Browsing Tag: Internet

Though the topic of explicit erotic material has, in the past, been considered taboo even among the upwardly mobile urban populace, 60% of Indian online traffic is pornography related. Recent stats released by an adult website PornHub show that 30% of the Indian visitors on their site are women, 6% higher than the global average of women visitors.

A recent article published by Facebook suggests that less than 40 percent of the world's population has an Internet connection. While that figure continues to increase each year, the rate of growth has now slowed for four consecutive years.

The internet must be fast, fair and open. That is the message I’ve heard from consumers and innovators across this nation. That is the principle that has enabled the internet to become an unprecedented platform for innovation and human expression.

Jasjit Singh, University of Leeds, Collaborative Studentship holder under the supervision of Professor Kim Knott, Programme Award Holder,and Dr Sean McLoughlin, has passed his PhD Viva with minor corrections.

Sikhs don’t make much religion news. They don’t go on TV announcing their intention to burn Korans; they don’t loudly forecast apocalypse; and they have not had to defend their faith as one of them races to be president of the United States.

The report examines the dramatic growth we’re seeing in the mobile Internet space, including the massive demands for mobile data, the growth of mobile video, and the rise of the smartphone as new gateway to the web itself.

Both Facebook and Google have removed online material alleged to pose a risk of social unrest in India, following legal threats to block the sites completely.

Growing up with the Internet gives today’s children a very unique view on the way the world works — one that is vastly different from that of older generations.

And there, buried in its pink pages, is where he sees it: A tiny news brief announcing the Indian government’s extension of a contract tender to build an ultra-cheap tablet computer for the masses.

The Indian government has asked Internet companies and social media sites like Facebook to prescreen user content from India and to remove disparaging, inflammatory or defamatory content before it goes online.

Of the 3,000 people surveyed, which included college students and young professionals, a whopping 1/3 considered the Internet to be as important as the air we breath.

If the survey was meant to exploit the ways in which developed nations take many aspects of their lives for granted, consider it mission accomplished.

During his two-hour morning bike ride, Eric Hartman doesn't pay much attention to his iPhone. But the iPhone is paying attention to him.

New Internet rules that seek to enhance national security and limit offensive content have sparked an angry debate about free speech in the world’s largest democracy.

The researchers were surprised to find that people seemed better able to recall the folder. "That kind of blew my mind," Dr. Sparrow said in an interview. The experiment explores an aspect of what is known as transactive memory - the notion that we rely on our family, friends and co-workers as well as reference material to store information for us.

Crossan says he wasn't interested in making a political statement - he just wanted to tackle a complex problem that also might further Google's crusade to "organize the world's information and make it universally accessible."

The ITU report also noted that U.N. analysts expect that there will be 226 Million new Internet users just this year, and that 162 Million of them will be from developing countries.

When she was three, Avvalprit Kaur used to sit on her father's lap while he surfed the Internet. By the time her next birthday rang in, she was online herself-playing games on Barbie and Walt Disney websites. She started blogging at 9, and now at 12 she's also on Twitter and has her own Facebook account.

A large part of the growth in communications in developing countries is however coming primarily from China and India. Although developing countries have more mobile subscriptions than developed countries, more than one-third of mobile subscribers are in China and India...

Pitted against this are those who argue that government choke holds on the Internet cannot succeed. Bloggers like Mr. Zhang argue that growing restrictions on Internet speech only inflame ordinary users, and that bit by bit “people are pushing the wall back.”