The service tax on customised software is a negative for technology companies but it will be passed on to the clients.
To be set up under the PPP model, the 20 institutes will offer undergraduate, masters and PhD programmes.
'The idea is to have a separate and independent consultation on non-personal data, and decide the contours of how it should be regulated, whether as guidelines, rules, or a separate policy,' said a senior official at MeitY.
India will have 100 million Internet users and 20 million broadband connections by 2008-2010, Brajesh kumar, secretary, department of information technology, said on Monday.
Justice Rekha Palli noted that while the rules mandated appointment of a key managerial person or a senior employee as CCO, Twitter disclosed in its affidavit that it had appointed a 'contingent worker' through a third party contractor.
Attorney General K K Venugopal resumed his arguments before a nine-judge bench headed by Chief Justice J S Khehar, stressing that it was not a fundamental right.
During the short hearing, Justice Prathibha M Singh took strong objection to an email sent by WhatsApp to the court. "I was in any case not going to hear it," the court clarified and sent the matter to another bench recording that the email sent by WhatsApp should be withdrawn unconditionally.
The Q3 office rebound growth was led by Bengaluru and Hyderabad, which together accounted for nearly 80 per cent of the net absorption in Q3.
Information technology services major Cognizant is at an advanced stage of negotiations to acquire Genpact, the business process outsourcing (BPO) giant.
Launched by the ministry of housing and urban affairs, the ease of living index (EoLI) is aimed at providing a holistic view of the country's cities. These will be done on parameters like services provided by local bodies, effectiveness of the administration, outcomes generated through those services in terms of liveability and citizens' perception of the outcomes.
India's information technology industry on Thursday expressed the hope that the new government at the Centre would continue to support the sunrise sector.
The Supreme Court on Thursday voiced serious concern over the running of fake news on social media platforms and web portals, and said even news shown in a section of channels bears communal tone, which may bring a bad name to the country.
Dayanand Allapur, head of human resources, Tesco HSC, said: "We will add another 2,000 employees in both IT (information technology) and non-IT processes."
The world needs to wake up to this new dimension of war at sea and be prepared to face the 'unknown enemy' who have the advantage of attacking at their choice of location and time, cautions Commodore Venugopal Menon (retd).
WhatsApp remains committed to the protection of all user messages through the product we provide, the company said
The demand for global solutions is pushing Indian BPOs to grow aggressively into global centres, said a senior executive. For instance, in the past 18 months, WNS has expanded its presence in the Philippines, Romania, and now Latin America. Analysts believe the trend will only increase in the days ahead, as clients look for outsourcing partners that can support critical processes from multiple delivery centres.
Government websites -- including those of the Prime Minister's Office, home and petroleum ministries, and the department of telecommunications -- were out of service for many hours on Monday. An official attributed the cause to firewall problems.
Satyam Computer Services Ltd plans to expand its operations into smaller Chinese cities to meet the growing outsourcing requirements.
S P Jain Center of Management invites applications for its one-year, full-time, Global MBA Programme.
The project involves building a network around a dozen secured centres, each priced at pound 250 mn.
The Delhi high court has asked Delhi police to file a status report on a plea seeking a direction to authorities to take action against Facebook and its senior officials for their alleged criminal acts and 'digital conspiracy'. The court was informed by the counsel for the Delhi Police Commissioner and its Cyber Crime Cell that the complaint made by the company Vas Data Services, which was running its operations through its website www.yepme.com, has already been closed. Justice Anu Malhotra, in its March 24 order, asked the state to submit its status report in this regard before the next date of hearing and listed the matter for further hearing on April 15.
The chief minister's political directive seems to have helped; next test will be the likely change of political guard in the state
The IT and BPO industry will generate 10 million (1 crore) jobs by 2010 in India and the country will become the 'centre of gravity' in the world for the sector, says Nandan Nilkani, CEO of the Nasdaq-listed Infosys.
The ministry of electronics and information technology (MeitY) in a press release revealed that the Ministry's Secretary, in a virtual interaction with Twitter officials, expressed his deep disappointment to Twitter leadership about the manner in which it has unwillingly, grudgingly and with great delay complied with the substantial parts of the order.
Symbiosis Centre for Distance Learning invites applications for its various programmes.
The recent report in the New York Times that China had brought India's financial capital - Mumbai - to a halt by hacking the electricity supply grid has not come as a surprise to the CTOs (chief technology officers) and cyber security experts. Indian companies, including critical infrastructure providers such as power grids, ports and radar systems, lack the IT infrastructure to prevent hacking from hostile state actors like China and North Korea, warn security experts. Recently, the United States government warned of yet another breach of critical systems tied to Microsoft Exchange email systems that the company has blamed on China. The breach has impacted thousands of organisations in the US and its impact on India is still unknown.
'IT companies do not have a large presence there either in terms of market and team. So, the impact of the war will be minimal. But West Asia is an emerging economy.'
The city houses National Remote Sensing Centre and is also home to several companies offer geographical information system services.
A group of 35-odd people from the Middle East are seeking a different kind of IT in India's information technology capital Bengaluru. They have come all the way to write a programme of 'Inner Transformation' -- for themselves and for the people back home.
He said social media companies are free to do business in India but they have to be accountable to the Indian Constitution and laws.
The company is looking for a large 40 sq km patch of land in the state under the Centre's recently introduced Information Technology Investment Region Scheme, said officials of the company who have been holding meetings with state government officials. The proposed project will include education, health institutions,an industrial hub, public utilities,residential areas and an integrated township among other infrastructure.
Perceived till recently as low-budget and low-margin, the domestic market now means big business to Indian IT majors.
Senior bureaucrat Pradip Kumar Tripathi has been appointed as secretary (coordination) in the Cabinet Secretariat as part of a major bureaucratic reshuffle effected by the Centre on Monday.
Hiring is currently underway for operations staff as well as human resources, information technology, facility management, and training personnel. Full staffing of up to 1,000 employees is expected over the next several months.
The draft rules underline security parameters that digital wallet companies, such as Paytm, FreeCharge and Mobikwik, will have to follow
