Leading Companies in eHealth, Telemedicine, Connected Health, Informatics, EHR, PHR, Fitness Monitoring, & Remote Diagnostics The advent of connected devices and M2M is offering a tremendous opportunity for healthcare professionals. Near-ubiquitous mobile networks are allowing carers to diagnose, monitor, and communicate with patients with unprecedented speed and efficacy. The emergence of low-cost smartphones has allowed…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led Indian government is preparing to launch its ‘Digital India’ initiative on a large scale, which will also include selling merchandise, hackathons and games. Launch of Digital India, an initiative to take technology to the villages and block-levels, will be spread over a week across the country. No dates have been fixed…
Milind Deora, a former minister in the United Progressive Alliance government, has cautioned against the possible misuse of a new and more sophisticated system of surveillance conceptualised by his government and now reportedly put on the fast track by the Narendra Modi government. Called the Central Monitoring System, it allows government agencies to bypass phone and…
Everywhere you look in the world you can see pessimism, gloom, doom and negativity. No matter where you live, it seems many are convinced that there’s just no hope. Many people have stopped trying to do anything, while they “wait for god” or “wait for the Singularity.” Or simply wait, period. The negativity is everywhere.…
Facebook’s internet.org is a well-meaning initiative held back by some crippling flaws. The portal is currently usable only via the Telenor network, and allows free access to a very small number of websites. These are websites such as AccuWeather, Facebook, BBC News, Bing, ESPNCricinfo, OLX, Wikipedia, and more, including health related websites, one of which provides information on pregnancy and child…
Historically, the internet has worked as a transparent (neutral) pipe for exchange of information between any two points. The information can be used to support innovations, including ‘over the top’ (OTT) services which facilitate net-browsing (using sites like Google and Yahoo), social networking (Facebook and Twitter), video-sharing and streaming (Netflix and YouTube), voice-over internet protocol,…
A department of telecommunications (DoT) internal committee has recommended that zero-rating plans (allowing telcos to ask websites to pay them so that consumers can access their websites for free) are not a violation of the principle of Net neutrality, two senior officials aware of the development said. At the same time, the committee has also…
Nischint, one of the leading parental guidance and child monitoring companies in India, has released interesting data to gauge the extent of digital consumption amongst kids in India. The figures revealed fascinating data regarding mobile usage amongst children between 5 to 17 years of age. According to data sourced from 14000 family devices (7000 parent…
According to the 10th annual Cisco Visual Networking Index (VNI) Forecast, annual Internet Protocol (IP) traffic will quadruple between 2014 and 2019. Factors expected to drive traffic growth include increase in consumption of mobile data, proliferation in number of networked devices (from 1.1 billion in 2014 to 1.6 billion in 2019), faster broadband speeds (average…
The World Wide Web marked its 25th anniversary on March 11, an important milestone when we consider how technology has impacted our lives and how it will shape our future. How fast the world has changed. According to Pew Research, 42% of adults in the US had never heard of the internet in 1995, and…