Gujarat gets software to detect earthquakes

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.

April 7th, 2009 GANDHINAGAR - Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi is recording short speeches for YouTube to keep in touch with voters across the country. According to Shashiranjan Yadav of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Modi records the speeches at his residence in between his campaign tours.

January 18th, 2009 GANDHINAGAR - The Gujarat government is waiting for a decision by the new board of the beleaguered Satyam Computer Services, which had committed to set up a Rs.600 million (Rs.60 crore) IT park in this state capital, an official said Monday. 'Since Satyam Computer Services has already invested Rs.11 crore (Rs.110 million) for purchasing land for the IT park in Gandhinagar, we would like to await the decision of the new board,' the IT department official said.

April 16th, 2009 Police have started a massive drive across Gujarat's cities and towns to check the records of visitors to the various cyber cafes as a precautionary measure ahead of the polling for the state's 26 Lok Sabha seats April 30. A senior police official involved with the drive here told IANS that police constables on various beats have started carrying out checking of the visitor entries made in the logbooks of cyber cafes in about 25,000 cafes across Gujarat.'The records are being checked from the month of March this year,' the official added.

March 20th, 2009 LONDON - A scientist has used Google Earth to detect a spot in the Caribbean that can trigger a tsunami in the future.According to a report in New Scientist, the spot was found by Richard Teeuw from the Geohazard Research Centre at the University of Portsmouth, UK, and his colleagues. "We were doing fieldwork on the volcanic island of Dominica in the Lesser Antilles and initially just used Google Earth to identify good study areas," he said.

July 9th, 2009 BHUBANESWAR - Despite the global economic slowdown, software exports from Orissa grew by 39.05 percent in 2008-09 over the year before, officials said Thursday. The total IT exports of the state stood at Rs.1,168 crore last fiscal as against Rs.840 crore the year before, said Manas Panda, officer in charge of the Bhubaneswar unit of the Software Technology Park of India (STPI).

July 29th, 2009 NEW DELHI - IT training service provider NIIT Ltd Wednesday reported 42 percent dip in net profits to Rs.9.9 crore for the quarter ended June 30 as against Rs.17 crore in the like period last year. However, the company recorded one percent increase in its net revenue to Rs.261 crore from Rs.259.5 crore, NIIT said in a statement.

March 18th, 2009 WASHINGTON - German scientists have come up with a technology that can enable windows and doors to sensitise any suspicious movements, and sound an alarm. Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institutes for Applied Polymer Research IAP in Potsdam-Golm and for Computer Architecture and Software Technology FIRST in Berlin say that the heart of their technology is a motion sensor and a special coating.

July 20th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Only three telecom operators can roll out third generation (3G) services in Delhi due to a spectrum crunch, Communications and IT Minister A. Raja said Monday.

July 28th, 2009 IBM to acquire SPSS for $1.2BARMONK, N.Y. — IBM Corp.

September 18th, 2009 Microsoft sues over 'malicious' online advertisingNEW YORK — Microsoft Corp. has filed five lawsuits aimed at halting the flow of malicious online advertising.

May 1st, 2009 WASHINGTON - Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories, US, have constructed a carbon nanotube device that can detect the colours of the rainbow, by identifying the entire visible spectrum of light, a feat that could soon allow scientists to probe single molecule transformations. Carbon nanotubes are long thin cylinders composed entirely of carbon atoms.

September 18th, 2009 Govt review: No privacy problems in cyber securityWASHINGTON — The Justice Department has concluded that a beefed-up surveillance program that monitors federal employees' Internet traffic does not violate their rights or those of private citizens who communicate with them. But the review of the Einstein 2 program was limited and leaves important questions unanswered, said the vice president of an Internet freedom watchdog group.

May 19th, 2009 AHMEDABAD - IT solutions major Sai Infosystems India Tuesday launched voice-and-video facility on BSNL broadband service in the city. Launching the service, Sunil Kakkar, chairman and managing director of Sai Info, said video communication has a huge business potential to be tapped.

April 23rd, 2009 LONDON - Commentators, who examine disputed line calls and coaches studying how well golfers and table-tennis players control balls, often face confusion when they see pictures and video stills of fast moving balls that appear as blurry streaks. But, now a software, developed by scientists in Italy, could rid them of such confusion by determining a ball's path and spin from a single blurry image.