I work with a small NGO that provides an essential service to citizens. In the past year, bot traffic has overwhelmed their infrastructure, growing from a nuisance to an operational challenge. Many other SaaS and SME websites face the same issue. Bot traffic mushroomed to exceed 50% of all web traffic in 2024, according to […]
Apr 2023
One benefit of public cloud infrastructure such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) is that it allows startups and established companies to quickly set up and start using resources. There are also a wide range of server types for many of those resources that require computing power, such as virtual servers, managed databases or caching. Some […]
ICICI Bank has launched a new Twitter-based banking service, only the second such service in the world the bank proudly claims. That is two too many. Some things are meant to go together, but banking and social networking are not. While many news and tech sites in India reported on this feature, most outlets faithfully […]
Sep 2014
Smartphone ownership in India has grown very quickly, going from less than 10 million to over 100 million in the past three years. Additionally, there are now over three times as many wireless broadband subscribers as wired subscribers. And yet for many Web destinations in India, mobile devices, nearly synonymous with smartphones, only account for […]
After showing modest but double-digit growth in the early part of the decade, the number of fixed broadband connections in India has flatlined, and that is terrible news for the Internet industry in India and the country’s economy. Furthermore, the existing Internet connections offer some of the slowest speeds in Asia and the world, and […]