The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is working on a new feature to enable users to easily turn off user tracking by websites. J Alan Bird, head of business development for W3C — which sets the standards for the Web — said the organization is working on evolving a mechanism that will allow users to […]
Even as India has earned the reputation of becoming the only country with eight different domain names allotted to it, sources revealed that the Tamil language will have the .india domain, written in Tamil. Other languages have opted for .bharat written in the same language. Media reports have pointed out that ICANN, the Internet URL […]
IT and BPO sectors saw the biggest up-tick in hiring during the first month of 2011, according to numbers crunched by Naukri.com, India’s biggest job portal. Hiring in these two sectors jumped by a whopping 11% and 6% in January compared to the immediately preceding month of December 2010, indicating, in Naukri’s opinion, an optimistic […]
Dell Services, the rapidly growing IT services business of Computer maker Dell has picked up Suresh Vaswani, former joint CEO of Wipro, to head the business in India. Vaswani left Wipro in January after a 25-year stint, partly due to the poor performance of the company. India is Dell’s core services hub and is home […]
Six months after most of the senior developers of Mandriva Linux, arguably the most user-friendly flavor of the Linux distribution, left the company, the ‘renegade’ group have announced a new beta release of their Mageia Linux distribution. Mandriva, based in France, had been forced to shrink its operations in France and relocate its development activities […]
Mahindra Satyam, the new avatar of Ramalinga Raju’s Satyam Computer Services will pay $10 million (Rs 46 crore) as penalty to the US stock market watch-dog, the Securities and Exchanges Commission or SEC. It will also have to comply with “certain” unspecified condition, according to a statement issued by the company a few minutes ago. […]
The following are links to the pictures of the first day of Anna Hazare’s fast unto death demanding the passing of the Jan Lokpal bill (and scrapping of the Government’s lame-duck version.) The pictures are being uploaded over the next 1-2 hours. Videos [a total of around a dozen, being uploaded over the next 2-3 […]
These are videos from ground zero (Jantar Mantar Road, New Delhi.) There will be a total of around 12 videos for day one, uploaded one by one. .
The agitation for the passing of the Jan Lokpal bill entered a crucial stage on Thursday, the third day of fasting by Anna Hazare and his aides. Compared to just a few hundred supporters who trickled in on Wednesday, thousands poured in on Thursday to express support. More than a thousand people marched with candles […]
Day four of the Janlokpal agitation saw the Government capitulate even as the movement threatened to disrupt normal life across the country. Reminding political observers of Gandhi’s independence stuggle, spontaneous rallies were held across the country in support of the fasting Gandhian. The government, which tried to toss a ‘fake committee’ to the agitators on […]
India Against Corruption (IAC), the umbrella body spearheading the Jan Lokpal bill agitation, reiterated its opposition to watering down the bill proposed by Anna Hazare. “The Lokpal and Lokayukta, according to the version of the Bill the protestors want, must be completely independent of any governments – on the lines of the Election Commission or […]
Kapil Sibal has denied that his comments — that the Lokpal bill won’t address issues close to people’s hearts — was disrespectful of the bill he is supposed to help frame. Speaking to reporters in Delhi today, he said Lokpal bill will only address the issue of corruption, but the biggest problems facing people in […]
The US embassy, which had generally proven itself a capable and astute observer of Indian politics, proved just how disconnected the embassy officials were in their assessment of Narendra Modi. In cables sent immediately after the US refused visa to the Gujarat Chief minister in 2005, the embassy is shown to be in touch with […]
Jairam Ramesh, the flamboyant environment minister is used to hearing others praise him for rejuvenating the environmentalist movement in the country. Sharp and witty, he’s also almost impossible to beat when it comes to repartees and retorts; until on Monday. Ramesh, who introduced Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwali and Water Resources minister Salman […]
The Department of Telecom has sought a review of the Wimax franchisee agreements inked by BSNL with private companies. It has sent a letter to the BSNL board earlier this month, a DoT official said on the sidelines of the EliteX 2011 event in New Delhi. He said the company has been given a month […]
Jairam Ramesh, minister for environment and forests, has asked Delhi and Haryana to stop passng the buck on taking responsibility for cleaning up the Yamuna. The Yamuna has already seen thousands of crores of rupees being spent in “attempts to clean up,” but remains as polluted as before. Most of the money, critics say, has […]
India will spend Rs 200 crore over the next five years to study the impact of aerosols, particularly black carbon or soot, on climate change. It will include increasing the number of observing stations from 36 to at least 60. India already has a head start in the study of the impact of black carbon […]
India, which cannot manufacture even a single electronic chip, has one of the world’s largest chip-related industry, according to the latest study by the Indian Semiconductor Association. The chip-related industry is worth around $7.5 billion and will reach $10.2 billion in two years, said the Association in the first of its kind estimate of India’s […]
As Hon’ble Members will recall, several members had raised allegations, based on reports in a newspaper, about purported cables from the US Embassy in New Delhi to their authorities in Washington. In response to the request from the Leader of the Opposition, I had made a statement on this subject in this House on March […]
Short on the heels of Sony, which launched India’s first AMD Fusion powered notebook, World number 3 laptop brand Acer introduced two new full-sized models with full day computing. Unlike other manufacturers such as HP and Sony, Acer has launched full sized notebooks — 14 and 15.6 inch — on the AMD Fusion E series […]
