23.7 CRORE INTERNET USERS IN INDIA BY 2015

India will see its number of Internet users triple to 23.7 crore from the current 8.1 crore by 2015, according to study titled 'Internet's New Billion'.

The boston consulting Group said Brazil, Russia, China and Indonesia (BRICI) will have more than 120 crore Internet users by 2015 - over three times the number of Internet users in Japan and the US

India could have as many Net users as US by 2015

New Yourk: A spike in Internet penetration in the next five years could mean that India will have almost as many persons going online in 2015 as the US.

According to the Boston Consulting Group's report, the Internet's New Billlion, India will have an estimated 237 million more for the United Statesm while China will provide the largest mass of users with 650 million. This period, the report said, could see Internet penetration almost triple by 2015, covering nearly 19 per cent of the country's population. The growth can be considered quite phenomenal since the number of Internet users in India in 2006 was pegged at approximately 49 million.

New ad system can detect web detect web shoppers

London: A new tool examines the cursor behaviour of search-engine users to decide if they are shopping or merely surfing.

Eugene Agichtein and Qi Guo at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, has said that websites like Google commonly display sponsored results above the actual ones, which can be annoying for someone who's not shopping,

HP's Made in India bet: Send email using a piece of paper

Hyderabad

Desperate to send an email, but don't have access to the internet?

Fret not. Just use your mobile phone camera.

Finland makes broadband service basic right for all

July 02, 2010

First country in world to make internet access a legal right

Helsinki: Finland has adopted a policy to provide internet access as a legal right for all citizens in the sparsely populated country. The minister of communications said that "a reasonable priced and high quality broadband connection will be everyone's basic right" from Thursday.