IT major, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), plans to hire around 30,000 employees this fiscal, a top company official said today. "We estimate our manpower growth would be 30,000 new people this year," TCS` Chairman, Ratan Tata, told shareholders at the company`s annual general meeting (AGM) here. The company has 1,60,00 employees and added 16,851 professi
As many as 171 cyber crimes were either detected or registered in Karnataka in the past two-and-half-years, the state assembly was informed today. Of them, 58 were in 2008, 97 in 2009 and 16 till June 27 this year, Home Minister V S Acharya said in reply to a question from N A Harris (Congress). Acharya said investigation of such internet crimes is carried out by e
WiMAX Forum, a representative body of WiMAX players, today said telcos who have won the Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) would like to launch WiMAX services once the spectrum is made available to them. WiMAX (Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access) is a technology, which is used to provide high speed Internet services to mobile customers. "Subject to a
Media conglomerate News Corp is in talks with Microsoft and Yahoo for an advertising deal with its group firm MySpace, as an existing contract with Google expires in August, a media report said. Attributing to people familiar with the matter, the Wall Street Journal said, "News Corp is in discussions with Google Inc, Microsoft Corp and Yahoo Inc about replacing MySpace`s cru
Chennai Corporation, in collaboration with a mobile service provider, today launched a unique scheme which will enable voters to get their electoral roll details through Short Messaging Service (SMS). "Under the scheme, the first of its kind in Tamil Nadu, registered voters can send an SMS through mobile phones to access key details by typing `Vote` followed by their EPIC nu
The Department of Telecom has constituted a nine-member internal committee to examine the recommendations of TRAI on spectrum, even as Telecom Minister A Raja has decided to refer the matter to the EGoM. The committee would be headed by Chander Prakash, Member (Technology), Telecom Commission, and Wireless Advisor. It will examine the report on `Spectrum Management
Pitching for telecom PSUs BSNL and MTNL, Telecom Minister A Raja has approached Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee seeking reimbursement of the Rs 29,598.33 crore paid by them for spectrum. "BSNL is the only service provider giving connectivity to the far-flung rural areas. The service rendered by BSNL in the rural areas of the country cannot be replicated," Raja said in
Telecom operator Bharti Airtel today said that its subscribers can access social networking site Facebook on their mobiles free of cost for two months till August 31. Airtel has entered into a partnership with Facebook to enable its 130 million subscribers to log on to Facebook`s full mobile site at no data cost through their mobile, Airtel said in a statement. The
Buoyed by a mandate from the insurance giant LIC for premium collection, Hero Group firm Easy Bill today said it is planning to increase its network to 10,000 outlets spanning 100 cities by the year-end. Easy Bill is a chain of one-stop payment collection centres, offering a variety of services like bill collection, pre-paid mobile recharge, railway tickets booking and other Inte
The IIT-JEE Board today rejected suggestions that online counselling for admission to IITs is non-secure and prone to misuse, saying that not a single complaint has been received in this regard so far. "Overall, 11555 out of 12676 students exercised their choices online and not a single complaint of misuse has been received," said Director of IIT Madras Prof M S Ananth.
The National Textiles Corporation (NTC) today said it has done away with the system of inviting tenders for selling lands of its closed mills and adopted the `e-auction` route, which is more transparent. "Resorting to e-auction would add transparency to the entire sale process and is expected to put a full stop to all misgivings normally associated with the sale of propertie
In a bid to promote e-Governance policy of Maharashtra Government, all the departments have been asked to spend half per cent of their budgetary provision on computerisation and providing online services to citizens. "We have issued a resolution making it mandatory to all the departments in Mantralaya to spend their budgetary provision upto half per cent for computerisation
Struggling to regain the Indian government`s confidence on security issues, Chinese telecom firm Huawei today said that it is looking with open mind at self-certification and technology sharing in India. Huawei and other Chinese firms have been facing tough time ever since India amended telecom licence guidelines, making it mandatory for operators to take security agencies` clear
The government has asked 11 telecom companies, including Tatas, Idea and Vodafone, who were given licences in 2006-2008, to submit a progress report on their commercial launches of mobile services, to ensure that scarce spectrum is not kept idle. On instructions from the Prime Minister?s Office, the Department of Telecom (DoT) has sent out a letter seeking a progress report from
Paralytic patients could soon be able to move their bionic legs or arms at will, as scientists are close to developing a new therapy in which a microchip implanted in their brain would enable them to sense nerve messages and turn thought into movement. The tiny chips, measuring little more than a centimetre wide, will be able to read a patient`s thoughts and transmit the informat
US officials have largely ruled out North Korea as the origin of a computer attack last July that took down US and South Korean government websites, according to cybersecurity experts. But authorities are not much closer than they were a year ago to knowing exactly who did it - and why. In the days after the fast-moving, widespread attack, analysis pointed to North
Scientists at computer chip giant Intel are developing a smart car fitted with aircraft-style black boxes that can record audio-visual information about driving behaviour during accidents. The device will record information about the vehicle speed, steering and braking along with video footage from inside and outside the vehicle, researchers involved in the project said.
The Law Ministry would suggest all high courts to function on holidays, particularly to address family disputes, as those professionals approaching the courts would be busy on weekdays, Union Law Minister M Veerappa Moily said here today. "The Holiday Court is an idea mooted by the Chief Justice of Madras High Court (Iqbal) since those professionals approaching the courts ar
In response to staffing problem in hospitals, particularly the urgent demand for qualified nurses, the Health Authority Abu Dhabi (HAAD) has launched a medical professional online database. The new portal will help registered hospitals and clinics access and select candidates. The database comprises names and contact details of 1,089 candidates who have passed HAAD
Nasdaq-listed Sify Technologies today launched a cloud services platform -- Sify mylife -- which lets customers pay their utility bills, book tickets and take up online tests from their outlets. "This service will enable the customers to book tickets, pay electricity bills, buy rail tickets online... it is a platform where all service providers can offer their services to cu
