The US today said there needs to be a balance in restricting offensive speech and continuing to protect and promote free flow of information, as a Pakistani court ordered blocking access to Facebook over the posting of blasphemous cartoons of Prophet Mohammed. A Pakistan court ordered to block access to the popular social networking site over a competition in one of its page call
More than one million people have opened online stores on China`s largest retail website `Taobao` over the past five years but most of them say that they are not earning much out it. By the end of last month, 1.06 million people had become employed through opening online stores on Taobao.com, an e-commerce company based in eastern China`s Hangzhou City, the company said.
Google unveiled a television platform today in a partnership with Sony, Intel and Logitech that brings the Web to the television set. "Google TV is a new platform that we believe will change the future of television," Google group product manager Rishi Chandra said while demonstrating the new service at a developers conference in San Francisco. The Google
India`s Engineering and R & D (ER&D) services market is projected to reach USD 40-45 billion by 2020, with export revenues of USD 35-40 billion and domestic revenues at USD 4-6 billion, and to be the next growth engine for `desi` IT-BPO industry, according to a study unveiled here today. Infrastructure, aerospace and energy are expected to contribute more than 80 per cent
Government has set up a seven-member panel to suggest a roadmap for use of Information Communication Technology (ICT) tools in schools which would get broad-band connectivity in the next three years. The Sub-Committee of Central Advisory Board of Education (CABE) on ICT in School Education is headed by Secretary School Education Anshu Vaish. The other members inclu
Internet major Yahoo has said that it will buy user-generated site Associated Content for an undisclosed amount in an effort to strengthen content creation. However, the company did not disclose the financial terms of the deal, which is expected to boost Yahoo`s traditional news content with independently-produced articles. "Together, we`ll create more content
Google "screwed up" by accidentally gathering private wireless data while taking pictures for its "Street View" mapping service, co-founder Sergey Brin has said. Brin`s remarks came as two US lawmakers asked regulators whether the Internet giant had broken the law by capturing personal wireless data, while Italian and German authorities said they were looking
The UPA Government was committed to ensuring that every single panchayat in the country had access to broadband service by 2012, Union Minister Sachin Pilot said today. "Internet penetration in India today was eight per cent. Once every single panchayat has access to broadband, the government`s functioning will change dramatically," he told reporters here
Nandan Nilekani, Chairman of the Unique Identification Authority of India, today visited two villages in the district to review the progress in allotment of unique identification numbers. Accompanied by a five-member team and Deputy Commissioner C Somashekar, he visited Chelur and Bellavi villages, official sources said. In the first round, 2,263 persons were scree
With a view to giving impetus to e-governance, Himachal Pradesh cabinet today decided to create Common Service Centres (CSC) through 3,366 Lok Mitra Kendras across the hill state. The CSCs to be established by department of Information Technology would provide facility of registering complaints and grievances through Lok Mitra Kendras under e-Samadhan portal to common man on nomi
The day is not far when people, aided by technology, will be able to watch new movies directly at home and avoid visiting a theatre, yesteryear`s Bollywood star Shammi Kapoor has said. "With technology evolving rapidly, I feel two generations down the line people can see movies directly at home. They can plug into any movie by way of putting some coins over phone, download i
Pakistani authorities today blocked video sharing website YouTube for hosting "objectionable content", a day after cutting off access to Facebook over a page featuring blasphemous caricatures of Prophet Mohammed. In a statement, the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) said that YouTube had been blocked due to "objectionable content." It d
Bihar Government has decided to make compulsory for the traders for online payment of taxes and filing return from the current fiscal, Deputy Chief Minister, Sushil Kumar Modi said today. "All traders in Bihar must compulsorily register themselves online with the commercial taxes department in the next couple of months for filing of their annual returns," Modi, also the
IBM today unveiled Government Industry Framework (GIF), designed to address persistent challenges that Governments face. The IBM-GIF is a unified software platform for implementing comprehensive solutions focused on improving citizen services, increasing transparency, enhancing public safety, crime prevention, managing law enforcement, disaster management, security threats, explo
In a setback to GSM operators, who have been demanding that auditor CAG be stopped from vetting their account books, tribunal TDSAT today said it had no powers to intervene. Four leading operators, Bharti Airtel, Vodafone, Tatas and RCom, besides state-run company BSNL, have been asked by the CAG to submit their accounts books for the last three financial years to ensure that the
State-owned telecom major BSNL will provide broadband connectivity to 2.50 lakh villages across the country over the next 2-3 years, a top company official said today. "As a part of providing broadband connectivity to rural areas, in next 2-3 years, BSNL would cover at least 2.50 lakh villages in the country through wireline, wimax technology or through fibre connectivity,&q
A Delhi court today recorded the statement of a complainant, who is seeking prosecution of industrialist and Rajya Sabha MP Rahul Bajaj for the alleged disfigurement of the India map on a website hosted by his group`s German insurance partner, Allianz. "The portrayal of Jammu and Kashmir and Arunachal Pradesh as parts of Pakistan and China respectively on the website of the
As part of knowledge dissemination, the Indian National Grid Computing Initiative,the GARUDA Partner`s meet will be held on May 20 and 21 here. GARUDA is a Nation-wide Grid spread over 17 cities of the country, comprising computational nodes, mass storage, scientific instruments and collaboration of science researchers. The objective is to bring "Grid networked computing res
Aimed at completing the digitalisation, preservation and restoration of all films lying with various governments and private agencies, the I&B Ministry has unveiled a National Film Heritage Mission with a corpus of Rs 660 crore. The proposal, green-lighted by I&B Minister Ambika Soni who has been bullish over digitalisation of the entire film archives, would help in prese
Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU) has launched a portal, on a pilot basis in three sub-basins in Tamil Nadu, to answer farmers` queries. The `E-Velanmai` (e-agriculture) is based on an application of ICT tools for solving farmers` problems,answering all queries and clearing their doubnts, as part of Tamil Nadu Irrigated Agriculture Modernisation and Water Bodies Restorati
