When SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son met prime minister Narendra Modi last October, he made it a point to tell him that unless India addressed the problem of acute shortage of spectrum—Indian telcos have an average of 12-13 MHz of spectrum against a global average of 50 MHz—there was very little chance of Digital India succeeding.…
Google is ready to help India implement Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “Digital India” initiative, and the government has a well laid out plan to realise it, said Google’s Chief Internet Evangelist Vinton G. Cerf. Cerf was speaking at a seminar organised by Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry ( FICCI) here on Tuesday.…
Newgen Software, a leading global provider of Business Process Management (BPM), Enterprise Content Management (ECM), Customer Communication Management (CCM), and Adaptive Case Management (ACM) solutions, successfully hosted its Annual Customer Meets in Mumbai, Chennai and Delhi recently in the month of December 2014. Mr. Diwakar Nigam, MD & CEO, Newgen Software speaking on the success of the events said, “We are pleased to…
Newgen Software, a leading global provider of Business Process Management (BPM), Enterprise Content Management (ECM), Customer Communication Management (CCM), and Adaptive Case Management (ACM) solutions, successfully hosted its Annual Customer Meets in Mumbai, Chennai and Delhi recently in the month of December 2014. Mr. Diwakar Nigam, MD & CEO, Newgen Software speaking on the success of the events said, “We are pleased to…
The Centre is implementing a Rs 1,900 crore e-governance project to automate transactions vis-a-vis the Employees State Insurance Corporation (ESIC), Union Labour Minister Bandaru Dattatreya said here today. Under the project, named ‘Panchdeep’, a massive Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) would be installed across the country. The data concerning the employees like medicines given to them,…
Union urban development minister Venkaiah Naidu on Monday asked municipal administrations to focus on improving urban civic services and fast track the adoption of e-governance in the respective bodies. Speaking at the regional consultative workshop on urban governance here at the Administrative Staff College of India, Naidu said the Centre was considering devolving more powers to municipal bodies to improve decision…
Goa’s IT habitat project, which didn’t have takers while it was earmarked in tony Dona Paula, will be relocated to 4.5 lakh sq m of government land near the electricity department’s sub-station on Kadamba plateau, within the precincts of Chimbel village. The plateau is being developed for several years now as a residential-cum-commercial area, although…
Rising at alarming rate, the number of cyber crimes in India may touch a whopping 3,00,000 in 2015, almost double the level of last year causing havoc in the financial space, security establishment and social fabric, an ASSOCHAM-Mahindra SSG study warned.
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Cyber hate kept cops busy all of last year, with netizens in Hyderabad and Cyberabad seeing a three-fold increase in online stalking, abusive emails, SMSs, phone calls and Facebook-related crime. A substantial number of victims were women. Vindictive men used the Internet to defame their ex-girlfriends, and vengeful employees took on their bosses using social…
Recent reports indicate that India is one of the top ten countries in the world for the incidence of cyber crime. Yet other reports also indicate that spend on cyber and network security by Indian businesses is one of the lowest in the world. The debate is on-going in technology circles where the threats and…