An official e-mail address for all members of the Tamil Nadu Assembly was today launched by Chief Minister M Karunanidhi to help public communicate with the MLAs instantly and `more effectively.` As part of implementing the announcement made by the Government during the budget session early this year, Karunanidhi through video-conferencing launched the official email addresses cr
Assam Food and Civil Supplies Minister Nurjamal Sarkar today said the public distribution system would be computerised in the state and biometric cards would issued to beneficiaries to plug leakages. "There is diversion of 15 to 25 per cent of PDS commodities and it is impossible for the existing mechanism to stop it and as such we had requested Centre to computerise the PDS
Have you ever felt like you`re tweeting but no one`s reading? Well, you may be right, for a new study has revealed that 71 per cent of tweets are ignored. The study, conducted by Sysomos, a media monitoring and analytics firm, examined 1.2 billion tweets sent in August and September 2009 and found that more than seven in every 10 tweets sink without any kind of reaction from the
Smarting under defeat in Gujarat civic polls, Congress today blamed the "tampered" electronic voting machine for the loss and said it did not reflect "public opinion" even as a triumphant BJP took potshots at the main Opposition party in the state. "All EVMs were made by a Hyderabad-based company for the state government eight years ago. Therefore, it is
From stolen cars to suspicious smells, one of Britain`s biggest police forces is tweeting every incident it deals with over a 24 hour-period to prove a point. The online Twitter campaign aims to show the pressures that police are under as British officials prepare for deep budget cuts. "The reality of police work is that although crime is a big part of what we
Domestic IT major Infosys Technologies today said it has applied for 18 patent applications for its different products and services in India and the US during the second quarter, ended September 30, 2010. During the second quarter, Infosys applied for 18 patent applications in India and the US. With this, the company has an aggregate of 256 patent applications (pending) in India
Research In Motion (RIM), the makers of Blackberry smart phone, today said the company is bullish about talks with the government of India over its security concerns over the phone and hoped to reach a constructive decision soon. "Our discussion with the government of India is very constructive. We are bullish about the outcome," RIM India`s Managing Director Frenny Baw
Telecom regulator TRAI today initiated an exercise to rework telecom tariffs for mobile as well as basic services, a move that may further bring down charges, especially in the long distance segment. TRAI`s initiative assumes significance in the wake of rising number of promotional offers and increasing competition in the telecom market. It has received representations from consu
The Telecom Ministry will soon approach the CBI, which is probing the alleged irregularities in allocation of new licences and 2G spectrum in 2008, to get back documents to enable it respond to queries raised by government`s auditor CAG. The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) had said that 72 out of 122 new 2G spectrum licences issued by Telecom Minister A Raja in January, 200
The Telecom Ministry`s proposed new subscriber verification norms will slow down the pace of mobile customer addition by nearly 50 per cent to five million a month and will also drive up the cost for telcos to add users to their networks, feel operators. "If the new norms are implemented, it will take at least 15 days for operators to activate a new mobile connection. The de
The official website of the Indore police was today allegedly hacked for some time, sources said. However, it was restored soon after complaints and has started functioning normally, they said. "We received complaints that the police website has been hacked, following which the matter is being investigated," Police spokesman Sudhir Sharma said.
Media company AOL, along with some private-equity firms, is "exploring" making an offer to buy Yahoo Inc, as the Internet company deals with poor financial performance and an exodus of senior executives, a media report said. Silver Lake Partners and Blackstone Group LP are among the firms that have expressed interest in teaming up with AOL to buy Yahoo, or take it priva
Cybercriminals in India are increasingly looking at creating botnets, network of computers aimed at attacking and `capturing` PCs to spread viruses through them to other systems, a Microsoft report said today. India ranks 25th in terms of bot infections detected and removed in the quarter ended June 2010, according to the Microsoft Security Intelligence Report version 9. The repo
Using a free and unprotected wireless Internet network? Beware, your computer system can be hacked in less than five seconds. A new British study has found that nearly half of homes in Britain with wireless Internet networks (wi-fi) are at risk of being hacked in just seconds. It found that a quarter of wi-fi connections in the UK have no password attached, making
The State Commercial Taxes Department is all set to go online by December this year with the completion of computerization of all its transactions including the Value Added Tax (VAT)regime to extend a taxpayer-friendly dispensation to the citizens. Aimed at optimizing tax revenue through enhanced compliance besides providing improved services to people, the project worth Rs 40.49
Anil Ambani-led Reliance Communications (RCom) today said it would be amongst the first private operators to launch next generation 3G service offerings "very soon". "We are not going to wait for the other operators` launch and then position ourselves ... ours will be among the early launches and it will be very soon," the company`s Chief Executive, Akshay Kum
Telecom operators today assured the government of their cooperation in getting details of customers verified, but asked the Home Ministry to ensure mobile users were not harassed by the police. Led by Bharti Group chairman Sunil Mittal, the telecom operators met Home Secretary G K Pillai and raised issues relating to subscriber verification especially in the states where, they (o
The state today told the Bombay High Court that it can not allow prisoners to operate bank accounts from jails, through net-banking, due to rise in cyber crimes. The High Court was hearing a PIL filed by one Sumit Giri, who is lodged in Thane central prison. Among other things, Giri had demanded that prisoners be allowed to operate bank accounts. How
Leading IT services provider, Mahindra Satyam, today said that it has signed a contract with the Commonwealth of Kentucky, USA, for design and delivery of a document management system for the child support system. The system would enable child support staff to electronically store, view and send information such as applications, court orders and insurance documentation received f
Homeless in Delhi will be amongst the first few who will get the UID number. The Delhi government and the UID authority have already started the process of enrolment of homeless people in the night shelter in the Nizammudin area of Delhi. The first set of enrolment slips were issued by Delhi chief minister, Shiela Dixit on 2nd October at the night shelter. She also issued homeless cards t
