Education and Training services network AISECT today announced the launch of Common Service Centre (CSC) project in three districts of Punjab. It had recently signed an agreement with Punjab government for setting up 585 CSCs across 3 major districts Gurdaspur, Hoshiarpur and Nawan Shahar within a year. "In the two zones ? Gurdaspur and Hoshiarpur - that have been allotted to
The state-owned Technopark today signed a deal to transfer on lease 82 acres of land to Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), the largest IT company in India, to set up its Global Learning Centre at `Technocity` coming up at Pallippuram near here. The land deal was signed by Technopark CEO Mervin Alexander and S Mahalingam, Director, TCS at a ceremony held at the Technopark here. The l
The third largest private sector lender Axis Bank today launched AxisDirect, an online trading platform, marking its foray into retail broking business. AxisDirect, a product of Axis Securities and Sales, which is a 100 per cent subsidiary of the bank, will offer multiple options to the customers for trading in cash, derivatives, IPO segments on both the NSE and BSE, a statement from the
Telecom representative body AUSPI today welcomed the steps being taken by Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal for addressing various telecom issues including licensing, spectrum allocation and tariffs under his 100 days agenda. "It is laudable to know about the formulation of a comprehensive National Telecom Policy 2011, including recognition of telecom as infrastructure and essential serv
The government has collected Rs 93 crore penalty from new telecom operators for missing the network roll-out deadline, even as some operators have approached the appellate tribunal TDSAT seeking a stay on it. "We have received Rs 93 crore from new operators. The total demand is Rs 219 crore," Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal told reporters here. Uninor, a joint venture betwe
Some of the world`s most active spammers have stopped sending junk e-mail, but the lull may not last long, web security experts say. The volume of spam has dropped steadily since August, but the Christmas period saw a precipitous decline. One security firm detected around 200 billion spam messages being sent each day in August, but just 50 billion in December, BBC reported.
China`s exploding wealth has created a culture of secret mistresses and second wives. Now officials are putting marriage records online so lovers and spouses can check for cheaters. State media today said Beijing and Shanghai will be among the first places to put marriage databases online this year. The plan is to have records for all of China online by 2015. But the Ministry of C
Smartesting, software provider for model-based testing, today announced the launch of its Smartesting CertifyIt solution. The new Version 5.0 sets new standard for automatic test generation and provides business process modelling support geared to requirements, traceability and risk-based testing, a Smartesting release said here. The Smartesting solution allows its users to implem
Polaris Software has bagged the `Vendor to Watch` award instituted by research and advisory firm Aite Group. The award was announced in the Aite`s latest report on global core banking systems titled `Evaluating the Vendors of Global Core Banking Systems: Seeking new opportunities in Emerging countries. The report says Polaris` key strengths were `proven scalability with large ban
HRD Ministry launched a new page on the Ministry`s official website today providing a host of information relating to opportunities in the education sector. The new page in the website will give information about the opportunities available in India for faculty positions. It also provides for registration by interested persons, thus enabling creation of a data bank of NRIs /PIOs s
Blackberry has asked for 18-24 months to provide a complete solution for interception of its Enterprise Mail, but with a condition that its services would not be banned, a guarantee that the government declined to give. "Research in Motion (RIM), maker of BlackBerry, can provide the infrastructure in India for BlackBerry Enterprise Servers (BES) services in a time frame of 18-24 mon
Global chip maker Intel today announced the launch of a new range of processors that deliver high quality audio-video capabilities, along with faster computing speeds. Leading vendors like HCL, Wipro, HP, Toshiba and Dell are expected to launch over 500 models of devices with the new chips in the coming months. "We have already started shipping the new processors to all leadi
The national e-governance conference jointly organized by the department of administrative reforms and public grievances (DARPG) and department of information technology (DIT) will be held on February 10-11, 2011. This year government of Maharashtra is the state partner and the conference will be organized at Aurangabad. This will be 14th such conference to be org
National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) Director General N K Tripathi today said that the ambitious Crime and Criminal Tracking Network System, which will digitally connect police stations in the country will be put in place in October this year. "CCTNS will be launched in October this year," Tripathi told reporters at the 13th All India Conference of Directors of Finger P
The online advertising sector witnessed a turnaround in 2010, as increasing confidence in the medium, has made advertisers take digital media more seriously for display purposes, according to a study. Aimed at providing an insight into the user behaviour across advertising sectors, the Ozone Media Performance Users Study (OPUS) is an analysis of nearly a quarter of a million lead
In a bid to expand its footprint in the marketing services segment in India, global information services provider Experian has launched an Internet measurement service. The service, Experian Hitwise, will help domestic and international marketers operating in India to improve their online marketing, content development, affiliate strategies and search tactics, the company said he
Stressing the importance of extensive use of Information Technology in higher education, education Minister M A Baby has said technology is essential in democratising the system of imparting knowledge. "Such modern equipment will be necessary to bring standards of higher education on par with that of global level," he said after inaugurating Smart Class Room project and
It looked like an innocent e-mail Christmas card from the White House. But the holiday greeting that surfaced just before Christmas was a ruse by cybercriminals to steal documents and other data from law enforcement, military and government workers, particularly those involved in computer crime investigations. Analysts who have studied the malicious software said o
Uncertainty over tax liabilities is believed to be one of the major reasons for an estimated USD 1 billion stake sale by Patni Computer Systems to US-based IT firm iGate getting stalled at the eleventh hour. Tax issues related to a non-compete fee to be paid to the firm`s promoters and capital gains tax have delayed completion of the deal, according to sources. How
IT company Ramco Systems, part of the USD 875 million Ramco Group, has bagged a project from MAS GMR Aerospace Engineering for an "undisclosed amount". MAS GMR Aerospace Engineering company is the Joint Venture firm of Malaysian Aerospace Engineering and GMR Hyderabad International Airport. The company was set up to develop a third party airframe MRO faci
