When it comes to connecting India’s population to the internet, Google Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai is having better luck than his Facebook Inc. counterpart, Mark Zuckerberg. Google began offering free Wi-Fi at about two dozen train stations in the country earlier this year, and now has 2 million people using the service each month, Pichai…
New Delhi: Only a quarter of teenagers in India feel communications service providers understand their lifestyle and offer services to match it while 36 per cent said they were experiencing poor customer service for over a year, a survey revealed on Tuesday. Announcing the results of a global study into the digital behaviour and expectations…
The latest Kashmir imbroglio has thrown up innumerable questions before all the stakeholders some of which are piercing enough to compel some pondering. One of the main questions pertains to media muzzle by the authorities. To an extent, it was reminiscent of dark days of emergency proclaimed by Indira Gandhi in late seventies. It won’t…
Within a few hours after restoration of postpaid mobile services in Kashmir, Airtel subscribers complained that the cellular company discontinued services within a few hours.
The online system for receiving applications for Combined Competitive (Preliminary) Examination, 2016, has been kept open till Internet services are restored in Kashmir valley and thereafter further extension will be made commensurate with number of days internet services are found to have remained unavailable, according to Public Service Commission (PSC).
Aamir Khurso sits at the front desk of his cyber café, watching the rain. On the wall behind him is a black and white printout asking customers to present their ID cards. There aren’t too many customers, just a few youngsters peering into bulky, old CRT monitors inside small white cubicles. A musty smell pervades…
High-speed dependable Internet connection! That’s not such a huge ask. As a nation, we have among the highest number of Internet users in the world. We love those forwards of our technological prowess and command over information technology being way ahead of many developed nations. It’s a moment of Indian pride. And we love it.…
NEW DELHI: State-run Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) is keen to offer Internet bandwidth to the Members of Parliament to digitally empower people in their constituencies through the Sansad Adarsh Gram Yojna initiative under the Member of Parliament Local Area Development (MPLAD) scheme.
In June, officials in Jammu, India, shut down mobile internet in advance of a traditional wrestling tournament. Of course, the half-naked competitors weren’t planning to grapple with their devices in hand, but organizers were fearful of repeating what happened in 2014. That year, riots had broken out because the site of the tournament was staged…
If you are a frequent business traveler and spend most of your time away from the safe internet boundaries of your office or home, be warned. Public Wi-Fi networks — at the hotel lobby, in the spa, at the poolside or inside a shopping mall — are not at all secure for official work, sensitive…