India Internet News
In the Works – AWS Region in India
Published 2015-07-02 20:31 -As part of our AWS Enterprise Summits in India, we have announced our intent to open an AWS Infrastructure Region there in 2016. With tens of thousands of customers in India already making great use of AWS to drive cost savings, accelerate innovation, speed time to market and expand their geographic reach, I am confident that this new region will become a great home for startups, small-to-medium businesses, enterprises, and the public sector.
IRCTC's Aadhaar Play can Violate SC Order and derail National Security
Published 2015-07-01 22:25 -According to Sandip Dutta, Public Relations Officer at IRCTC, the plan, although still in the preliminary state, is to make Aadhaar compulsory, and prevent touts from further exploiting the e-ticketing platform.
India's financial institutions sixth-most targetted by 'Dyre Trojan' malware: Symantec
Published 2015-06-24 13:01 -Financial institutions in India are the sixth-most targetted globally by a new malware 'Dyre Trojan' that is configured to defraud the customers of more than 1,000 banks and other companies
Government proposes income tax benefits for debit/credit card payments
Published 2015-06-24 01:10 -Finance minister Arun Jaitley had announced the government's intent to encourage cashless transactions in his budget speech.
Uber Data Collection Changes Should Be Barred, Privacy Group Urges
Published 2015-06-23 10:10 -A US based privacy rights group known as Electronic Privacy Information Center said in a letter to the F.T.C. that Uber had “a history of abusing the location data of its customers.
Amitabh Bachchan Unveils Online Ecosystem For Children
Published 2015-06-13 15:08 -Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan has unveiled the new look of worldoo.com, touted as India’s first co-created online ecosystem for children aged six to 12.
The initiative was announced at a special unveiling here on Thursday with founder Monish Ghatalia.
Airtel's mystery code raises privacy concerns
Published 2015-06-10 01:36 -Telecom giant Airtel has been accused of injecting lines of code into its users' web browsers without their knowledge, whenever they visit a web page via its 3G network.
Ola Cabs hacked again! Hackers breach staging server
Published 2015-06-08 01:59 -Their Application design is very poor and their development server is weakly configured. The hack was a little tricky and involved many steps to get to the database. Once we got to the database it was like winning a lottery. It had all the user details along with credit card transaction history and unused vouchers. The voucher codes are not even out yet. Its obvious that we wont be using credit card details and voucher codes. We dropped them a mail but no response from their side as of now.
Rabindranath Tagore works available for Android users
Published 2015-06-01 19:10 -On the poet's 155-birth anniversary celebrated on May 9, the Society for Natural Language Technology Research (SNLTR), set up under the West Bengal government's Information Technology Department in 2007, has inaugurated the services on an App for Android users
India - 2019 Forecast Highlights
Published 2015-06-01 02:33 -- IP traffic will grow 4-fold from 2014 to 2019, a compound annual growth rate of 33%.
- IP traffic will reach 4.0 Exabytes per month in 2019, up from 967 Petabytes per month in 2014.
- IP networks will carry 132 Petabytes per day in 2019, up from 32 Petabytes per day in 2014.
- IP traffic will reach an annual run rate of 48.3 Exabytes in 2019, up from an annual run rate of 11.6 Exabytes in 2014.
- IP traffic will reach 3 Gigabytes per capita in 2019, up from 1 Gigabytes per capita in 2014.
- Average IP traffic will reach 12 Tbps in 2019, and busy hour traffic will reach 39 Tbps.
- In 2019, the gigabyte equivalent of all movies ever made will cross India's IP networks every 1 hours.