The pan-India bid license for Broadband Wireless Access spectrum touched Rs 12,257 crore today, after two weeks of auction, which translates into a revenue of Rs 36,772 crore for the government from the sale of three slots. At this bid price, the total revenue for the government from the 3G and BWA auctions will amount to Rs 1.12 lakh crore. The reserve price for the BWA all-Indi
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati today directed officials to effectively implement e-governance programme for faster delivery of welfare schemes to the people. She directed that e-district scheme, being implemented in six districts on pilot basis, should be implemented in the remaining 65 districts of the state, official sources said. At present the scheme is
Telecom watchdog TRAI will carry out an audit of the existing 2G spectrum held by operators within the next three to four months, TRAI Chairman J S Sarma said today. "We will carry out a spectrum audit of the existing spectrum with operators in the next 3-4 months," Sarma said. The audit will also look into how efficiently the spectrum is being used and t
Microsoft India announced that Hotmail users can get alerts on SMS without GPRS connection and for free, starting today. Hotmail users need to log on to www.mobile.live.com, feed their mobile number and enter verification code received on mobile to get started, the company said in a statement "With this fun and simple service, you can forget about going to the
A substantial amount of official data of the Pakistan Prime Minister`s Secretariat, including some classified documents, has been stolen by persons employed on short-term contracts who accessed a secure computer system. The kind of classified information that was stolen was not immediately clear though the Dawn newspaper quoted a source as saying that the head of a multi-million
Karnataka Police today raided a an internet cafe in Chittoor district of Andhra Pradesh in connection with an e-mail allegedly sent to Pakistan. The three-member cyber crime cell team from Bangalore came after it traced one "suspected" e-mail to a cyber cafe near one bus stand in the district, Chittoor SP PVS Ram Krishna, told PTI. He, however, denied med
Micro-blogging site `Twitter` has reached yet another milestone -- two billion tweets every month, the website has announced. According to the company`s chief operating officer Dick Costolo, around 65 million tweets are sent on `Twitter` each day, equating to around 1.96 billion tweets every month. Twitter reached 15 billion tweets at the end of last month, three m
State-run Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) today signed a MoU with the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) under which the insurance major will share data with the Nandan Nilekani-led entity. "UID is a project of national importance and a great challenge for us to implement due to the tight deadlines," LIC`s Chairman, T S Vijayan, told reporters here, maint
The Supreme Court today did not give a stay to mobile operators on a Delhi High Court order enabling an audit by Comptroller and Auditor General to ascertain whether there were revenue leakages in licence fee payment to the government. A vacation bench, comprising Justice Deepak Verma and Justice K S Radhakrishnan, adjourned the hearing in the case to August. Durin
Central security agencies are looking into a large espionage angle in the case of a Major posted in Andaman and Nicobar Islands from whose computer sensitive files and information were allegedly passed on to Pakistan, in which more army personnel are likely to be in the dock. Official sources told reporters here that investigators have found over 2,500 files in the Major`s comput
Skirting the Google controversy, China today claimed that there are 384 million netizens in the country making it the best net savvy country in the world with web users enjoying "full freedom". By the end of 2009 the number of netizens in China had reached 384 million, 618 times that of 1997 with an annual increase of 31.95 million users, a white paper published by Chin
The government today set up a committee headed by the UIDAI chairman Nandan Nilekani to advise it on various IT initiatives taken in the areas of income tax, new pension system and the proposed GST. The finance ministry today announced the constitution of the Technology Advisory Group for Unique Projects (TAGUP) which will have six other members, including Sebi chairman CB Bhave.
The BPO arms of top IT companies Tata consultancy Services, Infosys Technologies and IBM Daksh have pulled out of race of the UID Call Centre project as reported in the Mint. It had been reported that over 50 companies participated in the pre-bid conference but only 12 companies have submitted the formal bids. As per the industry sources the lukewarm response fro
Sam Pitroda,Adviser to the Prime Minister on Public Information Infrastructure and Innovation will head the India Smart Grid Task Force as per a news item in the Hindu. The India Smart Grid Forum, a non-profit voluntary consortium of public and private stakeholders was launched by the power minister on May 26. The taskforce has been established to evolve a road m
Karnataka State CID (Criminal Investigation Department) has joined the social networking websites, Face Book and Twitter recently, a top official of the CID said. Dr.D.V.Guruprasad, Director General of Police, CID in a statement today, said law enforcement agencies can gain a lot by joining social media which can help them solve various types of crimes, that occur in the communit
District Judge and Member Secretary of Puducherry Legal Services Authority R Uthirapathy today urged youth to develop skill and proficiency in whatever career they associated themselves with. Felicitating a batch of young boys and girls enrolled for training in a BPO sponsored by Pondicherry MultiPurpose Social Service Society,he said language was never a barrier for youth to com
India has a long way to go in innovation as far as academic research is concerned but fared better in terms of business and industrial research, Infosys CEO S Gopalakrishnan said today. "India has a long way to go partly because we need to increase the number of PhDs being produced in academic institutions. It will take some time", Gopalakrishan, also Chairman of CII So
The Indian IT sector is grappling with high attrition rate even as firms are doling out financial and other benefits to employees, says industry body Nasscom. "As a result of the slowdown, the IT industry was rather thin on the bench, but now everyone is hiring laterally. As a result, attrition has already become a problem. It will be more problematic over the next 4-5 month
Low cost live webcast of polling centres on the internet, used successfully for the first time in Arunachal Pradesh during the last parliamentary and assembly elections, could be replicated at other places where elections are due. Chief Election Commissioner Navin Chawla was given a demonstration of the webcast today by the governor`s secretary Ankur Garg who, as deputy commissio
Shyam Group firm Vihaan Networks (VNL) today said its award-winning solar-powered GSM base stations will be used to provide mobile and broadband connectivity to schools and remote areas in South Asia. The mobile networks are being built as part of a International Telecom Union-sponsored initiative ITU`s Connect a school, Connect a Community and VNL is the only Indian firm t
