Mumbai: Adoption of new and efficient technologies is helping Indian banks build their competitive edge. The drivers of this adoption are growing use of safe and secure net banking facilities, launch of mobile banking by various banks and RBI's push for financial inclusion.

According to Frost & Sullivan the spend on banking technology is expected to be around 20 percent of the total expenditures by banks and will grow at an annual rate of 14.2 percent.

New Delhi: The World IT Forum 2012 came to a close today after two days of sessions deliberating on the role of ICT in agriculture, education, health and e-governance, within the overall theme of ICT for sustainable human development.

New Delhi: Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) has taken initiative for developing an international standard related to IT enabled business process outsourcing. This will ensure that we continue to retain the place of prominence that we have reached in the BPO sector through quality service to international clientele without compromise. This was stated by Prof. K.V. Thomas minister of consumer affairs, food & public distribution at the function to present “Rajiv Gandhi national quality awards 2010” on here today.

New Delhi: The National Workshop of Principal Secretaries/ Secretaries of Disaster Management Department of all States/ UTs on Best Practices in Disaster Management and Role of Science and Technology in Early Warning and Forecasting of Disasters was held in New Delhi today. Speaking on the occasion, Vice Chairman, NDMA Shri Shashidhar Reddy said that we should stop thinking in terms of incremental increases when it comes to upgrading our observational capabilities. We need to assess our final requirements, set a deadline and start working backward.

Bangalore: Indusface, a web security company, has released a powerful anti malvertising feature in the latest version of its flagship product IndusGuard. This new feature aims to combat the threat that businesses and publishing networks face due to increased spread of malware using online advertising, a lucrative setting for miscreants to attack websites through malvertising.