Internet search titan Google today said it aims to double the number of users of its enterprise solutions in India to two million by next year. To achieve this goal, the company will target small and medium enterprises in the country that have not yet migrated to cloud-based computing technologies. Currently, Google has about one million users across 100,000 enterprises in India.
The government today said state-owned telecom firm BSNL recorded its first loss since inception, totaling over Rs 1,800 crore in 2009-10. It garnered Rs 18,427.18 crore in revenue during the financial year from landline and mobile services, Parliament was informed. BSNL received Rs 8,885.67 crore in revenue during 2009-10, while it garnered Rs 9,541.51 crore from m
K R Viswambharan, Vice Chancellor, Kerala Aricultural University has been bestowed with prestigious Dewang Metha award for outstanding contribution to education. The award in recongnition of leadership, development and innovation shown by him in the eduction sector, was presented to Viswambharan in a function held at Mumbai yesterday. Under the leadership of Viswam
US-based telecom company Telcordia today denied having links with Home Ministry official Ravi Inder Singh, who was arrested on Tuesday by the Delhi Police for allegedly passing sensitive information to unauthorised persons. "Telcordia categorically denies allegations being reported by sections of the press that Singh, a director in the Ministry of Home Affairs, is on its pay
Mahendra Singh Tikait, the leader of Bharatiya Kisan Union, today demanded that school and college students be banned from carrying mobile phones as they have a "bad effect" on them. Tikait, who is also the chief of Baliyan Khap, a social administrative group of one of the gotras of the Jat community, was commenting on a recent decision by a khap panchayat in Lank villa
In a major boost to West Bengal`s industrialisation drive, IT major Infosys Technologies today signed an MoU with WBHIDCO for a 50-acre plot to open a campus in Kolkata to provide job opportunities to nearly 15,000 people. "Infosys today signed an MoU for a 50-acre plot close to Wipro site at Rajarhat for a total cost of Rs 75 crore," State Housing minister and West Ben
In a bid to improve the law and order situation, the Kanpur Police has set-up an account for itself at the social-networking site `Facebook` for immediate redressal of grievances and to get better feedback on department functioning. The profile, created by DIG Mutha Ashok Jain, will have a separate page for citizens where they can register complaints and seek immediate action.
Lok Satta Party today announced that it would launch a two-week long campaign from November 26 to protest against the 2G spectrum scam that cost the exchequer about Rs 1,76,000 crore. Youths and students led by the party will flood the Prime Minister`s Office with post cards, e-mails, faxes and one rupee money orders as a mark of protest against the scam, party chief Jayaprakash
Delhi Police today held a meeting here with officials of BPOs and asked them to take adequate steps to ensure the security and safety of women employees travelling in the night. Amulya Patnaik, Joint Commissioner of Police (Southern Range), met senior officials of BPOs located in the capital and neighbouring Noida and Gurgaon, a day after a call centre employee was abducted and r
Gujarat has been adjudged the best e-governed state in the CSI - Nihilent e-governance awards for 2009-10. Gujarat has won this award for the third time. In past it was awarded in the year 2006-7 and 2005-06 (jointly with Karnataka). It had also won the award for best e-governed state in citizen facilitation in 2004-05. In 2008-09 Madhya Pradesh was the winner of the award and in 2007-08
Delhi Police is soon to hit the Facebook, taking a leaf out of the success of its traffic wing in the social networking website. City Police Commissioner B K Gupta today said the force is planning to open an account in Facebook, one of the popular social networking sites, so as to help public to communicate with police. "We need feedback from public. Our traff
India would build two ranges for testing radar-based electronic warfare systems as it seeks to strengthen its capability in the field, seen to be vital in war scenarios. One range would come up in Chitradurga in Karnataka and another in Tandur in Andhra Pradesh, which would test "non-communication" and "communication" EW systems, respectively, a key defence of
Eight domestic flights from terminal 3 of IGI airport here faced minor delays today due to a technical problem in the computer system. Air India check-in systems on counters were erratic due to some problem in the AI host link at T3, Delhi International Airport Ltd (DIAL) sources said. This led to minor delays in flight departures and caused inconvenience to passen
Iran`s nuclear chief said today that the malicious computer worm known as Stuxnet has not harmed the country`s atomic programme and accused the West of being behind a failed sabotage attempt. Vice President Ali Akbar Salehi`s remarks came a day after diplomats told The Associated Press in Vienna that Iran`s nuclear programme recently suffered major technical problems that forced
Admitting that the controversy over security has impacted its business in India, BlackBerry- maker Research in Motion today said it will provide a final solution for lawful interception of BlackBerry Messenger services by January next year. The project is likely to be completed by the end of January, 2011. With regard to Blackberry`s Enterprise mail service, however, it has asser
Tripura police will set up a cyber forensic laboratory in the state by January next year to detect cyber crimes, Director General of Police (DGP) Salim Ali said here today. Inaugurating a seminar `Cyber crime and cyber forensic` organised by the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC), DGP said, the cyber laboratory would be set up by January next year and would be eq
Radiation generated by wireless networks that enable our ever increasing online communications has a detrimental effect on trees, a new study has claimed. The research by a team from Wageningen University in the Netherlands found that trees planted close to a wireless, or wi-fi, router had bleeding bark and dying leaves. The revelation will raise fears that wi-fi r
Private lender ICICI Bank today announced the launch of a new `fixed rupee` facility for Non- Resident Indians to remit exact rupee amounts to India through an online portal confirming the applicable exchange rate at the time of the transaction. This is a significant improvement over traditional money transfer mechanisms, where the rates are not available at the time of initiatin
More than 60,000 pornographic websites have been shut in China following a massive crackdown, authorities said. Nearly 1.785 million websites have been checked since the launch of the campaign in December 2009 and some 2,197 cases of dissemination of online pornography have been dealt with during the crackdown, National Office Against Pornographic and Illegal Publications said.
What`s a tweet, between friends? The law says sometimes it`s a threat. One man thought he was just bantering with his pals when he joked about blowing an airport sky-high. Another was reacting to a radio phone-in when he mused about stoning a journalist to death. Because they made their throwaway comments on Twitter, both are in legal trouble. Their
