A 13-year-old girl in Tinsukia district of upper Assam was allegedly gang-raped by four persons on suspicion that she had stolen a mobile phone of one of them, police said on Friday. Five persons, including a woman, were arrested. ...
07:45 PM, Jan 04, 2013
After a panchayat in Kishanganj district imposed fine on women using cellphones in December, another one in Siwan district has banned use of mobiles and wearing short dress by school and college girls. The ruling was adopted at a meeting of Siswa Kala panchayat under Hasanpur police station on Wednesday to stop crime against women, Sarpanch Vijaykant Kunwar said. ...
09:00 PM, Jan 03, 2013
India is under the grip of cyber attacks and there is an obvious peak in the growth of malware and their modifications on mobile devices, especially on the Android platform, according to a report. ...
07:22 PM, Jan 03, 2013
Pakistan on Thursday blocked cellular services in over 50 towns and cities, including Islamabad, to prevent terror attacks on Shia processions to commemorate the slaying of Imam Hussein, one of the most revered Shia figures. Officials of the Interior Ministry have contended that mobile phones are used to trigger improvised explosive devices. ...
04:37 PM, Jan 03, 2013
Goa Police has registered an offence against suspected serial killer Mahanand Naik under Information Technology Act for threatening a woman, whom he had allegedly raped, using a mobile phone from inside the high-security Central Jail at Aguada near Panaji. "Inquiries into the complaint made by the victim at Ponda Police had revealed that the calls were actually made to her from the mobile phone which had a location at Calangute,...
11:26 AM, Jan 03, 2013
Bharti Airtel launched mEducation services that will enable its customers to access courses for English learning, competitive exam preparation and career counselling on their mobile phones. ...
05:16 PM, Jan 02, 2013
India is expected to have close to 165 million mobile internet users by March 2014, up from 87.1 million in December 2012 as more people are accessing the web through mobile devices and dongles, a report by Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) and IMRB said today. ...
04:49 PM, Jan 02, 2013
Leading Islamic seminary Darul Uloom Deoband has issued an order banning its students from using mobile phones with cameras and seized 14 such devices from the hostel. ...
12:48 PM, Dec 31, 2012
Bharti Infratel, backed by billionaire Sunil Mittal, fell as much as 12.7 per cent in its trading debut after raising about $760 million in India's biggest IPO in two years, weighed down by a cautious outlook for mobile tower operators. The IPO, priced near the lower end of an indicative price range, struggled to find interest from retail investors and was supported mostly by foreign institutional investors. But analysts are...
11:27 AM, Dec 28, 2012
Zync has announced the expansion of its portfolio with the launch of six new dual SIM phones - Zync C18, Zync C21, Zync C22, Zync C24, Zync C27 and Zync C30. ...
04:13 PM, Dec 24, 2012
New Delhi: Shares in Bharti Airtel fell as much as 3.2 per cent on Friday amid speculation that the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) may file charges against India's top mobile phone carrier as part of a broader case involving alleged irregularities in airwave allocations. A source at the CBI told Reuters that officials were likely to file charges related to the broader case as early as Friday but did...
02:38 PM, Dec 21, 2012
San Francisco: Google Inc's mobile ad revenue in the United States will be roughly $4 billion next year, while Facebook Inc's nascent mobile advertising business will more than double, according to a new study by research firm eMarketer. Marketers are boosting spending on ads that reach consumers on smartphones and tablet PCs at a much faster than expected pace, eMarketer said on Monday. The firm said it expects that overall...
11:16 AM, Dec 18, 2012
New Delhi: Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal on Thursday said nationwide Mobile Number Portability (MNP) is expected to be rolled out by February 2013, which will allow users to retain their numbers even if they move from one state to another. "For the timely implementation of the National Telecom Policy (NTP) 2012, the Department of Telecom has finalised broad agenda for next three months from December 2012 to February 2013," Sibal...
10:29 AM, Dec 13, 2012
New Delhi: Social media is the playground of hoaxes and many of these just refuse to fade away. The 'cosmo rays from Mars' rumour (and also its rebuttal) has been doing the rounds for long and has again reappeared with renewed gusto on our timelines. The hoax message with information attributed to NASA and BBC says, "Tonight 12:30 am to 3:30 am cosmo rays entering Earth form Mars. So switch...
06:23 AM, Dec 12, 2012
Mumbai/New Delhi: Great Wall Motor Co is in talks to open a plant in India, a move that would make it the first Chinese carmaker to operate in the country without a partner. "They are meeting industry. They are meeting government. They are meeting suppliers," Vishnu Mathur, director general of the Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers - a lobby group said. Great Wall, which sells its sport-utility vehicles and pick-up...
06:03 PM, Dec 10, 2012
Bijnor: A regressive and strange diktat has ruffled feathers in Uttar Pradesh. Women students in Bijnor have been barred from wearing black clothing and jeans at a function to be presided by Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav. Reports say women have also been barred from wearing jeans and using mobile phones. This order has come not from any religious body, but the district magistrate of Bijnor who is a woman herself....
08:26 AM, Dec 10, 2012
Patna: A village council in Bihar has banned the use of mobile phones by women, saying the phones were "debasing the social atmosphere" by leading to elopements. The move set off outraged protests from activists. In addition to the ban, the Sunderbari village council in a Muslim-dominated area some 385 kilometers east of Patna has also imposed a fine of Rs 10,000 if a girl is caught using a mobile...
01:08 PM, Dec 05, 2012
New Delhi: Mary Meeker, a partner at Kleiner Perkins Caulfield and Byers, has released her '2012 Internet Trends Year-End Update' and it also includes interesting statistics on Internet and mobile usage in India. The year-end report is an update to the 2012 Internet Trends report published in May 2012. Highlights: - There are 2.4 billion Internet users in the world of which 137 million are in India. - India added...
02:40 PM, Dec 04, 2012
"As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise," Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author George Frederick Will once said. As the short messaging service, or SMS turns 20, it has swept aside in two decades known conventions about courtesy, relationship, language and communication. It troubles linguists that SMS has made deep inroads in language and unfastened from the root the basics on which any language stands. Take...
09:06 AM, Dec 04, 2012
New Delhi: "Merry Christmas" said the first SMS that was sent out 20 years ago. Two decades and trillions of SMSs later, fewer people will wish their family and friends "Merry Christmas" via an SMS compared to the year before. The humble 160-character Short Message Service may have been revolutionary, but like many revolutions this too is in the process of being overtaken along the evolutionary path and the SMS...
03:09 PM, Dec 03, 2012
