Washington: India on Tuesday expressed hope that the current economic woes in the US would not lead to protectionism and said that concerns of the Indian IT industry over anti-outsourcing measures announced by President Barack Obama recently will be addressed quickly. Foreign Secretary Ranjan Mathai on his first bilateral visit to the US said that the Indian IT industry in the US has contributed $15 billion in taxes alone in...
12:22 AM, Feb 08, 2012
New Delhi: The Union Minister of State for Planning, Science and Technology Ashwani Kumar has sought French cooperation in technology-related areas where France has a high level of expertise. Kumar brought up the issue during a meeting with French Minister for Higher Education Laurent Wauquiez in Paris on Tuesday. "Geological mapping, water resource management, sub-soil management, health, bio technology, nano material, Information Communication Technology, cloud computing and supercomputing," were areas...
12:53 AM, Feb 05, 2012
Paris: French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Tuesday said that he welcomed a decision by India's government to enter into "exclusive negotiations" with France's Dassault for the purchase of 126 Rafale jet fighter planes. In a statement, Sarkozy said talks over the contract would begin shortly, adding that the deal would include significant transfers of technology guaranteed by the French state. Dassault Aviation confirmed earlier that its fighter plane had been...
01:29 AM, Feb 01, 2012
This week on India Positive, stories about technology for farmers, gadgets for blind and saving endangered species. ...
11:17 PM, Jan 27, 2012
Washington: The US remains global leader in supporting science and technology (S&T) research and development, but could soon be overtaken by rapidly rising Asian countries like India and China, a latest report by an American body said. "This information clearly shows we must re-examine long-held assumptions about the global dominance of the American science and technology enterprise," said National Science Foundation (NSF) Director, Subra Suresh, after release of Science and...
01:07 PM, Jan 19, 2012
Kolkata: Mobile handset manufacturer Nokia today said the company was ready to support Long-Term Evolution (LTE) technology when it arrives in India, a company official said. "Nokia is ready to provide handsets which would be LTE-enabled in the Indian market," Jasmeet Gandhi, head (services marketing) of Nokia India said. Launching three feature-phones in the city here today, Gandhi said that Nokia would blur the difference between high-end smartphones and feature-phones...
03:56 PM, Jan 17, 2012
Coimbatore: The Anna University of Technology, Coimbatore, has decided to collect contributions from the University Department and 200 affiliated colleges for the Chief Minister's public relief fund to help 'Thane' victims. This follows an appeal by Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa to the public and philanthropists to lend a helping hand to the massive relief and rehabilitation efforts launched by the TN Government, V-Cof the university K Karunakaran said in a...
11:13 AM, Jan 17, 2012
Bangalore: Worldwide IT spending is forecast to total $3.8 trillion in 2012, a 3.7 per cent increase from the previous calendar year, according to the latest outlook by technology researcher Gartner. In 2011, worldwide IT spending totalled $3.7 trillion, up 6.9 per cent from 2010 levels. Gartner has revised downward its outlook for 2012 global IT spending from its previous forecast of 4.6 per cent growth. All four major technology...
03:35 PM, Jan 05, 2012
New Delhi: In the race with China, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has pitched for a Rs 5000 crore supercomputer for India. But the question is whether it will be enough to match China's prowess. "Over the past few decades, India's relative position in the world of science has been declining and we have been overtaken by countries like China," the Prime Minister said on Tuesday. India has 17 per cent...
08:40 AM, Jan 04, 2012
New Delhi: The year Steve Jobs died was a busy one for global tech - the rise of the iPad, the spread of pay-as-you-go cloud services and the turmoil in the smartphone market with iPhone and Android knocking out RIM BlackBerry and Nokia. The year - which saw India's first social-network-driven revolution, and an ill-conceived government effort to kill "objectionable" content on Facebook and other social media - was also...
01:23 PM, Dec 28, 2011
New Delhi: Tata Communications is betting big on cloud technology to help clients increase productivity and cut costs on the back of solutions such as Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and e-mail. "From just being a topic of discussion, we are now seeing deployment happening. Customers are excited about not just the cost saving but also the efficiency that cloud offers," Tata Communications Vice President (SaaS) Mukul Sood said. With new...
11:17 AM, Dec 25, 2011
on this episode we discuss how technology can enhance the learning experience for students. ...
11:12 PM, Dec 24, 2011
Bangalore: An engineering student was hacked to death and his body put in a suitcase in his room in Bangalore. The victim identified as 22-year-old Piyush Sinha from Jharkhand was a a VII semester student of mechanical engineering at the Sir M Visvesvaraya Institute of Technology, Hunasamaranahalli. One person has been detained by Bangalore Police in connection with the incident. The gruesome murder was discovered on Thursday evening when a...
11:53 AM, Dec 23, 2011
Washington: India got shortcut tips on nuclear weapons from Pakistani Scientist AQ Khan claims a bizarre article written in the Playboy magazine by an American arms expert. This astonishing claim is according to US arms control expert Joshua Pollack and whats even more is that he wrote this article in the Playboy magazine. Pollock has claimed that Khan provided a shortcut to a nuclear weapon to India, along with Iran,...
09:39 AM, Dec 23, 2011
Chennai: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Wednesday said her government plans to come out with a new policy on information technology (IT) to catapult the state to the number one position in the sector. Speaking at the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII)-organised 'Connect 2011' IT conference here, Jayalalithaa said: "My government proposes to bring out a new information technology and ITES (IT enabled services) policy that will engender...
03:23 AM, Dec 22, 2011
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