VARINDIA IT MAGAZINE

Security is the foundation of the Network and the malware attack is growing exponentially, globally cybercrime will cost 6 trillion annually by 2021. The attack is mainly target to the BFSI industry, as a No.1 vendor into security vendor, CISCO leads the partner eco-system into security. Vishak Raman, Director, Security speaking at the 5th CISCO India Summit in Goa. Security is running across the core fabrics. In CISCO we bring an unique integrated and orchestration approach to fast detect the attack, Vishak said. He further said on how they integrated the technology into four critical components like Alerts, Events, Threat Intelligence and Broadcast . Alerts- Real-time activities at the endpoint are reported back to the firewall  Events- What happens at the identity service engine, is communicated o the next-gen firewall Threat Intelligence- What we at the detection point of view, is broadcasted to the entire portfolio.... Raed More

RIPS code Security Analysis detects unknown security issues in your PHP application bundles including Wordpress, Mooddle, Prestashop, Joomla and much more without false positive noise. This is More about an unpatched security flaw impacting WordPress, the Internet’s most popular content management system (CMS).RIPS experts said they have told the WordPress team about this particular vulnerability in November last year, but the WordPress Development Team have failed to release a new patch. This flaw can affect the core of the WordPress CMS and not one of its plugins or themes. More accurately, the bug was found in the PHP functions that delete thumbnails for images uploaded on a WordPress site. That’s basically all there is to it. Update WordPress, update your plugins, and update your themes. Vulnerabilities are constantly being exposed, and automated hacks can easily take advantage of them to compromise your site.It’s also critical to check your premium plugins to ensure they a...

Reliance Industries Limited (“RIL” or “Reliance”) will acquire an open telecom solutions provider Radisys Corporation (“Radisys” or “the Company”) for US$1.72 per share in cash. Radisys provides open telecom solutions to service providers worldwide. Headquartered in Hillsboro, Oregon, Radisys has nearly 600 employees with an engineering team based out of Bangalore, India, and sales and support offices globally. Radisys delivers value to service providers and telecom equipment vendors by providing disruptive open-centric software, hardware and service capabilities that enable the migration to next-generation network topologies. “Reliance and Jio have been disrupting legacy business models and establishing new global benchmarks. Radisys’ top-class management and engineering team offer Reliance rapid innovation and solution development expertise globally, which complements our work towards software-centric disaggregated networks and platforms, enhancing the value to custom...

One of the most important agenda highlighted under the recently proposed Telecom policy was addressing the rural connectivity challenge. The Government in the NTP has expressed its desire to introduce new and Innovative solutions and technologies to address this issue. Parallel Wireless a wireless network solutions (A startup by an Indian, Parallel Wireless, Inc. develops a wireless cellular network in New Hampshire. It focuses on developing the architecture of the cellular radio access network), which have claimed to work towards connecting the rural population to the world and provides services to major telcos in India, Africa and Middle East, Parallel Wireless, has devised solutions across these geographies. Addressing rural connectivity challenges with innovative technologies' which have been developed from an Indian standpoint, Rajesh Mishra, Founder, President, and CTO - Parallel Wireless says on how can service providers help government to attain 100% rural t...

With a new direction has come from the power ministry has advised companies to regulate default air conditioner (AC) settings to promote energy efficiency in the area which is expected to be a key driver of global electricity demand in the coming decades , which may also be made mandatory at a later stage. The power ministry also launched an awareness campaign around air conditioning in order to achieve substantial energy savings and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. In a meeting presided by R.K Singh, Power Minister said, manufacturers have been advised to set labels on air conditioners which indicate the optimum temperature settings as part of consumer awareness. The temperature setting will be in the range of 24 to 26 degrees Celsius. The government also plans to send an advisory to establishments and manufacturers in this regard.... Read More

In light of many recent cases of WhatsApp “hacking” , If someone on your contact list has or is asking for your WhatsApp account verification code – BEWARE!! It could be a scammer that is using your contact's WhatsApp account to make that request! After getting many requests to investigate Whatsapp hacking cases and along with several associates, we have spent time researching and have analyzed how criminals are possibly hacking WhatsApp. There is no technology used, however the victims are not managing to identify the criminals who are hiding using the name of the victim’s friend in most cases. This explanation should assist and may help in creating more awareness on how to prevent WhatsApp hacking.... Read More

