Dheeraj Kalgutkar

Is it really the philanthropy to connect the not connected or just a clever idea to expand its customer base? Internet! Meet your new gatekeeper – Internet.org is here to dive you into a world of Facebook and other sites which are necessarily approved by Facebook itself in the veil of free internet, wait there’s more to the story, you’ll be warned that they’ll incur extra charges  in case you try to explore outside of the bubble served by Internet.org. So no clicks on links, no twitter, and no googling, all you do is Bing! For starters who don’t know what the writer is talking about in above lines, Internet.org in their own terms is a Facebook-led initiative bringing together technology leaders, nonprofits and local communities to connect the two thirds of the world that doesn't have internet access. They say their motive is to make Internet affordable to the masses, essentially the first time users who have not yet experienced what it means to browse ...

It's small but not ignorable! “If Google doesn't find it, probably it don't exist at all!”, “May be you should google it” - We all have heard this at one time or another from people we know to the people we don't. One may call the former line as height of Google worship but nor can I nor could you deny the effect this one phenomenal search engine is having on our lives. From that new shopping place to that up-to-this-time unknown person you met in office to sweet purring cats to porns, it offers all that you could think of in an instant, literally. Now a days, it even feeds you with its search queries over your voice commands, yes just the command! Times have taken such a leap now that we check if our Internet connection is at place or not by entering Google.com in address bar. Don't we? Only the other day, I called my office technician over slow Internet connectivity and what do I tell him? “Check what is it with my machine, even Google is ...