The research on youth and cellphone usage has found that less than 10 per cent of young Indians used their mobile devices to access the web in the last month while 73 per cent of Chinese aged between 15 and 24 used mobile Internet in the last 30 days, The Independent reported.
The "halal" version of Facebook launched by Pakistanis last month after a ban was imposed on the social networking website for featuring blasphemous caricatures is going strong with 333,000 users having signed up at the last count.
Krishna's appointment as head of the global IT giant adds to the growing list of Indian-origin executives at the helm of some of the biggest multinational companies. Krishna joins the club that includes Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai, MasterCard CEO Ajay Banga, PepsiCo's former CEO Indra Nooyi and Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen.
Maria Sharapova can rise above the furore surrounding her return from a 15-month doping ban if she accepts the decision to deny her a wild card entry to the French Open without rancour, former world number three Pam Shriver has said.
The Kochi IPL controversy also draws attention to the clout of Gulf-based Keralites
Forbes magazine recently released its annual list of the highest paid celebrities. Find out who made the cut:
But why is Tharoor so much an attraction for the uppish media and the conceited politicians? Here is someone, a new entrant to politics, made a minister despite being a first time MP, well-travelled, armed with a formidable curriculum vitae, techno-savvy and witty. Need any more reasons for good old envy?
A quick update on what the stars are saying in 140 characters.
'Modi, with his sharply honed political savvy and undoubted grasp of international affairs, is a past master at taking the measure of world leaders.' 'He would be the last person to think of the unpredictable and not too well-regarded Trump as the mediator,' says B S Raghavan.
After the BJP lost the recent assembly polls, one of Shah's first acts was to appoint new prabharis before the Lok Sabha election. Radhika Ramaseshan reports on the significance of this post that doesn't exist in the BJP's constitution.
Over the past few years, the Internet savvy population has moved from the wide-open Web to semiclosed platforms. It's a whole new world sans HTML.
Meet women entrepreneurs who scripted success stories in the technology domain.
The hi-tech customised rath of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on Thursday broke down after barely covering a kilometre, forcing him to switch to his official vehicle to continue his state-wide tour.
Physical advisors have been receiving tough competition from algorithm-based investment counselling and robo-advisories.
The BJP has named sitting MP Rajiv Pratap Rudy as its nominee on the politically important seat.
Two decades ago when someone said, "I am on a diet," you assumed they would be eating less of everything. Today, those few words lead to a whole new discourse, says Ambi Parameswaran.
US chip-maker Intel Corp is working on reducing the cost of computers to make them affordable to a vast number of people, an official said.
While a good dose of common sense goes a long way, some clever tips can arm you with the know-how to make your trip more enjoyable and stress free.
Music director Kookie V Gulati turns director with Prince, a feature film which promises lots of action and hot babes.
Here's how you must teach financial literacy to your children.
A number of companies are coming out with learning modules and solutions, either as complete game-based educational courses or part of a larger learning module. This connects learners into environments that closely represent the actual environment within which they need to apply their learning, including related real-life problems or complexities.
The rains have finally arrived but the covers continue to get hotter. Who is your favourite cover girl?
In October, the contribution through SIPs rose to Rs 79.85 billion, up 42% compared to the same month last year.
The software is being developed in association with the Central Record-keeping Agency. It is expected to debut by the end of this year. PFRDA is also looking to have an ombudsman for redressal of investor grievances. To increase liquidity of the scheme, there could also be Tier-II accounts by the end of this year, which would allow investors to withdraw money at any given point of time.
the early 1980s, multinationals set up R&D units in India to make use of the low costs and huge talent pool.
Even if our weight yo-yos, our overall health will keep getting better.
Google really wanted to know why people kept asking the Assistant to marry them, says Amrita Singh.
Today Shanghai is recognised as China's smartest city as well as its financial capital, its industrial heartland, its fashion centre.
The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh plans to take the help of the internet to connect with hundreds of thousands of tech-savvy people, particularly youths, who have no time to attend its shakhas (branches).
Here are some of the best moments from PM Modi's South Korea visit
A satellite phone, popularly known as the sat phone, is a mobile phone which uses satellites, not landline or cellular broadcasting towers, to make or receive calls.
Stock tickers can say a lot about a company in just a few letters. Find out how to read them.
S K Singh stood tall and made his voice heard as a diplomat and as a politician.
22-year-old Noah Lyles is expected to top the podium in Doha but it will take more than silver hair and a gold medal to make people forget about Usain Bolt.
Even as the schedule of Andhra Pradesh legislative assembly polls is likely to be announced in a week's time, all the major political parties have already gone all out with sarcastic television advertisements targeting their rivals.
Thinking of giving Mum a great gift this Mother's Day? Consider these gadgets.
If immediate ownership actually ceases to be the mark of success, it could trigger a second retail revolution, this time focused on the higher end of the market.
Kylie Jenner is now selling T-shirts made out of her own bikini images. And why not, when her swimsuit photos on Instagram are among the most popular in the world?
Yes, thanks to a mobile phone software guiding users to the nearest lavatories, the trials as well as tribulations of searching for the nearest public loo have been eliminated in Japan, according to a report in the Mainichi Daily News. The Check A Toilet programme, created by the software company Access Co, enables mobile phone users to search for maps highlighting the nearest public toilet to their location.
Rediff.com's Syed Firdaus Ashraf and Hitesh Harisinghani speak to millennials to find out if the ease of ride-sharing apps like Ola and Uber was a reason for them not buying a car.
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