The Village Resource Centres under ISRO programme must be linked with online network to disseminate agro advisory based on weather forecasting. It is very pertinent during weather calamities to minimise crop losses. In an event of unusual summer rains in Kerala, Kutttanad and Thrissur paddy farmers suffered to a large extent. If advance weather service is extended at community level, crop loss would have been minimised to some extent by covering the paddy grains.
The two agreements were signed during Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's state visit to India in May.
India has been ranked 52nd in the Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Index 2015 compiled by the World Economic Forum.
If you are a Citibank credit card holder in Bangalore, and use a Vodafone mobile phone service on a Nokia 6212, you need not carry that Citi credit card anymore.
Apart from being a client of Sasken, North American telecom equipment maker Nortel is also a key investor in the company, holding over 10 per cent stake which it had bought in 2005. The company has invested close to $10 million to acquire the stake. Even before the filing of bankruptcy by Nortel, there was talk in the industry that Nortel is exploring a possible exit from Sasken.
It feels worsening economic downturn will dent the internet economy. The only silver lining for the IT sector, which generates about $50 billion for Indian IT services companies, is the likely growth in the services and software sectors 'along with new internet and communications-related products and infrastructure, as they are an essential part of spending and partly recession-proof,' the OECD report said.
Staffers on the bench and trainees at Bangalore-based Sasken Communication Technologies will work for only three days a week and draw at least 60 per cent of their salary during the current (Jan-March) quarter.
The JV TACO Sasken Automotive Electronics has been called off and over 100 people working for the JV have been asked to quit. In January 2007, Sasken and Tata AutoComp Systems had formed the JV with a focus on automotive electronics products in the areas of telematics, infotainment and occupant convenience. However sources say that even two years after its formation, the JV could hardly make any progress.
Aiming at improving the quality of rural education, OneWorld South Asia, in collaboration with British Telecom and Cisco, has launched a pilot project in West Bengal last week for assisting rural teachers in addressing the needs of the children more effectively through information and communications technology tools. OneWorld South Asia is a non profit organisation that works for poverty alleviation and promoting sustainable development.
The five-millimetre-a-side 'GiFi', unveiled at the Melbourne University-based national information and communications technology research centre, can transmit data through a wireless connection at a breakthrough rate of five gigabits per second over distances of up to 10 metres.
NITI Aayog member V K Saraswat said the shutdown of internet services did not have any significant impact on the economy in J-K.
In a statement issued from Doha, The Supreme Council of Information and Communication Technology, Qatar's telecom regulator, has said that Vodafone/Qatar Foundation Consortium will pay a fee of 7.716 billion Qatar rials (about $2.1 billion) for the second mobile licence in the country.
With major IT markets in US, Europe and Japan expecting to witness a slowdown, Indian Information and Communication Technology (ICT) sector is now turning to South Africa and West Asian markets in a bigger way.
Nasscom and the Chinese government have given the task of creating a matchmaking platform to Zeta-V, set up in June 2017 in Shanghai by Sujit Chatterjee, former CEO of TCS China, and Rangarajan Vellamore, former CEO of Infosys China.
Labour Minister Oscar Fernandes while addressing an Assocham event today said by pushing the digitisation of communication technology to make mobile phones affordable to the farmers of the country, the government would work along with private companies.
Despite the lack of policy and clear allotment of spectrum, the domestic telecom industry is all set to usher in 3G services with service and equipment providers readying infrastructure.
After the break up of Bharatiya Janata Party's alliance with the Janata Dal- United, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi will address Bihar's top BJP workers on Saturday evening using teleconferencing, BJP sources said.
Four Indian students have developed a software technology that promises to improve the lives of visually challenged people by enabling them to move around more freely and perceive their surroundings better.
Reliance Telecom and Bharti Airtel have entered the second round of qualifying process for a GSM-based mobile license in Qatar that the Gulf country plans to award by October this year.
NASSCOM Foundation and DataWind Corporation, have started a pilot project to provide internet connectivity in the rural areas.
Stopover at a remote World Ahead City in South India.
This was announced at the Indo-US Economic Cooperation conference held on Friday.
The presence of the Egyptian company in India would not be in national interest as the entity could gain access to "our ICT assets and enhance the capabilities of our adversaries in gathering intelligence", said the report.
Keen to salvage its engagement with Washington DC that has gone southbound ever since the Trump administration came in, India has called for a final set of meetings with US trade officials, soon, reports Subhayan Chakraborty.
Software services firm Sasken Communication Technologies Ltd has acquired Finland-based Botnia Hightech Oy, a leading provider of wireless research and development and testing services, for about Rs 209 crore (Rs 2.09 billion).
Dubai Internet City, Middle East's biggest information and communications technology cluster built inside a free trade zone, is seriously considering setting up a Smart City in Hyderabad.
India is one of the founding members of the Executive Board of the UN Women, and is presently serving on the UN Women's Executive Board.
African countries too are embracing new technologies and evolving ways of tackling old problems.
Having a good business environment, abundant availability of skilled manpower and quality educational institutions
A delegation of top academicians, led by UGC Chairman Sukhdev Thorat will meet a group of Saudi businessmen in Riyadh to explore the possibility of setting up an Information and Communication Technology centre there with Indian assistance.
Government is targeting creation of around five crore (50 million) employment opportunities during the 10th plan period, Rajya Sabha was informed on Thursday.
Having carved a niche for itself as a global outsourcing hub for services, India should now look at becoming the world's preferred manufacturing destination, Infosys chief mentor N R Narayana Murthy said on Thursday.
The Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, Gandhinagar, invites applications for admission to its four-year B Tech programme.
Google uses solar panel and wind to power electronic equipment in the balloon throughout the day.
HCL Great Britain is ranked alongside leading ICT companies such as Tesco and Nokia.
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