India takes on offshoring naysayers Nasccom’s Sunil Mehta has been trying to wipe up the dirt that was smeared on his compatriots last month after an HSBC call-centre worker was arrested for allegedly defrauding UK customers.…
Month: July 2006
More classrooms and teachers plz
India rejects One Laptop Per Child India has decided against getting involved in Nicholas Negroponte’s One Laptop Per Child scheme – which aims to provide kids in developing countries with a simple $100 machine.… but Nigeria is to go ahead with it.
Been to Netscape.com lately?
Netscape versus Digg Newly relaunched Netscape.com has been getting into a bit of a slanging match with Digg – the site which gets its users to rate news stories.…
Reading it late, doubling of blogs
Blogosphere Doubles Every Six Months Way back in April, Technorati founder and CEO David Sifry in his musings said that his company thinks that 75,000 new Weblogs are created each day. Reporting Sifry’s musings Clickz.com says that “Daily, the blogosphere averages 1.2 million legitimate posts per day, or about 50,000 postings per hour.”
CERT-In and the attacks
“India is under attack from rogue elements within and outside the country, not only in its physical space (think Mumbai), but in cyberspace too. Extensions “.co.in†and “.gov.in†are special targets of hack-attacks, whose number, and intensity, is increasing at a worrying pace,” reads a report from Vandana Gombar in the Business Standard today. CERT-In…
Focus on West Asia
The filtered coverage of Israel’s attack on Lebanon comes unstuck as people reach the Internet to get what’s really happening out there. Videos on Web widen lens on Mideast conflict “In a matter of weeks, YouTube has become a video Dumpster for a global audience to share first-hand reports, military strategies, propaganda videos and personal…
What about we the people?
The government will not be presenting the proposed Broadcasting Bill in the monsoon session of Parliament. The media industry’s concerns have been presented to the government by IMG and the IBF. The citiznens of India don’t seem to figure the consultative process. There’s still time. Govt to address industry concerns on broadcast bill Under attack…
HT going strong
HT Media Q1 net up 212% to Rs 30.6 cr HT Media on Friday reported a whopping 212 per cent increase in its profit after tax at Rs 30.6 crore for the quarter ended June 30, 2006, against Rs 9.8 crore in the corresponding period previous year.
Privatisation ahead, go slow!
Hearing looks at Internet name privatization plan WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Commerce Department will hold a Wednesday hearing on the government’s September deadline to give up control over Internet domain names, a schedule that some high-tech industry advocates say should be delayed.
NIXI needs to do the same
74,000 .eu domains suspended And phantom registrars sued Over 74,000 .eu domains have been suspended and 400 registering companies sued by the company in charge of the European Union’s top-level domain.… technorati tags:Domains