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Financial institutions, airlines briefly hit by internet outages

The Hong Kong Stock Exchange said in a post on Twitter Thursday afternoon Hong Kong time that its site was facing technical issues and that it was investigating

Elon Musk's Starlink plans to put faster Wi-Fi on commercial airplanes

Starlink is in talks with "several" airlines for in-flight Wi-Fi, media reports said

'Domino effect': Why the world's biggest websites suddenly went offline

Failure at Fastly, which helps websites load their pages faster, sent vast swaths of the web offline on Tuesday.

Websites back online after Fastly-linked glitch takes down internet

High traffic sites, including Reddit, Amazon, CNN, Paypal & Spotify, rumble back to life after Fastly linked disruption

Sam Pitroda's leap of faith

Book review of Redesign the World: A Global Call to Action

Entrepreneur Aman Bhadouria Counts On The Internet For His Success

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The human factor redux

Book review of The Empathy Diaries: A Memoir

5G's bouquet of promises: A technology that can change our lives forever

With the myriad possibilities that super high speeds and ultra-low latency could bring, telcos in India are looking at killer applications to attract consumers initially

India at 49th spot on internet inclusion globally: Facebook study

This comes despite cheapest data plans and nearly 700 million internet users

Backsliding without broadband

We are losing out on so much of our potential because of regulatory constraints

Localising of internet: A peek into state-wise consumption of online media

The report is an illustration of the axiom that media is the most local of all products

Starlink internet speed will double to 300Mbps this year: Elon Musk

He said that Starlink project will cover most of Earth by end of year, all by next year, then "it's about densifying coverage"

4 in 5 Bihar women have never used the internet; Sikkim tops the chart

The data show that people in urban areas and men have more access to the internet than those in rural areas, and women

China steps up online controls with new rule for bloggers: Report

"As an international affairs researcher and a columnist, it looks like I can only go the route of entertainment, food and beverage now," the international relations professor wrote on Jan. 31

Starlink to go public once cash flow gets predictable: Elon Musk

Musk has said that his space-based Internet service Starlink will list publicly after the cash flow of the service becomes 'reasonably well'

India has potential to create Aatmanirbhar secured internet, says ITI forum

India now has the potential to create its own secured internet by setting up a root server locally for less than Rs 10 crore, according to state-run ITI and industry platform IPv6 Forum.

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

Start-up's flights of fancy

India's first home-grown messenger app Hike shut down and vanished from app stores on Monday

BSE cash market trades on mobiles up 11x on wider access, cheap data

The share of cash market trades carried out on mobile phones was 1.5 per cent in January 2016 on the BSE. It rose to 16.6 per cent in December last year.

Two steps to boost broadband usage

The first, fixing technology gaps, should be easy. The second warrants consideration for better services and to avoid undue disruption