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IT rule tweak likely if social media firms abuse power: Chandrasekhar

The latest stance by the minister follows a series of confrontations between the government and Twitter over the moderation of user-generated content on the platform

Centre allows 100% WFH for IT units in SEZs till December 31, 2023

The new rule states that a unit will have to only maintain the lists of employees who are allowed to follow WFH or from any place outside SEZs

HCLTech joins hands with Intel and Mavenir for enterprise 5G solutions

The three will develop cloud-native E2E architecture of an Intel Xeon processor-based 5G solution, leveraging Mavenir RAN, Intel SmartEdge, and HCLTech's management and automation services

OpenAI announces ChatGPT chatbot: What is it, how it works, and limitations

ChatGPT is an AI chatbot based on GPT-3.5 series of natural language model, which can understand human language and responding in human-like language

IT sector may be ripe for cherry picking; analysts more positive on Infosys

Investors though should be selective; analysts more positive on Infosys and Persistent Systems

Nasscom hails draft data protection bill for dropping contentious rules

Provisions on non-personal data, criminal penalties, hardware certification scheme, and statutory data residency requirements among those axed

Tech Mahindra signs MoU with Egyptian agency for delivery centre in Cairo

Facility will serve firm's clients across telecom, oil & gas, BFSI, Energy & Utilities and public sector; company to hire 1,000 staff to serve global and local customers from centre

Stock performance remains polarized even as Sensex, Nifty scale new highs

Morgan Stanley remain bullish on consumer discretionary, industrials, financials, and technology; and remain underweight all other sectors

If investment review shows decline in international allocation, restore it

Lock into attractive yields being offered by target maturity funds of three-five-year maturity

Samsung to hire 1,000 engineers for its research facilities in India

New employees will join the company in 2023 to work on AI, machine learning, other fields

India's revised data protection bill 'promising, clear': Meta's Nick Clegg

'Real process of openness' and listening to feedback in preparing legislation, he says

Digital economy to create 10 million in 2 years: Ashwini Vaishnaw

Start-ups leading technology development, can emerge from small villages even: Minister

Modified data protection bill to bring ease for startup ecosystem: Experts

MeitY on Friday released a draft version of the much-awaited data protection law, in the fourth such effort since it was first proposed in July 2018

TCS front runner for BSNL 4G network roll out deal, ITI in race too

BSNL will be using a 4G core, developed indigenously for the first time by C-DOT

India's requests to Meta for user data up slightly at 55,497 in H1 of 2022

Requests from governments across the globe for user data were up 10.5% to 237,414

Need incentive scheme for data centres, separate economic zones: TRAI

The telecom regulator has also proposed a new data centre readiness survey for states and a new national body for digitisation, sharing and monetisation of data

Red carpet for private investors in ITeS sector in Uttar Pradesh

To encourage investors, the government will provide a subsidy of 25 per cent or up to Rs 20 crore for setting up IT Parks

Mphasis extends grant to Ashoka University with Rs 18 crore in funds

Makerspace will be a collaborative workspace for making, learning, exploring, and sharing using high-tech to no-tech tools, which will enable the ideation of tech-enabled solution-centric startups

R-CAT: Global firms Oracle, Cisco involvement in Rajasthan govt's IT push

According to the official, over 80 training programmes are being run in R-CAT

New media poses challenge of credibility: I&B Secretary Apurva Chandra

The shift towards new media for consuming information from traditional sources such as newspapers has presented a challenge of credibility to the government, Information and Broadcasting Secretary Apurva Chandra said on Wednesday. Addressing the first World Media Congress in Abu Dhabi, Chandra said India has over 1.2 billion mobile phone users and 600 million smartphone users who are consuming a high amount of information and entertainment via mobile devices. He said the traditional media sources in India comprised 897 television channels and over 80,000 newspapers in various languages. However, he added, that recently there has been a shift from the traditional media as youngsters were consuming information from new media sources. This has presented a challenge of credibility and that presented a challenge to the government, Chandra said. He said social media has caused faster and deeper percolation of information in India, to the effect that it has even reduced the loss of lives