Amity Institute of Information Technology (AIIT) to train naval officers

March 30th, 2009 NEW DELHI - India Monday admitted that there have been attempts at hacking into the computers of the Indian embassies, but underlined that it has taken a slew of measures to ensure no sensitive information was stolen in the process. 'We have been through this process before,' Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon told reporters here.

December 28th, 2008 NEW DELHI - IT solutions provider Sun Microsystems India and Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi are launching an e-governance centre on the IIT campus here to focus on development of non-proprietary software. The Sun-IIT Delhi Centre of Excellence is an outcome of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed between the institute and the IT company in September 2006.

January 27th, 2009 HYDERABAD - Oracle Education Foundation (OEF) will roll out its online learning platform 'ThinkQuest' in 500 schools in Andhra Pradesh. OEF and the Institute for Electronic Governance (IEG), a non-profit organisation under the state government, Wednesday signed a memorandum of understanding in this regard at Visakhapatnam.

January 8th, 2009 CHENNAI - The Satyam Computers Services fraud that has shaken the Indian software services sector will not have any cascading impact on the other players, Communications and IT Minister A. Raja said Friday.

September 15th, 2009 KOLKATA - Corporate Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid Tuesday urged the Information Technology (IT) sector to spell out its standpoint and suggestions on the Companies Bill which is slated to come up before a standing committee of parliament soon. "We are in the process of moving before the standing committee of parliament the Companies Bill, 2009.

January 27th, 2009 HYDERABAD - Leading pharmaceutical company Dr. Reddy's Laboratories has denied that the land it got on the outskirts of Hyderabad after acquiring Satyam Institute of E-business Ltd was assigned land or the state land meant for poor.

April 6th, 2009 JAKARTA - An aircraft belonging to the Indonesian Air Force crashed Monday afternoon in West Java capital of Bandung, killing all 24 people on board, news reports and officials said. The Fokker airplane was carrying 17 officers from the Indonesian Air Force's special force and seven crew when it crashed at about 12.30 p.m.

August 27th, 2009 BP selects Tata as technology vendorNEW YORK — Tata Consultancy Services, a unit of India's Tata Group conglomerate, said Thursday it was selected as a strategic information technology vendor for BP PLC, one of the world's biggest oil and gas companies. Terms were not disclosed.

March 2nd, 2009 WASHINGTON - HashCache, the technological brainchild of a team of Princeton computer science researchers led by an Indian American scientist, has drawn recognition as a revolutionary way to expand internet access around the world. Created by a team of researchers headed by computer science professor Vivek Pai, the new efficient data storage system was featured as one of the top 10 emerging technologies of the year in Technology Review, a scientific magazine published by Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

March 14th, 2009 NDA to use information technology for development: Advani NEW DELHI - BJP's Prime Ministerial candidate Lal Krishna Advani on Saturday said that, if voted to power, his government would use Information Technology as an important tool to bring about drastic changes in various fields. "If the country gives us an opportunity then we will utilize the IT in social, financial, administration, health and educational fields," Advani said.

March 4th, 2009 WASHINGTON - A downturn in worldwide economy, Satyam's fraud case and the terrorist attacks in Mumbai and supply chain and shipping cost issues in China are causing US technology companies to pull back from the two traditional outsourcing locations. Citing these three global factors, an annual survey by BDO Seidman, LLP, one of America's leading accounting and consulting organizations, Tuesday suggested several technology firms would choose US as future outsourcing location over India and China.

August 10th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), US, have demonstrated sustained, reliable information processing operations on electrically charged atoms (ions), thus raising prospects for building a practical quantum computer. The new work overcomes significant hurdles in scaling up ion-trapping technology from small demonstrations to larger quantum processors.

February 24th, 2005 It can now be announced that AIIMS has marked a global first in pioneering stem cell medicine by the "injection method", placing the institute right at the top of the world's medicine map. This is very exciting news for diabetics and heart transplant patients.

February 2nd, 2009 It feels to great to let you know that India has taken one of the most significant cyber leaps by announcing $10 laptops to improve the computer consciousness among people and gen Y. I hope you remember OLPC.

June 18th, 2009 WASHINGTON - The first installment of a three-year effort to build a unified information security framework for the entire federal government of the United States has been released. It has been released by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), in partnership with the Department of Defense (DOD), the Intelligence Community (IC), and the Committee on National Security Systems (CNSS).