US software major Microsoft Corporation says its newly-developed White-Fi technology can provide free WiFi connectivity to a large section of the Indian population, thus, giving a boost to the Prime Minister’s Digital Indiainitiative. White-Fi or television White-Space technology works like WiFi on a bigger scale. “TV White-Space technology puts the unused spectrum in the TV…
E-Billing Solutions Pvt. Ltd (EBS), a leading pan-India online payment aggregator, has achieved a significant penetration into the education segment. Over the last 2 years, EBS has doubled the number of education institutes in its portfolio with almost 6 times surge in the number of transactions and around 150% increase in payment volume through its…
The news is both good and bad for users of free online messaging services like WhatsApp, Viber, Hike, and Skype, and worrisome for social media giant Facebook. A high-level government committee supports the free-messaging services and goes to the extent of saying all impediments in their path must be removed. However, its report, put out…
The Department of Telecom (DoT) has made public its report on Net Neutralityupholding the rights of citizens to access free and fair internet. The Panel, led by AK Bhargava, said, “India is the land of Buddha who preached the Middle Path. Some tenets of His Eightfold Middle Path are important – right understanding, right thought,…
The Delhi government was working towards encouraging use of m-governance and e-governance to eliminate corruption and red-tapism from the system, stated Manish Sisodia, Deputy Chief Minister, Government of NCT of Delhi, while addressing an interactive session on ‘Delhi 2020 – A Smart Place to Live, Work and Do Business’. Manish Sisodia today assured the industry…
Delhi government is working towards encouraging use of mobile and e-governance to eliminate corruption and red tapism from the system, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia today said. Sisodia, also the Finance Minister in the Arvind Kejriwal-led AAP dispensation was addressing an interactive session on ‘Delhi 2020 – A Smart Place to Live, Work and Do…
At the click of a mouse, devotees can make payments for ‘sevas’ at 11 major temples owned by the Muzrai Department in Karnataka. Devotees can log on to www.bangaloreone.gov.in and book temple services online. The Endowment Department, in association with e-Governance Department introduced a novel beneficial initiative for temple devotees of the State. Devotees can…
Interim Reddit CEO Ellen Pao stepped down today, following a week that saw the online community’s users call for her head on a pike after the controversial firing of a well-liked employee. It’s been called the “Reddit Revolt,” and it bodes poorly for the future of the Internet. So far this year, we’ve gone through…
The Election Commission has filed an affidavit expressing its stance in response to a public interest litigation (PIL) that wants a direction to the commission to frame new guidelines making voting mandatory. The commission said right to vote was not a fundamental right but statutory. “The decision taken by the voter after verifying the credentials…
The irony of Subramanian Swamy’s newest challenge to India’s hate speech and blasphemy laws is lost on many of his supporters. The same laws were used to prosecute Wendy Doniger and harass Maqbool F Hussain, as well asShirin Dalvi and others who published images depicting the Prophet Muhammad. Free speech in India is messily contested.…