These days most global roads to economic growth possibilities lead invariably to India. The latest traveller by this road is Tim Cook, who, liberally scattering praise for India, hinted at iPhone manufacturing in the country. Now we hear that Satya Nadella of Microsoft is coming to Delhi on May 30, where he is expected to…
WhatsApp earlier this week turned on end-to-end encryption for its services. This means all of its features including group messages, voice calls and personal messages are encrypted and cannot be accessed by anyone else, including WhatsApp itself, other than the sender and receiver. Even though the feature ensures users’ privacy, it may land into legal…
Facebook has introduced a local services website in India to help customers discover the best-rated service providers in their vicinity. Users can opt for services including arts & marketing, automotive, business services, financial services, event planning, home improvement, lifestyle, medical & health, pet services, and spa, beauty and personal care by logging on to facebook.com/services.…
Now days everything comes on online and we need a good internet speed to access all the things. According to a report, the global average internet connection speed has increased 23 per cent to 5.6 Mbps in the quarter ended December 2015 compared to the same period of 2014. The report named “Fourth Quarter, 2015,…
KOLKATA: New Town may turn into a Wi-Fi zone by the end of the year. With plans scheduled to be set in motion from June, an investment of Rs 400 crore is likely to be pumped in to provide basic internet services in New Town. According to sources, while the state is likely to invest…
The digital divide here in the United States has nothing on India, where a billion-plus residents remain un- or under-served by telecoms. In some large part, this is a feature of the country’s growing rift between its relatively small urban upper-crust and rural everyone else. Some 70 percent of the country lives in diffuse villages…
NEW DELHI: FusionNet Web Services is aiming to shake up the broadband market within India’s National Capital Region (NCR) with an all-fiber service that leverages scalable routing, switching and security from Juniper Networks. The new Internet service provider, which launched their services in October 2015, sees an opportunity to achieve rapid market penetration by offering…
A recent decision by India’s telecom regulator to prohibit differential charges for Internet content – which effectively blocked Facebook from offering its Free Basics service in the country – highlights how regulators around the globe continue to work through whether and how “zero-rating” data services may be permissible under their country’s net neutrality framework. Zero-rating…
VISAKHAPATNAM — Global information technology leader Cisco said Mar. 17 it will set up an Internet of Everything innovation center here as part of strategic initiatives to help accelerate the digital transformation of Andhra Pradesh. The U.S.-based company will also set up Technology Center of Excellence and Research Lab in Tirupati focused on manufacturing and…
Facebook is still keen on connecting remote parts of the world by giving them Internet connectivity, despite suffering a major setback in India with regards to Free Basics and Internet.org. The social media giant’s artificial intelligence (AI) team is studying satellite images of 20 countries to identify human settlements, reports the Indo-Asian News Service. “This is…