As many as 3.9 billion people use internet today, more than half of world’s population and though, internet has been in development since 1960s, March 12, 1989 is a landmark date. On this day Tim Berners-Lee submitted his proposal for WWW. The roots of the for the World Wide Web[Read More…]
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Jio GigaFiber broadband is here; know rollout date, plans and more
With the arrival of 2019, Jio GigaFiber can be expected to reach almost all big cities in the coming months. Jio which has already launched its Fiber to the home(FTTH) service on 15th August 2018 is about to make a big break in the Indian broadband market with the new[Read More…]
Internet Freedom Rankings: India ranks 6th in Asia-Pacific
Freedom House, Washington D.C. based non-governmental organization, has released the Freedom On the Net, 2018 report. In the latest internet freedoms rankings, India scored 43(the lower the score, the better). This year India saw a dip of two points in comparison to the last year’s report by Freedom House. Over the[Read More…]
Jharkhand: Teachers master climbing tree in search of internet to record bio-metric attendance
Where technology is doing wonders in our lives making it easier with each new innovation, the contribution of the internet has become as important as any basic need in human lives. Part of it is because of addiction that we human are falling prey of. However, imagining life without internet[Read More…]
Reliance Jio tops Fortune ‘Change The World’ list
Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Jio has been ranked the top company globally in the Fortune’s fourth annual “Change The World” list released on Monday. The list ranked companies as per their profit motive to help the planet and tackle social problems. “If access to the Internet is a basic human right[Read More…]
India ranks 47th when it comes to inclusive Internet: Facebook
New Delhi: Compromised by low usage and poor quality, India is ranked 47th out of 86 countries when it comes to inclusive Internet and connectivity for all, a Facebook report said on Monday. Facebook, which commissioned the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) to create a comprehensive “Inclusive Internet Index,” found India in[Read More…]
TRAI recommends Internet, MCA services in-flight
New Delhi: The Indian telecom regulator on Friday recommended that both Internet and mobile communications on board aircraft (MCA) service should be permitted as In-Flight Connectivity (IFC) in the Indian airspace. The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) said it has arrived at the recommendation after analysing the comments received from[Read More…]
Viral image of new Rs 50 notes makes internet go crazy
Photos to unveiled Rs 50 denomination notes is going viral on the internet. However, there is no official word on these images that have gone viral. In December last year, the Reserve Bank of India(RBI) had said that it will issue Rs 50 and Rs 20 notes with numerals in[Read More…]
‘Blue Whale game is challenge to society’: Kerala CM urges for ban on deadly game
Kerala chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Saturday urged the Centre to take steps to ban the deadly online Blue Whale game in the country “to save precious lives”. “In view of the threat which is already at our doorstep, I would request that immediate action may be initiated to ban[Read More…]
‘Brothers-in-arms for peace’ picture is winning hearts over internet!
A couple of photographs shared by the Srinagar unit of the Central Reserve Police Force on their Twitter handles generated a lot of interest across social media platforms on Sunday. The image is captioned as “Brothers-in-arms for peace”, where a man in uniform can be seen offering namaaz while the[Read More…]
Google acquires Halli labs- A Bengaluru based start-up
Google has acquired a Bengaluru-based artificial intelligence start-up Halli Labs for an undisclosed sum. This is the first time when Google has acquired a firm in India. Google acquired the startup saying that this will help the US-based giant in building solutions for adding new users to the Internet, especially[Read More…]
Sad news for Dhinchak Pooja fans, her videos are no longer available on YouTube
Just as we were beginning to revel in the pride of having our very own YouTube star in Dhinchak Pooja, YouTube has taken down her songs because someone claimed copyright over them. The matter is not yet exactly known but certainly, it is disheartening news for many of her fans.[Read More…]
West Bengal violence: Internet suspended, Section 144 imposed; Centre seeks report
Internet services were disrupted in the Baduria district after clashes in Baduria and Basirhat areas of West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas over a Facebook post. The development took place after an angry mob torched police vehicles, vandalised shops and blocked roads leading to the India-Bangladesh border following an offensive post[Read More…]
Ram Nath Kovind, Twitterati goes bonkers over the new sensation in town
After months of wait and debate, BJP President Amit Shah has finally declared the name of its party’s presidential candidate and it is barely-known Bihar Governor Ramnath Kovind. Just after the announcement, the social media was abuzz with Kovind’s name all over the internet. The decision came in a surprising[Read More…]
Human Rights Watch slams India, says orders unnecessary Internet shutdowns
India was criticized by the Human Rights Watch, which in its recent report said that the nation has shut down the internet services in several regions 20 times in the first five months of this year. Four of those blackouts just have taken place this month. These shut down were[Read More…]
Jio’s free services will continue till June 30
Reliance Jio fixed line internet’s top boss quits
President and Business head – Fixed Line of Reliance Jio, Vijay Jain has stepped down from the position, reports ET. Jain joins other top-level executives across functions, who have quit the 4G entrant in last few months “Jain was also involved in the rolling out of Wi-Fi networks for the[Read More…]
Health, education benefits just a click away; Govt to launch ‘Digital Village’ soon
Now villagers can avail health, educational and benefits of other government initiatives by just clicking on their computers or mobile as the government decked up to launch its new programme, ‘Digital Village’. Under the programme, the government will offer services including e-medicine, e-education, Internet connectivity services and light-emitting diode lights[Read More…]
Railways rethink free Wi-Fi plans after Patna porn embarrassment
Earlier this week, a RailTel official had announced that the Patna railway station made the most of the free Wi-Fi with most of it being principally used to watch and download porn. The embarrassment has made the Railways rethink the move of putting up the service on premium trains like[Read More…]
Sikh jokes to get banned soon? SC mulls ways to enforce directions
Supreme Court on Tuesday expressed willingness to issue directions to curb dissemination of “insulting” jokes against Sikhs through public modes like internet and SMS, but said the key concern was the enforcement of such directives. “We are not saying that there should not any guideline on the issue, but the[Read More…]
North Korea’s internet revealed to have just 28 websites: Report
North Korea, like many countries, has its own country code top-level domain name. This means any Web address that ends with “.kp” is linked to the notoriously isolated nation, much like addresses that end “.de” are linked to Germany and “.jp” are linked to Japan. What’s unusual, however, is how[Read More…]
Jammu and Kashmir government orders shutdown of internet services
Following the tense law and order situation in the state, the Jammu and Kashmir government has ordered shutdown of internet services of all telecom networks and also mobile communications as a precautionary measure. The state government took a review of the of the prevailing law and order situation in the[Read More…]
Internet turns 25!
Tuesday, August 23 happens to be the 25th anniversary of the Internet!On this very day back in 1991, the ‘World Wide Web’ was first made accessible to the public by its creator Sir Tim Berners-Lee. You’d be surprised to know that the first site created by him was a basic[Read More…]