“We are adding five million new users a month and that should take the user base to 500 million by 2018-19,” says Rajan Anandan, Managing Director, Google India. The way in which India’s internet economy is burgeoning is nothing short of extraordinary. For all the ills and bottlenecks ailing the country today, internet is the…
The Internet, more specifically its neutrality, has become a key battleground in India. Two initiatives, aimed at giving Internet access to people who don’t have it yet, have triggered a series of protests and sparked deep concerns over their impact on net neutrality. The two players Airtel Zero and Facebook’s internet.org are the two said…
What’s more important for modern enterprises: Network security or end-point security? Both are equally important in today’s modern threat landscape. And the advent of SMAC compels companies to create a holistic security posture across network and endpoints. ContentKeeper has a solution for network security and in endpoint security we have solutions for mobile devices. We…
The Internet of Everything is revolutionizing the way we live, work, play, and learn. It is the intelligent connection of people, process, data, and things. Citizens, companies and governments around the world are embracing the Internet of Everything and the opportunities it provides Today 81 percent of India’s population has access to a mobile phone…
Another month has passed so it’s time to round-up the most interesting and useful digital marketing stats from APAC. This time around we’ve included WeChat, ecommerce in India, Alibaba getting sued, Aussies shunning wearables and a whole load of m-commerce stats. And for more insights on this market, download our State of Ecommerce in China…
Bharath Kumar has the husky build of a rugby player, which comes in handy as he lugs around a large backpack filled with packages to deliver on his patch of Bangalore. That and ownership of a good scooter or motorcycle were among prerequisites the 25-year-old met about a year back when he switched jobs so…
C Raman, an IT executive at Cisco, gets a tweet from his strawberry plant everyday while he is on holiday, informing him that it has been watered for the day. No, this isn’t science fiction, but one of many successful experiments that Cisco conducts to demonstrate the rising importance of the Internet of Things (IoT).…
With a rapidly growing number of Internet users and a surge in e-commerce transactions, the average monthly domain name registrations in the country has more than doubled to 4 per cent of all global registrations, according to industry estimates. This, however, is way behind the additions in China, which accounts for 20-22 per cent of…
Internet Protocol (IP) traffic in India will quadruple at a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of 33 percent by 2019 due to increasing mobile access and demand for video services, tech firm Cisco said. It took 32 years – from 1984 to 2016 – to generate one zettabyte of IP Traffic annually. According to this…
Google appears to be backing away from its plans to support zero rated apps (deals that allowsome apps to bypass broadband ISP usage caps) in India after Facebook found itself at the heart of a global public relations kerfuffle for the practice. As we’ve been noting, Facebook’s Internet.org initiative has been under heavy fire in…