India

Privacy advocates are up in arms after India the country's government began stealthily rolling out a central monitoring system that will allow it to monitor its citizens' phone calls and internet communications in the name of national security.The multi-million dollar central monitoring system is believed to have initially have ...

The people of India are watching double the number of online videos they were two years ago.New research from comScore suggests that the BRIC giant is consuming 3.7-billion videos per month, up from 1.86-billion in 2011.This dramatic growth, says comScore, is largely down to a sizeable increase in ...

With India as Opera Mini’s largest user base in the world, Opera Software has some very interesting things to share about the state of Android in India. Note that the data presents the state of Android in India based on Opera Mini users’ data and may not necessarily be true ...

Indian mobile ad network Vserv.mobi has announced a strategic partnership with Yahoo! that will see the two companies attempting to conquer South East Asia.In an official blog post, Vserv says the move is part of Yahoo's efforts at becoming predominantly mobile company."With this partnership", the company says, "our ...

Pocketing US$50-million is no joke, so hopefully this one is not inspired by April Fool’s Day. According to Indian tech blog NextBigWhat, eBay has led a huge round of investment in India-based ecommerce site SnapDeal. Not yet officially confirmed, the rumored US$50-million sum comes 18 months after a US$40-million round, ...

On Wednesday, Microsoft's corporate vice president of corporate communications Frank Shaw wrote a blog post detailing some of the Microsoft's progress across a number of different product areas, including Windows Phone.Among the factoids in the post was one saying that, according to a recent report from tech research company ...

Google chairman Eric Schmidt has told India that it needs to stop censoring the web and instead make innovation a priority.In an editorial for the Times of India, Schmidt says that the government needs to focus its efforts away from trying to censor the likes of Google, Facebook and ...

As time goes on, it becomes clear that this whole internet thing isn’t just a passing fad. Yet somehow, as popular as social networking has become around the world, no one has really managed to solve the problem of what happens to a person’s web presence when they die.Facebook ...

Apple is trying to crack the Indian market for the iPhone in a bid to challenge Samsung's dominance in the emerging market giant.It won't be easy though. According to the Wall Street Journal the Cupertino-based giant will completely overhaul its operations in the country to better adjust to its ...

Representatives from Amazon have met with Indian officials in a bid to get them to relax strict laws which stop foreign ecommerce companies entering the country.According to the Telegraph India, the ecommerce giant met with the country's commerce minister to discus relaxing rules which stop it selling directly to ...