The government has decided to withdraw the ban on the services of bulk SMSes and MMSes imposed as the country has remained peaceful after the verdict on the Ayodhya title suit. The ban on bulk SMSes and MMSes, to check any propaganda post Ayodhya verdict, was first imposed on September 22 which was later extended till tonight, official sources said. The Centre also
Gulf-based low-cost air-carrier, Air Arabia, today said it has tied-up with visa processing agency, IVS Global, to provide online business and visit visa to its UAE-bound customers from India. The airline also announced the launch of a call centre in India to facilitate passengers book their flight tickets for Air Arabia flights. "The UAE visa service is desig
After restatement of accounts, Mahindra Satyam is now focusing on bringing back its old clients who have left the company after the multi-crore scam exposed last year, sources close to the development said. Many of the clients have left due to the uncertainty loomed over the company in the absence of certified accounts. Now the company feels it is on the stronger w
Telecom operators in the country added 18.18 million subscribers in August this year, taking the total number of mobile users in India to 670.60 million, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) today said. According to data released by the telecom regulator, the wireless subscriber base increased from 652.42 million in July, 2010, to 670.60 million by the end of August,
Micro-blogging site Twitter today named Dick Costolo as its new Chief Executive Officer after incumbent CEO Evan Williams stepped down. Costolo, who was Twitter`s Chief Operating Officer and one of its early investors, joined the company last September and has been leading its advertising initiatives. Williams, who co-founded Twitter, will be "completely focus
Internet telephone provider Skype has appointed a top executive at Cisco, Tony Bates, as its new Chief Executive Officer. Bates, who runs Cisco`s enterprise, commercial and small business division, will join Skype at the end of October, the company said in a statement on Monday. Adrian Dillon, Skype`s Chief Financial and Administrative Officer, will serve as interi
With rock-bottom tariffs and spiralling business expenses, the profit margins of domestic telecom players is expected to remain under pressure in the coming months, feel marketmen. "Tariff wars and heightened cost of doing business have taken a toll on the telecom sector. As we expect tariff wars to re-emerge and competition to intensify in the medium term, it is believed th
Identification of military trends for the future will be high on the agenda of a two-day defence communication seminar to be held here from December 2. Releasing the CII-Corps of Signals `DefCom India` brochure here today, Army Signal Officer-in-Chief Lt Gen P Mohapatra said seamless and resilient communication between sensors, decision makers and shooters in the battlefield conv
Iran claimed today that a computer worm found on the laptops of several employees at the country`s nuclear power plant is part of a covert Western plot to derail its nuclear programme. Iranian officials have suggested in recent days that the Stuxnet worm that has affected computers of employees at the Bushehr nuclear power plant could be a conspiracy to damage Iran`s nuclear acti
The BJP today charged Congress with indulging in "cyber crime" over the issue of "theft" of its online identity and demanded a reply to the legal notice issued to the party more than a week ago. "The Bharatiya Janata Party suspects that the Congress party has covertly negotiated with a cyber squatter and used his site bjp.com to first spread malicious con
In a bid to make 12th Five Year Plan (2012-17) more inclusive and effective, the Plan panel today launched a web portal to get public feedback on the `Approach Paper to 12th Plan`. Before unveiling any five year Plan, the Plan panel prepares an approach paper, which lays out the major targets, the key challenges in meeting them, and the broad approach that must be followed to ach
Information about traffic congestion on Delhi roads and alternative routes on real time basis during Commonwealth Games are now just a click away. Log on to www.delhitrafficpolice.nic.in, Delhi Traffic Police`s website, for an interactive page which provides the user with an interactive platform. The new platform added to the the website provides the user informati
BlackBerry makers have cautioned the government that any ban of their core services will be counterproductive and futile and instead suggested that a joint consultative forum be formed to evolve procedures to intercept these popular services. Virtually refusing to provide a technology for lawful interception, the Canada-based Research in Motion(RIM) in the latest missive said the
The Karnataka Prisons Department has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Goa government`s subsidiary, Goa Electronics Limited (GEL) to develop a prison management software. GEL Chairman Mahendra Khandeparkar said this would help the prison authorities to manage details of each and every prisoner. The information would available to the officials at a click of a mou
The national capital moved a step forward in providing identification cards as well as Aadhaar Identification Numbers to the homeless in the city. Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit distributed "beghar" cards and provisional Unique Identification Numbers to the homeless in the city on the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. At a function jointly organised by
Unique Identity Authority of India will rope in banks to further financial inclusion in the country, bankers said today after a meeting with UIDAI Chairman and ex-Infosys Chief, Nandan Nilekani, here today. Nilekani made a presentation to the bankers about his project which showed how synergies with banks can help achieve financial inclusion. Bank chiefs from acros
Efforts are underway to link the Unique Identification Number(UID) project with financial inclusion programme of the country, a top bank official said here today. "We are trying to link financial inclusion programme with Nandan Nilekani-led UID project. In this way the banks will get to acquire customers whose antecedents have already been verified," Chairman and Managi
A high level FICCI business delegation to Germany being led by Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma will seek support from a key member of the European Union over the campaign against outsourcing, particularly in the US. "We will explain to them, like we did it in the case of the US that outsourcing is good for their economy. It is a two-way street," FICCI Presid
Having already doubled its small and medium enterprise (SME) customer base in India within a year, global Internet search giant Google is now aggressively trying to reach out to the entire sector for online advertising. India has an estimated 35 million SMEs, out of which only about 200,000 have an online presence through domains, sub-domains and blogs. "We pl
A cheap mobile phone application that can track the precise location of passenger aircraft in the sky can be a serious terrorist threat, security experts have claimed and called for its immediate ban. The Plane Finder AR application, developed by a British firm for the Apple iPhone and Google`s Android, allows users to point their phone at the sky and see the position, height and
