Hackers broke into the official website of India’s ruling Congress party on Friday and defaced the profile page of party president Sonia Gandhi with a pornographic message. The attack coincided with Gandhi’s 65th birthday and came just days after the Indian government pledged a crackdown on “unacceptable” Internet content, that…
India on Tuesday vowed to ban offensive material from the Internet after Facebook, Google and other major firms told the government they were unable to screen content before it was posted. Communications Minister Kapil Sibal said talks with the Internet giants had failed to come up with a solution following complaints that he had lodged…
The company Datawind has developed a book-sized computer that costs only $45, making it the world’s cheapest computer tablet. It was created in India, where the government plans to make more than 100,0000 of the computers available to university students across the country. The new tablet is called the “Aakash.”…