The Indian government’s efforts to ‘clean up’ social media are continuing after officials revealed that they have begun sending legal notices to Twitter users who they believe stirred ethic tensions…
Google today updated Google Maps with new turn-by-turn navigation features, including traffic conditions, biking directions, Map Maker, and new Street View imagery. The updates are region-specific, so pay attention to…
Back in May we reported that India’s fast growing mobile Internet usage was all set to overtake the country’s use of the fixed-line Web and now, four months later, the…
In 1994 I did research for my thesis at a Philips factory in a so-called Free Trade Zone in Penang, Malaysia. At the time — and maybe still today —…
Most of the technology industry’s talk on Friday was of Apple and Samsung, as a Korean court ruling started the day reaching a split decision on a patent ruling, before…
Indian Internet service provider Tata Photon blocked its users from accessing WordPress.com and an estimated 25 million hosted blogs after it took a blanket approach to the government’s request to censor…
The Government in India doesn’t mess around when it comes to what its population can and can’t see on the Internet in its country. The Government has issued a document…
Indian music specialist Dhingana, often referred to as ‘India’s Spotify’, has upped its efforts to monetise its 11 million-strong userbase after it announced the introduction of an advertising platform on its service….
With a population of 1.2 billion, India is a huge market with bags of potential for tech firms and, with that in mind, Amazon is expanding its global reach and…
Update: It appears that it is Indian ISPs, not Twitter, that are blocking the account. Earlier this week India’s government fired a broadside at Twitter for its lack of cooperation…
Twitter has been notably absent from the Indian government’s drive to ‘clean up’ social media, which has seen a series of court cases and high profile comments made against Facebook,…
The Indian Internet space is in a time of flux right, but the appeal of social networking services continues to rise in the country. New data from comScore reveals that its…
Two news items from the tech startup ecosystem broke through the clutter of politics, cricket, Bollywood, and more politics news in India earlier this month. The first was good. The…
While it’s public knowledge that Zynga is having a rough time of it, not all gaming companies are struggling. One such firm is NaturalMotion, whose title ‘CSR Racing’ is currently…
It’s been less than six months since India ecommerce giant Flipkart made its way into digital music sales with the launch of Flyte in February, but already the fledgling service…
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