Chip manufacturer Intel has announced that it will now focus on improving digital literacy levels in India. According to a report in TOI, an Intel official has stated that the company hopes to bring in a culture of innovation in the nation. Debjani Ghosh, vice-president and managing director at Intel, South Asia, said, “On the digital…
Everyone will agree to the fact that call-drop has become a nationwide epidemic, so much that telecom ministry has been enforced to put threatening fines on the providers and rightly so. The price of using a mobile plan these days warrants hassle-free service but sadly it has been anything but that forever. Finally, the ministry…
A convict or a person in remand cannot have right to privacy in medical matters furnished to seek admission in a hospital if adequate public interest is involved in the case. The public can seek to know under the RTI Act if the person was genuinely admitted on medical grounds or if he faked ill-health…
Two years ago, three journalists and I worked nervously in a Hong Kong hotel room, waiting to see how the world would react to the revelation that the National Security Agency had been making records of nearly every phone call in the United States. In the days that followed, those journalists and others published documents…
Russian parliament gave initial approval on Tuesday to a law that would require Internet search sites to remove outdated or irrelevant personal information from search results on request from users. The bill, passed by the State Duma lower house in its first reading, seeks to emulate European Union rules on the “right to be forgotten”,…
A war of words between Reliance Industries’ Gautam Chikermane and hacker group Anonymous India broke out on Twitter on Thursday as the latter accused Jio Chat, instant messaging app rolled out by Reliance Jio, against violation of right to privacy of about 5,00,000 users of Reliance Jio Chatapp in India. Anonymous India has alleged that…
When it comes to activity and innovation in the Internet of Things space, India is buzzing. Recently, there has been a surge in the number of IoT startups in the country, and experts now expect India to become an innovation hub for emerging IoT technologies. “It is difficult to estimate the number of IoT entrepreneurs…
A little over a year after Mr Narendra Modi took office, we finally hear that a fresh Digital India plan is in the offing. It’s about time, too. The previous administration stumbled through years of failed government efforts to arrogantly build an all-fibre network throughout India’s 638,000 villages, minimal disbursements from India’s Rs 30,000 crore…
The tenancy ratio in the Indian telecom tower industry is expected to grow from 1.77 in the fiscal 2014-15 to 2.48 by 2020 primarily due to focus on data, said Deloitte in a report ‘Indian Tower Industry released on Tuesday. The report, The Future is Data, talks about the future outlook of the tower industry…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday called for ideas to transform the nation’s economy through the ‘Digital India’ initiative. “Have ideas for a digital India and to transform our economy? Then you must participate in the ‘Innovate for Digital India Challenge’ on MyGov,” Modi wrote on the micro blogging social network Twitter. “Come, #Innovate4DigitalIndia &…