Paypal is on drive to give further benefit to its 237 million customers by the recent acquisitions of Palo Alto, California-based Simility sells machine-learning-based technology to help online merchants spot fraudsters and improve risk management, a fraud prevention specialist, for $120 million in cash. PayPal had been an investor in Simility (it owns three percent of the company) along with Accel, the Valley Fund, Trinity Ventures and others. The startup had raised just under $25 million and was last valued at $52.75 million, according to figures from PitchBook, making this a decent return for its backers. The deal is expected to close in Q3. Online fraud is increasingly seen as an urgent threat by banks across the world. Fraudsters obtain login credentials with social engineering, by hacking databases or by simply buying them on the Dark Web. With the growth of E-Commerce, organization can spread their business to national and international markets with minimum inves...

One certain prediction we can all make about the “ Global War on Terror” with great confidence is that it is not going to end any time soon, or even dramatically subside. Terrorism is on the rise today and it poses a direct threat to the security of all of us, and to international stability and prosperity we so eagerly desire. Terror is a persistent global threat that knows no borders, nationality or religion and is a challenge that the international community is trying to tackle together however diverse the methods and strategies. The world holds and hosts counter terror think tanks, conferences, seminars and even in some cases share intelligence and other cooperative work on countering terrorism.... Read More

The market regulator ( SEBI ) said, it has initiated the probe against various entities in the NSE co-location case, with this it has alleged various lapses in high-frequency trading offered through the National Stock Exchange's co-location facility. We have received the NSE investigation report in the co-location case... have initiated enforcement actions," Sebi Chairman Ajay Tyagi said. In the coming few days, the enforcement actions would be completed against the entities, he added. Tyagi also said that the investigation has nothing to do with the NSE's proposed initial public offer.The regulator was probing allegations that some brokers had unfair access to NSE's high frequency trading systems. In March, the NSE said SEBI had returned its consent application in the case due to the ongoing investigation.... Read More

With the digitalization will continue to transform our industries, lives and society. The Fifth-generation wireless (5G) , is the latest technology, engineered to greatly increase the speed and responsiveness of wireless networks as the Mobile systems acting as a backbone for both the Internet of Things (IoT) and a rapidly expanding range of digital services. We believe that The 5G system will enable many new use cases that will make the critical role of mobile systems even more apparent than it is now. Among the key 5G telecom companies are Sweden’s Ericsson, Finland’s Nokia, Chinese companies Huawei and ZTE, South Korea’s Samsung, Japanese companies NEC, Fujitsu and Sumitomo and American multinationals Qualcomm and Intel. With 5G, data transmitted over wireless broadband connections could travel at rates as high as 20 Gbps and 5G will also enable a sharp increase in the amount of data transmitted over wireless systems due to more available bandwidth and advanced anten...

Instagram has recently launched IGTV. It is a new app where users can upload videos longer than a minute. It was revealed at an event by the CEO of the company Kevin Systrom. The app hosts videos up to one hour and anyone can upload it either from the dedicated app or from Instagram. Everything is mobile-oriented, meaning videos are in a portrait mode. The app brings some new tools for users who want to make longer videos. First, anyone who doesn’t want to download the app can still watch them from the main Instagram app – promo pics suggest a button at the top of the app will allow them to access IGTV content.... Read More

As per a news source, the Australian Federal Court has ordered Apple to pay $9 million as penalty for making false or misleading representations to customers with faulty iPhones and iPads about their rights under the Australian consumer law. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) took action against Apple US and Apple Australia, following an investigation of complaints relating to “error 53”. This error disables some iPhones and iPads after owners download an update to Apple’s iOS operating system. Apple US admits that it had represented to at least 275 Australian customers from February 2015 to February 2016 affected by the error that they were no longer eligible for a remedy if their device had been repaired by a third party. These representations were made on Apple’s US website by Apple Australia’s staff in-store and on its customer service phone calls.... Read More

Most popular Swedish-based app for flight tracking services Flightradar24, which shows real-time aircraft flight information on a map, has suffered a massive data breach that have compromised email addresses and hashed passwords for more than 2,00,000 customers and has been shut down immediately after the intrusion was detected late last week. This information has shared in the company blogs and Forums on the breach publically via their blog or social media accounts, Flightradar24 started sending out emails this week with a password reset link, asking them to change their passwords. The company says, we have already invalidated your old password and the link in the email will allow you to create a new password. Expected a target of a phishing attack. The forum says, we can confirm that the email some of our users received in regards to a security breach has been sent by us. The security breach may have compromised the email addresses and hashed passwords for a small sub...

