2015

Carpooling is slowly gaining popularity in the country. Cab hailing companies are now jumping on the bandwagon one by one. Just a few days back, Meru laid the first stone on this service in India.  Though the concept is still being…

It seems the people over at Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY) have accepted that they made a blunder with their Draft encryption policy released yesterday (read details below). They have now come up with a…

Indian Government is not yet satisfied with the efforts to stop the evil spread of child pornography in the country. In order to tackle this menace in a more focused manner, the Govt. has established a new cyber crime control hub called…

Teaching basics of computer science to school children is a long gone thing now. The Kerala government has taken up an interesting project called ‘Electronics@School’ to bestow computer knowledge and bring about nurture a "maker-…

Ola has introduced a new safety feature for their customers: Number Masking. With this new initiative, Ola drivers would not be able to access their customer’s phone number, thereby enhancing privacy of all users. Ola has informed us…

Google is doing it, Microsoft is doing it and now even Facebook wants to do it – they all want to offer low cost ( or even free) internet to Indians. Facebook is especially serious about bringing internet to nook and corner of India.…

It’s Monday morning and time to do a quick wrap-up of the posts published on trak.in last week. If you were offline for any reason, this is a great way to catch-up with all the tech buzz. China based Hurun Institute has released…

We have made slight modifications in the list as per the changing circumstances. We have also added couple of destinations that we think should be mentioned here. I have not done a top 10 list for a long time now, and with Summer…

The 4G mobile internet wars are heating up – while Bharti Airtel has taken a lead by launching their 4G services across 296 towns and cities in India, other telecom operators like Vodafone have announced that they will start offering 4G…

Elon Musk, founder of SpaceX and co-founder of Paypal, Tesla and Zip2 has announced that he is planning to launch 4000 satellites in order to provide Internet all over the globe; especially at remotest parts where technology hasn’t yet…