Data Usage

Data that powers artificial intelligence is disappearing a rapid pace

Over the past year, many of the most important web sources used for training AI models have restricted the use of their data, according to a study by the Data Provenance Initiative

Data stickiness likely to see users absorb mobile tariff hike: Analysts

Industry ARPU may rise 15% to Rs 220 in FY25

CtrlS Datacenters Ltd to ramp up its capacity to over 1 gigawatt in 4 yrs

The ambitious plan includes expansions in Mumbai, Hyderabad, and Chennai

Salesforce abandons talks to acquire data-management firm Informatica

Informatica's shares closed at $35.19 on Friday, valuing the Redwood City, California-based company at about $11.2 billion, including debt

How tech giants cut corners to harvest data for artificial intelligence

Like OpenAI, Google transcribed YouTube videos to harvest text for its AI models, five people with knowledge of the company's practices said

Empowering people to monetise their data

India has an opportunity to lead the conversation on rewarding individuals for their data used by Big Tech

Arrests of Indian journalists on the rise, especially in the past decade

There has been a marked uptick in imprisonments and killings of journalists after 2012 compared to the years before. The CPJ database has recorded data from 1992 onwards

Contact tracing data of citizens from Aarogya Setu app deleted: Minister

Contact tracing feature of the Aarogya Setu mobile application has been discontinued and contact tracing data collected through it has been deleted

India more conscious than ever about its data usage: S Jaishankar

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said that the country is now more conscious of the fact that where and who processes its data

India second among 21 countries in H1 2022 Arpu rise, shows data

Also ranked 6th among 26 countries in data usage growth over same period

Data centre business to double by 2024, demand to help real estate: Reports

Investments in data centres expected to surpass $20 billion by 2025, with smaller cities gaining too

WEF 2022: How data and tech are driving change in predicting future

The advent of technology and the resulting change in our ability to foresee potential future events has coincided with an exponential increase in the range and variety of possible outcomes.

Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs announces 'Open Data Week'

The Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) on Monday announced the initiation of the Open Data Week to encourage the adoption of open data and promote innovation across India's urban ecosystem.

Mastercard submits new audit to India after ban over data handling

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on July 14 sent panic-waves through Indian banking partners by announcing a ban, effective from July 22, to prevent the U.S. giant from issuing new cards.

What are content delivery networks and why big websites crash together

Such networks are popular with large, high-traffic websites and those offering big files to download

Reduced data cost could enable affordable access: Economic Survey

Internet and broadband penetration across both urban and rural areas progressed rapidly, and the reduced cost of data could enable the affordable access at a fast pace, Economic Survey said

Covid-19 has potential to accelerate digital adoption in India: Report

The report found a huge jump in Internet usage, with over 40% of the surveyed population saying they spent more than two hours a day on the Internet in the lockdown months

Telcos defy Covid-19, see strong revenue growth on higher data usage: Fitch

Revenue market share continues to consolidate with Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel as Vodafone Idea loses 10 million users per quarter

India's data usage may touch 25 GB a month per user by 2025: Report

Ericsson, in its Mobility Report for June 2020, said India's data traffic growth continued its upward trajectory

As coronavirus lockdown paves way for work from home, internet gets clogged

The average mobile phone data speed nowadays is down over 20 per cent. Fixed broadband has seen an eight per cent decline in speed.