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Facebook Discover App Unveiled as Part of Free Basics Programme, Allows Browsing Text Versions of Any Website
Discover is Facebook’s attempt at bringing back its Free Basics program that allows users to browse the internet with some amount of free data.
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IIT Madras, MDA Offer Free Online Basic Course To Remediate Children With Dyslexia
Madras Dyslexia Association and National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL)-IIT Madras are offering online teaching courses that provide remedial support to children with Specific Learning Difficulties.
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Facebook Rolls Out 'Express Wi-Fi' In India, Partners Airtel
The commercial roll out of the project comes a year after Facebook pulled the plug on the controversial 'Free Basics' programme that drew severe criticism from advocates of net neutrality.
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Differential Data Pricing Plainly Not Acceptable: Ravi Shankar Prasad
Stating that Internet cannot be allowed to be monopoly of few, Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad today slammed Facebook's Free Basics programme and said such differential pricing modes are "plainly not acceptable".
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Free Basics Vs Net Neutrality: Mark Zuckerberg Fuels Debate in India
First splashy full page ads in major Indian newspapers and now a personal piece by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg in a leading English daily defending Free Basics, the war over "free" or "selective" internet services for the poor and net neutrality has entered a new phase.
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Facebook Ready For Free Basics Scrutiny, Open For Twitter, Google
Countering allegations of gatekeeping in website selection on its free internet platform Free Basics, Facebook today said it is open to the scrutiny of the process by any third party agency like IAMAI or Nasscom.
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Facebook Retools, Rebrands Internet.Org as Free Basics
Social networking giant Facebook is rebranding its Internet.org programme, which was in the midst of a controversy over alleged violation of Net neutrality, to 'Free Basics'.
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Facebook Discover App Unveiled as Part of Free Basics Programme, Allows Browsing Text Versions of Any Website
Discover is Facebook’s attempt at bringing back its Free Basics program that allows users to browse the internet with some amount of free data.
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IIT Madras, MDA Offer Free Online Basic Course To Remediate Children With Dyslexia
Madras Dyslexia Association and National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL)-IIT Madras are offering online teaching courses that provide remedial support to children with Specific Learning Difficulties.
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Facebook Rolls Out 'Express Wi-Fi' In India, Partners Airtel
The commercial roll out of the project comes a year after Facebook pulled the plug on the controversial 'Free Basics' programme that drew severe criticism from advocates of net neutrality.
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Differential Data Pricing Plainly Not Acceptable: Ravi Shankar Prasad
Stating that Internet cannot be allowed to be monopoly of few, Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad today slammed Facebook's Free Basics programme and said such differential pricing modes are "plainly not acceptable".
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Free Basics Vs Net Neutrality: Mark Zuckerberg Fuels Debate in India
First splashy full page ads in major Indian newspapers and now a personal piece by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg in a leading English daily defending Free Basics, the war over "free" or "selective" internet services for the poor and net neutrality has entered a new phase.
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Facebook Ready For Free Basics Scrutiny, Open For Twitter, Google
Countering allegations of gatekeeping in website selection on its free internet platform Free Basics, Facebook today said it is open to the scrutiny of the process by any third party agency like IAMAI or Nasscom.
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Facebook Retools, Rebrands Internet.Org as Free Basics
Social networking giant Facebook is rebranding its Internet.org programme, which was in the midst of a controversy over alleged violation of Net neutrality, to 'Free Basics'.
