The government on Friday said 386 `phishing` incidents were reported to the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) between January and October this year. In a written reply to the Rajya Sabha, Sachin Pilot, minister of state for communications and IT said: "There have been incidents reported to CERT-In by law enforcement agencies on the hacking o
Describing e-governance as an important tool for ensuring transparency, Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah on Saturday launched an e-tendering facility in the state. The launch comes close on the heels of a letter written by the minister of road transport and highways, C P Joshi to all states to adopt e-tendering process to ensure transparency. The chief minister laun
Thailand has asked social networking website Facebook to delete more than 10,000 pages of content containing images or text which it claims are "offencive" to the monarchy, a minister said on Thursday. The news comes a day after a Thai court jailed a man for 20 years for sending four text messages deemed insulting to the monarchy, alarming critics who say the kingdom`s
Two persons, including an MBA graduate, has been arrested for allegedly duping several credit card holders of a reputed bank through online transactions, police said on Thursday. Soumya Banerjee (32), who hails from West Bengal, and Dinesh Kumar (21) were arrested based on a complaint filed by the manager of Standard Chartered Bank`s ITO branch that he has received complaints fro
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday held a meeting with senior cabinet ministers and representatives from IT industry to review the progress made in e-governance programmes. According to sources, the Prime Minister is learnt to have praised the progress made and has given his consent to various proposals made by the Department of Information Technology under e-governance projects
IDBI Intech, the software subsidiary of state-run IDBI Bank, on Tuesday said it plans to grow into a full-fledged banking software and services firm with a Rs 500-crore turnover over the next five years. The company also plans to do more business overseas by working with technology partners rather than spend money to set up offices abroad, IDBI Intech MD and CEO Sanjay Sharma sai
The government has proposed to establish 150 "smart schools" across the country under an information and communication technology (ICT) programme. "Under the revised centrally sponsored scheme `information and communication technology in schools`, there is a provision to establish 150 smart schools in the country," said Minister of State for HRD D Purandeswari
Police in California probing an armed robbery arrested two suspects by using the "Find My Phone" app on her stolen iPhone to locate the device, a spokeswoman said. The female victim on Tuesday told officers that a gunman had taken her purse and iPhone, which had the tracking application installed, said Norma Eisenman of the Los Angeles Police Department.
A national seminar on `Modernisation of Libraries` will be held by the Vidya Prasarak Mandal in Thane on the coming Friday. Dr Vijay V Bedekar, chairman of the institute, said more than 300 delegates from across the country will attend this technical conference in India. "Computerisation and ever-increasing emphasis on knowledge-based thinking have crept into all walks of li
Technology giant IBM on Wednesday said it plans to set up offices in 40 cities across India by 2013. It announced the opening of three regional offices in Dehradun, Guwahati and Raipur, taking the total number of branch offices to 18 across India. "IBM is currently focused on increasing its presence in smaller, rapidly developing Indian cities as part of its plan to establis
Telecom operators associations -- COAI and AUSPI – on Wednesday met senior Finance Ministry officials to seek `infrastructure` status for the sector, a tag which will make access to credit easier for them. "Infrastructure status would provide us beneficial treatment (with regard to) infrastructure bonds and make financing easier," Rajan Mathew, who heads the Cellu
The total revenue of telecom service providers was Rs 50,054 crore during the quarter ended September, according to TRAI data released on Wednesday. Bharti Airtel alone accounted for almost 26 per cent of total industry gross revenue at Rs 13,239 crore. It was followed by state-owned BSNL, with 18 per cent share at Rs 9,040 crore. Vodafone was next, with 17.8 per cent share at Rs
Internet companies and social networking sites in the US are under pressure to remove videos and blog posts by Taliban that promote terrorism or offer instructions on how to attack American forces in Afghanistan. "Some members of Congress are urging the popular website Twitter to stop hosting pro-Taliban tweets that celebrate attacks against American and allied forces in Afg
The Maharashtra Election Commission has decided to include the Aadhaar card as an identity proof for the local bodies elections in the state. "The Aadhaar card has been included among the 16 proofs for identification for the local bodies elections," an official release issued in Mumbai said. As per the new decision, if the identity of the voter cannot be made through th
Jaxtr Inc, founded by Sabeer Bhatia and Yogesh Patel, on Tuesday launched JaxtrSMS, a cross-platform open texting application to send SMSes to anyone in the world for free. "We have developed this application that runs on all mobile applications in the world, including iPhones, Androids, Blackberrys, J2MEs, where one can send unlimited free text messages from his phone to an
The government is looking into complaints over alleged misuse of the Universal Service Obligation Fund by private telecom firms Tata Teleservices and Reliance Communications, Parliament was informed on Wednesday. Minister of State for Communications and IT Milind Deora said in a written reply to the Lok Sabha that two complaints were received regarding utilisation of the USO Fund
The process for handling of files related to the `Aadhar` unique identification project by the Planning Commission has been streamlined in consultation with the Finance Ministry, Parliament was informed on Wednesday. In a written reply to the Lok Sabha, Minister of State for Planning Ashwani Kumar said the plan panel had taken up the issue of streamlining of processes for handlin
Supply of laptops to India is likely to be delayed as production of its critical components from Thailand, a major manufacturing hub, has got disrupted due to floods there. IT hardware industry body MAIT said disruption in laptop supplies could hit even the big government projects for which orders have already been placed. "The recent flood in Thailand has aff
British telecom firm Vodafone`s Indian arm on Monday contested the proposal of one-time charge for extra spectrum held by service providers beyond the contracted limit of 6.2 Mhz, saying this is in violation of the contract. "...Any suggestion or action on part of DoT or TRAI to charge one-time fee on spectrum (2G) beyond 6.2 Mhz is legally untenable as the consideration has
Amid differences between Telecom Ministry and companies on the 3G roaming pact, CEOs of top telecom firms, including Bharti Airtel and Vodafone, have sought Prime Minister Manmohan Singh`s intervention in the matter. "We seek your most urgent intervention to ensure that contract and promises are honoured otherwise the reputation of an acclaimed, transparent auction, will be
