Accenture to Develop Apps for Int’l Government; Abinash Basisth Comments
Accenture Services Ltd has signed a memorandum of understanding with India’s state of Odisha to engineer mobile applications intended to help the state seek business opportunities in information technology and IT enabled services, according to a Business Standard article. The publication reports State IT Secretary M S Padhi and Accenture Services’ managing director Krishna Giri inked [...]
Intel Designs Crystal Forest Platform for Processing Multimedia, Broadband Content; RK Hiremane Comments
November 12, 2012 No CommentIntel will release a new communication platform for telecommunications companies to process data across networks, The Hindu reports. According to the report, the company designed Crystal Forest to help address the needs of cloud computing, content processing and Internet transactions at speeds of up to 100 gigabytes per second. R.K. Hiremane, Asia-Pacific regional director for [...]
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The United States and India signed a Memorandum of Understanding today to strengthen ties and promote information sharing between the nations’ organizations tasked with cybersecurity, the Department of Homeland Security announced. Signed in New Delhi by Jane Holl Lute, DHS deputy secretary, and R. Chandrashekhar, secretary of the India Department of Information Technology, the MOU [...]
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A strong demand for technology has helped push the United States to lead the industry globally, taking first place from third just a year ago, according to a new survey. Although the senior technology executives polled in KPMG LLP‘s annual Technology Industry Business Climate survey said they perceive the U.S. market driving revenue growth, they [...]
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The Indian government has released a draft of a proposed national cybersecurity policy that identifies indigenous development of IT goods vital for fighting threats from imported high-tech products, according to The Economic Times. The draft also calls on government to identify the most dangerous cybersecurity threats to the nation, critical IT infrastructure vulnerabilities and the [...]
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Anonymous hackers on Sunday defaced the official website of the Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee, a unit of the Indian National Congress, according to The Hindu. Renjith Balan, IT adviser of the party, said he discovered the defacement at 7 p.m. The hackers posted several messages on the website, saying they were acting on the behalf [...]
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Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and her Qatari counterpart Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa al-Thani have signed a bilateral security accord to better fight terrorism and threats in cyberspace. “Homeland security does not begin at America’s borders — it starts with our international partnerships to detect and deter terrorists and other individuals [...]
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A police commissionerate in India recently hosted an initiative aimed at creating awareness regarding cyber safety, and in particular to warn girls to not upload pictures on social networking sites to avoid falling victim to cyber scammers. Held in the second largest city in the state of Maharashtra in western India, the Cyber Safe Pune 2010 [...]
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