Relax visa rules for technology companies

A leading think-tank, considered close to the ruling Conservative party, wants theDavid Cameron government to relax immigration rules to make it easier for tech companies to recruit highly skilled staff from anywhere in the word. In a report titled 'Bits and Billions', the London-based Policy Exchange said the UK has enormous potential to be a world-leader in the high-tech and digital economy, but that it is tough for start-ups to find enough...

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Salesforce launches new social media software Marketing Cloud

Salesforce.com unveiled on Wednesday a new software suite that reflects the company's aggressive push into fields like marketing and human resources as it battles heightened competition from rivals. CEO and founder Marc Benioff announced the new products at the company's Dreamforce conference in San Francisco, promising to bring about a "social revolution" to how large companies use software to manage their business. One of Salesforce's...

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Hackers claim 12 million Apple IDs from FBI

A hacker group has claimed to have obtained personal data from 12 million Apple iPhone and iPad users by breaching an FBI computer, raising concerns about government tracking. The group called AntiSec, linked to the hacking collective known as Anonymous, posted one million Apple user identifiers claimed to be part of a larger group of 12 million, purportedly obtained from an FBI laptop. Contacted by AFP, FBI spokeswoman Jenny Shearer said:...

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India plans 61 times faster supercomputer by 2017

The government has drawn a blueprint for developing the next generation of supercomputers that could be 61 times faster than existing machines. Telecom and IT minister Kapil Sibal is understood to have written to Prime MinisterManmohan Singh sharing the roadmap to develop "petaflop and exaflop range of supercomputers" at an estimated cost of Rs 4,700 crore over 5 years. "In his (Sibal) letter, he has said that C-DAC has developed a proposal...

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BSNL to launch ‘Fibre to Home’ for high speed internet

BSNL here would launch by this month-end 'Fibre to Home' (FTH) facility for customers seeking internet, telephone and TV channels' access.  A high speed up to 100 mbps on internet would be given with FTH in which customers could download a movie in just one minute, a BSNL spokesman said today quoting Senior General Manager G C Pandey.  Besides, most of the popular TV channels, and landline phone services...

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Happy Vinayaka Chavithi..............

Ganesha Chaturthi (Marathi: गणेश चतुर्थी, Konkani: चवथ, Gujarati: ગણેશ ચતુર્થી, Hindi: गणेश चतुर्थी, Malayalam: വിനായക ചതുര്‍ത്ഥി, Tamil:விநாயகர் சதுர்த்தி, Kannada: ಗಣೇಶ ಚತುರ್ಥೀ, Telugu: వినాయక చవితి), also known as Vinayaka Chaturthi, also called Vinayagar in Tamil Nadu, is the Hindu festival celebrated on the occasion of birthday of Lord Ganesha, the son of Shiva and Parvati, who is believed to bestow his presence on earth for all his devotees...

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Passwords for online banking, email could be replaced with wave of a hand

Passwords for online banking, social networks and email could be replaced with the wave of a hand if prototype technology developed byIntel makes it to tablets and laptops. Aiming to do away with the need to remember passwords for growing numbers of online services, Intel researchers have put together a tablet with newsoftware and a biometric sensor that recognizes the unique patterns of veins on a person's palm. "The problem with passwords,...

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New encoding to make emails hacker-proof

Among the billions of emails sent back and forth daily are some that do contain personal, proprietary and sensitive information, documents, media, photos, videos and sound files. Unfortunately, the open nature of email means that they can be intercepted and, if not encrypted, easily read by malicious third parties. Even with the PGP - pretty good privacy - encryption scheme first used in 1995, if a sender's private "key" is compromised all their...

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Government clears 51% FDI in retail, 49% in aviation

NEW DELHI: After months of dilly-dallying, UPA mustered courage on Friday to throw open the gates to foreign investment in a host of sectors considered political no-go zones like multi-brand retail and civil aviation in a bid to dispel the perception of policy paralysis. This will pave the way for the much-awaited entry of foreign retail giants such as Walmart, Tesco and Carrefour into the $450 billion retail market, although their footprint...

