GPS navigation and location-based services provider MapmyIndia today said it has launched a product that will allow users to navigate the country on the basis of house addresses. While the house address maps currently cover only the Delhi NCR and Chandigarh, more cities will follow, MapmyIndia said in a statement. Maps Version 5.0 includes a large directory of thre
Two leading GSM mobile operators Bharti Airtel and Vodafone have contributed over 58 per cent of the total spectrum revenue realised by the government during the April-June quarter. Government has realised Rs 817.12 crore as spectrum fee from the telcos during the period, out of which Bharti and Vodafone together paid Rs 478.23 crore. All telecom companies currentl
Former Vice-Chancellor of Bhoj Open University Dr Kamlakar Singh went through several anxious moments after the password of his e-mail was hacked recently. Dr Singh told PTI here today that the person who hacked his password wrote a letter to all people on his mail saying that he was in London where he was robbed of all his money. The letter requested his friends t
Telecom vendor Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) today said it has bagged a contract from Tata Teleservices Ltd (TTSL) for setting up infrastructure to help the telco roll-out 3G services. TTSL has selected NSN technology to support the launch of 3G services, which will allow the operator to offer mobile broadband and better quality voice calls, NSN said in a statement.
North Korea has offered a rare glimpse of life inside its borders, after posting pictures on its new Facebook site of happy picnickers, grassy parks and colourful landmarks from across Pyongyang. Even though few of its citizens have Internet access, as of 8:00pm (1100 GMT) today the North had made 391 Facebook "friends" after uploading about 100 pictures, video links an
The Tamil Nadu Government tuesday launched a web-enabled Adi Dravidar scholarship scheme with complete workflow system at state, district and institution levels. The new portal - http://edistrict.tn.gov.in - not only cuts down delay in issue of scholarship but also makes the status of the scholarship application available through the site to students and institutions, an official
Identifying people from their images posted online could soon be a reality, as a software firm has announced that it has developed a revolutionary technology that will give a name to every photograph in the Internet Face.com, which is yet to release the facial recognition technology, said the software can help netizens identify people on social networking sites and online galleri
Australian intelligence services had warned WikiLeaks of "dirty tricks" before Swedish authorities issued a short-lived arrest warrant for founder Julian Assange over a rape claim, he said today. "We were warned on the 11th (of August) by Australian intelligence that we should expect this sort of thing," Assange said in a telephone interview with broadcaster A
Bangalore-based IT firm Hidden Reflex has released its first web browser `Epic`, which is targeted at Indian users with browser support in 12 Indian languages, including Gujarati, Hindi, and Telgu. "Epic offers about 1,500 themes and applications available free of cost. The browser supports about 12 Indian languages like Gujarati, Hindi, Telgu, Kannada, Malayalam and Tamil a
A website to make "make noise on UN`s Millennium Development Goals (MDG)" was launched in the national capital on Moday in a bid to urge the government to take action to meet its targets. Launching the website, Pronab Sen, Principal adviser to Planning Commission, said, "there has been a dramatic shift in planning in the last ten Plans. With poverty being incorpora
What is Delhi Metro`s plan for commuters and tourists during the Commonwealth Games? It is a completely re-designed website, whose special feature is interactivity, and a special information booklet containing all necessary details about the Games extravaganza and the city, besides providing connectivity to almost all the 11 stadias that hosts the games. With thou
Infosys founder N R Narayana Murthy has expressed confidence that Indian software companies will counter the pressure of the recent visa fee hike by the US government with greater competitiveness, using innovation as a tool to enhance productivity. Stating that it was the right of the US government to determine its policy, Murthy said, "We must accept it and compete and succ
In a move to record the details of each visitor entering the country, the Malaysian government is poised to implement a biometric system at all entry points. "The biometric system will be implemented all entry points from October to enable the particulars of each visitor to the country to be recorded," said Home Minister Hishammuddin Hussein. He said the
Toughening its stand, Government has conveyed to the BlackBerry makers to install its server in India for tracking its messenger and enterprise mail service as the offer made by it to provide data from its Canada-based server could be detrimental to national security. Officials of BlackBerry maker RIM (Research In Motion) had offered to provide information on a deferred basis aft
North Korea appears to have added Facebook to other social networking sites it recently joined to ramp up its propaganda war against South Korea and the US. The account opened late yesterday under the Korean username "uriminzokkiri, meaning "on our own as a nation," an official at South Korea`s Communications Standards Commission said today. The acco
The Maharashtra Government has proposed granting industry status to the the animation and gaming sectors and extending them benefits akin to those available to IT units in the state, a senior State Government official said. Besides the above two sectors, the government will also extend the same benefits to two more related segments-- visual effects and comics, he said.
In a bid to attract more investment in the Information Technology (IT) sector and to remain competitive, there was a need to review the IT policy of the state government every year, Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan said Friday. "The IT industry in Maharashtra is growing at the rate of 24 per cent, which is more than any other sector. This is the only industry which ca
Information technology bellwether, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), has opened its fifth delivery centre in China for serving clientele in the Asia-Pacific market. The centre, situated at Shenzen, is the Tata group company`s fifth in China after Beijing, Shanghai, Hangzhou and Tianjin, it said in a statement issued here today. With the opening of the new facility,
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange believes that the Pentagon could be behind the false rape charges that were filed against him on Friday by Swedish prosecutors and then withdrawn after a few hours. "I don`t know who`s behind this but we have been warned that, for example, the Pentagon plans to use dirty tricks to spoil things for us," Assange told Swedish daily Aftonbla
The Maharashtra Government saturday said that it will conduct a combined data collection survey for the unique national identity and biometric ration cards to save time and duplication. "Both the projects are expected to commence in early November and State authorities are floating district wise tenders to carry out the giant task," Maharashtra Minister for Food and Civ
