Just six months ago, Puja, 18, and Bimla Devi, 35, spent their day cooking meals, tending to cattle and working in the field - the everyday work of rural women across Haryana. Never in their wildest dreams had they imagined that they could one day be sitting in an office working away furiously in front of a computer. Today, this is the remarkable reality of hundreds of women i
Critical IT infrastructure will increasingly come under cyber attack and service providers will respond, but governments would be slow to react, security trend and predictions for 2011 by Symantec said here today. "Stuxnet is a worm that affects industrial control systems and is capable of impacting critical infrastructure such as nuclear power plants, dams, water treatment
Giving out a clean chit to WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange, Australian police has said that it did not find any breach of law by the whistleblower in his home country. "The AFP (Australian Federal Police) has completed its evaluation of the material available and has not established the existence of any criminal offences where Australia would have jurisdiction,"
Handset manufacturer Nokia and technology major IBM today entered into a collaboration to provide mobile handsets a software solution which provides direct, secure access to e-mail besides personal information of the company. The solution IBM Lotus Notes Traveler- delivers direct, secure access to e-mail and personal information through IBM Domino servers - available for Nokia Sy
Haryana government today launched a website with a view to monitor state run Public Private projects here today. The newly launched website would enable the state government to feed data related to the PPP projects online in prescribed formats, State Chief Secretary Urvashi Gulati said. The projects will be undertaken under the supervision of Public Works and Depar
The Rajasthan government today decided to bring an `Rajasthan Enterprises Single Window Enabling and Clearance ordinance` for expediting investment proposals. This is aimed at ensuring smooth, simplified and hassle free dealing and handlings of procedure for setting up industries and other related matters in the state. The ordinance will be issued before January 1
They may been a bit slow to embrace the technology, but the old are fast catching up to young on Internet, particularly when it comes to using social networking and shopping websites in the US,a report has found. According to the Pew Research Center report, adults aged 65 and older are now the fastest-growing group of people using the Internet, followed by by those aged 50 to 64.
The Indian online advertising market comprising of text and display advertising will grow to Rs 993 crore in this fiscal from Rs 785 crore in the financial year 2009-10, a study says. According to a recent survey conducted by the Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI), the Indian online advertising market comprising of text and display advertising will grow to Rs 993 cr
Leading financial services company Gupta Equities Pvt Ltd (GEPL), and Bank of India (BoI) have entered into a strategic tie-up to launch an online share trading facility. Gupta Equities` online share trading platform will help Bank of India customers trade in shares listed on the exchanges in an easy, transparent and hassle-free way. An MoU was signed between Vivek
Overruling an overwhelming vote by its readers for arrested WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, Facebook co-founder Mark Elliot Zuckerberg was today named as the `Person of the Year` by the Time Magazine for "transforming" the way people connect around the world. Zuckerberg, 26, beat out WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Assange, Afghan President Hamid Karzai and the Chilean mine
A new law making it mandatory for telecom operators to give access to government agencies to all services they offer is expected to be coming up next year. Taking a cue from America`s Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA), government is examining how a similar law could be enacted in India under which it would be made mandatory for anyone offering services to
The Andhra Pradesh government is all set to promote an Information Technology Investment Region (ITIR) in an extent of 50,000 acres spread over 202 sq km around the state capital Hyderabad. The ITIR will have an investment potential of Rs 2,19,440 crore over a period of 25 years and direct revenues of Rs 3,10,849 crore, according to state Minister for Information Technology and C
Country`s largest software firm Tata Consultancy Services TCS) today said it has bagged a Rs 85-crore three-year deal for implementing smart card-based Financial Inclusion Solution (FIS) for Indian Bank. The deployment of the solution will help in extending banking services in un-banked/under-banked areas, enabling Indian Bank to reach to over 35 lakh customers over the next thre
Gurgaon Police Commissioner S S Deswal today said the safety of women employees is the prime responsibility of their employers who should take steps to ensure the security of the women who work for them, especially during the odd hours. In a letter sent to all BPOs in the city, Deswal directed them to have a dedicated control room with emergency numbers operational round the cloc
GSM mobile operators` association COAI has expanded its membership base by including CISCO India, Huawei Technologies, Qualcomm and Alcatel Lucent as associate members. "Such membership recognises the valuable role that COAI has played and will continue to play in helping companies achieve their objectives and focusing our combined attention on nation building," COAI Di
The National Security Advisory Board (NSAB) has recommended formation of a central cyber security command on the lines of the US Cyber Command (USCYBERCOM) set up last May to fight back the new generation attacks on the government`s computer systems and networks. A policy paper of the board stresses need for such a command not only to prevent any leaks of the sensitive informatio
After the Delhi Traffic Police page on Facebook became a hit, the MCD is also planning to set up a similar page on the popular social networking website. The Municipal Corporation of Delhi is all set to start operating on Facebook from January, giving a special focus on monitoring garbage removal in the national capital. "The page will be aimed at monitoring c
Kerala was now ideally placed for rapid development of IT sector, Fisheries minsiter, S Sarma, today said. Stressing the need for having a common man friendly IT policy in the state, Sarma said the state needs an IT policy which would bring the welfare services of the governemnt to the common people. The IT sector needs to have an orientation towards the common man, the minister
In the wake of recent cyber attacks on the website of CBI, the government today said all ministries and departments will have to carry out security audit of their websites before making them available for online visitors. "It has been decided that all websites of ministries and departments should be audited with respect to quality and security prior to the hosting," Min
France`s competition regulator has found "possible" abuses by Google Inc. in its online advertising practices because of its dominant market position. However, the French Competition Authority said in a report today that it sees no need for new sector-wide regulations on online ads. The report, which was requested by the French government, is not legally
