State-run telecom company Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) is in discussions with MTS, the Indian unit of Russian telecom company Sistema, to offer fourth generation, or 4G, telecom services across the country, through joint branding. “We are in the final stages of discussions with MTS and are awaiting the government’s policy on spectrum sharing and…
The Modi government, which completed one year at the Centre, is preparing for a big-ticket launch of Digital India, taking technology to the villages and block levels, through merchandise, hackathons and games spread over a week-long initiative across the country. The National e-Governance Division (NeGD), under the Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY), has…
Preliminary results have been published recently in the 2014 IEEE 16th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services Thanks to software developed by IIT Hyderabad researchers, semi-skilled persons can use an ultrasound imaging device to perform preliminary diagnosis to classify a kidney as either normal or abnormal in terms of stones, cysts, or bacterial…
The science is overwhelming: regular exercise and a healthy, calorie-conscious diet are the keys to better health. But despite what we know about healthy living, Canadians face an obesity epidemic. Nearly one quarter of all adult Canadians are obese and one in 10 children could be similarly labelled. A little over four per cent of…
Raising concerns over over-the-top (OTT) players eating into voice revenues of telcos, former Vodafone India head Marten Pieters today said it could be “fatal” for the industry. “OTT is a serious worry. Eighty-five per cent of revenue of operators in India is voice, if that goes away, its fatal. Revenues are moving away to content…
The controversial Facebook initiative to provide free internet access to selected services has now been launched in Pakistan in collaboration with Telenor Pakistan. This launch comes at a time when there’s a raging net neutrality over Internet.org going on in its neighbour, India. This announcement was made during an interactive event, which was attended by representatives from Telenor Pakistan…
In occupied Kashmir, the Chairman of All Parties Hurriyet Conference, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq emphasizing that incidents of civilian killings in the territory are unacceptable, has said that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s assertions about engaging Pakistan and Kashmiri people in a dialogue process have proved hollow.Addressing a daylong session of delegates in Srinagar, the Mirwaiz…
Belarus and India intend to arrange two joint science and practice seminars in 2015 in the fields both countries believe to be promising: information technologies and cyber security, nanotechnologies and nanomaterials, BelTA learned from Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Belarus to India Vitaly Prima. “In order to demonstrate the best of the scientific and innovative…
HOOQ, Asia’s video-on-demand service provider, has announced that it will kick off its services in India from June for just Rs 199 a month. HOOQ, a start-up joint venture between Singtel, Sony Pictures Television and Warner Bros, allows customers to enjoy unlimited online streaming access and an offline viewing option on Hollywood and Indian movies…
Google has put on hold plans to provide free data to end users in India by zero rating certain apps, due to recent public backlash against a similar initiative by Facebook and Airtel, two people familiar with the development said. The Internet giant, which was in early discussions with telecom operators and applications developers to…