Telecom equipment manufacturer Teracom today said it has bagged an order worth Rs 70 crore from state-owned BSNL to supply half a million modems, which enable computer data transmission over phone lines. The company would provide modems to BSNL, which is looking at ramping up its broadband subscriber base in a big way, Teracom said in a statement. Modems enable tra
Bharti Airtel today said it will launch the much-awaited 3G services before the end of this year, making it the third private operator in the country after Tata Teleservices and Vodafone to unveil plans for offering mobile broadband. Tata Teleservices has announced plans to launch 3G services by Diwali, while Vodafone has said it will launch the services by early 2011.
With double-digit revenue growth returning to the USD 60 billion Indian IT-ITeS sector, top IT players, including TCS and Infosys, are stepping up their hiring plans for the next few quarters to meet the reviving demand in the US and European markets. Country`s largest software firm Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has revised its hiring plans to add 50,000 people this fiscal agai
Currency fluctuations are likely to dent the profit margins of Indian software exporters in the coming quarters, as uncertainties persist in the global economy, say analysts. The country`s top three IT players -- Tata Consultancy Services, Infosys Technologies and Wipro -- were affected by foreign exchange volatility in the September quarter this fiscal and their profit margins t
The sparring between Congress and BJP over authenticity of EVMs used in Gujarat local bodies elections intensified today, with the latter accusing the ruling party of showing a "spoilsport mindset" and making a fresh demand for a paper trail to be made compulsory with it. "There is a great debate on EVMs in Gujarat with the Congress saying they are being manipulate
There is good news for all those scared of allergies and wanting to know about the air quality of a particular area before visiting it. The Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) with technical support from French Government has developed an air quality forecasting system which will provide details about quality of air on a 48-hour basis in entire Delhi. The system
Rwanda today invited Indian investments and resources to upgrade technical and industrial skills to help transform the country into a knowledge-based economy. A 25-member business delegation from the East African country, accompanied by Infrastructure Minister Vincent Karega, is currently in India scouting for partners and investors to give a boost to the soft and physical infras
The Delhi Commission for Protection of Child Rights has requested UIDAI to ensure that lakhs of street children in the city get their unique identity number so that they can benefit from various welfare schemes. In a letter to Unique Identification Authority of India chief Nandan Nilekani, DCPCR chief Amod Kanth has said in absence of proper identity, homeless and street children
The Maharashtra government has launched an ambitious E-Scholarship scheme from the current academic year, for the benefit of 32 lakh students belonging to Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Nomadic Tribes (NTs) across the state. The total scholarship runs into Rs 1,800 crores per annum and about 32 lakh students from SC/NT and backward communities will benefit from it, Maharashtra Social
Election Commissioner Neela Satyanarayan has dubbed e-voting as a distant dream for Maharashtra saying it involves huge technical support and the state was not equipped for it yet. Satyanarayan was speaking to reporters after reviewing the civic poll preparations for the Kalyan-Dombivili Muncipal Corporation elections scheduled for the end of this month. "The
The government today asked Vodafone to pay Rs 11,218 crore in taxes within a month for the acquisition of Hutchison`s stake in the telecom joint venture in India in 2007. "The IT department today issued an order raising a tax demand of Rs 11,217.95 crore on Vodafone International holdings BV treating it as an assessee in default... for failure to deduct tax as required befor
South Korean military computer networks have come under ever-increasing cyber attacks, with the military countering nearly 100,000 hacking attempts or virus infections a day, Yonhap news agency reported today. The average daily number of cyber attacks against military computers rose to 93,720 cases last year, from 79,022 in 2008, 39,859 in 2007 and 29,681 in 2006, said Kim Ock Le
Gujarat Congress has written a letter to the State Election Commission alleging that the ruling BJP has tried to manipulate the results of civic elections held today by tempering electronic voting machines. "The ruling party (BJP) has tried to manipulate result of the elections by tempering EVMs by usage of laptops," Congress general secretary Girish Parmar said in the
Random Access Memory (RAMs) of computers placed at the office of Commonwealth Games Organising Committee CEO Jarnail Singh were stolen allegedly by an employee who was arrested, police sources said today. Pantry boy Umesh was apprehended from the Organising Committee Office in Jantar Mantar on October 18 after he was purportedly caught on a CCTV stealing computer parts, they said
Wall Street Finance (WSFL), a financial services subsidiary of B K Modi-led Spice Global, today said it would apply to the Reserve Bank for mobile banking licence. It would seek requisite authorisations from the Reserve Bank of India to offer and operate mobile banking, mobile payments and mobile settlement services across India, WSFL said in a statement. The compa
Draft reports of the CAG, which pointed out that the scam on 2G spectrum allocation caused a loss of Rs 1.4 lakh crore to the exchequer, was today placed before the Supreme Court. The two draft reports were placed by an NGO, Centre for Public Interest Litigation, which had alleged irregularities in allocation of spectrum. Parts of the reports were placed on October
Larsen & Toubro Infotech has set up a new office in Dubai, which would serve as the company`s Middle-East regional office and solution center. The office, located in Dubai`s largest dedicated free zone for the outsourcing industry--Dubai Outsource Zone (DOZ), would serve as the regional hub and provide an entire range of end-to-end information technology services and solution
The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has shortlisted nine companies for the managed services provider (MSP) contract to implement and manage the central information data repository (CIDR) of UIDAI. The companies include Accenture, HCL Infosystem, HP India, HCL technologies, IBM India, Mahindra Satyam, TCS, Tech Mahindra and Wipro. The companies were evaluated on b
The person who hacked the e-mail account of Tripura Minister for Industries and Commerce Jitendra Chowdhury has been traced to Nigeria. "The Nigeria-based hacker was traced by an NRI IT expert Soumen Sarkar. Immediately after receiving the information of hacking of my e-mail account yesterday, the US-based man swung into action and managed to identify the hacker," Chowd
Realty portal 99acres.com today announced its association with Singapore`s leading property portal propertyguru.com.sg. Under the agreement, an international menu tab with `Singapore properties` link has been introduced on the 99acres.com website which will direct consumers to propertyguru?s home page, the company said in a statement. In addition, an `India` link h
