Despite a booming Information Technology industry, large percentages of India's population still battle to get a regular, readily available internet connection. This lack of penetration threatens to hamper further development in the region.Only three percent of all Indians living in rural areas will be active Internet users by the end of this year, according to forecasts by the Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI). The same percentage of the entire population actually own PCs.The low figures come ...

Symbian is officially dead, in North America and the UK at least. Here lies a mobile OS which paved the way for the smartphones of today, now destined to be remembered as another missed opportunity in a line of failures from Nokia.Nokia's final Symbian phone was the Astound, which had the misfortune of launching directly after the announcement of the company's adoption of Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 mobile OS. Thanks to the upcoming closure of its US Symbian division, the ...

A hair-thin electronic patch that adheres to the skin like a temporary tattoo could transform medical sensing, computer gaming and even spy operations, according to a recent US study.The micro-electronics technology, called an epidermal electronic system (EES), was developed by an international team of researchers from the United States, China and Singapore, and is described in the journal Science."It's a technology that blurs the distinction between electronics and biology," said co-author John Rogers, a professor in materials science and engineering ...

The threat of riots on the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) system, in response to the fatal shooting of a transit police officer, caused the agency to turn off its support for mobile phone signals. This incited hacking group Anonymous, who retaliated by defacing the official BART website.An online post from the Anonymous Twitter account read, "BART made a conscious decision of ordering various cell phone companies to terminate services for the downtown area inhibiting those ...

The renting out of personal possessions has taken off in France, with websites such as e-loue (which means e-hire), Donnons.org and Co-recyclage leading the way in private transactions.As economies across Europe face ever-declining growth rates, unemployment levels have risen sharply and the average consumer's spending power has taken a nosedive.The sudden popularity of websites like e-loue and Dannon can be seen as part of a new found acceptance toward pre-owned goods by consumers affected by the economic ...

Much attention has been given to the negative use of social media during the recent wave of riots which spread through cities across the UK. British Prime Minister David Cameron sees the potential for services like Facebook, Twitter and BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) to incite violence as being so great that he even proposed giving police and intelligence services the power to shut down social media channels during periods of national emergency. This would only happen in Libya, right? Apparently not.The ...

Some 22 new fake Apple stores have been discovered in South Western China. This comes just weeks after an American blogger unearthed a store so convincing its staff apparently thought they worked for Steve Jobs himself.All 22 of the stores are in the city of Kunming, where the original fake store was found. The shops have all since been ordered to stop using the Apple logo on their store fronts, state-run China National Radio said on its website.It ...

There are few industries that have felt the move to digital and online more acutely and publicly than the music industry. The rise and fall of Napster, the move from CDs to mp3, viral sensations, piracy, the iPod, iTunes, Spotify. Many have fallen and floundered in the change, others have fed and flourished. As established 'music industry' revenues sit at record lows, Apple's rise to one of the most successful companies in the world counts the success of the iPod ...

Without doubt, "when is the best time to send email newsletters?" is one of the most frequently asked questions in email marketing today, and has been since time immemorial. Well at least since this online marketing strategy first started making a name for itself over a decade ago.The truth is if you asked this question to 10 different email marketers, you'd likely get 10 different answers. Sure, there's the Tuesday/Thursday morning/afternoon suggestion, or the 'send over a weekend' advice ...

One of the most frequent questions clients ask me is: "How am I doing compared to my competition?" Owing to the fact that many clients don't understand the intricacies of AdWords, the smart (and totally not facetious) answer is usually: "How long is a piece of string?"The beauty of AdWords lies in the kinds of keywords you're bidding on, how much you're bidding, what match types you're using to capture those words, what negative keywords you're using, what kind ...