The government said on Wednesday that there has been an improvement in the menace of call drops in Delhi as telecom companies spruced up their mobile infrastructure, but added that operators still remain short of the optimum quality benchmark mandated by the regulator. Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad, however, said that the government does not…
Google today is celebrating the 94th birth anniversary of the ‘Milkman of India’ — Verghese Kurien. The doodle shows Verghese Kurien with a milk can in his hand, next to a buffalo with a looped rope on the ground spelling ‘Google’. Born on November 26 1921 at Calicut, Verghese Kurien graduated in Physics from Loyola…
The Royal Bank of Scotland is making Facebook at Work, the latest enterprise product from a company known for its consumer offerings, available to more than 100,000 employees. If you’ve never heard of Facebook at Work, don’t worry. Facebook is trialing the software, which competes against Slack (a buzzy messaging client for teams), email, Microsoft’s…
Syrian Electronic Army broke the news via a tweet saying, “Sorry @TrueCaller, we needed your database, thank you for it.” The hackers openly released TrueCaller’sdatabase host ID, username and password via another tweet. TrueCaller app is available on Android, iOS, Windows Phone, BlackBerry andSymbian platforms. The app’s databases have access codes to Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn…
Mark Zuckerberg today through a Facebook post announced that all Reliance subscribers across India can now access free Internet, for limited basic services, via Facebook’s Free Basics. In October last year, Facebook had launched Internet.org to provide basic Internet services for free of cost to Reliance customers in six Indian states- Tamil Nadu, Mahararashtra, Andhra…
The Times of India has reported how a Nigerian fraudster duped a Hyderabad city based techie to the tune of Rs 1.4 lakh(about $2,200) by stealing his bank account details after infiltrating his mobile phone with a malware MMS – `greeting’. The victim is Srinivas, 28, a software engineer from Kukatpally. The Indian newspaper gives…
T-Mobile announced this week that it would no longer count video-streaming from certain apps, like Netflix, toward customers’ monthly data caps — it’s called “zero-rating” that traffic. Sounds great, right? But some Internet rights advocates argue the practice could be bad news for consumers. It’s the first time such a program has been offered in…
Consensus at the closing 10th Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in Brazil today underscored the contribution of Information Communications Technologies (ICTs) and the Internet to the achievement of the recently adopted 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the United Nations announced. Goal 9 of the agenda sets an ambitious target to “significantly increase access to information and…
“The mainspring of the story is people will see what they want to see in one way or the other. And the crime rate has nothing to do with what they watch. The only way to bring down crime rate is to make sure that no perpetrator of such crime goes scot-free. “ The simplest…
Three days ago a petition popped up on the website Change.org urging Mark Zuckerberg to “support freedom of expression in India” by unblocking an atheist Facebook group there with over 13,000 members. Facebook, the petition said, had not given any reason for the blockade. One day users in India who tried to visit the site…