Twitter Diplomacy and “Enemies of Internet” : Tweeting is a great way to share thoughts and information with friends and followers, as long as you stay safe, keep it civil, and most importantly, be interesting. We know that information....
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Data Protection and Privacy: The Right to be Forgotten : In India, there is a growing tussle between freedom of expression and privacy as increasing numbers of people complain that their online reputation is being corroded by outdated....
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Social Media Can Swing 3-4 Percent Of Votes, Says IAMAI ‘Social Media In India, 2013′ Report
The Lok Sabha Elections in the country is going to have some company from social media. The Internet and Mobile Association of India ....
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Policy to help differently abled access govt websites approved
New Delhi/ Bangalore: Hundreds of government websites may soon become accessible to people with disabilities, especially the visually impaired, with the government approving the National Policy on Universal....
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India: Right to information and privacy ‘two sides of the same coin’
In September 2013, India’s President Pranab Mukherjee spoke about the inviolable right to privacy that citizens of India must enjoy, at the annual event of the Central Information Commission (CIC) ....
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Affordable internet alliance launched to drive down broadband prices
The father of the world wide web and some of the internet's most influential interests are joining forces to drive the cost of universal ....
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Pew surveys of audience habits suggest perilous future for news
News organizations have been confronting the problem of a shrinking audience for more than a decade, but trends strongly suggest that these difficulties may only worsen over time.
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Apple to enter small Indian cities with iPhones, iPads
KOLKATA: Apple may soon be slugging it out in the trenches with Samsung and other smartphone rivals as India country head Maneesh Dhir and telecom business chief Sanjay Kaul seek a rapid increase in the pace ....
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Social Login Trends Across the Web for Q3 2013
If you’re like 87% of people, you have likely come across the option to register at a website using one of your existing social network or email identities. This is known as social login, a technology that Janrain pioneered....
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HarperCollins Joins Scribd in E-Book Subscription Plan
HarperCollins is the latest publisher to try a Netflix-style e-book subscription service, announcing on Tuesday that it has struck a deal to make its backlist books available on Scribd, a Web site for sharing documents ....
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Intel and Sony Ambitions for Internet TV Services Meet Skepticism
Television services delivered via the Internet by companies like Intel and Sony could someday transform how Americans watch TV shows. But the services have to get off the ground first, and there are new doubts ....
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Tata Docomo to expand high-speed mobile broadband service
MUMBAI: Telecom services company Tata Docomo plans to expand its high-speed mobile broadband service in all metros and mini-metros by the end of this fiscal.
"The company has plan to roll out Photon ....
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The Faces of Facebook puts 1.2 billion people’s profile photos on a single page
The fact that Facebook has more than 1 billion users is pretty insane, but things just got a whole lot crazier thanks to The Faces ....
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Google survey: 37% of urban Indian voters are online
New Delhi: Almost four out of every 10 urban voters (or 37%) in India are online, just a little less than the number (42%) that are undecided about whom they will vote for in the 2014 general elections, according ....
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Steambox joins the battle of the games consoles
A new generation of video game consoles is on its way. The Xbox One and Playstation 4 promise better graphics, improved multimedia features and more processing power....
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Social media becomes the scapegoat in India
India’s National Integration Council met in the last week of September 2013 to discuss the threat of communal violence in the country. The council, first set up in the early 1960s, gives senior Indian politicians and public ...
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Trai to recommend renewal procedure for DTH licences
New Delhi: Broadcast regulator Trai has initiated a consultation process to suggest guidelines for renewal of direct to home (DTH) licences after the ministry of information and broadcasting (MIB) wrote ....
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No Aadhaar card yet, LPG consumers worried
UDUPI: As Udupi district has been included in the Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) scheme from October 1, there are many LPG buyers who fear they will not get the subsidy money and will end up paying ....
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Airtel, RCom cut mobile data rates, reach villages
Millions of Indians, many of them in rural areas, are waking up to using the Internet on their mobile handsets thanks to recent price cuts in data plans by leading operators such as Bharti Airtel, Vodafone ....
