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Daily Archives: January 2, 2016

E-wallets: The new playing ground for cyber criminals

E-wallets, a facility introduced by banks to park money for commercial transactions, is now the new target for cyber criminals. In the recent months, at least five fresh cases involving transfer of fraudulent money to e-wallets having been registered by Mumbai police. An e-wallet user doesn’t need to furnish debit or credit card details every…

January 2, 2016Leave a commentDaily NewsBy wp-admin

Global mobile internet user base will reach 2 billion in 2016, says IDC

A research conducted by IDC revealed that more than two billion people are expected to make use of smartphones including tablets by the end of 2016. The report further states that India, China and Indonesia will be the prospective frontrunners to secure the first position in the mobile internet space by the end of 2021. IDC…

January 2, 2016Leave a commentDaily NewsBy wp-admin

‘Imagine a private company deciding what your kids can read or watch’

Zuckerberg doesn’t realize that Ganesh cherishes the freedom that India gained from its British colonizers in 1947 and doesn’t want a handout from a western company. Ganesh may be poor, but he doesn’t want anyone to dictate what sites he can visit, what movies he may watch, or what applications he can download. Zuckerberg is…

January 2, 2016Leave a commentDaily NewsBy wp-admin

With full Wi-Fi, a taluka in Gujarat begins the year trying to connect

Manjuben, 45, who never went to school, recently learnt to say “laptop”. Smiling indulgently at her 19-year-old son Ashok Kateriya, who is busy surfing the Internet, surrounded by the family’s goats, cows and calves, in Nana Mota village, she says one needs “mahiti (information)”. “Times have changed. We should have information. If you go to…

January 2, 201634 CommentsDaily NewsBy wp-admin
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