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NPCI Targets 300 Million New Users for UPI Payments Platform
National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) aims to draw an additional 200 million to 300 million Indians to UPI to “break their cash memory”. The outfit is piloting vision recognition technology to encourage higher UPI usage in parking payments, he added.
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Facebook, YouTube Said to Be Warned Against Misuse of Deepfakes by Indian Government
India's government on Friday warned social media firms including Facebook and YouTube to repeatedly remind users that local laws prohibit them from posting deepfakes and content that spreads obscenity or misinformation, two sources told Reuters. The warning was conveyed by deputy IT minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar in a closed-door meeting where he sa...
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UIDAI Partners With IIT Bombay to Develop Touchless Biometric Capture System
The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has joined hands with the Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay (IIT-Bombay) to develop a robust touchless biometric capture system for easier usage anytime and anywhere, the Ministry of Electronics and IT said.
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Indians Spent 4.7 Hours Daily on Their Phones in 2021, App Annie's State of Mobile 2022 Report Finds
Smartphone usage in India has increased for the third year in a row, with Indian smartphone owners using their devices for an average of 4.7 hours a day in 2021. According to a report by App Annie, Indian users accounted for nearly 27 billion downloads in 2021, and finance, dating and food delivery apps saw an increase in usage last year mid the co...
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Amazon India Scraps Single-Use Plastic in Packaging Across Centres
The Indian unit of Amazon.com has eliminated all single-use plastic in its packaging across fulfilment centres in the country, in line with its target to weed out the packaging material by June, the e-commerce giant said on Monday.
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Indian Mobile Users Have Already Consumed 55 Million Terabytes of Data This Year: TRAI
The volume of total wireless data usage increased from 828 million gigabytes during the year 2014 to 46,404 million gigabytes during the year 2018 and not stopping there, the usage in 2019 is expected to surpass the previous year by a significant margin.
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Amazon Prime Video Service Looking to Expand Indian Regional Content
In little after a year of its launch in India, Amazon's bet on original Hindi shows and a library of films in five local languages has paid off.
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Amazon Great Indian Sale India Sets New Records, Drives Pay and Prime Usage
Apple and Samsung smartphones triumphed at Amazon India's recent sale.
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Now, RailTel Denies Porn Viewed at Patna Station
A spokesperson said that RailTel, being an Internet Service Provider, does not keep watch over the web sites being browsed by the users.
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Shopping Top Reason For Indians To Access Internet: Survey
Indians voted online shopping as the top reason to access internet, spending an average of about Rs 9,400 a month on e-purchases, followed by social networking, according to a survey.
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Smartbro for Android Lets You Track Your Prepaid Balance in Real Time
Smartbro, an operator agnostic app released in January on Google Play, analyses call and data usage to presents talk time balance in real-time, on the dialer, in Indian languages.
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Here's an Indian ISP That Actually Supports Net Neutrality
ACT Fibernet's CTO says that Internet providers shouldn't discriminate against content, should focus on building a good network.
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Indian Internet Users to Surpass US in 2014
Indian Internet users will surpass the number in the US by the end of this year and around 500 million people will be online by 2018, Rajan Anandan, managing director, Google India said today.
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India Has Higher Smartphone Usage Than the US: Study
Indian users spend 3 hours 18 minutes on average everyday with their smartphone, higher than US users' 2 hours 12 minutes.
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FDI in Inventory-Led E-Commerce to Help Grow Internet Usage: IAMAI
According to the Internet Mobile Association Of India (IAMAI), only 25 million of over 231 million Internet users in India transacted online (as of December 2013), taking the Indian e-Commerce market to Rs 62,697 crore.
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NPCI Targets 300 Million New Users for UPI Payments Platform
National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) aims to draw an additional 200 million to 300 million Indians to UPI to “break their cash memory”. The outfit is piloting vision recognition technology to encourage higher UPI usage in parking payments, he added.
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Facebook, YouTube Said to Be Warned Against Misuse of Deepfakes by Indian Government
India's government on Friday warned social media firms including Facebook and YouTube to repeatedly remind users that local laws prohibit them from posting deepfakes and content that spreads obscenity or misinformation, two sources told Reuters. The warning was conveyed by deputy IT minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar in a closed-door meeting where he sa...
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UIDAI Partners With IIT Bombay to Develop Touchless Biometric Capture System
The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has joined hands with the Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay (IIT-Bombay) to develop a robust touchless biometric capture system for easier usage anytime and anywhere, the Ministry of Electronics and IT said.
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Indians Spent 4.7 Hours Daily on Their Phones in 2021, App Annie's State of Mobile 2022 Report Finds
Smartphone usage in India has increased for the third year in a row, with Indian smartphone owners using their devices for an average of 4.7 hours a day in 2021. According to a report by App Annie, Indian users accounted for nearly 27 billion downloads in 2021, and finance, dating and food delivery apps saw an increase in usage last year mid the co...
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Amazon India Scraps Single-Use Plastic in Packaging Across Centres
The Indian unit of Amazon.com has eliminated all single-use plastic in its packaging across fulfilment centres in the country, in line with its target to weed out the packaging material by June, the e-commerce giant said on Monday.
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Indian Mobile Users Have Already Consumed 55 Million Terabytes of Data This Year: TRAI
The volume of total wireless data usage increased from 828 million gigabytes during the year 2014 to 46,404 million gigabytes during the year 2018 and not stopping there, the usage in 2019 is expected to surpass the previous year by a significant margin.
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Amazon Prime Video Service Looking to Expand Indian Regional Content
In little after a year of its launch in India, Amazon's bet on original Hindi shows and a library of films in five local languages has paid off.
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Amazon Great Indian Sale India Sets New Records, Drives Pay and Prime Usage
Apple and Samsung smartphones triumphed at Amazon India's recent sale.
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Now, RailTel Denies Porn Viewed at Patna Station
A spokesperson said that RailTel, being an Internet Service Provider, does not keep watch over the web sites being browsed by the users.
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Shopping Top Reason For Indians To Access Internet: Survey
Indians voted online shopping as the top reason to access internet, spending an average of about Rs 9,400 a month on e-purchases, followed by social networking, according to a survey.
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Smartbro for Android Lets You Track Your Prepaid Balance in Real Time
Smartbro, an operator agnostic app released in January on Google Play, analyses call and data usage to presents talk time balance in real-time, on the dialer, in Indian languages.
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Here's an Indian ISP That Actually Supports Net Neutrality
ACT Fibernet's CTO says that Internet providers shouldn't discriminate against content, should focus on building a good network.
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Indian Internet Users to Surpass US in 2014
Indian Internet users will surpass the number in the US by the end of this year and around 500 million people will be online by 2018, Rajan Anandan, managing director, Google India said today.
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India Has Higher Smartphone Usage Than the US: Study
Indian users spend 3 hours 18 minutes on average everyday with their smartphone, higher than US users' 2 hours 12 minutes.
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FDI in Inventory-Led E-Commerce to Help Grow Internet Usage: IAMAI
According to the Internet Mobile Association Of India (IAMAI), only 25 million of over 231 million Internet users in India transacted online (as of December 2013), taking the Indian e-Commerce market to Rs 62,697 crore.
