2016 IST, Saturday, May 25, 2013 
IT/Technology
UIDAI launches online identity authentication services
The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) launched three Aadhaar-Enabled services to help citizens authenticate their identity online and announced opening of 300 more permanent enrolment centres. |
Indian digital agency cited at One Show Interactive Awards
A creative digital agency based in the national capital has become the first from India to be conferred with a Merit at the prestigious One Show Interactive Awards-2013 in New York. |
Turkish Bank deploys Infosys' Finacle software
Leading Turkish private bank Turkland Bank has deployed Finacle software product of Indian IT bellwether Infosys for its core banking, customer relationship management and treasury operations. |
India's homegrown social networking site eyes 10 mn users
India's homegrown social networking site Worldfloat.com hopes to increase its users to nearly 10 million by the end of next month, giving competition to global giants like Facebook and Twitter. |
Gilt edged profits as online shopping goes viralBy Aditi Chandra
You know online shopping has come of age in India when gold prices dip and coins are immediately made available in virtual stores to target not just the hip and tech savvy but also the traditional, hidebound homemaker who would otherwise head for the trusted family jeweller. |
World's first smartphone for the blind, made in IndiaBy Chitra Unnithan / The Times of India
The world's first smartphone for blind people is here. Soon, they will be able to read SMSes and emails on this phone, which converts all text into Braille patterns. |
Indian IT changing from software services to applications
Globally, India is recognised as a software powerhouse. But that is only half the story. The aura around the country’s software comes largely from IT services, wherein software products are distant second and a neglected cousin. But the landscape seem to be changing. The country’s tech talent pool has set its eyes on conquering the tougher territory in the IT arena — software products. In fact, both the old and the new breed of IT product firms, coupled with budding entrepreneurs (read app developers), are today on a journey to replicate the success story of IT services. |
Hydrogen as energy source: Breakthrough in Kolkata labBy Sahana Ghosh
In a two-pronged approach aimed at solving India's energy and water problems, Kolkata scientists have acheived a breakthrough in developing an efficient and bankable hydrogen-based energy source. |
DRDO fires on towards MIRV capabilityBy Gulshan Luthra
India's premier Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) is firing on in several directions with the work on hand involving MIRVs (multiple independently-targetable reentry vehicles) and improvements in missiles, aircraft, tanks and artillery. |
Mobiles have helped transfrom India's societyBy Prasanto K. Roy
One kilogram. That's what it weighed, the bulky prototype used for a wireless phone call by a Motorola engineer in 1973. For the real milestone 10 years later, a 790-gram Motorola DynaTAC made the first call from a commercial mobile phone, in a Mercedes in 1983. That makes the mobile 30 years old, and not the 40 that's being reported. |
In today's knowledge-driven global economy, one industry in which India is among global leaders and has a firm footprint is the fast-growing information technology and business process outsourcing industry, which includes software development and back-office operations. This industry has not only emerged among the fastest growing contributors to the country's national income, but also the biggest employment generator.
