NEW DELHI: By 2020, 60% ofdigital businesses will suffer major service failures due to the inability of it security teams to manage digital risk , said a special report by market research firm Gartner . ” Cybersecurity is a critical part of digital business with its broader external ecosystem and new challenges in an open…
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…
New Delhi: Fearing hacking and theft of sensitive data, the government has put “restrictions” on use of smartphones by bureaucrats in all central ministries and departments. The government has reportedly instructed bureaucrats that smartphones should be used only as a last resort and in emergency situations to discuss sensitive official work. Officials of Ministry of…
Decisions of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) have been under scrutiny for a while. Rajeev Chandrasekhar, 52, in his second Rajya Sabha term and a former president of business chamber Ficci, beside a record as an entrepreneur, including in the sector, has been a strong critic of the regulator. He talks to Malini…
No laughing matter Tanmay Bhatt is receiving a lot of hatred, at least some of which I imagine isn’t directly reaching him because others have slyly uploaded the Sachin vs Lata Civil War video on YouTube (to garner some views for their own channels!) and a lot of vile comments have been expressed there (“The…
NEW DELHI: Concern overhacking and data thefts and vulnerabilities in communication systems has prompted the government to instruct bureaucrats in all central ministries and departments to use smartphones only as a last resort and in emergency situations to discuss sensitive official work. Odd as the “restrictions” on use of smartphones may sound in a wireless…
NEW DELHI: Being teased over a Facebook post, online abuse due to a malicious SMS or MMS,cybertrolling . Armed with access to mobile phones, an increasing number of children from middle-class homes are turning to the 24-hour emergency response service Childline with their cyber woes . The national children’s helpline–set up to address concerns of…
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…
RAJKOT: A 22-year-old college girl from Ahmedabad has exposed the scourge that government agencies have conveniently turned a blind eye to. Jharna Joshi, a bachelors of business administration (BBA) student, undertook a covert operation to rescue as many as 111 child labourers from one of the biggest ceramic units in Morbi. The children, of whom…
Many of my Indian American friends, generally a well-informed group, are often surprised to learn that their resident Indian cousins don’t have the kind of freedom of speech they routinely enjoy in the United States. They assume quite reasonably that in India too, just like in the United States—both celebrated as exemplars of robust democracies—there…