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…
Mary Meeker’s Internet Trends report is considered to be the gospel for the tech world. A veteran Internet analyst and a partner at venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Meeker has released her much anticipated 2015 edition of the report. As has been customary in recent years, Meeker introduced the report at the…
FADI Chehade, CEO of Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), sees India playing a critical role in shaping the future of the Internet; it is already among the fastest growing Internet economies. Backing India as one of the global contenders for Internet regulation rights, he believes that it is time for the country…
Journalists should “maintain strict neutrality and impartiality” when covering conflict situations so that the countries they operate in can ensure their safety and, for their part, governments should not put arbitrary restrictions on reporters, according to India. Speaking Wednesday at a session of the Security Council devoted to protection of journalists covering armed conflicts, India’s…