A 2-day Conference on World-Wide-Web: Technology, Standards and Internationalization began in New Delhi today to mark the launching of World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) India Office. The W3C India Office was formally launched by the Minister of State for Communication & Information Technology, Sachin Pilot. Speaking on the occasion, the MoS said that setting up
Section 66A of the amended Act provides for punishment of imprisonment up to three years and fine for sending spam or unsolicited e-mail messages through computer resource or communication device. This was stated by the Minister of State for Communications & Information Technology, Sachin Pilot in a written reply in Rajjya Sabha. The MoS mentioned that the government is aware
K C Belliappa, Vice Chancellor of Rajiv Gandhi Central University who was briefly arrested for allegedly sending an `offensive` e-mail to a lady faculty member, today claimed that the person who filed a complaint against him has a track record of maligning his predecessors. "It may be noted that the person concerned has a track record of maligning even previous Vice Chancell
Cyber security guru and certified ethical hacker Ankit Fadia would soon impart training to the youth of Punjab on various safety measures including having a alpha-numeric password and installing a firewall in their computers. "I would be sharing my knowledge on cyber security with the school children and other youths in Punjab and for this I would be travelling to various pl
As part of implementing Information and Communication Technology education and e-governance, around two lakh personnel in the education department would be trained under the `IT@School` scheme, Anvar Sadath, Executive Director of the project said today. The target group of people for the 17 types of training programmes would include lower primary, upper primary, high school, high
The Madhya Pradesh Public Health and Engineering (PHE) Department has introduced a SMS service for registering handpump complaints in a bid to ensure water supply to rural population in this district during summers. Under this, any person can SMS his/her complaints regarding handpump failure to cell numbers of assistant engineer or sub engineer of the department, who in turn will
A one day National Seminar for the IT Secretaries of all the States & Union Territories across the country is being held on 8th May, 2010 in New Delhi. The Implementation & Challenges faced in the enforcement of cyber law would be deliberated upon at the Seminar. The Seminar is being hosted by the first and only Cyber Court in the country, the Cyber Appellate Tribunal (CAT) alo
Trying to allay the apprehensions expressed on the use of eye scan in preparation of unique number to all residents of the country, UIDAI has come out with a status paper on collecting iris biometrics. Questions were raised from certain quarters about the need for the iris scan even when the finger prints of all ten fingers and a face scan was also being taken. It
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister K Rosaiah has requested the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) to include the state for the pilot project `Aadhar` as it was ready with the resident data. In a letter to UIDAI Chairman Nandan Nilekani today, Rosaiah said the state has been at the forefront in implementing e-governance projects and also has the distinction of bei
The Vice-Chancellor of the Rajiv Gandhi Central University, K C Belliappa, was briefly arrested for allegedly sending an `offensive` e-mail to a lady faculty member. Belliappa, who was later released on bail, was rounded up yesterday by the Special Investigation Team (SIT) of police here on a complaint by a woman colleague who lodged an FIR under sections 66/A and 66/C of the IT
China will intensify monitoring of Internet in the country by ending anonymous online comments and "harmful information" on the web, a top official has said. Wang Chen, director of the State Council Information Office, underlined that China will push to end anonymous online comments in a bid to step up monitoring of cyberspace, China Daily reported today.
South Korea has completed the development of a very detailed `digital climate map` that aims to help farmers increase production and make correct decisions on planting, the government said today. The Ministry for Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries said the map, developed in cooperation with Kyung Hee University in Seoul, divides the entire country into a grid with sections
Securing cyberspace needs more public-private cooperation and a greater ability to identify and punish perpetrators, officials and business leaders said as a conference got underway. "We have an incredibly threatening environment out there right now," US Homeland Security Deputy Undersecretary Philip Reitinger said at a dinner kicking off the first World Cybersecurity S
Internet giant Google is planning to begin its sale of digital books by late June or July, a media report said. The Wall Street Journal stated that Chris Palma, Google`s manager for strategic-partner development, announced a time table for Google`s e-book launch plans at a publishing- industry panel meet in New York on Tuesday. Google has been speaking about its vi
Telecom service provider Bharti Airtel today entered into a partnership with cloud computing service provider Novatium to expand its broadband business in India. Under the tie-up, Novatium would offer cloud computing - internet-based computing services - `Airtel Net PC`, for Airtel broadband customers in India, Bharti Airtel Telemedia Services-CMO Vikas Singh told reporters here.
Over 2,000 e-journals and 51,000 digitalised books will be just a click away for students, researchers and faculty members of over 7,000 colleges across the country with the launch of an electronic library, N-LIST, here today. The National Library and Information Services Infrastructure for Scholarly Content (N-LIST) project, inaugurated by HRD Minister Kapil Sibal, will also ena
Online banking frauds are on the rise, with the number of cases more than doubling over the past three years, Parliament was informed today. The number of Internet frauds rose from 102 in 2007 to 113 in the following year and 269 in 2009, involving an amount of Rs 2.51 crore, Rs 5.53 crore and Rs 5.90 crore, respectively, Minister of State for Finance Namo Narain Meena said in a
Google Places, a free online service that enables a businessman to reach larger customers, has seen a 40 per cent jump in registration in India after addition of some new features to the product, according to Manik Gupta, Product Manager, Google India. Google Places, earlier known as Local Business Centre, and re-branded two weeks ago, has now got some new features including abil
Indian companies lost about Rs 58.59 lakh in revenues in 2009 due to cyber attacks, security software maker Symantec has said. In addition to this, Indian enterprises also lost an average of Rs 94.56 lakh in organisation, customer and employee data in 2009, while they lost an average of Rs 84.57 lakh in productivity (factors leading to hampering of work like problem with servers)
With more than 100 million mobile handsets being sold in India annually, cell phones will drive the adoption of digital maps in the country, Navteq today said. "About 100 million handsets are sold annually in India and 3-4 per cent of these are smartphones or GPS-enabled, which support digital maps. So, while the auto sector drove adoption of digital navigation in the US, mo
