In the near future, users will be able to avail of services or information from govt departments by just dialling 166 Mumbai: Getting information from the government could be just a phone call or text message away. In the near future, all that one will have to do is dial 166 to avail of services…
Even on limited Internet bandwidth, Idea Brahma’s VBond Vita allows doctors to access scans and X-rays Bangalore: V.V. Ravindra was spurred into his third entrepreneurial venture by two sets of data bearing lofty ambitions for healthcare. The first was that the government aimed to boost its annual expenditure on healthcare to 2.5% of the gross…
There is a serious lack of awareness about Internet among all the villages of India Forty-one years after the first email was sent, Internet penetration in India is still terribly low. In fact, an industry insider said, “If you ask me truly, regular Internet users in India are not more than 10 million or so.”…
With the proliferation of digital revolution, the 21st century is all set to be dominated by connected and information society How old is India? How youthful is this country and what is in store for the next generation? How youth-focused are our policies? These thoughts emerged in light of the draft National Youth Policy, 2012,…
Aura’s turn-by-turn voice guidance and 3D maps help users navigate through cities as they drive New Delhi: Tired of asking directions from strangers, taking detours and hitting dead ends? Technology comes to your rescue with a mapping application. MapMyIndia, a provider of digital maps and location-based services, has developed a mapping application called Aura that…
India has more than 900 mn mobile phone connections, yet we suffer from information poverty and have not been able to exploit this massive reach into converting ourselves into a knowledge-based society India is a country of extremes and always figures among the top few in all kinds of statistics, and yet falls behind on…
DEF & ICTA had started mBillionth Award South Asia together having its Jury been organized in Columbo, Sri Lanka three years back in 2010-11. On the occasion of Jury, it was conceived that there would be one day conference on mobile, mobile innovation, telecom and mobile apps involving the South Asian countries. This year, in…
DEF has entered into a partnership with Ford foundation for implementing Wireless mesh networking project called ‘Wireless in Unlicensed Band’ and the purpose is empowering communities through open media access. This partnership is about deployment of Wireless mesh network in a tribal area to find how open media access, open internet access, access of information…
Ankit Chhajer and Jigar Doshi started Komparify.com in 2011 to compare existing plans depending on the customer’s usage. Chennai: When Delhi-based financial adviser Manish Sinha racked up a phone bill of Rs. 1.62 lakh in a month a year ago, he had not anticipated that 3G (third generation) data usage could put a serious hole…
