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Govt. says IT & ITeS should benefit the common man
January 29, 2010
Mr Shankar Aggarwal, Joint Secretary, DIT, Ministry of Communications & Information Technology, Government of India said that the government of India’s National E-Governance Plan (NEGP) is being implemented to deliver all kind of public services through ICT. This has been done to ensure that the benefits of IT & ITeS percolate to the common man.
Mr. Aggarwal said so at the “Conference on Future of India’s IT & ITeS Sector; Evolving Business Models for Sustained Growth” organized by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) in partnership with Punjab Infotech.
As per the initiative taken through NEGP, all Indian states and union territories will have secured network connectivity by September 2010. State data centers will be completed through employing concepts of virtualization, green technology, green data centers by September 2011. India will have 250 thousand tele-centers by 2012, which is being worked under PPP arrangement.
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Kerala tops the list of Indian state in broadband speed
January 28, 2010
Kerala has topped the list of India states with high-speed internet connection facilities. As per the ‘State of the Internet’ report by Akamai Technologies for the October-December quarter, Kerala rose from its third position in the trailing quarter of 2009 with an average speed of 1,386 Kbps and has pushed down Haryana (the second quarter’s topper) to the second spot (with 1,105 Kbps) and Karnataka to the third position (1,041 kbps).
While internet speed in the country continue to grow, India’s global rank for average connection speed stands only at 97 (of 226 countries) at 895 kbps, according to the latest Akamai report. Globally, the average connection speed increased 18 per cent to 1.7 Mbps — a level consistent with the April-June quarter of 2009.
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Virgin mobile vFlash set to revive the internet experience
January 11, 2010
Virgin Mobile announces the launch of its stylish Hi-speed USB modem device – vFlash, which will rejuvenate India’s Wireless Internet experience. It’s a new, hip and portable, plug and play device that offers the convenience, portability and super fast internet services along with the surfing speed of up to 3.1 Mbps and generous storage slot of up to 8GB.
It also provides faster access to e-mails, large file transfers, games and superior experience of audio and video streaming and download. The vFlash comes bundled with various features such as vFlash TV, and On-demand download services.
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Tata Comm eyes media space; plans to invest US$50 m in new media division
January 29, 2010
Tata Communications announced the forming of a new division, Global Media and Entertainment Solutions, as a sequel to the takeover of the Mosaic platform from BT Group plc. It will invest US$ 50 million over the next two years in the new service, a cloud-computing media management system.
Through this unit, the Mumbai-based company aims to provide end-to-end management, distribution and delivery of content over its lifecycle, from production to distribution. The company said that the new business could bring in US$ 200-300 million annually over the next three to five years.
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