NEW DELHI: Months after it received flak for allegedly violating net neutrality with Free Basics, social networking giant Facebook is now testing a new model for public Wi-Fi deployments for offering quality internet access in rural parts of the country.
In India, we have 166 million people every month active on Facebook. Of that, 95% is on mobile. We don’t break up the India revenue but globally, 84% of our business is mobile. So, while we (India) are the second largest country with 166 million monthly active users, we are the number one market in…
By the end of 2016, almost half of the world’s population will be using the internet as mobile networks grow and prices fall, but their numbers will remain concentrated in the developed world, a United Nations agency said on Tuesday.
IEEE, the world’s largest technical professional organization dedicated to advancing technology for humanity, today announced Internet Inclusion: Advancing Solutions (IIAS) – Delhi. The 15 September event in Delhi, India, organized by the IEEE Internet Initiative, will bring together government officials and leaders from development banks, industry, the technical community, non-governmental organizations/civil-society organizations and others for…
GUWAHATI: Assam chief minister Sarbananda Sonowaltoday asserted that his government’s utmost priority is to build a Digital Highway so that every village of the state is digitally connected within the next five years. “Each rural household will be digitally connected so that people can get their needs fulfilled without having to travel to bigger cities…
Several Internet providers in India have found a clever way to reduce the load BitTorrent transfers put on their network, while pleasing their torrenting subscribers at the same time. They’ve teamed up with Torbox.net which offers a fully fledged torrent search engine that connects users to ‘local’ peers to guarantee maximum download speeds.
According to Mashable, the social media giant isn’t going to give up on India and are looking to provide free internet service at railway stations. Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ:FB) looks to follow Alphabet Inc.’s (NASDAQ:GOOGL) example by using the Wi-Fi option to win over the Indian people.
Internet, the global platform that connects humans and machines, was comissioned 25 years ago today. On 23 August, 1991, the public accessed World Wide Web for the first time. The credit for designing and deploying the WWW protocol go to Sir Tim Berners-Lee.
NEW DELHI: Your personal electronic devices like laptops, tablets and smart phones may soon become operable while flying in Indian airspace, instead of just remaining in airplane mode. Aviation secretary RN Choubey said on Wednesday that the government will decide on the issue of allowing Wi-Fi in Indian airspace in the next 10 days. Read…
Indian government, assisted by Internet service providers, has just issued a new warning to those who visit forbidden websites in India: the offenders may get a three-year jail sentence plus a fine of Rs 3 lakh ($4,465 USD). If the warning starts to be actually employed to punish the offenders, almost every Internet user in…