Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), India`s largest software exporter, today said it has hired 50,000 personnel in the nine-month period ended December 2010 and expects to add another 12,000-15,000 in Q4. TCS added 20,219 people (gross) during the quarter, its highest addition yet, taking its total headcount to 1,86,914 at the end of the December quarter. "Given
Three days ahead of the launch of Mobile Number Portability, Aditya Birla group firm Idea Cellular today started a helpline to guide over 700 million mobile users on various aspects of the service. MNP, which enables subscribers to change operator while retaining their mobile numbers, is to be rolled out across the country on January 20. "Idea`s new Toll Free
State run telecommunications giant, BSNL will set up call centres across the country to expeditiously address grievances of its consumers, Minister of State for IT and Telecom Sachin Pilot said here today. Inaugurating the first call centre of BSNL in Rajasthan, Pilot said the government sought to redress the complaints of the telephone and other users of the company`s services i
With hardly a day left for completion of re-verfication of pre-paid mobile connections under the guidelines of the Department of Telecommunication, nearly 80 per cent of the 1.65 crore users in Assam and the North East have a possibility of losing connectivity. "We had almost completed the re-verification process within the last date of December 31, when a fresh directive ca
Chicago-based e-commerce portal Groupon today said it has fully acquired India`s SoSasta.com for an undisclosed amount. Subsequent to the acquisition, SoSasta.com will be re-branded as Groupon India and new product verticals will be added to the portal. "The new investment in SoSasta will generate employment opportunities nationally...energetic, passionate and
Russia unlike China is not planning to tighten control over the Internet, Country`s Minister of Telecommunications and Mass Communications Igor Shchegolev said during a live radio programme. "Certainly we do not make any steps to this effect, this is our position of principle. We are not going to introduce any restrictions in this issue," he told the Echo Moskvy radio s
With operators showing preference towards Long Term Evolution (TD-LTE) technology for mobile broadband services, rival WiMax Forum has said they are "not threatened", as the market is big enough for both technologies to co-exist. "We are not threatened by the (TD-LTE) technology. We are actually delivering mobile broadband, while TD-LTE is still under trial. My req
People in areas that do not have access to banks should be able to open accounts linked to their cellphones and be allowed withdrawals of up to Rs 5,000 a day, according to a mobile banking framework presented today by a government committee. "The framework envisages creation of Mobile linked No-Frills Accounts by the Banks, which will have various transaction limits,"
Residents of western Uttar Pradesh will now be able to pay their electricity bills online with the Paschimanchal Vidyut Vitran Nigam Limited (PVVNL) launching the facility here today. Eleven districts namely Bagpat, Bijnor, Bulandshahr, Gautam Budha Nagar (Noida), Ghaziabad, J.P. Nagar, Meerut, Moradabad, Muzaffarnagar, Rampur and Saharanpur have been included in the system.
With corruption among official ranks emerging as a major menace, a Chinese provincial government has introduced a computer software which continuously monitor the work of officials. In the Nanjing Urban Planning Bureau of Jiangsu Province, a yellow light will flicker in the office computer system of the department, a warning signal, if an official does not finish a case within 20
State-owned Punjab & Sind Bank (PSB) today said it has entered into a tie-up with HCL Infosystems. The collaboration is for provision of smart card-based technology solutions for financial inclusion, besides engaging and managing business correspondents deployed in unbanked villages allotted, PSB said in a filing to the Bombay Stock Exchange. No financial detai
Like in many global cities, motorists in Delhi may soon be able to park their cars in parking lots by swiping a credit card or smart card at automated kiosks without any human intervention. As part of efforts to overcome the problem of unregulated parking, the city government has decided to introduce an automated parking management system, using sophisticated equipment.
Wikimedia India Chapter, an independent organisation that will support and promote Wikimedia, a collaborative project of Wikipedia, the world`s free online encyclopedia, has been formally established here. The setting up of the organisation, the first in the Indian subcontinent and the 29th Wikimedia chapter to be established the world over, coincides with the tenth anniversary o
The telecom regulator TRAI today said it will start online registration of telemarketers from January 15. New telemarketers have to pay registration fee of Rs 1,000 and customers education fee of Rs 9,000, while existing telemarketers just have to pay the customer education fee of Rs 9,000. No part payment is permitted for registration, TRAI said in a statement. Th
As part of its joint efforts with the US against Iran`s controversial nuclear programme, Israel has developed a sophisticated cyber-weapon aimed at preventing Tehran from making an atomic bomb, according to a media report. The tests of the destructive `Stuxnet` worm had occurred over the past two years at the heavily guarded Dimona complex in the Negev desert, The New York Times
Asean may have its own Internet exchange and domain by 2015, boosting inter-regional connectivity and lowering Internet costs, a senior minister has indicated. The grouping of 10 countries is expected to follow in the footsteps of the European Union, which now has a ".eu" domain. Having an Internet exchange based in the region with a population of 600 mil
The Telecom Ministry plans to constitute a panel of consultants to review the progress of broadband services providers on implementation of new IPv6 Internet Protocol (IP) norms across the country under the overarching framework of the proposed New Telecom Policy-2011. IPv6 will enable more flexibility in the allocation of IP addresses and routing of Internet traffic in the count
`Kshamta`, a joint programme being conducted by software giant Microsoft and the Indian Army, is helping jawans to improve their IT and soft skills. "I have improved my IT skills and I also feel more confident in interacting with people," says 34-year-old Army jawan Santosh Kumar. He is one of the many people who have completed `Kshamta`. "The progra
The Kerala State School IT Meet, organsied under the IT@School Project, concluded here today with Ernakulam district bagging the overall championship. Ernakulam emerged in the top position with 87 points while Kozhikode and Malappuram districts came in the second and third places with 76 and 73 points respectively. K P E S High school in Kozhikode and WOHSS school
Member of Canadian Parliament Ruby Dhalla today said a data base of marriage registrations should be created by Punjab government so that credentials of any NRI who comes back here for marriage could be checked. "The issue of fraud marriages is very serious. I met some 60 women in Ramoowalia village who were deserted by their husbands. Marriage is not a business. The men com
