Telstra Health, the e-health business unit of Australia’s telecom firm Telstra Corp., has acquired the business of Chennai-based health software solutions provider, Idea Object Software Put Ltd, for an undisclosed amount. Post-acquisition, the Idiolect’s business, along with the business of Cloud9 (an Australian e-health cloud software firm which it acquired recently), will be integrated into…
As government targets to expand broadband connectivity to all 2.5 lakh panchayats of the country by 2016, telecom regulator TRAI chief Rahul Khullar today termed it as a very “ambitious” target, saying believing in it would be like “deluding ourselves”. “Right now we are sort of deluding ourselves by saying we will achieve 100 per…
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Wednesday unveiled Indian government’s calendar for the year 2015, which is a convergence of two projects – Clean India Mission and Digital India. Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched Clean India Mission in October with an aim to modernize sanitation within five years. At the launch programme in New Delhi, Jaitley…
The Odisha government has constituted two panels, state committee and state apex committee, for smooth and effective implementation of the Digital India programme. The eight member state committee will function under the chairmanship of the chief minister for providing overall vision, broad policy direction and guidance for implementation of the new initiative at the state level. Apart from the…
India is building its own database platform to consolidate public records from across the world’s second-most populous nation in a bid to modernize services. The initiative will integrate police, court and criminal files, R.S. Sharma, secretary of the Department of Electronics & Information Technology, said in an interview. The government will also build its own…
As many as 6 per cent people in the world are addicted to the internet which may be adversely affecting their lives, including their health and interpersonal relationships, according to a new global study which included data from India. Internet addiction is an impulse-control problem marked by an inability to inhibit Internet use, which can…
A report on Friday by Frank N. Magid Associates Inc. found that the portion of 13-17-year-old social-media users in the US on Facebook slipped to 88% this year from 94% in 2013 and 95% in 2012. In the same period, Twitter Inc. and messaging applications rose in popularity in that age group, the study showed.…
A top government official on Thursday said that the lack of a robust digital infrastructure in the country is one of the key challenges to the success of PM Narendra Modi’s Rs 1.13 lakh crore ambitious Digital India initiative. Department of Electronics and Information Technology ( DeitY) secretary RS Sharma said that new government’s broader…
In the on-going case challenging the provisions of the Information Technology Act, the Government on Wednesday informed the Supreme Court that there are no restrictions on freedom of expression in the social media. The Supreme Court had recently said that it was ‘sure’ that Section 66A of the Act, which empowers police to make arrests…
The Centre on Wednesday told the Supreme Court that mere political dissent or criticism through social networking sites could not be a ground for arrest of the author but maintained that Section 66A of Information and Technology Act was meant to deal with those who threaten to harm others physically and culturally. This stand would…