Telecom – The Centre for Internet & Society

Handy Origins of the winds of change

The Internet, for all the celebrated changes it has made in our lives, still had limited penetration in our country...

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Your telco could help spy on you

Communications minister Kapil Sibal. Photo: Natalie Behring/Bloomberg The article by Joji Thomas Philip, Leslie D’Monte and Shauvik Ghosh was originally...

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Wi-Fi Direct promises range, bandwidth higher than Bluetooth

Screenshot from the Wi-Fi Alliance Website showing a simple Wi-Fi network. Previously known as Peer-to-Peer Wi-Fi, this new technology will...

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Trai promises final call on differential pricing by month-end after ‘lively’ open house

While most, including industry body Internet and Mobile Association of India, said they were against differential pricing, some took a...

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RIM Offered Security Fixes

An Indian salesman checks the audio quality of a phone given for repairs at a Blackberry store in Mumbai on...

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Pushing Buttons

Information is Power: The cellphone tells this mango seller where he can find the best price Bangalore: Today, it no...

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Pushing the buttons for social change

BANGALORE: We have all seen the popular television advertisement that claims that mobile phone technology can be much more than...

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Nishant Shah Quoted in Livemint 2011 Tweet-out

Nishant Shah #LM_2011 Nishant Shah: Skinputting – Mobile computing that uses human body as interface to net; data projected on...

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International ‘code-athon’ in Bangalore

April 22 will be the second day of an international code-athon being held simultaneously in cities across the world. In...

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India’s telecom success story turns sour

The article by Simon Denyer was published in the Washington Post on June 1, 2012. Shyam Ponappa is quoted in...

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