Google launches offline YouTube app and Wi-Fi expansion in India

Google. Inc has laid out its plans on Tuesday at an event in New Dehli to help people save data and get online. To start, the tech giant is adapting its apps to handle slower mobile connections and is looking to add more Wi-Fi hotspots across the country, report according to CNNMoney. “While most of today’s launches focus […]

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India rejects Apple’s plan to import used iPhones

India has rejected a plan by Apple Inc to import used iPhones, government officials said on Wednesday, a blow to the U.S. tech giant that has been seeking to revive waning sales of its flagship smartphones. According to Reuters, Apple sells what it calls refurbished iPhones at a discount in some countries, including the United […]

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Facebook fights back in row over its free internet for India’s poor

The green light on Pushpa Kaushik’s modem hasn’t come on for the past three months. When she first got internet access in her home a year ago, all the people of Lalpur, a small village in Uttar Pradesh, northern India, used to come to her house to use her computer. Some needed to check their […]

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Facebook Founder Urges Free Internet In India Amid Row

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg urged India Monday to approve a controversial plan that would provide a free Internet service to the poor, his latest bid amid an escalating row with authorities. The head of the social network tried to drum up support for the Free Basics service that offers people without the Internet free access […]

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