BJP, Current Opposition Party, Promises IT Revolution in India

July 17th, 2009 Palin promises to keep on tweetingANCHORAGE, Alaska — Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin plans to stay in touch using Twitter even after leaving office on July 26.

May 29th, 2009 PROMISES, PROMISES: Battling cyber turf warsWASHINGTON — The digital battlefield is proving to be difficult terrain for President Barack Obama. As he unveiled his plan Friday to make the nation's computer networks more secure, he fulfilled a campaign pledge to make cybersecurity a top priority.

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.

July 10th, 2009 Power.com sues Facebook over access to users dataNEW YORK — A small Web company is handing the world's biggest online hangout a counterpunch. Power.com has sued Facebook, saying the site doesn't follow its own policy of giving users control over the content they share.

February 9th, 2009 SRINAGAR - The Essar group of industries Tuesday started setting up Jammu and Kashmir's first Business Processing Outsourcing (BPO), which will generate 4,000 jobs in the state that has around 300,000 jobless youth who are often targeted for recruitment by militant outfits. Chief Minister Omar Abdullah laid the ceremonial foundation stone of the BPO centre at Rangreth Industrial Area complex on the outskirts of Srinagar city.

August 19th, 2009 CHANDIGARH - The Punjab government is offering various sops to information technology (IT) companies operating in the state, including a 24-hour uninterrupted power supply, in order to boost the sector, a government official said here Wednesday. "No economy can grow only on the shoulders of agriculture and we have to give a boost to the IT and service sector.

June 25th, 2009 Yahoo CEO promises shareholders to get 'mojo back'SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Yahoo Chief Executive Carol Bartz echoed the turnaround promises of her predecessors as she presided over the first shareholder meeting since her hiring, yet she left little doubt the slumping Internet company's new boss isn't the same as the old bosses.

April 24th, 2009 LONDON - Social networking site Facebook has agreed to change its terms of use to give users greater control over their personal data after 75 percent voted for a revision of the terms. The site's founder Mark Zuckerberg said the site aimed to adopt a more "transparent and democratic approach".

September 27th, 2009 VANCOUVER - The Dalai Lama joined Bishop Desmond Tutu, eBay founder Pierre Omidyan, "Power of Now" author Eckhart Tolle, Nobel laureates and other spiritual leaders here to call for change in the world through compassion. The Tibetan spiritual leader, who is here to lead the Vancouver Peace Summit, and Bishop Tutu were jointly given the Fetzer Prize for Love and Forgiveness.

February 23rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Britain-based IT and consulting firm Invensys Process Systems (IPS) Monday signed a deal with China's Shandong III Electric Power Construction Corp (SEPCO), which is setting up a 3,300-MW power plant in Gujarat, for providing software solutions. IPS will implement its Foxboro I/A Series distributed control system (DCS) technology in SEPCO's plant, being built in Kutch district of Gujarat, a company statement said.

May 9th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a novel nanotube-coated power measurement device, which would be able to calibrate high-power laser systems, such as those intended to defuse unexploded mines, more quickly and easily. The new laser power meter, tested at a U.S.

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July 1st, 2009 MELBOURNE - Tech Mahindra, the new owner of troubled Indian IT services firm Satyam, has for the first time confirmed its continued commitment to a 75 million dollars software development project in Geelong, Australia. There were grave concerns that the project would be axed after Satyam Computer Services founder and chairman, B.

April 23rd, 2009 Facebook users' vote ending way short of thresholdNEW YORK — Facebook invited the 200 million people who regularly use the site to vote on its governing documents. But it's unclear how much of a difference it will make.

September 2nd, 2009 Windows 7+Intel= "Wintel" -- Well, the mathematical operation in question is not that boring because it holds great benefit for all you laptop users. The innovation from the partnership promises to sort out the most significant annoyance of our notebooks - the battery life.