News Can a Bank be held deficient in services if its ATM does not dispense Cash for the reason "Cash not available"? A consumer Court in Raipur has recently imposed a penalty of Rs.2500.00 on SBI for exactly the same reason overruling the arguments of SBI that * The complainant was not its customer * Failure of internet connectivity is not within its ambit, rather it is upon the internet service provider against whom, any complaint if any, should lie. The Form countered SBI by saying that when Banks are charging for usage of ATMs for a whole year in advance and a client is Free to use any ATM he automatically becomes a customer.... Read More

With the recent tie-up with ICICI and Marg ERP software expected to bring accounting and banking solutions for MSMEs ,it will also enables automated reconciliation services. The partnership will give access to ICICI Bank internet based cheque writing facility. Marg ERP is positioned as  an Inventory and Accounting software solution company has partnered with ICICI Bank to offer an integrated payments platform to Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise (MSME) customers, using MARG's accounting software. This integration will enable connected banking and also enable ICICI Bank's current account holders to securely connect their bank account with the MARG ERP software and undertake an array of digital transactions from within the ERP platform itself, said Thakur Anup Singh, CMD, Marg ERP. The partnership will provide an array of benefits that will also initiate financial transactions for businesses.... Read More

New country head of Apple India Michel Coulomb is in a process of restructure the distribution and sales chain strategy for iPhones, iPads and Mac computers. For consumers, this will mean Apple products will cease to be discounted as the number of distributors is pared and the company takes a hard line on maintaining prices. The thinking behind the move is that the brand had been diluted by giving distributors a free hand to sell to any retailer, even at lower prices, three persons directly aware of the development said. The earlier ‘open distribution’ strategy at Apple India had created a lot of discontent amongst its offline trade partners, since the distributors would often indulge in wholesaling to achieve targets leading to rampant deep discounting online and fluctuation in prices almost every day. “So much so, Apple was even considered as a discounted brand.... Read More

The advantages of technology are not restricted to a select few but are there for all sections of society. We strengthened the network of CSCs. PM Narendra Modi said, the network of about three lakh Common Service Centres, which act as access points for delivery of digital services, have bolstered employment and entrepreneurship opportunities, thus empowering citizens. Interacting with beneficiaries of the various Digital India efforts, Modi said the initiative was launched with an objective of bringing benefits of technology to people, especially in rural areas. This initiative was launched with an objective of bringing benefits of technology to people, especially in rural areas.  Interacting with beneficiaries of the various Digital India efforts, Modi said, the initiative was launched with an objective of bringing benefits of technology to people, especially in rural areas. Technology has helped book railway tickets and pay bills online, bringing great convenience, Mod...

Under GST, transporters should carry an eWay Bill when moving goods from one place to another when certain conditions are satisfied. It seems still the GST regulations are yet to stream line for the business continuity and absolutely, Government is also helping the traders the best possible they can and the recent regulation on GST says, On Intra-state implementation * E-way bill operations are compulsory for intra-state movement of goods for all states except Delhi with effect from 3rd June 2018 * Eway bill operations are compulsory for intra-state movement of goods for Andaman & Nicobar, Chandigarh, Dadar & Nagar Haveli, Daman & Diu, Lakshadweep, Maharashtra and Manipur from 25th May 2018 * eway bill operations are enabled on trial basis for the intra-state movement of goods for Odisha from 23rd May 2018 * Roll out of e-Way Bill system for intra-State movement of goods in the States / Union Territory of Arunachal Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Megh...

