Maharashtra yesterday saw its first conviction for a cyber crime under the Information Technology Act. The Metropolitan Magistrate Court on Friday convicted a man for continuously sending vulgar pictures to a woman he had met on a social networking website in 2009. The accused has been identified as Yogesh Prabhu, who was sentenced to three…
A DoT panel on net neutrality is learnt to have opposed projects like Facebook’s Internet.org, which allow access to certain websites without mobile data charges, while suggesting that similar plans such as Airtel Zero be allowed with prior clearance from Trai. The panel has stated however that “collaborations between telecom operators and content providers that…
A government policy that protects net neutrality is critical for the success of its Rs. 1.13 lakh crore Digital India program as any sort of prioritizing, throttling or blocking of the Web would stifle the digital ecosystem in the country. According to experts, preserving an open internet will prove to be the true test of…
India, with over 300 million internet users, is the second largest mobile market of the world, only after China. But, 300 million out of 1.2 billion population, surely leaves a lot of room for improvement. Urban India dominates 33 per cent of India’s total population, which means the next set of internet users will majorly…
Nischint Solutions, a Kolkata-based technology startup, launched a children’s safety mobile app with the same name, in Telangana on Sunday. The app, which runs on Android, iOS and Windows operating systems, will help parents safeguard kids by screening out hazards that the digital world poses. The Nischint mobile app incorporates digital tools to monitor phone…
Google India Vice President and Managing Director Rajan Anandan has expressed faith that India may well be home to the next Google, Facebook and Twitter. Talking about the Digital India and in particular Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s wish for the next big technology idea to be born in India, Anandan told ET Now, “We completely…
Last week PM Narendra Modi unveiled his government’s Digital India programme. By any measure, it is a huge exercise. Even if the government manages to achieve 50 per cent of what it has set out to do, it would change lives of millions of Indians. If implemented in earnest, Digital India has the potential to…
In an innovative move to educate rural women about the internet, Tata Trusts and Google India announced a special programme to send 1,000 specially designed ‘Internet Cycle Carts’ to remote villages. Built on the back of a regular bicycle, the carts are modelled on India’s traditional distribution system used to ferry everything from ice-creams to…
Official website of National Institute of Technology (NIT) was hacked for the second consecutive day on Friday with all sub-domains crashing this time. Cyber experts later retrieved the site, which was also hit by a Pakistani hacker on Thursday. Files were not damaged, but homepage was defaced. After sharing TOI’s online report on Facebook wall,…
Net Neutrality is a universal concept where Telecom Service Provider as an access provider has no right to select services, applications and content that consumers want to access. It is consumer/user’s right to select services, applications and content that they want to access. It functions under the basic assumption that all data is created equal…