A French competition watchdog accused Google today of unfair practice by blocking a company from advertising on its online search services. The Competition Authority said Google had without warning blocked the account of Navx, a provider of road travel data, for Google`s online advertising service AdWords, and ordered the US Internet giant to reopen it. "The c
Sony Corporation today said certain units of its `Vaio` brand of laptops sold globally, may face overheating problems and the firm has provided a software on its website to avoid the same. In a statement to its customers, Sony said,"recently, we became aware of a potential issue affecting certain units within the Vaio notebook PCs` F11 and CW2 series." &q
Iconic batsman Sachin Tendulkar has been appointed as the new Brand Ambassador of electronic giant Toshiba Corporation here today. Sachin is Toshiba`s Brand Ambassador across its various product categories of laptops, LCD TV and Home Appliances and for corporate branding in India. "Toshiba is all about excellence in quality, technology and design. They believe
Google has overhauled its news website to tailor pages to individual interests of readers. "We`re revamping the Google News homepage with several changes designed to make the news that you see more relevant to you," software engineer Kevin Stolt said in a blog post yesterday. "We`re also trying to better highlight interesting stories you didn`t know
With Railways catering to crores of people and employing over a million strong staff, UIDAI saw a major role for itself in helping the PSU behemoth deliver better services through the use of unique identification `Aadhaar` numbers. "Railways have been pioneers in use of IT. We think there are many applications where Aadhaar authentication can be used to deliver better servic
The Delhi government has signed a pact with Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) for smooth implementation of its ambitious project to issue identification numbers to the city`s residents. Delhi Revenue Minister Raj Kumar Chauhan said Delhi government will whole heartedly provide all assistance for successful implementation of the national project. Offi
Global open source technology solutions provider, Red Hat, will not bid directly for Request for Proposals (RFPs) for the Unique Identity Card project but continue to participate in the project through its partners, a senior company official said. "We are not directly into any of the UID projects directly, because we are not in system integration. But we are working through
Be it the much-talked-about Unique ID project or lesser-known initiatives of making ID cards for government employees or fishermen, whenever an e-governance scheme needs to capture images, there is a role for firms specialising in digital photography. Firms like Canon India. As you walk into Canon India senior vice president Alok Bharadwaj’s office, the first thing you notice is a lot of
In typically straightforward, Haryanavi style, Suraj Bhan Sharma of Khantawas village in Farrukh Nagar tehsil of Gurgaon district tells me: “Dhol to bahut pita gya the ki yahan sab kuchh paya jayega par hua kuchh bhi naheen (drums were beaten to announce tall claims about providing many services; nothing happened).” Sharma is referring to what used to be E-Disha common servic
A lasting image of courtrooms, borrowed from almost every Hindi movie of the 1980s, is that of a bespectacled judge poring over sheaves and heaps of paper while the squeaks of an old ceiling fan only make the ambient silence absolute. But at the Karkardooma Courts complex in east Delhi, there is one that runs a wild brush on this picture of courtrooms. The surprise starts with th
Wipro Technologies, the global IT services business of Wipro Limited, and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) have inked an agreement pertaining to women students. As part of this agreement, Wipro will fund scholarships that will enable women students majoring in computer science and related programmes to attend research conferences across the globe. The
A college lecturer was arrested here last night on the charge of sending threatening e-mails to Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda and the state Chief Secretary. He was, however, released on bail today by a court at Mandi Dabwali here. Navdeep, posted as a lecturer in the Electronics Department in Devi Lal Memorial Engineering college Panniwala Mota in th
State-run telecom operator MTNL will spend about Rs 400 crore to provide high-speed Internet access at all the venues of the upcoming Commonwealth Games. "About Rs 400 crore will be spent by MTNL to wire all venues of CWG with high-speed Internet access to facilitate the largest sporting event to be hosted by India," an official statement today said. Thre
Google Inc said today it will stop automatically rerouting users of its China search site to its Hong Kong site after Beijing threatened the company with the loss of its Internet license. Google shut down its China-based search engine March 22 to avoid cooperating with the communist government`s Internet censorship and has rerouted users to its unfiltered site in Hong Kong.
Private equity firm Elevation Partners has invested USD 120 million in Facebook Inc by buying shares of the social networking site, a media report said. Attributing to people familiar to the situation, The Wall Street Journal stated, "Elevation Partners has acquired an additional five million shares in Facebook Inc for USD 120 million." Earlier, the PE fi
Internet and mobile banking would be expanded during the coming days and more facilities would be added to ATMs, State Bank of India, Kerala Circle, Chief General Manager B S Bhasin said. Steps would be taken in the current fiscal to expand the base of internet banking with additional facilities to disburse salaries for employees, Bhasin and SBI Kerala Circle General Manager V Ra
The UIDAI has come out with a draft bill which proposes to make it a statutory body called National Identification Authority of India and provides for punishment for offences like breaching of its database. The draft National Identification Authority of India Bill, 2010 proposes a slew of penalties on offences ranging from impersonation, giving wrong biometrics, unauthorised acce
Son of a government official from the Revenue Department of Padadhari town was caught when he appeared as a dummy candidate for his father during a computer practical exams held here, district officials said today. The incident took place yesterday during certificate course in computer examination which is necessary for government employees for promotion, they said.
Social networking site Facebook is all set to launch its India operations from Hyderabad in less than two months. The company`s proposal to set up a unit in Raheja Mindspace SEZ here was approved by the Union Government yesterday, said a senior official of the state Information Technology Department today. "The company is aggressively hiring people. Initially,
Making Maharashtra police more people-friendly, Home Minister R R Patil said the complaints would be addressed within 24 hours and a day would be reserved for public-police interaction. "Turant 24` would help the citizens get their complains addressed within 24 hours so that the usual issues can be tackled at the primary level itself," Patil told reporters here today af