A US Federal judge has ruled that AT&T’s US$85 billion acquisition of Time Warner is legal, without placing any conditions on the merger of the telecom and media giants. U.S. District Court Judge Richard Leon further said, he would deny a stay on the deal if requested by the Justice Dept., meaning that even if DOJ appeals, the companies are free to close. That did not impose conditions on the merger's approval and secondly, he also urged the government not to seek a stay when issuing his decision in a closed-door room with reporters. We are pleased that, after conducting a full and fair trial on the merits, the Court has categorically rejected the government's lawsuit to block our merger with Time Warner," McAtee said in a statement. "We look forward to closing the merger on or before June 20 so we can begin to give consumers video entertainment that is more affordable, mobile, and innovative.".... Read More

Independent research based on over 3,000 European subscribers on behalf of Openwave Mobility has found that one in three football fans (31%) will watch the 2018 Russia World Cup using mobile data. This is nearly double the number of people that watched the 2014 Brazilian World Cup (17%) using mobile data. The 2018 World Cup study was conducted in the UK, Spain and Germany and found that mobile operators can expect a surge in live streaming traffic over the course of the tournament. Many subscribers (29%), however, revealed that they will shun their mobiles owing to poor Quality of Experience (QoE) and bill shock. During the 2014 Brazilian tournament, European subscribers shared the same worries through a study conducted in May 2014. Even after four years, the same fears of poor QoE and bill shock still dog the industry.... Read More

The Board of Directors of Cognizant has announced the appointment of Francisco D'Souza as Vice-Chairman of the Board, in addition to his current role as CEO. "Cognizant has become one of the world's leading technology services companies based on a unique 'client-first' culture. The company's leadership team has been at the vanguard of the shifts in technology, and the company has invested significantly in digital over the past several years to achieve a differentiated market position," said John Klein, Chairman of the Cognizant Board of Directors. "As we look at the vast market opportunities to help our clients apply digital technologies such as artificial intelligence, IoT, cloud and blockchain at scale, we are confident that we have the market position and the executive team to further extend Cognizant's leadership." Read More

The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology has asked National Payment Corporation of India (NPCI) to update them on the details about the digital payment service being tested by global messaging application WhatsApp. Post news flash by the Cambridge Analytica. WhatsApp has around 200 million users in India itself. Now, the government of India is leaving no stone unturned to secure Facebook-owned messaging platform WhatsApp, which is set to launch its payment service in the country this month. Let’s see on how Facebook owned WhatsApp, is addressing this issue to match India’s data protection and privacy laws. Secondly, they have to store the data in Indian soil. Moreover, the government of India will be interested also in knowing what data is shared with the Facebook. Reason being, the official WhatsApp payment blog says, they share a limited number of data to United States where their facility and services are established. The official website states that, “If you...

Brightstar has launched its Cloud offering on Security-as-a-Service (SeCaaS) powered by SonicWall in India. The offering is a turnkey subscription-based service that provides enterprises with essential network security needs to detect and block a wide range of advanced and emerging threats. This also includes intrusions, viruses, spyware, worms, Trojans, key loggers, rootkits, botnets and zero-day malware. Launched in partnership with SonicWall – a world leader in cyber security, this managed solution is aimed at delivering automated, real-time breach detection and prevention for customers everywhere. As the threat landscape in India matures today, each and every individual is prone to ransomware attacks with customers relying on basic antivirus (AV) solutions to protect them from advanced cyber attacks like ransomware and zero-day threats. With SonicWall Security-as-a-Service, world-class security services are available to these customers, ensuring streamlined and robust sec...

Vertiv, formerly known as Emerson Network Power, has rolled out its multi-city “Vertiv Xpress” to expand and connect with its customer base in India. The “Vertiv Xpress”, a truck, was exclusively launched in Delhi, showcasing Vertiv’s capabilities and innovations in the data centers business. The event was attended by over top customers from north India and Vertiv sales, service and channel team members. Vertiv Xpress truck, flagged off from Delhi, will travel to more than 50 IT hubs across India tapping customers from across verticals which is expected to cover more than 15,000 footfalls. It will cover tier-1 metro cities, followed by upcountry tier-2 cities. Under the initiative, Vertiv will showcase its product portfolio to engage with their customers to generate awareness around energy and efficiency. The event witnessed keynote speech by Sunil Khanna, MD & President, Vertiv Energy Pvt. Ltd, highlighting the company’s ability to scale new heights, streamline and...

Cisco and NetApp have announced new FlexPod solutions. FlexPod combines Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure with NetApp data services to help organizations accelerate application delivery and transition to a hybrid cloud with a trusted platform for innovation. The new Managed Private Cloud solution offers new consumption options for more flexible access to powerful IT infrastructure and applications as customers modernize their data center for hybrid cloud. Additionally, FlexPod Datacenter for Epic EHR, a key healthcare application, is the first in a series of new pre-tested vertical solutions, with support for more healthcare applications, coming soon. FlexPod continues to be a platform for innovation and investment protection, introducing new validated solutions for the latest virtualization software, enterprise applications, and databases incorporating the latest technologies from Cisco and NetApp. The new Managed Private Cloud solution built on FlexPod enables customers t...

