Successful companies are ones that keep transforming and re-inventing themselves. Today, an increasingly digital world – replete with smart devices, savvy consumers, pervasive media, and ubiquitous data – is brimming with opportunities for companies and spurring them to adopt digital business models to succeed. Customers are demanding newer channels of engagement, employees want to use…
To leverage the global competency of the information and communication technologies (ICT) and ensure a sustained growth plan, the Indian IT industry has urged the government to facilitate a favourable business ecosystem for entrepreneurs and small, medium and large enterprises.
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With two back-to-back investments in India within two months, US media and entertainment behemoth News Corpseems to have intensified its focus on the country’s digital landscape. News Corp acquired a 25 per cent stake in digital real estate firm PropTiger.com for $30 million in the last week of November 2014. The news was followed by the acquisition of…
With two back-to-back investments in India within two months, US media and entertainment behemoth News Corpseems to have intensified its focus on the country’s digital landscape. News Corp acquired a 25 per cent stake in digital real estate firm PropTiger.com for $30 million in the last week of November 2014. The news was followed by the acquisition of…
Google’s chief internet evangelist Vinton Cerf has discussed with communications minister Ravi Shankar Prasad the role the US-based tech giant can play in the government’s Digital India programme.
They also discussed ways to increase internet penetration in the country.
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Under the ambitious Digital India Initiative, University Grants Commission (UGC) would map the universities across the country, under which it would look into the internet connectivity options at a particular university in the nation. In a letter by UGC secretary Jaspal Sandhu, the universities are asked to submit their details regarding the matter within the…
Panchayat offices in Idukki will soon have high-speed broadband connectivity, enabling citizens to access a wide range of e-services and e-applications and providing local bodies with a technology tool for development planning. The district is set to be the first one in Kerala to link grama panchayats under the National Optical Fibre Network (NOFN) project.…
The government will launch a ‘single window system for partition’ on Saturday for the Panaji deputy collector’s office at the hands of chief minister Laxmikant Parsekar. On Monday, deputy chief minister Francis D’Souza will launch the system for the Mapusa deputy collector’s office. Subsequently, the system will be rolled out at all deputy collectors’ offices…
With cyber crime growing at a menacing pace amid dynamic changes in technology, the “threat landscape” has become larger and policies need to evolve continuously to contain it, CERT-IN Director Gulshan Rai said today. The number of Internet users in the country is growing at a rapid pace as more and more people log onto…
Goa police statistics revealed that cyber crime complaints are on the rise. In 2014, the cyber-crime cell (CCC) of the Goa police traced and detected 346 fake profiles and objectionable postings on various social media sites. CCC registered around 25 cases since its inspection as a police station in November 2014 and dealt with 146…