Hyderabad: 4G Identity Solutions (4Gid), a pioneer & global leader in implementation of large scale biometric based identity projects has crossed the important milestone of One Crore (10 Million ) UID / Aadhaar numbers generated. India's Aadhaar project covering 1.2 billion residents is the World's largest biometric based Civil ID project and is being driven by Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI).

New Delhi: The Ministry of Corporate Affairs has requested all Banks and Financial Institutions to follow the role-check process devised and published for the digital signatures (DSCs) belonging to authorized signatories of Banks/FIs recently in its e-Governance project MCA21. In a circular issued recently by the ministry it has been thrust upon that such precaution is very essential as these institutions has to carry out charge related services.

Vadodara: Indusface, an information security organization, has announced its venture into the African continent in the field of information security. The need for enhanced security in Africa has become imperative as it is amongst the world's riskiest destinations for web users. With cyber crime on an all time high in Africa and the continent working persistently towards boosting internet security, electronic commerce, and electronic banking, making the need for a comprehensive Information security system extremely critical.

Bangalore: Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM), the leading cloud platform for helping enterprises provide secure, high-performing user experiences on any device, anywhere, has released its Third Quarter, 2011 State of the Internet report, based on data gathered from the Akamai Intelligent Platform. The report provides insight into key India statistics such as Internet penetration, mobile traffic and data consumption, global and regional connection speeds, and observed attack traffic.

New Delhi: A Microsoft commissioned Study, conducted by IDC, predicts that cloud computing will generate over 2 million jobs in India by 2015. The findings predict that cloud will generate nearly 14 million new jobs worldwide in the same time. More than 50 % of these jobs will be generated in the small and medium businesses. Further, more than two million jobs each will be generated in the 'communications and media' and manufacturing sectors, followed by banking at over 1.4 million.