Britain`s National Health Services administration should be outsourced to India to save million of pounds, John Neilson, the head of the government-backed company leading healthcare efficiency reform in the UK, has said, praising the capability of Indian workers in the sector. Neilson, the Managing Director of NHS Shared Business Services, said millions of pounds could be saved b
Samsung Electronics Co, the world`s top computer memory maker, said today that it has developed a new computer memory module that reads and writes data at a speed twice as fast as previous devices. Samsung will begin production of the new DDR4 dynamic random access memory (DRAM) module in 2012, using the 30-nanometer class technology, the tech behemoth said in a statement.
With incidents of cyber crime on the rise, the government today said it will frame and notify rules for data protection and liabilities of service providers under the Information Technology Act as part of its 100-day agenda. The government will frame and notify the rules in respect of key sections viz 43A (Data Protection), 70A (Protection of Critical Information Infrastructure),
Database of lakhs of criminals will now be a click away for Gujarat Police as the state Directorate of Forensic Science has taken up an ambitious project to link all police stations across the state, in what is being seen as a watershed project in crime detection. The pet project of the Home department being implemented for the first time in the country has been launched in Ahmed
Tripura Information Commission (TIC) has introduced online filing of Right to Information (RTI) complaints, official sources said today. "People of the state can now file RTI complaints online," State Information Commissioner B K Chakraborty said. The National Informatics Centre (NIC) has developed a software for the Commission to get information online,
Sri Lanka will soon introduce an online visa system to boost the economy and the tourism sector in the country after the end of a three-decade ethnic conflict that ended last May. The new service will enable the tourists to obtain visas without going to embassies. "The president has given instructions to relevant authorities to start the new system as soon as possible,"
Today`s generation is so much hooked to mobiles and the Internet that depriving them of their cell phones, emails and gadgets like television and iPod could leave them suffering from symptoms similar to those seen in drug addicts trying to give up, a new study has revealed. For the study, an international team of researchers asked volunteers to stay away from all emails, text mes
Indian researchers and educationists will soon be able to enjoy very high speed Internet connectivity with their counterparts in the US. This will be possible with the launch of "GLORIAD Taj Expansion" programme in collaboration with the National Knowledge Network (NKN), a Government agency, next week. India recently joined the Trans-Eurasia Information N
RBI has given banks one more month to put in place an extra layer of security -- one-time user password -- for credit card transactions over phone. The banks would now be required to comply with the new guidelines by February 1, after which the customers would need the additional password for telephonic credit card payments. As per RBI guideline, banks were to decl
Looking to speed up the transfer of funds electronically, banks will henceforth only take into account customers` account numbers for such transactions, ignoring other details like names. The new mechanism is intended to reduce the possibility of any errors and came into effect from January 1, 2011. This is in line with a Reserve Bank directive under which customer
Flaws in a US State Department`s information-sharing tool, created following the 9/11 terror attacks, led to unauthorised access to 250,000 diplomatic cables and their subsequent publication by whistle-blower website WikiLeaks, a media report said today. The database of the information-sharing tool called Net -Centric Diplomacy, so obscure that few diplomats had heard of it, cont
The official website of the Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee was found hacked this evening with pro-Pakistan slogans appearing on it. The hackers broke into the website `www.kpcc.org.in` and posted slogans denouncing the party and Mahatma Gandhi, Congress sources said here. The content placed on the website by the hackers includes a picture of Pakistan`s founder M
Within two months of taking charge, Communications and IT Minister Kapil Sibal today set about putting his house in order by announcing work on a new telecom policy for greater transparency, tackling cyber crime and leveraging the vast postal network for rural services. Sibal, who was given charge of the ministry after A Raja resigned in November over allegations of a scam in 2G
The India-Syria Centre of Excellence for Information Technology, which would impart IT training to Syrians in public and private sectors, has been inaugurated in Damascus. The Centre is an India-Syrian Joint Collaboration project and has been established in the framework of a MoU signed between the Syrian Ministry of Communications and Technology and the government of India.
It could well be a `Hall of Shame` on the website of Delhi Police if its plans to make public the names of those jailed for drunken driving in the national capital come through. The move comes in the backdrop of its plan to clear the Delhi roads of traffic violators and educate people against the dangers of drunken driving. "We are mulling the possibility of p
IT firm iGate today said it has called off announcement of its "significant corporate development", where it was expected to notify its deal for buying 63 per cent stake in Patni Computer Systems. "The significant corporate development that was set to be announced on Monday is off," iGate said in a brief statement tonight without assigning any reasons.
Amid a surge in bank scams including the recent Rs 400-crore Citibank fraud, RBI is considering putting in place a system that would allow it to directly monitor all transactions at various banks. Once in place, the new system will enable complete automation for submission of transaction returns filed by all banks to RBI, doing away with the need for manual intervention.
A glitch in the software of Delhi government`s Food and Supply department has apparently deprived thousands of Below Poverty Line and Antodaya card holders in the city of ration since the past five months. This came to light when a plea of an RTI applicant, who had sought to know the reason for the abrupt stopping of ration supply for these card holder in 70 Circles of Delhi, cam
Punjab National Bank (PNB) has adopted one village here, which will be developed as a model village in terms of banking infrastructure and baking services. PNB, which is a leading bank here, would provide banking services through ICT-enabled Business Correspondent model in its adopted village Kishangarh. A survey of village has been completed jointly by the Reserve
Many Hotmail users had a New Year surprise when they found empty inboxes and missing folders as they logged in. Several frantic users posted complaints against Email giant MSN claiming that their emails have been deleted from their accounts. It is still unclear whether the problem lies with Microsoft, which owns MSN, or whether it is the work of hackers, the Daily
