A massive cyber attack has crippled Internet services in Myanmar ahead of Sunday`s election, IT experts and web service providers say, raising fears of a communications blackout for the vote. Internet users in the military-ruled country have reported slow connections and sporadic outages for more than a week, and some suspect the junta may be intentionally disrupting services to
Amid concerns over job loss due to outsourcing, the government today said the US should not look at the Indian IT sector as a problem, but as a solution for the unemployment situation in that country. "The Indian IT companies are not a problem but they are a part of solution. They are adding value. They are creating jobs for the local people whether in the US or Europe,"
The US today sought to assuage the IT industry here, saying India had not been singled out on the issue of rise in visa fee, a move that raised the hackles of technology firms. "Indian IT firms had not been singled out in this regard and countries like South Korea and Taiwan would also pay more for it," US Commerce Secretary Gary Locke told a private news channel.
Europe is keen to learn e-governance success models in India to replicate some of them back home between its Parliament based in Brussels and 27-member countries, a key official said today. "....we are very interested in issues about e-governance", Malcom Harbour, leading a nine-member delegation of European Parliament on a visit to India on a fact-finding mission, said
Kerala government plans to extend e-goverance in all departments and state-run- agencies to make the administration more transparent and corrption free, Kerala Minister for Law M Vijayakumar said here today. "The role of IT and e-governance in the administration affairs has increased many folds. To yield a better result, it will be implemened in all departmetns in a time bou
Habitual defaulters on mobile bill payments had best beware, as they will soon find it not only difficult to get a new number, but even to take a loan if credit ratings agency Cibil`s latest initiative fructifies. The Credit Information Bureau of India (Cibil), which is the largest repository of credit-related information of individual and corporate borrowers in the country, has
Online shopping for consumer goods like electronics and chocolates is likely to touch Rs 2,200 crore this Diwali, Assocham today said. "The reasons for e-shoppers number multiplying are because of factors such as home delivery which saves time, secondly `24x7` hours shopping with ease and availability factors for product comparisons," the chamber said. In
The Reserve Bank has doubled the threshold limit for electronic fund transfers using the Real Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) system to Rs 2 lakh with effect from November 15. "It has been decided to increase the threshold limit for RTGS transactions from the present limit of Rs 1 lakh to Rs 2 lakh," the RBI said in a notification. The RTGS system facilitate
Google committed a "significant breach" of British law when its Street View cars grabbed personal data and the firm`s branch in the country now faces a probe, a watchdog said today. Several countries have now taken action against the Internet giant after the cars, which drive around taking photos for Google`s free online mapping service, mistakenly picked up private inf
Tata DOCOMO, the GSM arm of Tata Teleservices Limited, today said it would launch its 3G services in nine telecom circles across the country on November 5, the Diwali day. It would become the first private operator to launch 3G services in the country with technology support from its Japanese partner NTT DOCOMO, the global leader in 3G services, a top company official said here.
The telecom ministry has said that policy decisions cannot be "assailed" as arbitrary while debunking government auditor CAG`s reported assertion that 2G spectrum was allocated in an arbitrary manner causing a loss of Rs 1,76,700 crore to the exchequer. "Decisions (on spectrum) taken on the basis of New Telecom Policy of 1999 and the Cabinet decision of 2003, coupl
The identity of people making anonymous phone calls must be disclosed to the receiver by telecom companies as the public interest in such cases overrides the privacy clause, the Central Information Commission has held. The case relates to a resident of Kanpur, Hari Shanker Gupta, who was getting calls from two anonymous numbers on his mobile phone at odd hours. Gup
The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) today extended the deadline for re-verification of subscribers by telecom operators to December 31, 2010. "The service providers approached DoT in October for extension of time. They stated that creation of infrastructure for re-verification had taken some time," DoT said in a statement. Now since the re-verifica
The apex trade body Nasscom today said it will raise IT industry`s concerns on visa fees hike and other anti-outsourcing measures adopted by the US during President Barack Obama`s visit to India later this week. "We will raise the issues related to Indian IT industry in the backdrop of anti-outsourcing comments by the US establishment (during Obama`s visit)," Nasscom Vi
India needs to watch how the anti- outsourcing sentiment evolves in the "new political scenario" in the US, Ambassador to the US Meera Shankar said today. "We have to see how national debate evolves in the new political scenario, where you have a House going to the Republicans, Senate being probably retained by Democrats and to a different political scenario,"
More and more people are turning to the Internet this Diwali to play traditional card games teen patti and rummy and pocket some fast cash too. The teen patti game on social network portal Ibibo is being played by thousands of users daily. "The biggest age group for ibibo Teen Patti is 21 to 35 years. Interestingly we see a 40 per cent female audience for some
India could save Rs 1,00,000 crore per year -- enough to reduce its fiscal deficit by more than 20 per cent, or boost its welfare spending by over 25 per cent, or fund the entire cost of the Food Security Act -- just by adopting the electronical payment method, says a report. According to a report by global consultancy firm McKinsey, an electronic platform for government payments
Himachal Pradesh police would go hi-tech to make its functioning more transparent and efficient for quick delivery system, D S Minhas, Director General of Police (DGP) said today. A series of measures like video graphing the interrogation of the accused, imparting advanced technical training to Investigating Officers (IOs), educating them about forensic and legal aspects to facil
Telecom regulator Trai today sought views from service providers and other stakeholders on ways to block lost or stolen mobile phones, to curtail the illegal handset market, discourage handset theft and protect consumer interest. Terming mobile phone theft as a serious concern to the consumers, Trai said many valuable personal data are stored in mobile handsets. Te
After putting it through extensive trials, Railways have decided to introduce the much-talked about anti-collision device (ACD) technology in Southern Railway network from November 10. The clamour for introducing ACD technology by Railways had become shriller after a spate of recent train accidents in in the country recent months which claimed hundreds of lives. Th
