The government today said individual cases are being examined to ascertain the eligibility of some telecom service providers which were granted 2G spectrum licences in 2008. "DoT sought legal opinion on issues arising from the observations of audit including the effective dates of amendment of object clause in MOA, enhancement of authorised share capital of a company, change
HCL Technologies today said it has bagged a USD 100 million deal for its BPO unit. "We have bagged a 100 million dollar contract from an US company," HCL CEO and vice-chairman Vineet Nayar said on the sidelines of the India Economic Summit. However, Nayar declined to share further details on the deal. The BPO unit of HCL Technologies was ru
By next month, Delhi government is set to complete its most ambitious IT project under which a three-dimensional replica of the city including all overground and underground utilities as well as structures will be made available on a portal. Already, digital mapping of entire range of public utilities including water pipelines, sewerage systems, telephone and electricity lines, h
Social networking site Facebook is likely to offer e-mail services to its 500 million users from tomorrow to compete with gmail and yahoomail, making it the largest such service provider on the planet. TechCrunch, a leading Silicon Valley technology blog, has reported that the social network plans to announce a Web-based email service complete with @facebook.com addresses at an e
National Knowledge Commission Chairman Sam Pitroda has favoured application of information and communication technology (ICT) by small and medium enterprises (SMEs) for development of the sector. "The SMEs will play an important role in the development of the nation in the next decade. This is one sector, which will largely contribute in the overall economic growth, modernis
West Bengal government has said that state may get huge investments especially in the Information Technology (IT) sector and nearly 25,000 jobs are expected to be created in the sector this year. West Bengal`s IT Minister Debesh Das, who was in the capital to attend an e-governance meeting, said IT companies were investing in Bengal. They (IT firms) are expected to
Andhra Pradesh K Rosaiah today said the state will encourage e-Governance for delivering every government service so that it will reach real targeted beneficiaries with transparency and accountability. In a meeting with the officials here today, he said compared to other states Andhra Pradesh was far ahead in e-Governance initiatives and was implementing it in all sectors and 2-t
Online hiring is steadily gaining prominence among India Inc, as this medium helps in reducing costs as well as saving time in activities related to recruitment, feel HR experts. They also opined that several organisations are looking at online medium as effective channel for sourcing talent. "Online hiring has picked up in popularity, as it has been vastly us
More than a year after the Supreme Court asked the government to launch an anti-ragging website, the portal is yet to take the desired shape mainly due to technical reasons. "There are some technical issues in this matter (developing the web portal). We are in talks with software service provider HCL over the issue. All the technical requirements will soon be sorted out,&quo
Britain will run out of Internet addresses by 2012 According to Vint Cerf, Google`s vice-president credited with inventing the modern Internet,the "unbelievable" trend could prevent British businesses from communicating with their customers around the world and in the UK, and hold back the development of a new wave of connected devices. He told delegates
Internet search giant Google Inc has approved a handsome pay hike of 30 per cent and bonuses of 250 per cent of the base salary for its top executives starting next year. Google has approved an increase to the annual base salaries (effective as of January 1, 2011) of its executive officers, after a review of performance and competitive market data, and as part of a broad-based re
Sebi is putting in place a unified regulatory filing system for all listed companies and market entities in a standardised format to enable dissection of bulky documents for relevant information without any delay. Besides disseminating the information on real-time basis to investors and others, the XBRL technology-based new system will also help Sebi itself as also other regulato
With the opposition insisting on a joint parliamentary committee (JPC) probe into alleged irregularities in allocation of 2G spectrum, Government today dismissed the demand as "meaningless" and said they should allow Parliament to function. "Demand for JPC is completely meaningless. Let BJP allow the House to run," Home Minister P Chidambaram told reporters he
Greater availability of social networking services, coupled with changing demographics and workstyles will lead 20 per cent of employees to use social networks as their business communications hub by 2014, according to Gartner, Inc. Analysts said this is one of a wide range of capabilities that have emerged in communications, social Web and mobile, enabling richer interactions am
Facebook has brought about a major change in the way people communicate with each other and for many their friendships now depend on it, according to an Australian study. Facebook and other online social networking sites are now "ingrained" and for many people their friendships depend on them, local media today reported quoting the study. The study found
China has overtaken US in the global supercomputing race as it has been confirmed as the creator of the world`s fastest supercomputer, according to a latest survey. The Tianhe-1A, which means meaning Milky Way is capable of 2.67 quadrillions of computing operations per second, earning it the number one spot in the Top 500 list of the world`s most powerful supercomputers released
Against the backdrop of the Adarsh housing scam, the Defence Ministry has started computerising records pertaining to the land possessed by it. "We have about 17 lakh acres of land, out of which, two lakh acres are in Cantonment areas, across 62 Cantonments spread all over the country, which is very valuable. We have begun the process of computerising all the land (records)
In the midst of political heat over scams, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has decided to make public assets and liabilities of his ministerial colleagues. Details about the assets and liabilities of all ministers would now be placed on the website of the Prime Minister`s Office and the information is likely to be uploaded in a couple of days, sources said. Cabinet S
Tripura police will introduce geo-sattelite image system for spotting the movements of insurgents in the remote and hilly areas, Director General of Police, Selim Ali said today. "Insurgency is on the wane but its residual part still exists. We shall introduce geo-sattelite image system which will provide a sattelite imagery of the movement of the insurgents in remote hilly
Policy on open standards and biometric standards for e-Governance was released in the meeting of national e-governance advisory group meet held yesterday under the chairmanship of the Union Minister of Communications and IT, A Raja. Speaking on the occasion, the minister underlined the importance of interoperability between the various e-governance applications and said that sta