Fortinet has completed the acquisition of Bradford Networks, further enhancing the Fortinet Security Fabric by converging access control and IoT security solutions to provide large enterprise with broader visibility and security for their complex networks including – · Complete, continuous, agentless visibility of endpoints, users, trusted and untrusted devices and applications accessing the network including IoT and headless devices. · Enhanced IoT security through device micro segmentation, dynamic classification of headless devices by type, profile, as well as automatic policy assignment to enable granular isolation of unsecure devices, all using a simple web user interface. · Accurate event triage and threat containment in seconds through automated workflow integrations that prevent lateral movement. · Easy, cost-effective deployment due to highly scalable architecture that eliminates deployment at every location of a multi-site installation..... Read More ...

As per the report, Sharp Corporation of Japan to buy Toshiba Corp’s personal computer business for 4 billion yen ($36 million). Sharp brand is under the control of manufacturing giant Foxconn, the world’s biggest contract manufacturer and major Apple Inc supplier, to produce PCs more cheaply – just as it was able to do in TVs. Another report also noticed by VARINDIA, Foxconn is also promoting the Sharp TV to start marketing in India, which has kick started from this year IPL(Indian Premiere League) ,with this they are marking a return to a business in India. Earlier Sharp was a known brand in terms of technology but it’s position become negligible with the fastest technology and pricing structure of SAMSUNG, LG and Sony. With the manufacturing capability of FOXCONN, they are trying to enter the Asian market. The recent deal of Pc business, will see Sharp take an 80.1 percent stake in Toshiba’s PC unit on Oct 1.... Read More

Cabinet okays 51% FDI in multi-brand, 100% in single brand retail, with this it will create a level playing field. Hope, this decision will be cheered by global retail giants such as Wal-Mart that have long been eyeing India's lucrative retail sector worth an estimated $450 billion a year. The two American retail giants have fought in India market like one foreign investor sold the stake to other foreign investor to invite the globe competition and it is like the battle unfolding among global tech players in India. The real case study and the test bed is Indian market where about 220 million on-line users with 1 billion mobile phone market and it is increasing post Modi regim, talking most about digital India, it has helped the global company Walmart, the world's largest retailer, and Amazon, the e-commerce behemoth to venturing into India market, where as Amazon has invested billions of dollar in India market, with the entry of Walmart ,they are also going invest few...

Google will not go for another contract or renew for its controversial experiment providing artificial intelligence to the U.S. Department of Defence for analyzing drone footage after its current contract expires. Google Cloud CEO Mr.Diane Greene give out the decision at a meeting with employees last Friday morning, three sources told Gizmodo. The current contract expires in 2019 and there will not be a new followed contract, Greene said. The meeting, designated as Weather Report, is a weekly update on Google Cloud’s business. Google would not trail the Maven today because the reverberations has been horrible for the company, Greene said, adding that the decision was made at a time when Google was more aggressively trailing military work. The company plans to publish new ethical principles about its use of AI next week. A Google spokesperson did not immediately respond to questions about Greene’s comments.... Read More

Atos has been awarded two major outsourcing contracts by Siemens to drive the latter’s digital transformation program. The first contract will cover multiple activities spanning Application Management services and Technical Production Support in SAP, Microsoft and Business Intelligence for multiple divisions of Siemens, while the second contract will cover Application Management services for Siemens regions in Europe, APAC and Latin America. Both contracts, with a total value above €200 million, will run for the duration of 5 years commencing Q4 2018. Most of those contracts represent new business for Atos. Driving an ambitious IT transformation program, Siemens launched a tender to identify and select providers which offer cutting-edge technologies, digital expertise and industry knowledge, while meeting Siemens’ important selection criteria. In this context, Atos has been selected as a provider for:.... Read More

Google Sets Limits for Project MAVEN but Allows to Continue US Defence Work  #Project-MAVEN Google CEO Mr.Sundar Pichai affirmed that the AI is as more as profound to humanity than fire & war. Last Thursday Mr.Pichai offered guidelines for how Google will-and won’t-use the technology. One thing Pichai says Google won’t do: work on AI for weapons. But the guidelines leave much to the discretion of company executives and allow Google to continue to work for the military. This is a response to more than 4,500 Googlers signing a letter protesting the company’s involvement in a Pentagon project called Maven that uses machine learning to interpret drone surveillance video and imagery. In the letter addressed to CEO Sundar Pichai, Google employees expressed concern that the U.S. military could weaponize AI and apply the technology towards refining drone strikes and other kinds of lethal attacks.“We believe that Google should not be in the business of war,” the lett...

