Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales believes relief may be in sight for the beleaguered news media industry. The increasing use of the mobile Internet and for-pay "apps" that run on smart phones and other gadgets might give news providers what they`ve been searching for: a way to charge for digital content, Wales told The Associated Press in an interview Friday.
In a bid to tackle the growing menace of crime in cyber space, Madhya Pradesh Police has decided to constitute a dedicated Cyber Police Force by enrolling over 100 personnel in the first phase. "We have sent a proposal to recruit over 700 police personnel for the newly-created Cyber Crime Cell of Madhya Pradesh and the police headquarter has initially given its nod to recrui
Lakhs of aspiring job seekers in Tamil Nadu may soon be spared the tedium of spending long hours at employment exchange queues with implementation of a `virtual employment exchange`, where they just fill in an application form, upload scanned copies of certificates and wait for employers to contact them. "Once the portal is launched, no one need visit district employment exc
Advisor to the Prime Minister and telecom czar Sam Pitroda today slammed state-run Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited for losing its competitive edge over other operators by not starting 3G services earlier. "BSNL had the licence earlier, but it lost the competitive edge, as now other operators have also started 3G services," Pitroda said while addressing a function to mark t
Facebook is rolling out a new security feature that lets users log out of their accounts remotely from another computer. To do this, go to "account settings" on your Facebook page and click on "change" next to "account security." There, you`ll see where else your Facebook account is logged in, including the type of device and the city it`s in or near
Police responded to a record 2,444 Internet crime cases nationwide in the first half of this year, a National Police Agency survey showed today. The number, up 586 or 31.5 per cent from a year earlier, represented a new high since the NPA started gathering statistics for Internet crimes, defined as crimes which use a computer network, on a half-year basis in 2004.
Within days of the government allowing Chinese vendors to supply telecom equipment, Tata Teleservices today awarded a contract to Huawei to roll-out its 3G network in India. TTSL, which recently acquired spectrum for nine circles for rolling out 3G services, has selected Huawei to implement the roll-out in five circles, TTSL said in a statement. The 3G services wil
The chief of the UN`s telecommunications agency urged the Canadian manufacturer of the BlackBerry to allow law enforcement agencies, including those in India, access to customer data, saying governments had legitimate security concerns which should not be ignored. The International Telecommunication Union agency`s Secretary-General Hamadoun Toure said that all governments engaged
Even before the official process of integration of Tech Mahindra and Mahindra Satyam commenced, execution of projects is being shared between the companies, highly placed sources said today. "We are working jointly in marketing and execution of various projects. Major telecom projects are being diverted to Tech Mahindra as they have expertise in the domain," sources ass
The US Consumer Product Safety Commission and Health Canada has announced a voluntary recall by Toshiba Corp of its notebook computers due to possible burn hazard concern. Subject to the recall are Satellite T135, Satellite T135D and Satellite ProT130 notebook computers sold from August 2009 through August 2010, totaling about 41,000 units globally. The US and Cana
China`s first indigenously made computer, which can handle 1000 trillion floating point operations per second, has become functional and is being used for system debugging and testing. Earlier this year, the first device of Tianhe-1, a computer system capable of reaching peak performance of 1,000 trillion floating point operations per second, was put into operation at the Nationa
The fears expressed by various experts on non stability of biometrics and iris in case of children below 15 years may be true but the Unique Identification Authority (UID) has already incorporated the above concern in its various reports. The Demographic Data Standards and Verification procedure (DDSVP) Committee Report which was released in December last year explains the procedure for issuing
India will see its number of internet users triple to 237 million from the current 81 million by 2015, according to a report. In a study titled `Internet`s New Billion`, the Boston Consulting Group said Brazil, Russia, India, China and Indonesia (BRICI) will have more than 1.2 billion internet users by 2015 - well over three times the number of internet users in Japan and the US
Amid reports that IIM`s CAT website has been hacked and got infected with virus, prometric, which is assigned to conduct the exams, today said that the problem has been rectified and allayed apprehension about candidate information being tampered with. It said at no time did the issue impede the ability of candidates to register for the CAT, nor has any candidate`s application or
Max Healthcare today said it has adopted cloud computing, which will enable doctors to access patient`s data from across all facilities, thus speeding up treatment and services. "The cloud environment will provide access to data across the various centres from a common point. This means that a patient of the Saket unit can get treated at any of the other facilities and docto
The government is "firm" in expecting BlackBerry phone maker to give security agencies lawful access to their encrypted data within the next 60 days and there is no uncertainty over this stand, says Union Home Minister P Chidambaram. Chidambaram also made it clear there would be no compromise on the security of the nation in the operations of Research In Motion (RIM)--m
Over 34,000 letters written by and to Mahatma Gandhi, documents related to his personal life and freedom struggle will soon be available at the click of a mouse under a Government plan, which will also see 2,000 lesser-known places associated with the apostle of peace sporting a new look. The Government, in association with Sabarmati Ashram Preservation and Memorial Trust at Ahme
The e-commerce joint venture of SAIL and Tata Steel, mjunction, today said its associate company, buyjunction, is likely to form a strategic alliance with a German firm to tap overseas online trade. "We are in discussion with one German company which is something similar to us ... The desire is to grow our business both in India and overseas and to do that growth, we are loo
In a major step, the government has decided to provide information and communication technology connectivity to polytechnics on par with the colleges in the country. "It was decided to provide connectivity to polytechnics also keeping in mind the utility of computer in the technical field," said a source in the HRD Ministry. He said the decision was taken
Shriram Automall India, a subsidiary of asset financing firm Shriram Transport Finance, today launched `Shriram One Stop`, a computerised touch screen kiosk, which would be a virtual truck bazaar and provide information about used commercial vehicles available for sale. "This would bring more transparency while buying and selling used commercial vehicles. These will be set u
