Minister of State for Communications and IT Sachin Pilot will lead the Indian delegation at the International Cyber Conference in London, which aims to deliberate on issues like economic and social benefits of cyber space and tackling cyber crime. To be held on November 1-2, the conference will be attended by British Foreign Secretary William Hague, the US Secretary of State Hill
The homepage of the official website of the CID, West Bengal was hacked on Saturday by a suspected anti-India organisation calling itself the Muslim Liberation Army. "Our first page was found replaced. We have restored our website. Investigation is on," DIG (Operation) CID K Jayaraman said here today. The original page was, however, restored after several
China on Friday blocked online access to news of riots by thousands of people who clashed with police in an eastern manufacturing city in what began as a protest over taxes. Cars were smashed and several people were injured in the riots, which went on for more than a day and involved thousands of people, said local authorities on the website of eastern Zhejiang province, where th
Chinese authorities have arrested more than 12,000 suspects and seized 300 kilogrammes of illicit drugs in a nationwide crackdown on narcotics sold through online chat rooms. The official Xinhua News Agency says police busted 144 drug rings involved in narcotics production and trafficking in a recent campaign. It did not say what drugs were being sold or had been seized.
The Finance Ministry has developed an e-payment system for direct credit of subsidies to consumers of fertiliser, kerosene and cooking gas. "This system will bring transparency and expedite direct payments from central paying units relating to subsidies to the users and consumers...," the ministry said in a statement today. The `Government e-payment syste
The e-commerce market in the country, which is growing at an estimated 40-45 percent against a global growth rate of 8-10 percent, is likely to touch Rs 50,000 crore this year, says a recent study. About 80 percent of the domestic e-commerce market is travel related, comprising booking of airline and rail tickets, hotel bookings, and online mobile recharge, with online retailing
Three Saudis detained earlier this month after posting an online video showing poverty in the oil-rich kingdom were released on Sunday, activists said. Firas Baqna, Khalid al-Rasheed and Hussam al-Darwish were arrested in Al-Sahaba district, north of Riyadh, on October 19 after their documentary was aired by the London-based opposition television Al-Islah. "We
A healthcare group on Saturday launched a `stroke robot`, which will assist experts in diagnosing brain stroke and suggest line of treatment. The state-of-the-art, wireless and Internet-based robot RP-7 will enable neuro-physicians to speak to the patient, nurses and doctors on duty from the comfort of their offices with the help of a monitor located in the place of the head of t
Facebook announced on Thursday that it would immediately begin building a massive data centre -- its third globally and first in Europe -- in the Swedish town of Luleaa, near the Arctic Circle. "After a rigorous review process of sites across Europe, we concluded that Luleaa offered the best package of resources, including a suitable climate for environmental cooling (and) c
Nigerian regulators have threatened to fine and stop three telecommunications companies from signing up new cellular phone subscribers over complaints about poor service in a nation reliant on mobile calls, officials said on Thursday. Bharti Airtel Ltd of India, local firm Globacom Ltd and South Africa-based MTN Group Ltd all face a deadline at the end of November to improve thei
The Delhi High Court has asked Vodafone Essar to restore services of Matrix Cellular Services, which offers telecom solutions to Indians visiting abroad, for next two months on providing help to post-paid subscribers. Justice S Muralidhar, disposing of the petition of Matrix, gave an interim order ensuring an agreement between it (Matrix) and Vodafone. "Vodafo
Telecom giant Vodafone is upbeat that its association with the Indian edition of the Formula1 race, kicking off on Friday will help in connecting with its customers and building its brand across the country. "It`s a great opportunity to connect with our customers and for the business as well ... we have been connecting with this sport for already five years. We have learnt h
The Delhi High Court has dismissed Bharti Airtel`s plea against telecom tribunal TDSAT that asked it to first pay half the Rs 50 crore fine imposed on it by DoT before the hearing. The Department of Telecom (DoT) had imposed Rs 50 crore fine on the country`s largest telecom operator for issuing SIM cards in bulk to two firms for distribution among foreigners and NRIs, allegedly v
Do you really know all your Facebook "friends"? Beware, if your answer is `No`, as researchers say you could be putting your private details at risk every time you say `Yes` to an unknown friend request. A team at the University of British Columbia in Canada found a worrying way to evade Facebook`s security measures entirely and harvest information from the popular soci
Pakistan`s Science and Technology Minister Changez Khan Jamali said on Thursday there is tremendous potential for Indo-Pak cooperation in the fields of science and technology. He made the remarks during a meeting with his Indian counterpart Kapil Sibal on the sidelines of the General Conference of UNESCO in Paris. Both ministers agreed that scientific and technolog
Finnish mobile handset maker Nokia on Thursday said it is targeting over 50 per cent market share in India on the back of innovative products, services and content within 2012. The company is banking on its newly unveiled mid-end phones from the `Asha` series priced between Rs 4,100 and Rs 8,000 and other smartphones, including the new two Lumia models with Windows Operating Syst
The GSM operators have alleged that high speed Internet services offered by rival CDMA players without paying for spectrum has caused a revenue loss of over Rs 14,800 crore to the government. In a letter to DoT Secretary, the Cellulars Operators Association of India (COAI) has raised concerns that CDMA operators are offering high speed Internet access (known as EV-DO) without pay
Tata Power SED-- a private sector defence company, has emerged as the lowest bidder in an Indian Army tender to develop two Integrated Electronic Warfare (IEW) systems for being deployed in the mountainous terrain of the country. Tata Power, which had given its proposal in partnership with a foreign firm, pipped global players such as Elta from Israel to emerge as the lowest bidd
Stressing upon the need for developing country-specific plan for broadband networks, Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal has said the ITU needs to help nations achieve affordable access to technology. ITU needs to coordinate among member nations for the development of affordable ecosystem of access networks, applications and end-user terminals to help greater penetration of broadband se
Aimed at providing broadband connectivity to Panchayats, the government on Tuesday approved the scheme of creating a national optical fibre network, which will help in offering governance, banking and health services online. "The objective of the scheme is to extend the existing optical fibre network which is available up to district/block headquarter level to the gram panch
