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New Innovative Business Models to Evolve in the Indian ICT Industry, Expects Frost & Sullivan

Submitted by dhananjay on Fri, 05/18/2012 - 21:45

Mumbai: The rapid expansion of the Indian IT and Telecom sector has emerged as a key driver for the Indian economy and placed India on a globally competitive platform in the last one and a half decades. In the last financial year, Indian IT Software and Services export has grown at a rate of 16.5 percent and has reached USD 68 billion. The Indian telecom sector is now the fastest-growing and second-largest market in the world, with over 900 million subscribers.

ICMR initiates Study on Adverse Effect of Mobile Phones on Humans

Submitted by dhananjay on Fri, 05/18/2012 - 21:36

New Delhi: The Minister of State for Communications & Information Technology Shri Milind Deora informed the Rajya Sabha today in a written reply that the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has initiated a study in Delhi & NCR to study the adverse effects of radio frequency radiation emitted from Cell Phones.

Cloud services reduce time and money spent on managing security and increase protection against cyber threats- Microsoft study

Submitted by dhananjay on Thu, 05/17/2012 - 23:17

New Delhi: According to a new Microsoft study in five geographies, including India, small and medium sized businesses (SMBs) are gaining significant IT security benefits from using the cloud.

Preferential Market Access (PMA) policy is consistent with WTO Agreement - Milind Deora

Submitted by dhananjay on Thu, 05/17/2012 - 22:27

New Delhi: The Minister of State for Communications & Information Technology Shri Milind Deora informed Lok Sabha in a written reply yesterday that the Government’s Preferential Market Access (PMA) policy does not per se mandate preference to any electronic product. It only provides an enabling framework and is therefore consistent with India’s WTO commitments. The Government has notified the policy for providing preference to domestically manufactured electronic products in procurement due to security considerations.