Internet communications company, Nimbuzz is considering buying the new Unified Licenses for an amount of 15 crores so that it can start offering Internet telephony services in the country. The unified license was announced by the Indian Government recently but it still has to detail the guidelines and other important agreements. After reviewing these conditions, the company is likely to go ahead and...

There is no doubt that India’s Internet Growth is accelerating at never before seen pace. Fueled by rapid proliferation of portable electronics Indians are using more internet based products & services than ever before. However, Internet Giants seem to have completely ignored these healthy growth signals & are favouring relatively smaller destinations like Singapore to host their Data Centers. Why...

We had written about how Google had gotten into trouble with the Google Mapathon contest which it held in February and March. According to the complaint raised by the Survey of India regarding the illegality of the contest. According to the National Map Policy, the Survey of India is the only authorized body which can map places in India. The Mapathon contest depended on user generated content....

Google’s Mapathon 2013 has come under the scanner again and this time the contest is attracting police investigation. The Survey of India, the official survey and mapping organisation of the country, has filed complaint against the search engine giant for allegedly breaching India’s defense regulations on mapping. ”Mapathon 2013 activity is likely to jeopardise national security interest...

Salman Khurshid, the Indian minister of external affairs has voiced the opinion that social media should be regulated in the country. He says that everyone is free to use social media but freedoms need to be regulated in order to safeguard them. This view (or spin) is in stark contrast to how Sibal and gang were looking at social media last year. Much outrage was sparked over the need to censor social...

Last Friday, Microsoft announced that it had received around 418  requests to disclose information by the Indian Government in 2012. There were 594 user accounts that were specified in this request. This is the first time that the company has revealed such data. It plans to regularly release such data in its ‘Law Enforcement Requests Report’ to keep the service transparent. Microsoft released...

As more people and services come online, there seems to be a strong surveillance and data access trend among Government enforcement agencies, according to Google. It seems that the Indian Government and its enforcement agencies are demanding requests for takedown or personal information at a  rate of 13 requests per day, on an average. Google’s latest transparency report suggests that governmental...

Eminent serial tweeters and tech savvy personalities  like Shashi Tharoor, Shah Rukh Khan and Shabana Azmi has been roped in by the Congress for it’s official Twitter handle. The Congress has also set-up a 35 member team to counter and monitor the propaganda and other negative tweets and references to the party on the social networking site. Calling in such personalities just shows the priority...

The national free roaming service which Kapil Sibal promised Indians last year during the release of the National Telecom Policy has been postponed again. It was supposed to be implemented by March this year but will now be put into action in the month of October, according to reports. This free roaming thing has been a subject of much debate between the Government and cellular network operators as...

Sistema Shyam who owns & operates mobile service company MTS, is shutting down operations in 10 operating circles. Citing uncertainties resulting from the Supreme Court’s decision to cancel licenses given in 2008, the operator is now forced to wrap-up its operations in 10 of its circles. Quizzed on the number Vsevolod Rozanov, President and CEO, Sistema Shyam TeleServices, said, “The 10 circles...