VARINDIA IT MAGAZINE

Digitization and urbanisation brings change in the life of a common citizen and definitely it impacts the lifestyles of the netizens. It is also fact that technology teaches everyone to have better user experience, it resulted growing demand amongst Indians for Privacy and protection of the Information they share, specifically on digital platforms. There has been an alarming rise in cybercrimes on a global scale. With India also moving towards a digital economy with the adoption of Aadhaar and an ever-increasing dependency on information, the concerns over cyber security, data protection and privacy are the most talkative agenda. To address the growing concerns, the Government of India had set up a Committee of Experts, headed by Justice B. N. Srikrishna, to study the challenges surrounding data protection in India and provide their valuable suggestions and principles on which to base the data privacy legislative framework. The objective is to ‘ensure growth of the digi...

With the recent visit of Chris Daniels, CEO-Whats App  chose himself to visit the country on a five-day tour. The rising dispute and forced the top leadership ,to visit first ever by any WhatsApp chief executive to the country , where there is a huge pull of subscribers and it is over 250 million monthly active users. Ever since WhatsApp payments started to pilot in India, the instant messenger has been facing a tough time in the country. Right from the issues of fake news to lynching and setting up local operations for its UPI-based payments, the company has left no stone unturned to settle the issues with the Indian government. Daniel, recently met Union IT minister Ravi Shankar Prasad is now looking to set up a local office in the IT city Hyderabad by meeting Telangana IT minister K T Rama Rao to discuss all the possible aspects in this regard. Whereas, its parent company Facebook has the largest presence in the city as it’s India office since 2010.... Read More ...

The market for used and refurbished mobile phones has skyrocketed in the last couple of years with technology becoming a necessity with each passing day as the population as well as the penetration of phones is extensively high. The expansion of e-commerce and retail chains has made the availability of used and refurbished mobile phones easy and the easy accessibility has triggered strong growth in India too. Experts and analysts expect the market for refurbished phones to rise by a compounded 27% over 2019 and 2020 as new players join existing online marketplaces Amazon, Cashify, Shopclues and Togofogo. In India, millions of mobile phone users still purchase second-hand phones as they prefer buying refurbished or used phones with the features they need in less price than settling for a new phone at a comparatively higher price with lower specifications. Refurbished mobile phones category is growing at 400% year-on-year and its contribution in overall mobile phone sales has a...