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Ravi Shankar Prasad says Centre finalised plans to frame data protection law to shield sensitive information

Addressing the ongoing Indian Science Congress, 2019, Science Communicators' Meet in Jalandhar on Saturday, Ravi Shankar Prasad said, "India is now the third most attractive investment destination for technology transactions and it is the best time to do science in India."

Right or Left? Home or away? The time has come for India to talk double-edged tech nationalism

Can a nation of one billion people build a global tech giant even as new frontiers of technology arrive?

Facebook needs 'a few years' to fix its problems, says Mark Zuckerberg amidst data leak scandal

Mark Zuckerberg has defended Facebook's business model and shot back at criticism of the social networking giant from Apple CEO Tim Cook.

WhatsApp is testing photo filters in its beta version for Android

WhatsApp is reportedly testing the photo filters feature on Android devices which had been available for iOS users since June.

Iran says Telegram has installed servers in the country, CEO Pavel Durov denies claims

Iran's communications and information technology minister was quoted as saying the widely used Telegram messenger service has transferred some of its servers into the country.

Supreme Court said govt must ensure that WhatsApp users are not 'entrapped'

The Supreme Court on Tuesday asked the government to ensure that 160 million Indian subscribers are not "entrapped" in any manner by service providers like WhatsApp, which is providing free services to its users.

Wannacry ransomware attack: Indian govt on high alert after isolated incidents in four states

Indian computer systems largely escaped a global ransomware attack as the government and companies installed security patches to gain an upper hand against the first wave of an unrivalled global cyber attack.

Watch: Apple rules the market with 715 million iPhones currently in use

There is a reason why expensive iPhones still rule the smartphone market and why several customers replace their old iPhones with new ones.

Microsoft to buy LinkedIn for $26.2 billion

Microsoft Corp agreed to buy LinkedIn Corp for $26.2 billion in its biggest-ever deal, combining the software giant's fast-growing cloud services business with the world's largest online network for professionals.

Here are the ten steps taken by TRAI to strike down differential pricing

In the last few months, the debate had shifted from net neutrality to a 'differential pricing'. While TRAI has been adamant over not relating the two terms, the issue is, in essence, the same.

Will gamification solve your consumer loyalty issues?

Nike believes that more people will take up running and playing because of the FuelBand and thus would be in the market for Nike products.

Facebook goes public, will profit with our private data

Facebook has been lovable in its current avatar but as pressure from shareholders demanding profits will rise, will it be our personal data that will be exploited?

Indian tech enterprise is thriving; LinkedIn told us why

The sale of SlideShare to LinkedIn for $119 million shows Indian tech entrepreneurs are increasingly powering global organisations.

How Google Maps and Android phones can help Indian Railways

This automatically updated train running information will not only be a boon for passengers but also for the Indian Railways as they would be able to track the position of all trains with a good deal of precision.

BlackBerry outage really an outrage

RIM needs to face the facts. While in the US even your average consumer seems to be deserting BlackBerry, even in India BlackBerry is no longer a favourite with geeks, who are mostly Android fanboys in these parts.

Why didn't Apple just call it the iPhone 5? Here's why

Freakonomics argues that Apple's decision to name the latest iPhone as 4s is bad marketing. It would have done better as iPhone 5. Would it, really?

BlackBerry-Foxconn's new smartphone to be available under Rs 12k

This would be a significant plus for BlackBerry, which has been struggling to gain marketshare at prices that are considered extremely high.

Lessons from Snapchat: Using phone numbers for IMs will always be risky

While the Snapchat data breach came as bad news for users, what many may not have realised is that the really scary part was that mobile numbers of users were breached.

At Rs 39,900 the PS4 is way overpriced

The justification provided by the Sony head is not very believable.

How Whatsapp, BBM and Viber have ruined conversations

Today we’ve reached a stage where we’re seeing proliferation of not just devices but software through which we communicate. Am I the only one who has more messenger services on their phone than actual friends?

Thank you Hiroshi Yamauchi, for Nintendo

To Mr Yamauchi, thank you for Nintendo, the Gameboy that taught me to be anti-social before Twitter, the Nintendo 64 and the Gamecube. Actually, for both our sakes, let's just ignore that last one.

BlackBerry Z30 packed with features but pricing needs to be right

While we have only seen demo videos of the Z30 and await a review unit closer to the India launch, we have tried out leaked versions of BlackBerry 10.2 on the Z10 and here's a quick round-up of what's new and what's unique on both the hardware and software fronts.