The field of technology in the year 2010 was quite exciting and eventful especially in the segment of mobile phones, which returned as status symbols in India in its latest avatar - the smartphones. The new generation devices was picked up by not just the wealthy or the forever-experimenting geeks but also became a must-have productivity tool for business executives and young pro
In a bid to capitalise on the charisma of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, BJP has decided to compile all speeches, poems, interviews and writings of the ailing leader to reach out to the people. "BJP President Nitin Gadkari today announced the launch of Samagra?Atalji Project, a mega-documentation exercise of all the spoken and written words of former Prime Minis
In the wake of Adarsh Housing Society scam here, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has decided to provide all necessary information regarding residential buildings and societies on its website. The details would include the occupational certificate of the housing society, no objection certificates from authorities, ownership of the property, area of the building or the
Strange it may appear, but a Facebook-like feature in your brain rules your social network, say researchers. A new study has found that amygdala, a small almond- shaped structure, deep in the temporal lobe governs the number of friends one is likely to make -- the larger the amygdala, the wider and more complex is its owner`s network of pals. For the study, the res
Some 300 internet cafes in Nepal have come under the police scanner after the introduction of a new regulation by the government to check cyber crimes. Cyber users will now be required to show ID cards, register their names, address and telephone numbers in the cyber cafe as per the new regulation, chief of the Metropolitan Police Crime Division, SSP Rana Bahadur Chand said.
Pakistan will launch its first indigenously-developed communication satellite on August 14 next year from a facility in China, an official said today. The new satellite with a lifespan of 15 years, has been developed with technical and financial assistance from China. It would be launched on the country`s Independence Day in 2011, Paksat General Manager Col Muhamma
Mahatma Gandhi is known for many things but he has to his name the maximum number of quotations by any Indian on the Internet. The Internet has a large number of sites which offer quotations on a variety of topics ranging from friendship, love, destiny, life, death, peace and politics. But the net has one site which gives quotations from people from all walks of life all over the
Worried about possible terror attacks on Maharashtra`s water installations, the state government is going to request the Centre to block information on dams from search engines such as Google. "We are going to request the Centre about security of dams and also to block information regarding them available on search engines like Google," Home Minister R R Patil told repo
Battling funds crunch and low revenue generation, a desperate MCD today published the names of those with over Rs 5 lakh due in property tax to the civic agency and defaulting government properties on its websites. Also, according to the list put on websites www.mcdpropertytax.in and www.mcdonline.gov.in, an amount of Rs 119.51 crore is due on 24 government properties and Rs 81.8
The one-man committee, looking into policies and procedures followed by the telecom ministry, has asked DoT for information on various issues including allocation of spectrum to all operators between 2001 and 2009. The Justice Shivraj Patil committee was set up by Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal to look into the policies and suggest if they were followed in a transparent manner.
The Government today held discussions with telecom and IT players as part of its ongoing initiative of interacting with varied sectors for development of a national vocational education curriculum framework. The meeting was chaired by HRD Minister Kapil Sibal. Earlier, the Ministry had also held discussions with the automobile sector following which a core group wa
A new US healthcare law related to 9/11 attacks may erode the profitability of Indian IT companies, among others, as it seeks to raise funds by continuing an increased visa fee regime for skilled workers. The James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act of 2010 seeks to create a USD 4.3 billion fund to provide free medical treatment to those suffering from illnesses contracted
A Norwegian daily that obtained all the 250,000 diplomatic cables WikiLeaks is slowly releasing will publish articles on them independently of the whistleblowing website`s strategy, its boss said today. "We have gained access to all 250,000 documents," Ole Erik Almlid, the managing editor of Aftenposten, told AFP today, refusing to say how his newspaper obtained all the
The government will roll out its ambitious crime tracking network by September next year for use by enforcement and police officials to speed up probes and facilitate real-time access of classified criminal data. The Crime and Criminal Tracking Network System (CCTNS)-- once fully operational -- will facilitate collection, storage, retrieval, analysis, transfer and sharing of data
Internet connectivity in Pakistan is quite low with estimated penetration rate of 10 per cent but opportunities for growth are evident as 62 per cent of Pakistanis are under the age of 25, Google has said. The most widely used web-based search engine in the world, Google which early this month sent a largest ever team to Pakistan has said that in the country it saw an opportunity
The Kolkata Traffic Police today started an online payment facility through a portal and an SMS based information exchange service for traffic related problems. People can now make their traffic related payments online form home and can receive all their traffic related information through SMS on their mobile. Inaugurating the project Kolkata Police Commissioner Go
Skype suffered an outage lasting several hours affecting millions of users of the Internet communications service. "Our engineers and site operations team are working non-stop to get things back to normal -- thanks for your continued patience," Luxembourg-based Skype said in a message on its Twitter feed @Skype following yesterday`s outage. In a blog post
A 14-year-old computer whizkid has been enrolled for a Master of Computer Applications programme in the School of Distance Education in Bharathiar University here. B Mohammed Suhail, a Class 9 student of a city school, was allowed to join the course this academic year by a committee set up by the university, after assessing his knowledge level and skills in both hardware and soft
In a New Year gift, Jammu and Kashmir government today lifted the ban on Short Messaging Services (SMS) on all post-paid mobile phone subscribers in the state but refrained from withdrawing it on pre-paid cell phones. The decision was taken at a high-level meeting chaired by Chief Minister Omar Abdullah which was attended by state police chief Kuldeep Khoda, Home Secretary B R Sh
Britain has scrapped a controversial identity card scheme whose introduction by the previous Labour government as part of anti-terrorism plans had outraged civil rights activists. The scrapping of the scheme has been approved after the the David Cameron government`s first Home Office bill, the Identity Documents Bill, received royal assent. The Identity Cards Act 2