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Global IT companies hiring talent from small towns

When Sukruth KS first walked into the National Institute of Technology in the small town of Warangal in Andhra Pradesh three years ago, he was just another engineering student. When he passes out in May next year, he will be the one who Microsoft hired for a $1,00,000 (approximately Rs 60 lakh) salary for a global posting. Anmol Kumar, Balmukund Trivedi and Dinesh Reddy, three of Sukruth's batchmates, have also snagged similar salaries from...

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Computers to read your lips

A computer is being taught to interpret human emotions based on lip-reading, one which could improve our interaction with these machines and perhaps allow disabled people to use voice synthesizers, more effectively and efficiently. Karthigayan Muthukaruppan of Manipal International University in Selangor, Malaysia, and co-workers have developed a system using a genetic algorithm that gets better and better with each use to match irregular ellipse...

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RBI facilitating the visually challenged and physically disabled through new banking

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has advised banks to adopt measures to ensure that visually challenged and those with physical disabilities aren't discriminated against or at a disadvantage when accessing banking facilities. RBI's advisory follows a report by Office of the Chief Commissioner for Persons with Disabilities which noted that visually challenged persons are facing problems in availing banking facilities like internet banking. In its...

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Hyderabad to get 50,000-acre IT hub

An Information Technology hub is expected to witness rapid growth in the IT sector with the setting up of investment region around the city. The central government has agreed in principle to Andhra Pradesh government's proposal for setting up an Information Technology Investment Region (ITIR), a minister announced Saturday. State IT minister Ponnala Lakshmaiah told reporters that the ITIR would come up over 50,000 acres of land in 25 years. It...

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You may get call from Facebook if profile identity is suspect

Social networking giant Facebook is making a "huge effort" to weed out fake profiles to prevent misuse of such identities, a senior company official has said. "Absolutely, there is a huge effort," Facebook India business manager Pavan Varma told PTI when asked about the company's action on this front. If Facebook doubts the ownership of an account, it will ask the user to identify himself/herself, he said. Full Coverage on Apple's new iPhone...

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Security firms see rise in smartphone cyber-attacks

Cyber-crooks are increasingly taking aim at smartphones, following their prey as lifestyles migrate to Internet-linked mobile devices, according to new reports by online security firms. Symantec's annual Norton Cyber Crime Report released Thursday calculated that such crimes cost worldwide consumers $110 billion in the past year, with an increase in attacks on mobile devices and online social networks. "Cyber criminals are changing their tactics...

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Hundreds more cyber attacks linked to 2009 Google breach

The hacker group that attacked Google Inc in 2009 has launched hundreds of other cyber assaults since then, focusing on U.S. defense companies and human rights groups, according to new research from security software maker Symantec Corp. Google said in January 2010 that it and more than 20 other companies were the victims of a sophisticated cyber attack - later dubbed Operation Aurora - from China-based hackers that resulted in the theft of...

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A Study says: PCs can reduce the risk of dementia

Access to a personal computer lowers the risk of cognitive decline and dementia in older men by up to 40 per cent, a new study has claimed. The study showed that the risk of dementia was about 30 to 40 per cent lower among older computer users than non-user. Researchers at the University of Western Australia undertook an eight-year study of more than 5000 men in Perth aged between 65 to 85. "As the world's population ages, the number of...

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Internet subscriber base in India may reach 150 million

Driven by youth, Internet subscriber base in the country is expected to reach 150 million by the end of this year, says a report. The report by Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) and IMRB said, "the number of claimed Internet users has seen a growth of 16 per cent over last year. This number is estimated to grow up to 150 million by December 2012." There will be 105 million users in urban India while the rural areas will contribute...

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Happy Teachers Day

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