Executives in the technology industry are not discouraged by the recent forecast by lobby group Nasscom, which predicted the industry will grow by 12-14% in 2015-16. At Nasscom’s India Leadership Forum, hopes are high on the government’s Digital India mission. They also say more needs to be done to provide the right skills to students…
China’s internet curbs are isolating it from the world and having a ‘highly detrimental’ impact on business, a European lobby said on Thursday, in an unusually strong statement by a foreign business chamber.
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SysTools is an Indian IT company that initiated its services to simplify technology in the year 2007. Lead by the ideas of Anuraag Singh and Debashish Pramanik, the products developed under the brand has marked an evolution in data recovery and digital forensics arena.
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The city recorded a 37 per cent rise in the cyber crime rates in 2014. The number shot up from 479 in 2013 to 655 last year. Offences such as sending objectionable messages and emails were the most commonly record crimes. 105 cases of SMS stalking and e-mails were recorded followed by that of uploading…
President Barack Obama is set to sign an executive order on Friday aimed at encouraging companies to share more information about cybersecurity threats with the government and each other, a response to attacks like that on Sony Entertainment.
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Having issued Aadhaar cards to a majority of the Indian population, the Indian government now wants to make the best use of them. Back in November 2014, the government had proposed a ‘Digital locker’ concept. The locker, it was proposed, would be linked to the Aadhaar card of citizens and would then enable them to…
The Reporters Without Borders World Press Freedom Index ranks the performance of 180 countries according to a range of criteria that include media pluralism and independence, respect for the safety and freedom of journalists, and the legislative, institutional and infrastructural environment in which the media operate.
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President Barack Obama is expected to announce an executive order directing the government and companies to share more information about cybersecurity threats in response to attacks like that on Sony Entertainment(6758.T). As in other policy areas where Obama has been unable to get legislation through the now Republican-controlled Congress, the White House is turning to…
Let’s be clear about one thing about freedom of expression. It ain’t pretty. It never was and it never will be. For freedom of expression to be worth anything, it has to be about standing up for the right of someone else to say what we don’t believe and in fact, find offensive, insulting and…
How free is free? Is there a limit to free speech and, if so, what are those limits and the contexts in which such limits should be placed? And, most important, who imposes such limits — the self, society or state?
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