India third largest Internet user in world

India has outstripped Japan to become the world’s third largest net user when China and also the u. s., and its users ar considerably younger than those of different rising economies, international digital measure and analytics firm comScore has same in a very report.

Three-fourths of India’s on-line population is beneath thirty five as against simply over 0.5 worldwide, the comScore report, Bharat Digital Future focused 2013, says, presumably reflective India’s more moderen enhancements in acquirement.

Men beneath thirty five and girls between thirty five and forty four area unit heavier users. however girls account for fewer than forty per cent of all Indian users, a so much lower sex magnitude relation than that of different countries.

A quarter of your time spent on-line is on social media, the comScore report says, and another twenty three per cent on email.

While Google sites have the foremost distinctive guests, internet users pay the foremost time on Facebook, that is at second place as so much as distinctive guests area unit involved.

Yahoo, Microsoft and Wikimedia sites follow in distinctive visitant numbers.

Among social media sites, Linkedin and Twitter area unit consequent most well-liked, whereas Orkut is in decline. Google is out and away the foremost common programme, accounting for ninety per cent of all searches in Bharat.

Online retail is on the increase, with domestic retail sites being the foremost common, the report notes.

For on-line travel websites too, domestic websites area unit the foremost common, the Indian Railways’ web site being out and away the foremost common destination. Yahoo is additionally the foremost common web site for news.

The locus of on-line dominance has touched steady towards Asia, that currently accounts for forty one p.c of all net users; from having sixty six p.c of all users in 1996, the u. s. currently accounts for simply thirteen p.c.

China has the world’s biggest on-line presence. Its net users amount Indians by a magnitude relation of 5: one.

Brazil’s net presence grew quicker than India’s over the last year

Felani Road on Google Map BD

A street before of Dhaka's Indian High Commission has been named ‘Felani Road’ on Google Map.

This follows demand of a Facebook cluster, at the same time as Bangladesh still fume over a Border personnel (BSF) court material possession off the soldier WHO killed Felani.

On Friday night, Google Map showed the road between the Indian embassy and Brazil embassy as ‘Felani Rd’.

Felani Khatun was shot dead by BSF personnel in Gregorian calendar month 2011 on Kurigram’s Anantapur border.

Her body dangled for hours from the wire fence, agitating outrage in Bharat and Bangladesh and resulting in a barrage of criticism within the world media.

After perennial calls by capital of Bangladesh and demands of human-rights organisations, the BSF finally started making an attempt their trooper defendant of the killing.

However, on Sept 6, the special court not guilty prime defendant constable Amiya Ghosh. the decision LED to a furore in Bangladesh.

India on Friday aforementioned it might review the trial when Bangladesh expressed discontent over the decision and aforementioned it might challenge the choice.

After the decision, a page was opened on Facebook hard-to-please naming the road ahead of the Indian embassy as ‘Felani Road’.

Nearly 27,000 Facebook users likable the page till 2:30am on Saturday.

The page aforementioned they might name the road ‘Felani Road’ no matter the government's approval.

 

New iPhones fail to the dazzle

Apple Inc's new iPhones got panned by Wall Street on weekday as investors decried one model for being too expensive for rising markets like China, and pink-slipped the opposite model as lacking enough game-changing options.

The world's most respected technology company incomprehensible a chance to introduce a low-end smartphone to drive sales in Asia, wherever Samsung physics and China's Huawei have a good lead over Apple, analysts say.

The plastic iPhone 5C disclosed on Tues can sell for four,488 yuan ($730) in China, Apple said. that's over the common monthly urban financial gain in China, and regarding double the price of mid-tier devices from Samsung and different vendors. the most cost effective phones in China, created by the likes of Xiaomi, select regarding $100 each.

"Investors were shelve that Apple's value purpose did not go low enough to draw in a replacement market. It does not have an equivalent aim value that Apple's competitors have," same Mark Luschini, chief investment contriver at Janney Montgomery Scott in Philadelphia, that manages regarding $58 billion in assets.

The high-end iPhone 5S frustrated Wall Street and revived fears that Apple's most innovative days is also behind it. The phone contains a fingerprint scanner to boost security, however analysts same that wasn't possible to be enough to form the iPhone 5S a certain win within the jammed smartphone market.

"There was nothing transformational declared. it's the fingerprint scan and new colours, however larger options, like completely different screen sizes, do not appear to be at the prepared. This was but expected from an organization that contains a name for startling with a killer product or strategy," same Luschini.

Shares of Apple fell five.4 p.c to shut at a month low of $467.71 on the data system when a minimum of 3 brokerages downgraded their rating on the stock. Still, Apple remains up eighteen p.c since the beginning of Gregorian calendar month, once anticipation regarding the phones began building.

Apple executives - and also the company's several fans within the trade - maintain each iPhones ar best-in-class. Whereas the corporation itself has not addressed the uproar over its iPhone 5C's tag, some analysts say it is a smart move to preserve margins whereas departure area for future reductions.