Rural broadband player AirJaldi and education startup Zaya Learning Labs are recipients of Microsoft’s Affordable Access Initiative grants from India, the company announced on its blog. Microsoft started the Affordable Access Initiative last November bring affordable Internet access to underserved markets around the world. Microsoft added that it is taking learnings from their TV White…
Is the internet Facebook, Flipkart or Google, or any particular website or application? The beauty of the internet, and why it brings us so much value, is that it is a free-roam space: you can go where you want – to discussion forums, chat rooms, Reddit. You can watch documentaries and silly cat videos, or…
When Facebook-owned mobile messaging service WhatsApp announced to turn on end-to-end encryption for its over one billion monthly active users last month, CEO Mark Zuckerberg hailed this as an “important milestone for the WhatsApp community.” It means that for WhatsApp users, every call they make and every message, photo, video, file and voice message they…
Margao: Extending the e-governance mode of administration to village-level delivery of services, rendering the land conversion system time-bound and foolproof, and ensuring speedy disposal of cases pending at the sub-division levels, top the list of priorities of South Goa district collector Swapnil Naik. Naik, who took charge of his office last week, said that he…
The advancement of technology has brought many significant changes in the modern world, but, it also creating new problems and threats. One of the major threatening problems is Cyber Security. The usage of Computer & Internet is a part of our life we cannot imagine our daily routine without them. In countries like India where…
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…
Silicon Valley-based Gigato, a platform that offers free data for using its sponsored apps, said its product was completely net neutral as it did not prioritise access to certain apps over others. Last week, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India issued a consultation paper on free data, seeking comments from stakeholders whether business models which provide…
Does it matter how many “likes” does your Facebook post gather when you are a powerful politician? Or how many followers do you have on Twitter? It does in India. Dozens of parliamentarians from the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) have recently been chastised by their leadership for not being active enough on the Net.…
Microsoft has largely stood by as other technology giants like Facebook and Google have begun work on grand plans for balloons, satellites, drones, simplified apps and even bicycle hot spots to deliver Internet access to the four billion or so people around the world who are not yet online.
Telecom regulator TRAI today proposed exploring models to give consumers free Internet service within the net neutrality framework, months after barring platforms like Facebook’s Free Basics and Airtel Zero under its differential pricing rule. “The consultation paper (on free data) is being issued to explore model(s) that could achieve benefits of offering free data while…