British civil servants, who spend too much time on online social networking sites like Facebook or Twitter at work or post inappropriate comments from home, may face disciplinary action or the sack, a media report said. According to the `Daily Mail`, government departments and officials planning 2012 London Olympics have issued written guidelines to staff members detailing their
Moving away from unsolicited calls to sell home loan products, private lender HDFC Bank will soon be tapping customers for group company HDFC through web chats where the customer wilfully logs on for details. "We see the cold-calling method (unsolicited calls) going off, especially considering the way the regulation is headed. Web is the future -- it is non-invasive, gets th
Using artificial-intelligence, Internet giant Google is secretly developing a car that can drive itself, a development experts say could transform society as profoundly as the World Wide Web has. Seven test cars of Google have driven 1,000 miles without human intervention and more than 140,000 miles with only occasional human control, New York Times reported. The c
India would develop its own futuristic computer operating system to thwart attempts of cyber attacks and data theft and things of that nature, a top defence scientist in Bangalore, Saturday. Dr V K Saraswat, Scientific Adviser to the Defence Minister, said the DRDO has just set up a software development centre each here and in Delhi, with the mandate develop such a system.
Fifteen more Australian police officers are facing disciplinary action in the racist e-mail scandal, as a top Victorian official said the incident undermines the work done with the Indian community to allay fears about their safety. "We at Victoria Police have been working very closely with the Indian community over the last several months to ensure that we can address their
With 3G network deals from Airtel and others coming its way, Chinese telecom equipment maker Huawei today said it expects to make up for the business lost in the coming year. The government had earlier this year banned telecom operators from procurement from foreign vendors, following concerns raised by the Home Ministry that telecom equipment from some countries could have spywa
Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer today decried the use of pirated software by Chinese businesses. "One of the things that has improved a lot around the world is business piracy, and yet when we look at China today business piracy is more extreme than consumer piracy," he told a business forum in Madrid. "We are working hard with the support of
Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) is all set to begin enrolment of people in Orissa, Chhattisgarh and Andaman and Nicobar Islands in the next few weeks, a senior official said here today. The enrolment will begin in Orissa and Chhattisgarh this month and in Andaman and Nicobar Islands next month, Deputy Director General of UIDAI(Hyderabad region), V S Bhaskar said.
Andhra Pradesh Government would take up computerisation of 6,000 Panchayats soon, Panchayat Raj Minister B Satyanarayana said today. Internet facility would also be provided to the 6,000 Panchayats and the ambitious programme is likely to be completed in one year, he told reporters here. The government would undertake computerisation of the remaining Panchayats sub
Sixteen students have been suspended from a school here after one of them posted abusive comments against a teacher, who had given him zero marks in an internal mathematics examination recently. The students, including seven girls, of class XII were yesterday suspended for three months after one student uploaded the photo of the teacher and posted abusive comments on the social n
Microsoft discussed the possibility of buying out Adobe Systems at a recent meeting between their chief executives Steve Ballmer and Shantanu Narayen, says a media report. British daily Financial Times has reported that a possible Microsoft acquisition of Adobe Systems was among the ideas for closer cooperation, raised informally at a meeting of their chiefs. Attri
Tata Communications today expanded its cloud offering by launching two new more scalable, cost-effective and instant services--InstaCompute and InstaOffice--to help organisations further enhance their productivity and connectivity. These offerings, coming from the company`s managed services business, are on a self-service, pay-as-you-use IT application and data centre infrastruct
China sees farmers as the "major driving force" for the future growth of its burgeoning internet industry as the net connection in rural areas grew by 71.6 per cent in the last three years outpacing the growth in urban areas by more than double. Farmers will become a "major driving force" in the growth of China`s Internet population, which is already the world
Eight out of ten children under the age of two have their pictures online via sites like Facebook, raising privacy and even paedophilia concerns, an Internet security company said today. A study by Melbourne-based AVG found an average of 81 per cent of toddlers in ten western countries have a digital presence; 92 per cent in America, followed by 91 per cent in New Zealand and 84
UAEs Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) has announced that the BlackBerry services in the country, which was due to be suspended on October 11, will continue as normal. In a statement released on Friday, TRA said: "All Blackberry services in the UAE will continue to operate as normal and no suspension of service will occur on October 11." The r
Technology giant IBM is looking at maintaining its numero uno position in the Indian data storage market with the launch of a new product `IBM Storwize V7000`, which will help clients lessen their workload. "The quantity of data generated everyday is growing and so the requirement for storage is also going up. In such a condition, storage solutions need to not just efficient
Acting on the suggestion of political parties for a paper backup in Electronic Voting Machines to enhance people`s confidence, the Election Commission has decided to refer the issue to its Technical Expert Committee. The Commission has decided to refer to the Technical Expert Committee for detailed examination of `voter verifiable paper trail` in EVMs in all its aspects through a
The Government has decided to fund the pensioners` associations and NGOs to set up and run the "pensioners` portals" on the Internet as part of the national e-Governance plan (NeGP) being implemented as a mission mode project to cater to the central pensioners. These portals will provide information about pension and other retirement-related matters and help the pension
Tamil Nadu government would start IT Parks in seven cities, Minister for IT Poongothai Aladi Aruna said here. The IT parks would be come up in Coimbatore, Salem, Trichirapalli, Tirunelveli, Hosur and Vellore. The decision on starting one more park would taken soon, she said inaugurating a three-day computer fair here. She said IT network has been introduced in inte
The Unique Identification number (UID) would be rolled out at Mysore and Tumkur on October 8, State Principal Secretary (e-Governance) M N Vidhyashankar said here today. Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa would launch the programme at Mysore while Tumkur District Incharge Minister Shobha Kharandlje would launch it at the town the same day, he said. A total 450 work sta