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25 years after the ‘Morris Worm’
New Delhi: When a 23-year-old Cornell University student playfully wrote a self-replicating computer code and uploaded it on the Internet to see how fast it would spread, it ended up infecting 10% of all systems ....
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India's mobile Internet dominated by Google and Facebook users
Two years ago, we’d seen the Avendus report – “India goes Digital”. Now, they are back with a new report that discloses the mobile Internet trends in India. There is no doubt that mobile penetration has increased ....
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Microsoft's New Windows 8.1 Ad and Other News You Need to Know
Today, we're looking at three particularly interesting stories. It might not be long before Twitter goes public: The company is expected to file its public IPO papers as soon as this week, according to a report ....
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Clicking 'Like' on Facebook is free speech: US court
Clicking "Like" on Facebook is constitutionally protected free speech and can be considered the 21st century-equivalent of a campaign yard sign, a federal appeals court ruled on Wednesday.
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Apple Passes Coca-Cola as Most Valuable Brand
The report, to be released on Monday, is from Interbrand, a corporate identity and brand consulting company owned by the Omnicom Group that has been compiling what it calls the Best Global Brands report ....
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Hangouts 1.3 Will Reportedly Add SMS, Giving Android Its Own iMessage Equivalent
Google is said to be prepping an update to its Hangouts instant messaging/video chat Android app that would allow ....
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LG launches sharper-display tablet, joining rivals to tackle Apple
Seoul: LG Electronics Inc. introduced on Monday its first tablet with a high-resolution screen, joining global rivals trying to take on Apple Inc.’s dominance in the in the popular small-sized tablet market....
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Mobile Payment Startups Face Reluctant Indian Consumers
When Mrugank S., 33, an information technology professional in Bangalore, Karnataka, ordered five teaming carts of produce from Big Basket, an online grocery store, he chose “card-on-delivery” ....
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Nokia to launch first community mapping project in India
NEW DELHI: Nokia's navigation services arm HERE said it is launching a community mapping pilot programme in India, the first major country where its industrial data collection methods would be combined ....
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Mobile apps market in India to be worth Rs 2700 cr by 2016: report
Mumbai: Mobile games and applications in India are expected to be a Rs 2,700-crore market by 2016, driven by strong smartphone growth and expanding 3G user-base, a report by Avendus ....
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Android ‘more secure than the iPhone, says Google’s Eric Schmidt
Eric Schmidt, former Apple board member and former CEO of Google has reportedly once again taken stage to flabbergast and confuse proponents of logic, reason, and truthiness everywhere.....
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Lightning powers mobile phone
The FBI has shut down the notorious online marketplace, Silk Road. The website allowed users to buy illegal drugs and other illicit items.
Augmented reality glasses to rival those being developed by Google ....
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Nokia Lumia 1020 priced at Rs. 49999 in India
The Nokia Lumia 1020, which was launched late last month, has been priced at Rs. 49999 in India. The device which has a 32 GB internal storage, is available in white, black and yellow colors. The device is known....
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Android games vending machine set up in Tokyo
Google has launched a vending machine in Tokyo that gives Android games. The machine, which operates just like Google Play, offers a 15 minute return window giving you enough time to try the game ....
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iOS7 Making You Dizzy? Here’s Why–And a Fix
The Geniuses at Apple certainly anticipated complaints about the way iOS 7 looks and how it works, but they probably never anticipated this: some iPhone and iPad users are getting motion sickness and vertigo ....
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Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF) & .ORG in association with Vodafone present 10th Manthan South Asia & Asia Pacific Award. The big challenges are not technological but cultural. Since last 9 years, the Manthan Awards has been providing a platform of meaningful interaction to policy makers, practitioners, industry leaders and academicians to deliberate, interact and recommend an actionable strategy for good governance and to improve the standard of services rendered to the common man. Click here for details.
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