Kerala would be the first state to be information technology prepared to implement the proposed Goods and Services Tax (GST), a survey conducted by KPMG said here today. The Centre plans to introduce GST and DTC (Direct Taxes Code) from April 1, 2011. While DTC would replace the Income Tax Act, GST would replace most indirect taxes at the central and state levels like service tax
Despite huge growth, the Information Technology industry is very inefficient as a huge amount spent on development goes waste, a top official of IT solutions provider Tata Consultancy Services said in Chennai, Saturday. "The number of technologies hitting the market is countless and users are getting sophisticated. But an important aspect of the IT industry is that it is ver
A centre for Information Technology will soon be set up here in line with the Karnataka government`s plan to take IT knowledge to Tier-II and Tier-III cities, Minister for IT Katta Subramanya Naidu said today. "The centre, coming up in collaboration with a British firm, is being developed on a five acre plot and will become operational by this year end", he told reporte
The Indian languages Machine Translation (MT) system developed by the consortium of 11 Indian institutions led by International Institute of Information Technology-Hyderabad (IIIT-H) is slated for national launch next month. While the first edition of the system would provide automatic text translation in six Indian language pairs, the next edition would feature 12 more, Prof Raj
Corporate America has come down heavily against all those in US who of late have been alleging that Indian companies grab most of the H-1B work visas thus taking away most jobs from Americans. In a latest report on immigration, US Chamber of Commerce, which is world`s largest chamber with more than three million members, asserted that such an allegation against Indian companies i
To bring more transparency into the administration and improve its functioning, Maharashtra Government has entrusted the task of formulating the e-governance policy to noted computer scientist Dr Vijay Bhatkar. Chief Minister Ashok Chavan has asked Bhatkar to prepare the draft policy in two months. Bhatkar will be assisted by an 11-member expert panel drawn from different sectors
The novel scheme for issue of passports using the nation`s largest IT firm Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has been a success in the four centres where it was initially launched, the Rajya Sabha was informed today. Replying to supplementaries during Question Hour, Minister of State for External Affairs Preneet Kaur said the Passport Seva Project (PSP) has been launched at four centres i
Software industry body Nasscom today said the US Border Security Bill, which has been passed by the Senate, has logical flaws and is discriminatory in nature. "From India`s perspective, I think it has been done ahead of November Congressional elections. It is based on flawed logic and is discriminatory in nature. But it did clarify that it is not targeting any particular nation...
Maharashtra government has formed a high powered committee for effective implementation of the Unique Identification project in the state. The UID project is being spearheaded by the Unique Identification Authority of the Central government. The committee will be headed by the chief minister Ashok Chavan. Apart from Chavan, the committee includes the Deputy Chief Ministe
CBI has registered an FIR against two top officials of MTNL, some of their juniors and nine distributors for allegedly cheating the service provider to the tune of Rs seven crore by issuing over three lakh fake SIM card connections, its officials said today. Deputy General Manager B B Chaudhary, Assistant General Manager (Sales) V Gurumurthy of the government-run telecom service provide
Telecom operators today said that only increased awareness among people about the "Do Not Call" (DNC) registry can check the menace of unsolicited calls and SMSes on mobile phones. Telecom Secretary P J Thomas held an hour-long meeting with operators in the wake of Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee recently getting a call from a telemarketing company that offered him a housing
BlackBerry maker Research In Motion (RIM) today said it was optimistic of resolving with the Government the issue of lawful interception of its services even as the Canadian smartphone vendor made it clear that only legal monitoring of its data would be allowed. Faced with the August 31 deadline to address the country`s security concerns, a three-member delegation of (RIM) led by Vice-P
A Delhi court today asked asked for provisions of the Information Technology Act to be incorporated in a complaint against industrialist and Rajya Sabha MP Rahul Bajaj for allegedly posting a disfigured map of India on the website of his insurance partner, Allianz. "It appears that the alleged offence is also related with the provisions of the Information Technology Act, 2009. The
India features among the countries where malware spam, or anything that comes with a virus or Trojan attachment urging you to visit an infected website, is the most popular, a new report has said. According to the McAfee Threats Report, which was simultaneously released here, Colombia, South Korea, Russia and Vietnam are the other countries in this category. Argentina had the mo
Web whistleblower Wikileaks owner has announced that the portal is preparing to release the remaining secret Afghan war documents, as Pentagon warned that the fresh exposures could be even more damaging to the American military than what has already come out. The Wikileaks spokesman Julian Assange has said that his organisation is preparing to release the rest of the Pentagon documents
In the interest of the litigant public, the Bombay High Court is introducing "case status inquiry" on mobile phones using SMS text on August 15. The service would be inaugurated by Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan in the presence of Chief Justice Mohit Shah, Kiran Bobade, Deputy Registrar (IT) Kiran Bobade, said in a release here. The SMS text messages would be
Leading Japanese firm, Canon today said it hopes to have a pie in Adhaar, India`s unique identification project. "Digital cameras and printers are two products which have great opportunities," Canon India Senior VP Alok Bharadwaj told reporters here today. Canon sees a potential of supply of over 80,000 digital SLR cameras for the project in the first two years after i
Government today set a August 31 deadline for BlackBerry maker Research In Motion and telecom operators to address its security concerns failing which some of the mobile phone`s popular services would be shut down. In a letter to to the Department of Telecom Secretary P J Thomas, Union Home Secretary G K Pillai asked him to convey to the operators and Canada-based RIM that a technical s
Haritham Farmers Club, Mayanad in Kozhikode district, sponsored by south Malabar Gramin Bank, Medical College Branch, under the auspicious of National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) , would set up a Village Knowledge Centre at Mundikkalthazham, in the district. S N A Jinnah, General Manager, NABARD, Regional Office, Thiruvananthapuram, will inaugurate the Centre on
Social networking website Facebook has promised to develop a new security measures that will automatically delete offensive messages sent by strangers. Engineers at Facebook are now working on new systems to combat the growing trend, known as "trolling", where anonymous users "bombard" victims with offensive messages or abuse, the Telegraph reported. Accordin
