Belarus and India intend to arrange two joint science and practice seminars in 2015 in the fields both countries believe to be promising: information technologies and cyber security, nanotechnologies and nanomaterials, BelTA learned from Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Belarus to India Vitaly Prima. “In order to demonstrate the best of the scientific and innovative…
HOOQ, Asia’s video-on-demand service provider, has announced that it will kick off its services in India from June for just Rs 199 a month. HOOQ, a start-up joint venture between Singtel, Sony Pictures Television and Warner Bros, allows customers to enjoy unlimited online streaming access and an offline viewing option on Hollywood and Indian movies…
Google has put on hold plans to provide free data to end users in India by zero rating certain apps, due to recent public backlash against a similar initiative by Facebook and Airtel, two people familiar with the development said. The Internet giant, which was in early discussions with telecom operators and applications developers to…
Mary Meeker’s legendary annual Internet Trends report is here. For her 2015 report, the Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers executive has focused separately on India and China as the two leading Internet markets. Meeker fancies India for its unique mobile Internet dominated ecosystem and highlights three key areas – smartphones, global apps, and mobile e-commerce…
Children’s right to privacy online has long been a vexed issue. That is reflected in a UN convention that upholds it, but also upholds the right of parents to exercise their responsibilities, which implies an appropriate level of guidance and oversight. Hong Kong’s privacy watchdog commissioned research that highlighted another aspect. It found that parents…
iSafe, the safety feature of the Thiruvananthapuram City Police mobile app, has won the award for ‘best use of mobile technology’ at the Elets Knowledge Exchange Awards 2015, Goa. The award was conferred in the governance category at a ceremony co-hosted by Elets Technomedia and the Information Technology Department, Government of Goa. Mridula Sinha, Governor…
It looks like a dangling, shiny plastic charm, but it’s actually an innovative high-tech device that may revolutionize health care in India. This is Khushi Baby, a small medical device designed to streamline the process of vaccinating children in the developing world. “Appreciating the cultural nuances is extremely important when attempting to propose an intervention…
Looking for a platform to report your grievances to the government? Here’s a portal that will allow you to file grievances instantly. www.meekosam.ap.gov.in, launched by Chief Minister Sri N. Chandrababu Naidu today, will be a platform where you can report about local problems, give suggestions and post related photographs/documents. The portal will record your grievance…
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu has launched a web portal that will enable people of the state to register their grievances, give suggestions and post photographs and documents pertaining to their complaints.
Speaking on the occasion, he urged state government officials to prepare an action plan for e-governance by June.
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The Union Government will be soon introducing interactive voice response systems together with various other methodologies of integrating buyer-seller platforms through mobile applications to make mobile telephony the most potent and omnipresent tool for agriculture governance, administration and development. “A large, stupendous scope of work is on the anvil to reach out to the farmer…