Hackers, most likely from China, have been spying on governments and businesses in Southeast Asia and India uninterrupted for a decade, researchers at internet security company FireEye Inc said. In a report released on Monday, FireEye said the cyber espionage operations dated back to at least 2005 and “focused on targets – government and commercial…
The idea of an open internet can bring together not just worried netizens but politicians of all hues. On a day when the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India got more than 2 lakh emails by Monday afternoon from Indian netizens annoyed by possible efforts to make internet an unequal space, AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal and…
As a debate rages on ‘net neutrality’, a discussion paper floated by regulator TRAI has said that mobile applications providing free internet-based calls and messaging services can be a threat to individual and national security. Besides, it has also come down heavily on taxi-hailing apps like Uber and Ola, as also e-commerce platforms, saying they…
Net neutrality is not only about making certain information and services available for free and paying for others but also universal and equal access to information. Breaking net neutrality puts that at risk, say industry experts and netizens. If Internet Service Providers (ISPs) are allowed to discriminate between information they could potentially break the free…
The battle for net neutrality – the principle that all traffic travelling across the Internet should be treated equally at all stages – isn’t over. There’s good news, for example, ecommerce bluechip Flipkart publicly changing its stand on net neutrality. But profound dangers remain. The very strength of Internet – it’s a vast global network…
US-based technology giant VMware today said it plans to hire about 500 people for its India operations by the end of this year. The company also extended support to the Digital India initiative of Narendra Modi government. The firm also inaugurated a new campus in Bengaluru, which also houses the R&D centre, with an investment…
Sponsored data or zero-rating offerings as a concept, where data charges resulting from certain types of usage are billed directly to the sponsoring company and not to the customers, is witnessing fanfare globally. As a result, the data used by the app or service is essentially free to customers. Conceptually, it is similar to 800…
The upheaval with the Net Neutrality in our nation India is going to be a big concerning issue as most of the users of Internet or web feel their rights are being exploited and of course it does. Wish to know how critically being an frequent web/internet browser your rights are going to be violated…
A remote village, Muchinthala in Chinna Chintakunta mandal of Mahabubnagar district, has achieved the distinction of becoming the first digital village in the country with full of computers, thanks to the facilities being provided by the Dream Village Foundation for the last several years. Rather strangely, it lacks basic infrastructure like roads, bus transport and…
“Freedom-of-speech activists and experts have voiced concerns over the launch of ‘Airtel Zero’, a data plan which they say can stifle innovation and promote certain applications and websites over smaller companies. The move could spell doom for the “neutrality” of the internet as we know it. Airtel Zero allows subscribers to access certain applications free…