Union Minister of Women and Child Development Maneka Gandhi seems to have unilaterally donned the mantle of the protectress of the Indian womankind by announcing a cyber cell “to check online abuse” according to a heavily editorialised NDTV report. This move is both dubious and senseless. We’ll examine the senseless bit first by holding her to…
Google TV commercials for India showed people how easy it is to search for cricket scores on its app. Actors in Amazon’s ads sang a catchy tune in Hindi to urge skeptics of online shopping to get over their fears—and to remind people that Amazon accepts cash on delivery. Amazon’s local rival, Flipkart, bombarded drivers…
LONDON: Internet addiction is the reason behind people ‘phubbing’ or snubbing social companions to concentrate on their smartphone, a new study has found.
Researchers at the University of Kent in the UK suggest that people’s internet addiction is leading them increasingly to ‘phub’ — and experience being ‘phubbed’ — in social situations.
Google India and Tata trust launch Internet Saathi initiative in India. A joint digital literacy program to reduce . They will provide Internet access to Women in the rural area, India. Under the initiative, companies are providing a bicycle, mobile, tablet, training materials to women. These women will get training from companies to become Internet Saathi.…
Driven by the phenomenal growth in new Internet users and increasing mobile access, Wi-Fi expansion and demand for video services, the Internet traffic in India by 2020 will be 249 times the volume of the entire Indian Internet in 2005, said Cisco’s annual Visual Networking Index (VNI) forecast. The digitisation transformation, based on the adoption…
NEW DELHI: DataWind plans to apply for the Virtual Network Operators (VNO) license later this month and expects to launch a pan-India telecom service with a rural focus with unlimited internet offering at Rs 99 per year. “We plan to file VNO application this month (June) for pan-India services to offer mobile Internet with a…
In a major push for digitisation and digital empowerment of villages in Maharashtra, the state government is rolling out an ambitious plan to connect all gram panchayats through an optical fibre network. It will monetise this high-speed Internet service architecture by allowing private players to hire it on payment, creating jobs in rural and semi-urban…
With 277 million Internet users, India surpassed the United States in 2015 as the world’s second-most connected nation behind China, according to a report from the KPCB law firm. The firm estimated total global Internet use at 3 billion people, or 42 percent of the world’s population. India and other developing nations are adding Internet…
Facebook is a worldwide sensation and has become part of our lives in ways that we couldn’t have imagined a few years ago. The social media giant has now announced that there are about 148 million active monthly users in India alone, speaking volumes about the popularity of the platform in the country. The info…
India is the only large market that continues to record double digit growth of its Internet user base even as growth tapers off in the rest of the world, says Mary Meeker in the 2016 edition of the annual Internet Trends report. Meeker is a venture capitalist and an analyst at the US venture capital…