The career social network LinkedIn said on Thursday that it was buying the online learning site lynda.com in a cash-stock deal valued at $1.5 billion. The deal ties the 300-million member social network with an educational group which offers language training and other courses to governments, companies and individuals. “The mission of LinkedIn and the…
The Implications of Shreya Singhal v. Union of India for Intermediaries and Internet Users The Internet should be the virtual equivalent of a public park or a town square, where robust (and often fiery) public debate should be expected, encouraged and protected, and it is not just ordinary users that feel this way. The intermediaries…
In order to achieve 100 per cent digital literacy, the Jammu and Kashmir government will soon roll out a ‘National Digital Literacy Mission’. “The state government is set to roll out National Digital Literacy Mission (NDLM) to achieve the goal of Digital J&K,” Secretary, Information Technology Department, Saurabh Bhagat said here today. The programme would…
The discussion at the 17th edition of Express Technology Sabha began with Subhomoy Bhattacharjee putting the question—“Are we getting the building blocks in place when it comes to Digital India?’ Tripurari Sharan, Principal Secretary, Department of Information Technology, Government of Bihar, said, “There is an inherent intimacy between technology and philosophy. Are we in the…
All the central ministries and departments will have to put in public domain the source code of software and applications developed by them, primarily for eGovernance projects, to avoid duplication and cut costs. “The Government of India aims to make public the source code of various software applications/ components/ products as it may consider suitable…
The State government will set up an Innovation Project Monitoring Unit under State Innovation Council to foster the environment of innovation, document the best practices, and facilitate their replication and upscaling. A direction to this effect came at a high-level meeting on ‘Innovations in Public Systems’ held at the state secretariat on Thursday. Stressing on…
Blue Coat Systems announced the addition of Mail Threat Defense to its portfolio of Advanced Threat Defense (ATD) solutions. With the addition of mail threat defense, Blue Coat provides in-depth protection against the common trifecta of attack vectors – web, email and network –for unparalleled defense against advanced threats across the enterprise. Email is a…
After a painful scandal that paralysed India’s parliament for years, involved the Supreme Court and catapaulted a new prime minister into power, the spectrum saga reached a Bollywood-style happy ending last week when the NDA government announced it would net Rs 110,000 crore from the auction of airwaves. While communications minister Ravi Shankar Prasad says…
In a landmark decision last month, federal regulators in the United States approved new rules governing internet traffic which forbids wired and wireless internet providers from blocking or slowing down traffic from certain content providers and bans them from prioritising some content over others. The decision raised concerns that internet service providers would be prevented…
Indian Telecom service providers (TSPs) such as Airtel, Idea and Vodafone have been complaining about over-the-top service providers (OTT SPs) such as Whatsapp, Facebook and Viber for more than a year now. Their complaint is two-fold. First of all, these OTT SPs are able to provide competing services of voice calls/text messages without having to…