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Internet services suspended in Jodhpur after stone-pelting incident

According to an order issued by Jodhpur Divisional Commissioner Himanshu Gupta all internet services have been suspended in Jodhpur beginning from 1 am today.

Internet will never be the same again

Under the DSA, users will have to be informed if their content is taken down, along with a statement of reasons

Reddit adds 'search comments' tool to boost results for users

With this latest update, rolling out first for desktop users, can be accessed by heading to the home feed and clicking within the search bar, and conduct a search

Reliance Jio launches Rs 259 'calendar month validity' prepaid plan

India's largest telecom operator Reliance Jio has launched Rs 259 plan that comes with calendar month validity to help prepaid users remember just one recharge date every month.

Rajesh Jain, pioneer of India's dotcom era, preps IPO for second startup

Rajesh Jain, 54, a pioneer of India's internet industry, is readying his second startup Netcore Cloud Pvt. for an initial public offer within the next year

Mt Everest base camp to have high speed Internet soon, says report

Private sector telecommunication company of Nepal, Ncell is building the world's highest cell phone tower at an altitude of 5,200 metres on Mt. Everest

War censorship exposes Russian President Putin's leaky internet controls

Long before waging war on Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin was working to make Russia's internet a powerful tool of surveillance and social control akin to China's so-called Great Firewall.

Mobile internet user growth slowed down drastically in 2021, shows data

389 million people still did not use mobile internet in 2021, while 765.8 million did

Per hour cost of internet shutdown is going up in India, shows data

In 2021, an hour of shutdown cost the country $0.5 mn; in 2020, it was $0.31 mn

Elon Musk's Starlink internet now active in war-torn Ukraine

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy thanked SpaceX chief executive Elon Musk for giving Ukraine access to his company's satellite-internet system, called Starlink. I'm grateful to him for supporting Ukraine with words and deeds Zelenskyy said in a tweet. Next week we will receive another batch of Starlink systems for destroyed cities. He joked that they discussed possible space projects, which he would talk about after the war. Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko on Saturday showed off a shipment of the Starlink systems that had arrived in the capital city. He said Starlink would help secure the work of critical infrastructure and the defense of the city. Several large Ukrainian cities remained without internet or phone connection after being shelled by Russian troops.

SpaceX successfully launches 47 Starlink satellites to low orbit

The mission, flown by Falcon 9 booster "B1060", has completed 11 flights since its debut in June 2020.

What is a P2P network? How does it work?

Most of our work-PCs are connected with a centralised server. There is another set of network which doesn't have a server. It is called peer-to-peer network or P2P. This report offers a peek into it

What is OTT platform? Which regulations govern it?

Actor Ajay Devgn stirred a debate by saying that actors' move to OTT platforms "was more about finding the right subject" and not the pandemic. Find out more about the platforms and its regulations

Reliance Jio ties up with SES for satellite-based broadband service

The two companies will form a joint venture with Jio Platforms Ltd and SES owning 51 per cent and 49 per cent stake, respectively.

Airtel internet services suffer outage, firm says 'technical glitch'

While 50 per cent users reported facing total blackout, 34 per cent had problems with mobile Internet and 16 per cent had no signal, according to Downdetector.

What is Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6)?

With the rise in the number of devices using Internet, the current IPv 4 is bursting at the seams. The world is now switching to IPv6 to accommodate billions of addresses. Let us know more about IPv6

TMS Ep106: RBI policy rates, drone economy, markets, IPv6

What does RBI's status quo on key policy rates mean? Will India's drone economy take off after ban on imports? Will RBI policy give support to equities and bonds? What is IPv6? Find all answers here

Despite high downloads, mobile apps struggle to make money in India

InMobi surveyed 1,000 smartphone gamers and was surprised to find that 74 per cent preferred to watch an ad for progressing within the game rather than make app payments

Data price hikes limited Facebook user growth in India, says Meta

Increase in data rates in India limited the user growth of Meta (formerly Facebook) in the December 2021 quarter, the social media major said. Telecom companies Bharti Airtel, Vodafone Idea and Reliance Jio had increased their mobile service rates in the range of 18 to 25 per cent in the December quarter. The profit of Meta declined by 8 per cent to USD 10.28 billion in the December 2021 quarter, from USD 11.21 billion in the same period a year ago. "Facebook user growth was impacted by a few headwinds in the fourth quarter. In Asia-Pacific and Rest of World, we believe Covid resurgences during prior periods pulled forward user growth. User growth in India was also limited by an increase in data package pricing. "In addition to these factors, we believe competitive services are negatively impacting growth, particularly with younger audiences," Meta's Chief Financial Officer Dave Wehner said during an earnings call. Its monthly active users (MAUs), however, grew 4 per cent on an an

Internet panel on languages ropes in Vijay Shekhar Sharma as ambassador

Universal Acceptance Steering Group works on developing and recommending standards for languages script that are not currently used to access the internet