Department of Telecommunications urges telecom operators to install Location Based Servers at the earliest to avoid actions from government. Telecom operators have always resisted the demand in a liable way stating concerns to consumer privacy, and that the requirement is “highly expensive”. All telecom operators had been asked to install... 

Aakash 2 was at demo at IIT-Bombay during this year’s Techfest expo. We got our hands on the applications developed and ported in Aakash 2 by IIT-Bombay. Aakash Application 1.0 Aakash Application 1.0 is an application package which bears student-essential programs. Listed are the developed hubs within Aakash Application 1.0 app. Clicker: Clicker... 

The new Aakash tablet for students has reached the chambers of United Nations. General Secretary Ban Ki-moon addressed praiseful words for Aakash 2 tablet as well as the manufacturing nation, India. Ban appreciated the device by its “small and handy” form factor and commented India for being a “super-power on the information highway”. Recently... 

Pranab Mukherjee, President of India today unveiled a new version of Aakash tablet in the event of National Education Day and 124th birth anniversary of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad at Vigyan Bhavan, New Delhi. Sadly no media release is out yet. So we can’t bet on availability. However the new tablet is touted for better battery life and performance... 

Tata Photon has blocked WordPress.com blogs, every single blog. We were told by Tata Photon executive that they are following regulations made by the government. When we tried to lighten them that only some government listed webpages were meant to be banned, the guy just declined to comment. On 18 August, TRAI issued a regulation for all carriers... 

LegallyIndia recently shared that Viacom18 has received John Doe order from Mumbai High Court for its upcoming movie Gangs of Wasseypur which is going to start screening in the country later this week. With John Doe in hands, Viacom18 can direct all ISPs to block certain filesharing sites and video portals in their sense to prevent piracy of the movie. It... 

Google released its transparency report of July ’11 to December ’11, stating  a considerably increasing number of user data requests from Indian government – 2,207 user data request – 66% of them have been compiled. 3,427 users/accounts were specified in the total data requests. During January ’11 and June ’11,... 

TRAI released telecom subscription stats of March 2012. Key highlights of the data are as followed: There have been 683.02 million active mobile subscribers on peak VLR in March - a 12.37 million rise from 670.65 million active mobile subscribers on peak VLR in February ’12. (Visitor Location Register is a temporary subscriber database.... 

TRAI released telecom subscription stats of February 2012. Key highlights of the data are as followed: There have been 670.65 million active mobile subscribers on peak VLR in February – a 10.68 million rise from 659.97 million active mobile subscribers on peak VLR in January ’12. (Visitor Location Register is a temporary subscriber... 

Centre for Railway Information Systems (CRIS) has developed GPS devices for trains with the help of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). The device will track trains in real-time determining speed, direction and other trains on the way. This could really help Indian Railways to prevent train accidents. Not just railway officials could track trains,... 

TRAI released telecom subscription stats of January 2012. Key highlights of the data are as followed: There have been 659.97 million active mobile subscribers on peak VLR in January - a 13.2 million rise from 646.77 million active mobile subscribers on peak VLR in December ’11. (Visitor Location Register is a temporary subscriber database.... 

DoT minister Kapil Sibal made an important announcement at MWC expo. He told that government will auction 4G spectrum by the end of the year. It is reported that about 6 blocks of 4G spectrum would be available at auction. A single block could be sold at Rs. 13,000 crore. On the other hand Airtel announced its tie-up with Nokia Siemens Network to make... 

TRAI released telecom subscription stats of December 2011. Key highlights of the data are as followed: There have been 646.77 million active mobile subscribers on peak VLR in December – a 11.38 million rise from 635.39 million active mobile subscribers on peak VLR in November. (Visitor Location Register is a temporary subscriber database.... 

Editor of Akbari, a weekly Indian newspaper filed a criminal complaint against Facebook India and Google India along with 19 other companies for publishing inflammatory images of some Gods and Goddess. Recently, Google India and Facebook India filed a petition to reject the complaint saying that they do not have any control over the accused sites mentioned... 

TRAI released telecom subscription stats of November 2011. Key highlights of the data are as followed: There have been 635.39 million active mobile subscribers on peak VLR in November – a 9.21 million rise from 626.18 million active mobile subscribers on peak VLR in October. (Visitor Location Register is a temporary subscriber database.... 

Not a long wait after the release of telecom subscription data for September; TRAI released October stats. Key highlights of the data are as followed: There have been 626.18 million active mobile subscribers on peak VLR in October – a 8.42 million rise from 617.76 million active mobile subscribers on peak VLR in September. (Visitor Location Register... 

IBM India announced that IBM’s Human Accessibility Center have teamed up with students and professionals at IIT Guwahati. They will build-technology based solutions as aid for people having difficulties with speech. It’s not the first time that IBM India is associating itself in such cause. They had many solutions for physically challenged... 

TRAI today revealed telecom subscription data for September. Key highlights of the data are as followed: There have been 617.76 million active mobile subscribers on peak VLR in September – a 9.13 million rise from 608.63 million active mobile subscribers on peak VLR in August. (Visitor Location Register is a temporary subscriber database. Total... 

PayMate and Nokia are deploying NFC technology based payment facility in India; it’s said to be the largest deployment of NFC to mainstream mass market. On May 2011, Google unveiled first of its kind payment service in New York and San Fransisco, through NFC enabled Android devices. The service is called Google Wallet. Near Field Communication... 

In partnership with HostGator, Google India is offering free website domain registration and hosting for India’s small medium scale businesses. Users will get a .in domain and hosting through HostGator for free-of-cost for one year. The initiative’s called “India Get Your Business Online.” “Our goal is to help 500,000...