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,…
When asked what made him such a prolific painter, even at the age of 91, MF Hussain, known as the Indian Picasso, said it was three things: “not worrying about critics and fundamentalists, working every day, and never wearing shoes”. The great painter went into self-imposed exile after threats from Hindu fundamentalists angry at his…
When you talk to the visiting heads of the technology giants about the government’s ambitious Digital India and Smart Cities initiatives, usually the focus is around scale of the project, capacity to do it and eventually the conversation will move to the subject of cyber security. Nowadays security breaches are a regular feature. So much…
Flagging the threat to cyber security globally, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Wednesday, that India can play a lead role in dealing with this “bloodless war” as he launched a digital initiative to which the corporate world pledged over Rs. 4.5 lakh crore. He pitched for a digital revolution in the country and exhorted…