A new survey conducted by technology titan Google Inc. has revealed only one-third of the total Indian population with access to the internet are women. The survey also indicated 49 percent of women do not see any reason to access the internet at all. “While there is low awareness about the benefits of Internet amongst…
Airtel’s Zero Rating platform and the Facebook-Reliance Communications combine’s internet.org plan have been found to be against the spirit of net neutrality by a preliminary inquiry conducted by the telecom ministry. The findings assume significance as they come at a time when a high-level committee of the ministry is finalizing a regulatory set-up for various…
Only one-third of the total Indian population with access to the internet are women, says a survey conducted by Google. The survey revealed that 49 percent of women do not see any reason to access the internet. “While there is low awareness about the benefits of Internet amongst women in India, there are many who…
Narendra Modi dreams big. Be it a 182-foot statue of Sardar Patel, a Digital India or electricity for all, Modi stands in direct contrast to his predecessor, Manmohan Singh, who did not leave his stamp on the prime minister’s office in a decade. Within one year, Modi has unveiled a slew of ambitious schemes for…
IT industry lobby group Nasscom on Monday launched ‘Nasscom Cyber Security Task Force’, which aims to make India the hub for cyber securityrelated research, training and products. The development comes nearly three months after Prime Minister Narendra Modi exhorted the domestic IT industry and youth to help address the global cybersecurity challenge. In March, Modi…
Indian Prime Minister Modi will be completing a year the office tomorrow that was won over many promises and claims to change the face of this nation within the 5 year tenure. Let’s throw a look back into the year that just passed by and see to what level these promises have been delivered in…
The Indian arm of Kaspersky Lab – the global software security company – intendds to provide security solutions to government bodies, industries and organisations. “We will provide a complete security solution which will deal with all kinds of cyber threats,” Altaf Halde, managing director for South Asia at Kaspersky Lab, told IANS. “As India plans…
The Centre will discuss with the states on May 29 the national optical fibre network project as it seeks their greater participation in the ambitious plan that aims to provide broadband connectivity to all panchayats. Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad has called “a meeting of IT ministers and secretaries of all the states on May…
India’s ambitious Digital India programme could get derailed due to the financial challenges faced by telcos, apart from the low quantities of spectrum deployed for commercial use and the absence of a road map for releasing more airwaves, telcos and experts say. Mobile phone operators in India face multiple challenges — lowest spectrum holdings in…
Of course, politicians don’t like free speech. But there is enough evidence that freedom of expression is not under grievous threat from the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government. Nothing perhaps exemplifies the hypocritical attitude of Indian politicians towards freedom of expression than the story of Section 66A of the Information Technology Act. This section, which…