Due to the rapid growth of smartphones in the market, fixed line connections declined steadily down to 22.81 million connections. Though state-run firm BSNL dominated the market with highest share of 12.26 million customers, it lost 5,304 customers. RCom lost 169,052 fixed line connections and MTNL 10,157 connections. Airtel topped the chart in terms of market share with 304.19 million subscribers, followed by Vodafone 222.69 million and Idea with 211.2 million customers. Indian telecom industry in a stage of consolidation. Vodafone led new subscriber addition by adding 12,280 fixed line connections, taking its total subscriber base to 220,981. With this the number of broadband subscribers increased to 412.6 million in March from from 392.06 million in February. The mobile segment accounted for over 95 per cent of the total broadband connections.... Read More

Dell Technologies and Microsoft are collaborating to deliver a joint Internet of Things (IoT) solution designed to help vertical customers simplify deploying their end-to-end IoT solutions, from the edge to the cloud. The combination of Microsoft Azure IoT applications and services, VMware Pulse IoT Center and Dell Edge Gateways will offer customers streamlined management, centralized monitoring and security from devices to the cloud. Together, Dell Technologies and Microsoft will make IoT easier for customers by delivering a secure solution that provides consistent infrastructure management from the edge to the cloud. The joint solution offers an underlying IoT infrastructure, management capabilities and security for customers looking to deploy IoT for scenarios like predictive maintenance, supply chain visibility and other use cases. The solution will deliver.... Read More

L&T Technology Services has announced new Smart City, Campus & Building Solutions integrations with Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Field Service for its enterprise customers. L&T Technology Services’ Smart City, Campus & Building Solutions i-BEMS provides Energy Management, Sustainability, Cloud-based Space Occupancy & Asset Utilization and Performance Management. The solution leverages Microsoft Azure IoT platform, including new capabilities, and connects with Dynamics 365 for Field Service to enable real-time optimization and improve RoI and employee’s productivity for Facility Management and Operations. In 2017, LTTS expanded its relationship with Microsoft for Smart City, Campus & Building (SCCB) solutions based on Microsoft Azure. This alliance helps drive innovation for campuses of the future and has led to additional global enterprise wins in the Smart Occupancy & Spaces segment for both companies.... Read More

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has announced that HPE OneView has reached one million licences, helping thousands of customers worldwide improve and simplify their cloud experience and speed the delivery of applications and services through automation, allowing them to move faster, and be more responsive to critical business needs. In addition, HPE continues to add capabilities to HPE OneSphere to enable Azure public cloud. Leveraged by leading enterprises, small and medium businesses and in every major geography, HPE OneView enables customers to deploy infrastructure and workloads faster, deliver policy-based management and increase efficiency through workflow automation. “As enterprise cloud adoption continues to mature, organizations are developing a comprehensive strategy for managing both on- and off-premises infrastructure,” said Vikram K, Senior Director, Hybrid IT, HPE India. “HPE OneView brings together all aspects of everyday lifecycle management across comp...

With the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) came into effect from 25th May 2018 in Europe. Now citizens across will have the choice and more control over their personal data, including what messages they want to receive from marketers, hence it will be difficult for the corporates to share their bulk branding campaigns share through either digital or social media campaigns .The fact behind it , with the help of artificial Intelligence ( AI),when a consumer clicks the advertisement, all the user data/behaviour/profile/buying pattern can be captured. Now, the question comes on how to do impact-full marketing to reach out the target audiences. Globally, the increasing number of cybercrimes has made it imperative for companies to keep pace in hiring the right talent to combat them. Therefore, companies across the world are gearing up to ensure compliance to General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and ePrivacy requirements. While the larger technology giants are more or l...

