Indian cities need more than 20 million homes.
The exercise is ostensibly for security reasons and to prevent misuse of the freedom of speech in cyberspace.
Facebook has over 600 million users worldwide while Twitter has slightly over 175 million users with 95 million tweets daily.
TablaNet, an online musical collaboration system by Mihir Sarkar, may soon become a rave for percussionists across the globe.
Blocking internet access with a simple flip of the switch, called 'kill switch', is becoming a reality in many countries.
Recession-hit tech companies believe 2011 will be a promising year. But they are not taking any chances and are pulling out all stops to pander to the tastes of Gen Y who wants mobile computing, gaming, entertainment and edutainment literally at their fingertips.
The Central Board of Secondary Education is poised to introduce Mandarin Chinese in class sixth from April next year in view of China emerging as one of the major global economies and Mandarin being spoken by a large population of the world.
Called Augmented Reality or AR, it is defined as the overlay of graphics onto a video stream or other real-time display
The company currently has slightly less than 3,000 people in India.
After Research In Motion (owners of BlackBerry), the home ministry will now turn the screws on Microsoft, Google, IBM and Oracle. These companies provide technology and services for the virtual private networks (VPNs) run by various operators in India. The government will ask them to conform to regulation that allows intelligence agencies to lawfully intercept data. Failure to do so could result in the termination of VPN services by operators using their technology.
Even as hackers attacked more than 5,500 websites in the first six months this year, security agencies are groping in the dark to find a way to tackle the problem.
With all the criticism over the mistake, the IPCC has decided to bring in editors and coordinating lead authors for its fifth assessment report.
Who will own the Internet? The question is an oxymoron since no one owns cyberspace.
A Congress bastion over the years, the tribal dominated Nandurbar district in Maharashtra has been chosen for the launch of Aadhaar, the unique identity (UID) numbers.
The newly constituted National Innovation Council (NIC) headed by Sam Pitroda, aims to have a $1-billion (around Rs 4,600 crore) fund to promote new ideas for inclusive development and innovation in the country.
This is based on the proposals given by a task force set by the government a year before to suggest measures to stimulate the growth of IT, IT-enabled services and the electronics hardware manufacturing industry. Electronics hardware production rose from Rs 84,410 crore (Rs 844.1 billion) in 2007-08 to Rs 94,690 crore (Rs 946.9 billion) in 2008-09, a growth of 12.1 per cent.
After individuals, now even institutions like government departments, schools and companies would get unique identification numbers (UIDs) to enroll the country's residents for the UID system.
The draft proposal of the five-year plan focuses on a multi-pronged strategy to achieve e-development: creation of e-infrastructure to facilitate and promote e-governance, promotion of electronics and information technology industry, promotion of e-inclusion, providing support for creating innovation, building knowledge networks and securing India's cyber space.
After individuals, now even institutions like government departments, schools and companies would get unique identification numbers (UIDs) to enroll the country's residents for the UID system. These institutions or service delivery organisations would get a UID-like identifier, called Entity ID, which would help enrol people and deliver services.
The MSP tender, considered as one of the largest information technology outsourcing contracts floated in India, is estimated to be in excess of Rs 1,000 (Rs 10 billion) crore for the 7-10-year lifespan of the project.
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