NEW DELHI: The government has asked the telecom regulator to submit recommendations on net neutrality, as it gears up to finalise the policy on this controversial issue. “We have received a letter from DoT (telecom department) on making recommendations on net neutralityas whole, and we will shortly float a consultation paper on it,” Trai Chairman…
As the internet prepares to emerge from the administrative oversight of the US government on 30 September, India proposes that in its new management by the global online community, governments should have “supreme right and control” on matters relating to international security. Union Minister of Communications and Information Technology Ravi Shankar Prasad said this at…
Facebook is still keen on connecting remote parts of the world by giving them Internet connectivity, despite suffering a major setback in India with regards to Free Basics and Internet.org. The social media giant’s artificial intelligence (AI) team is studying satellite images of 20 countries to identify human settlements, reports the Indo-Asian News Service. “This is…
India has decided to approach the Interpol to gain access to websites that engage in child pornography. The move comes after the Supreme Court expressed serious concerns over the issue. It also follows an unsuccessful attempt by the government last year to ban 857 pornographic websites. It has been initiated after a meeting called by…
LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) – According to a Pew Research Center poll, as of 2015 only 22 percent of India’s adults had internet access. Despite hosting an enormous population, much of India is without internet access, which prompted the Centre for Communication and Development Studies (CCDS) to conduct a study. The study took place…
Anjuna police have received a complaint from a private bank that some unidentified persons stole automated teller machine (ATM) card data by installing a skimmer at an ATM in Siolim and transferred 1 lakh online from the account. Anjuna police station received a complaint stating that four clients’ ATM data was stolen using a skimmer…
A petition has been filed in the Supreme Court seeking a direction to the Centre to amend the RTI Act for fixing time limit for disposal of appeals by the Central Information Commission and state information panels.The plea has been filed by an RTI activist against an order of the Allahabad High Court, passed on…
Welcome to a brand new world of ‘Behaviometrics’- a cyber security technology which uses user’s gesture as a password. Today’s world is fighting an ugly battle against millions of data breach and credit card attackers and it seems that in coming years they are not going to slow down. But the researchers of this technology…
The Indian government has allocated spectrum to eight organisations for testing TV whitespace technology, opening up opportunities for use of unlicensed spectrum in the country without the need for auctions. H Nwana, executive director of the Dynamic Spectrum Alliance (DSA), told Mobile World Live he welcomed the decision for carrying out experiments using TV whitespace-like rules, following…
Social networking giant Facebook is using its artificial intelligence (AI) technology and resources to map the entire Earth and launch the world’s most detailed population maps that will help it beam cheap Internet to remote areas. To begin with, the Facebook AI team crunched 14.6 billion images of maps from across 20 countries, including India,…