San Francisco-based GitHub tool for coders, into hosting and development service, which hosts 27 million software developers working on 80 million repositories of code, on and off for a few years. Recently they began talks about a partnership but progressed to discussing an acquisition, according to another person familiar with the situation. GitHub is a code housing platform that allows developers to store their projects and network with peers and GitHub covers why the platform matters, how developers use it, and more and work together to create software. With GitHub one can collaborate on projects and invite other programmers to work on your project from anywhere. GitHub works seamlessly with the command-line tool Git, wherein developers can easily check in and check out their projects. This cheat sheet is an easy way to get up to speed on GitHub. There are more than 2 million work on regular updates, made to projects, which Microsoft is eyeing to reach out.... Read More

Google loses copyright battle on Java and Android, as per the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, Google violated copyright laws when it used Oracle’s open-source Java software to build the Android platform in 2009. The judgement has come after eight trying years, Google is now on the losing end of a legal battle with Oracle, who has accused the former of stealing proprietary. Absolutely, there is no doubt on Programming languages like Python, C, Java and C++ are used to power the technology we use every day. If you see Java, it can run on many devices and If you have an Android phone, all of your apps are running Java. Big data technologies are using Java as their language of choice because of its excellent capabilities of compiling and organizing data. Now a question comes who owns the data, in fact the data belongs to the user’s. Google and Facebook dominate the harvesting of user data. The theory behind this penalty to Google is ,before making the Android...

Array Networks has inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Netmagic (An NTT Communications Company), to launch the next-generation Network Functions Virtualization platform (NFV) Center of Excellence to enable enterprises in India, to enable enterprises in India, with end-to-end customized hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) solution for scaling and optimizing business-critical applications. This agreement of collaboration signals the continued commitment of both the companies to accelerate the scalability of customers’ businesses in the ICT industry. The NFV Center of Excellence is enabled to address the emerging requirements of customers in a cloud generation. This will be the first-of-its-kind and will support customers to host multiple network functions on a single purpose-built hardware. “We are extremely pleased to form an alliance with Array Networks, to provide enterprises with secure remote access to applications and data,” said Nitin Mishra, SVP & C...

Idea Cellular Ltd has received an approval on its application to increase Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) limit in the company to 100%, from the current 67.5%, from the Department of Telecom (DoT) today. The approval is for total foreign investment up to 100% in Idea Cellular Ltd, and total indirect FDI in its relevant subsidiaries – Aditya Birla Telecom Ltd and Idea Cellular Infrastructure Services Ltd. The FDI approval is a major milestone in the merger process of Vodafone India with Idea Cellular, and follows other statutory approvals already received from SEBI, NSE, BSE, CCI and NCLT Mumbai and NCLT, Ahmedabad. The merger of Vodafone India with Idea Cellular is in the final leg of regulatory approvals and is expected to complete in H1CY18, subject to the final approval from the DoT.... Read More

While the new White House Artificial Intelligence (AI) Task Force formed by Donald Trump on 10 May 2018 has the potential to drive AI-enabled technological innovation and development, especially on defense issues, the benefits to key US technology segments such as telecoms remain to be seen, says leading data and analytics company GlobalData. Recent advances in AI technology are promising dramatic technological breakthroughs in virtually every aspect of society, including telecommunications. Operators are also lining up to use AI to drive innovation throughout their organizations including the launch of new digital services and augmenting the customer experience. For example, AT&T’s Atticus entertainment chatbot, working through the Facebook Messenger application, uses AI to recognize speech and automate the handling of customer requests. AT&T is testing AI-enabled drones to expand mobile LTE network coverage with the Flying Cell on Wings (COW), reaching remote areas ...

Alexa, the brain behind Amazon Echo, is built in the cloud, is a smarter assistant in form of a smart speakers. The more you use Echo, the more it adapts to your speech patterns and vocabulary. Using Alexa is as simple as just asking a question – You just ask and Alexa will respond instantly. In other ways it is a super computer in a miniature form. This Amazon Device is now available in more than 350 retail outlets such as Croma, Reliance, Vijay Sales and Crossword among others across 20 cities in India. It will also be available at the Amazon devices kiosk in Bengaluru and Mumbai. Going forward, Amazon is also introducing voice calling and messaging capabilities to its voice assistant Alexa, enabling users with an Echo device or Alexa mobile app to call or message their contacts who also have either an Echo device or the Alexa mobile app. Amazon Prime members get access to Amazon Prime Music, an ad-free music streaming service. You can also order millions of products ...