Sibal hopes for a Google-like comprehensive website for India

18 Dec, 2012, 6:40 pm IST tech2 News Staff General 3 Comments

If things go as planned, then soon netizens in the country will have a Google-like comprehensive website to access all government department services with a click of a mouse... More

Internet subscriber base in country not in line with govt targets: Sibal

14 Dec, 2012, 6:21 pm IST tech2 News Staff ISPs 3 Comments

In a written reply to Rajya Sabha, the nation’s Communications and IT Minister Kapil Sibal shared that at the end of March 2012, there were 22.86 More

Bitter struggle over Internet regulation to dominate global summit

28 Nov, 2012, 10:07 am IST ISPs

An unprecedented debate over how the global Internet is governed is set to dominate a meeting of officials in Dubai next week... More

Tajikistan blocks Facebook access to silence critics

28 Nov, 2012, 9:45 am IST Social Networking 1 Comments

Tajikistan has blocked access to Facebook in response to a slew of comments spreading "mud and slander" about veteran President... More

Most Indian tech buyers know exactly what they want: Google report

21 Nov, 2012, 4:38 pm IST Nishtha Kanal Social Networking 2 Comments

Google tech shopper report shows 7 out of 10 Indian buyers know what brand and model they want before entering a store. More

Reliance Netconnect blocks Wikipedia in TN and Karnataka for 5 days

21 Nov, 2012, 9:39 am IST Rohini Lakshane Social Networking 2 Comments

Reliance Netconnect, the mobile CDMA broadband service of Reliance Communications, had blocked Wikipedia across Tamil Nadu and Karnataka from November 15 to November 20. More

Internet cannot coexist with concept of governance: Sibal

07 Nov, 2012, 9:50 am IST Anuradha Shetty Social Networking

Speaking at a high-level ministerial meeting at the IGF in Azerbaijan, Kapil Sibal noted that the term Internet cannot coexist with governance. More

ISPs continue to block Blogspot, Wordpress

20 Oct, 2012, 4:54 pm IST Rohini Lakshane Social Networking 7 Comments

Internet service provider Airtel had blocked the Blogspot domain on fixed line and mobile Internet connections in Bengaluru, Mumbai, Pune, and Chennai from Sunday to midnight yesterday. More

One bn people in the world don't have mobile phones

13 Oct, 2012, 9:50 am IST Social Networking 1 Comments

About one billion people across the world still do not own a mobile phone, and a third of the world's population is unable to access the internet.. More

US regulators move closer to suing Google

13 Oct, 2012, 9:36 am IST Social Networking

Federal regulators are moving closer to suing Google over allegations that the company has abused its dominance... More

Google goes low-tech to unleash Nigeria potential

20 Sep, 2012, 10:54 am IST Web services

Despite all its cutting-edge technology, Google Inc. has turned to the humble text message to break into Nigeria's booming economy... More

German watchdog warns of Internet Explorer breach

20 Sep, 2012, 9:22 am IST Web services

The German government agency overseeing IT-safety is warning of a security breach in Microsoft's Internet Explorer... More

Twitter surrenders Occupy protester's tweets

15 Sep, 2012, 1:01 pm IST Web services

Twitter handed over tweets from an Occupy Wall Street protester to a New York criminal judge on Friday after months of fighting a subpoena from prosecutors... More

Twitter to surrender Occupy protester's tweets according to a lawyer

14 Sep, 2012, 9:54 am IST Web services

Twitter is expected to hand over tweets from an Occupy Wall Street protester to a New York criminal judge... More

Online sharing, information overload is worldwide problem

06 Sep, 2012, 8:53 am IST Web services

The languages and the cultures are different, but the pet peeves of mobile technology users around the globe are the same, with most people ... More

SKorean court ends law requiring real names online

23 Aug, 2012, 5:37 pm IST Web services

South Korea's Constitutional Court has ruled that a law requiring online contributors to use their real names... More

Infrastructure problems disrupt Internet to Syria

23 Aug, 2012, 5:31 pm IST Web services

Turkey's telecommunications company says its Internet services to neighboring Syria have come to a halt... More

Global broadband speed increases to 2.6Mbps: Akamai report

10 Aug, 2012, 2:27 pm IST Ramkumar Iyer Web services

Broadband across the world is growing faster, what with increasingly sophisticated technology, better infrastructure, faster networks and increased More

FTC wants to extend rules on child online privacy

02 Aug, 2012, 12:47 pm IST Web services

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FACTBOX - Expert advice to keep kids safe online

12 Jul, 2012, 4:10 pm IST Web services

Law enforcement and technology specialists offered the following advice for parents on keeping children ... More