UIDAI) was rescheduled and will
Bharti Airtel is the country`s largest telecom operator. "It is true that we bid such crazy numbers (for 3G spectrum)... There was no 2G spectrum being allotted for years and the only way to move forward was to have the spectrum of 3G at any cost. And that is what happened," Mittal told NDTV Profit on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum (WEF) here. "I mean w
?Special Judge O P Saini sought the file after DoT Under Secretary S P Sharma submitted that it had gone missing and that he needed a week`s time to trace it. "S P Sharma, Under Secretary (DoT), is also present and submits that file number 9-1/2009-RESTG is not readily traceable as the same has been misplaced. He submits that he may be granted one week time either for produci
Official sources said the move came following complaints received by the Central Vigilance Commission alleging wrongdoings in handling marketing and advertisement related work in the BSNL. They said the irregularities included unauthorised appointment of a part-time Director in the BSNL and assigning advertisement related job to a non-empaneled and ineligible agency. Considering
Ponting, who scored a brilliant 221 in the fourth and final Test against India here yesterday, was not aware that the 99c iPhone app "Face Guess Cricket" was using his face. "We weren`t aware of it and we`ll be issuing action against them straight away for the use of his intellectual property," Ponting`s manager James Henderson was quoted as saying by the `Herald Sun
`Bangladesh Computer Security Incident Response Team (BD-CSIPT)` started operating today with an aim to secure the country`s information and communication system. The reports said some serving and retired army officers who allegedly participated in the botched coup plot wanted to social networks like Facebook for their communication and draw support for their campaign to overthrow the g
Navy sources said here that a Board of Inquiry (BoI) was conducted against the four officers from the technical branch for allegedly possessing classified information on their personal computers. They were also found to be sharing this on social networking websites such as the Facebook. They said the charges against the officers were found to be correct by the Board and it has now
?"We are living in very exciting times. Evolution of Internet has brought one of the biggest revolutions in the world. Today Internet is bringing the entire global community together and this offers very different ways of looking at challenges ahead of us," Pitroda, the Adviser to the Prime Minister on Public Information, Infrastructure and Innovations, said. The solutions for
"Mobile phone and portable Internet services were shut down from 9 AM till noon to ensure that no electronically controlled remote control devices were operated by militants," an official said. These services remain shut on Republic Day and Independence Day after militants used a mobile phone to trigger a bomb blast outside Bakshi Stadium in 2005. Meanwhile, despite ch
?In its blog post, titled `Tweets Must Flow`, the San Fransico-based micro-blogging company has said that it could "reactively withhold content from users in a specific country" if legally required to do so. The proposed move came amid reports of a legal clash between India and global Internet giants, including Google, Yahoo, Twitter and Facebook, over pre-screening user conte
Abid Rashid Lone, from Khanyar of old city here, might not be getting big returns yet from his newly-launched webiste but the response from the people in the Valley has been encouraging. He said that his site is getting encouraging response from the people as they often find it difficult to go out of their houses for recharging their cell phones due to frequent shutdowns.
In a statement posted on the Pastebin.com, a group calling themselves the "Israel Defence Force Team" said they had hacked the Iranian sites in response to similar attacks on an Israeli newspaper and hospital website a day earlier. "If the Arab hackers thought that the attack on the Israeli websites will pass in silence, I have to said all Arab hackers: You have a mistake
?Jimmy Wales told The Associated Press in an interview today that the idea to black out Wikipedia`s English pages for 24 hours came from the site`s volunteer editors, who voted overwhelmingly in favour of the move. Wales says the two bills that Congress postponed indefinitely last week were "very badly designed, technologically incompetent, and just something that we felt needed to
Amid differences between Home Ministry and Planning Commission over continuation of UID project, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday held discussions with senior Cabinet colleagues to resolve the issues. Singh will call a Cabinet meeting on Friday to take final call on extension of the Unique Identification Authority of India(UIDAI) project, under which national ide
A police official attached to the cyber cell of police department was today suspended in connection with leakage of information over an alleged attempt to hack personal e-mails of some Muslim leaders in the state. Sub-Inspector S Biju, in charge of the cyber cell was suspended pending an enquiry in connection with the controversy, official sources said. Chandy had
Over 12,500 and counting. This was the number of followers of twitter account of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh`s Office, a day after it was launched. The account `Twitter@PMOIndia`, which is believed to be a brain child of Singh`s newly-appointed Communications Advisor Pankaj Pachauri, had 12,505 followers by around 7 pm today. So far, four tweets ha
Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot today received feedback from district collectors through video-conferencing on execution of flagship schemes. The collectors gave the chief minister feedback on the various schemes including free generic medicines scheme and Rajasthan Janani Shishu Surakhsa Yojna, a government official said. Gehlot was informed that the Janani
For the second time in as many months, Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal today met chiefs of leading operators, including Sunil Bharti Mittal, Anil Ambani and Vodafone`s Marten Pieters, to discuss various contentious issues such as spectrum pricing, allocation and one-time fee. "All the operators conveyed their views on various issues which are also a part of regulator Trai`s rec
