IT industry body Nasscom has said the government has eased norms for hiring of expats by IT industry by allowing companies to hire foreign nationals as per requirement against the earlier limit of a maximum of 20 employees per project. For the information technology (IT) and IT-enabled services (ITeS) companies, there was a cap on employment visas to one per cent of the total per
Most of the Indian-origin CEOs and top executives, who have taken up blogging, are associated with Information Technology and internet sectors, a study conducted by the Indian Institute of Management-Ahmedabad (IIM-A) has said. The study, conducted by the visiting assistant professor Smeeta Mishra and one of her student Rajesh Kannan says that the Indian business blogoshpere is s
Union Minister for Information Technology and Communications A Raja has called for establishing an appropriate legal and regulatory environment to ensure optimum use of Information and Communication Technologies. "We should remain vigilant about the possible misuse of ICTs, like any other technology, by some disgruntled elements for their misconceived notions and objectives.
Cautious about security of Mantralaya, Maharashtra Home Department is planning to introduce computerised system for visitors to enter the premises. "We are planning to introduce computerised system for entry in Mantralaya for security reasons and also give relief to visitors from long queues," a senior official from Home Department told PTI. The new syste
The first-ever Cyber Crime Investigation Unit (CCIU) in Bihar was today made operational at Kotwali police station in the state capital. "It is the first-ever unit in Bihar and will come in handy for probing cyber crime and mobile phones complaints," Senior Superintendent of Police Amit Kumar Jain said. "Now onwards people can even get register their
The government`s unique identity programme will have some major positive economical and social implications, with ample opportunity to leverage the technology far more ambitiously and intensively, according to global consultancy firm Deloitte. "The UID programme will provide the opportunity to leverage technology far more ambitiously and intensively and build truly inclusive
A Facebook page that fuelled rage and protest in Pakistan was gone from the popular online social networking service. The Facebook user that organised an "Everyone Draw Mohammed Day" competition to promote "freedom of expression" evidently took down the page along with a separate blog about the campaign. "Facebook has not taken any action o
Google chief executive Eric Schmidt has said he suspects suppressing political criticism is a factor behind the move to block YouTube and Facebook in Pakistan in the name of Islam. "I`m always suspicious of these broad bans," Schmidt told a gathering at non-profit public policy institute New America Foundation, of which he is chairman of the board. "
Facebook has said it plans to simplify privacy controls at the popular social-networking service to appease critics. "We`ve spent the last couple of weeks listening to users and consulting with experts in California; Washington, DC, and around the world," Facebook spokesman Andrew Noyes said yesterday in response to an AFP inquiry. "The messages we`v
Two persons have been arrested from Mumbai in connection with different cases of online money fraud, police said today. Vinayak Shivaji Khandare was arrested with the assistance of Mumbai police in connection with an online fraud where more than Rs 25 lakh was siphoned off from the bank account of a Tiruchirappalli-based businessman last year. As part of the ongoin
The IT/BPO sector not only created more employment opportunities in the last three months of previous fiscal but workers engaged in this segment also saw the maximum rise in earnings, a Government survey said. It said during the September-December quarter, about 5.67 lakh jobs were created in this sector while another 1.25 lakh jobs were generated in the January-March quarter thi
State-run MTNL has decided to give its existing 46 lakh mobile users the option of migrating to high-speed 3G services in a bid to have a head-start over the private players, which have won licences for the same. "We have 46 lakh mobile subscribers (2G) in Delhi and Mumbai, and we have 4 lakh 3G users. We want to enable the users to migrate to 3G services, and expect most of
The all-India GSM cellular subscriber base has touched 433 million with the addition of 11.18 million new users in April, according to cellular operators` association COAI. Bharti Airtel, the number one GSM operator, added three million new users, which took its total subscriber base to 130.6 million, data from the Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) showed.
A top official of a Nasdaq-listed IT firm today said that the European debt crisis will not harm the Information Technology (IT) business in India, and the environment for IT will become much better in the coming months than what it was like in 2009. "I don`t expect it (debt crisis) to hamper..I expect the environment to be much stronger than in 2009. However, it will take s
The 12-day ITU World Telecommunication Development Conference is all set to begin today here and will continue till June 4. The WTDC-10 will focus on development priorities in telecommunications and information and communication technologies (ICT) and agree on the programmes, projects and initiatives to implement them. "The key objective is to promote internat
Students pursuing select disciplines at the Delhi University can now access their course materials on the web and even take tests online, thanks to the new e-learning portal launched by the varsity. The web portal www.illldu.edu.in hosts e-learning content in the form of e-Lessons, e-Quizzes, e-Labs (for science disciplines) and e-Lectures for 12 disciplines of the university.
Union Minister of State for Communication and Information Technology Sachin Pilot today said that nearly 10,000 mobile towers would be erected across the country, with special focus on its backward areas. "Nearly 10,000 mobile towers will be erected in the country during the current financial year to provide mobile connectivity to left-out areas, with special focus on border
The Dalai Lama tried to hold a rare direct conversation with people inside China today, answering questions live on Twitter about the fate of long-tense Tibet. The hour-long session with the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader had been requested by Wang Lixiong, a Chinese writer and convert to Tibetan Buddhism who lives in Beijing. The two met for today`s online conversation in a hot
Scientists claim to have solved the mystery of flammable laptop and cell phone batteries, by finding that "dendrites" are responsible for short circuits that cause the lithium batteries to overheat and catch fire. There have been several high-profile stories in recent years of iPods, laptops and mobile phones spontaneously combusting, sometimes when they`re in the owner
After blocking Facebook and Youtube, Pakistani authorities today further widened the crackdown on websites with blasphemous contents by restricting access to popular social networking website Twitter. Pakistani users were unable to log into Twitter after internet service providers blocked access to the site. When users tried to log into site, there browsers display
