In order to provide better services, Maharashtra transport ministry today launched a toll-free number for registering complaints and registration of vehicles. "The department has undertaken initiatives like toll-free number, e-payment services where dealers can register there vehicles online," chief minister Ashok Chavan told reporters here. Chavan said a
The government of India came with big advertisements in a national daily on June 21, for requirement of private sector professionals and government officials on deputation for state e-mission teams (SeMT) to be constituted in various states. However the advertisement goes short of clarifying the recruitment agency, whether it is Department of Information Technology or National e-governance divi
The Minister of Railways, Mamata Banerjee flagged off Commonwealth Express Tain, a special exhibition train to spread awareness about sports and Information Technology from the Safdarjung railway station today. This train consists of 11 coaches out of which five coaches have been allocated to Railway Sports Promotion Board and rest to Department of Information Technology.
A Pakistani court has reportedly ordered a ban on nine leading websites, including Google and Hotmail, for allegedly posting blasphemous material though officials today said they had not received any instruction to block the sites. Media reports said the Bahawalpur bench of the Lahore High Court yesterday directed the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority to immediately block nine
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev perched briefly at Twitter headquarters today as he began courting the micro-blogging sensation and other US Internet stars for a Moscow version of Silicon Valley. Twitter employees packed into a sixth-floor cafeteria where co-founders Ev Williams and Biz Stone gave Medvedev a crash course in the service, which lets people share terse messages of
Seven out of 10 Indian kids have been exposed to nudity and violence, or have been asked by a stranger to meet them in person when they are online, security software-maker Symantec today said. According to Symantec`s Norton Online Family Report 2010, 77 per cent of Indian kids have experienced some `negative` situation online, while only half of the Indian parents interviewed tho
Students of the Indian Institute of Technology`s Industrial Design Centre here have designed a unique technology for self and quicker learning with an aim of helping adult learners. The aim of the project was to design an interactive system which helps adult learners to read `Devanagri` script and speed up their literacy learning process, Ruchika Mittal, who developed the technol
Textile, food and information technology Parks would be set up soon in industrial areas in district Kangra to generate employment about 36,000 youth, Himachal Pradesh chief minister Prem Kumar Dhumal today said. Addressing a meeting at Dheera after dedicating the newly-constructed Rs 1.82 crore bridge at Baloti on Neugal Khad, Dhumal said providing quality health and animal husba
A US judge has threw out a copyright lawsuit filed against YouTube by US entertainment giant Viacom, handing the Google-owned video-sharing site a major legal victory. "The court granted our motion for summary judgement in Viacom`s lawsuit with YouTube," Google vice president and general counsel Kent Walker said in a blog post. Walker said the judge had d
An innovative programme of Gujarat government aimed at easy governance has won a prestigious award instituted by the United Nations. The statewide Attention on Grievances with Application of Technology (SWAGAT) programme has won the United Nations Public Service Award (UNPSA). The SWAGAT initiative has been awarded second place in the category `Improving Transparen
Private lender South Indian Bank today said it has launched a web-based product, SIB Eazy Remit, that will help Non-Resident Indians in the US to send remittances to India from their homes or offices. SIB has launched this online facility in collaboration with Bank of New York Mellon, New York, an official release said here. "SIB Eazy Remit is an extremely sec
Too hot to go out to buy a pair of shoes? No sweat. Just send an SMS and you can get your favourite Florsheim, Lotto, Adidas or the Red Tape delivered at your doorstep. As mobile commerce begins to touch various aspects of life of Indians, usage of SMS is going beyond booking movie tickets or ordering cooking gas. Internet retail footwear portal, bigshoebazaar.com
Britain has become the latest country to open an investigation into whether Google violated communication and privacy laws by mistakenly gathering data over public Wi-Fi networks. London`s Metropolitan Police says it is looking into complaints that the search engine`s "Street View" project picked up people`s online activities through unprotected networks. It says it is
Indian Railways, the largest employer in the country, today said it is holding wide ranging discussion with Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) to use its database in key areas, including ticketing. This was disclosed by Railway Board Chairman Vivek Sahai today after holding discussions with UIDAI chairman Nandan Nilekani. Sahai said Railways are looki
Private operator Loop Mobile today announced the launch of group SMS service, Reply all SMS, that will enable subscribers to simultaneously communicate with multiple people. Loop Mobile have partnered with technology leader `SMS GupShup` to launch this social networking service, the company said in a statement here. "Being aligned with our overall commitment t
Mobile operators in Delhi today suffered a setback with the Supreme Court declining to stay the enhanced licence fee imposed by MCD on signal towers installed by the companies. A bench of Justices R M Lodha and A K Patnaik, however, ordered MCD "shall not encash the FDRs" deposited by the operators towards the enhanced fee in pursuant to the Delhi High Court June 4 dire
State-owned MTNL today said it has raised funds from three banks -- ICICI Bank, Yes Bank and Central Bank of India -- to pay Rs 4,534 crore to the government towards broadband wireless spectrum. When contacted Anita Soni, Director (Finance), MTNL, confirmed that funds have been raised from these three banks. She, however, did not elaborate on how much loan has been
To provide customer-friendly services to commuters, the city government has asked autorickshaw owners to install Global Positioning System within six months, which will record every kilometer traversed by the vehicle. The government is also planning to set up call centres for the 55,000 odd three-wheelers in the national capital on the lines of those set up by Radio Cabs.
US-based mail and document management company Pitney Bowes today launched a new product in the Indian market which will help companies destroy data stored on their computers before disposing of them. "Before a PC is disposed of, people run data removal software and format the drive to erase the data stored on the computer. However, the data can be retrieved," Pitney Bow
Admitting that many Income Tax refunds were still pending, the I-T Department today decided to "clean up the mismatched TDS database" due to which the refunds were held up. An I-T Department release said, "The Income Tax Department has taken the initiative to clean up the mismatched TDS data base. Many refunds are pending with the IT Department due to the mismatch
