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New Delhi [India], Mar. 30  (ANI) : Ericsson and the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi) have signed a memorandum of understanding to jointly roll out a '5G for India' program. To this regard, Ericsson will set up a Center of Excellence with a 5G test bed and incubation center at IIT Delhi and use this facility to drive the development of the country's 5G ecosystem. This program has been conceptualised to fast-track realisation of Digital India initiatives and aid application development for Indian start-ups and industries. In addition to hosting the  Center of Excellence , IIT Delhi will conduct research and development to explore how some of the country's challenges can be addressed with mobile technologies. "The 5G for India program is a major step towards understanding the power of 5G technology and how it can help aid  Digital India  initiatives, including the development of smart cities. The program will focus on delivering research, in

As a part of Google Developers Agency Program, Google on Monday announced its' second batch of certified agencies from India who have received dedicated training and access to Google`s latest products and APIs to develop high end quality apps. With this launch Google now has six certified partner agencies in India that includes Mutual Mobile, Cognitive Clouds, TechJini, cube  LABS ,  Divum  and GoodWorkLabs. Launched in 2015, Developer Agency Program is committed to empower agencies who have a large impact on the developer ecosystem through their work on some of their major clients. As part of this program, agencies will develop their expertise in using Google technologies and will be recognized as Google Developers Certified Agency. Additionally as part of this program, developer agencies will receive the following benefits: -Training on latest Google APIs, developer technologies and best practices -Invitations to events specially designed for software development

New Delhi [India], Apr. 4  (ANI) : ASUS Republic of Gamers (ROG) on Tuesday announced the launch of GX800, the most powerful gaming laptop in the world equipped with the latest NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 SLI graphics and an advanced version of the Hydro Overclocking System liquid-cooling module in India. The 18-inch GX800 is the first gaming laptop designed to deliver real 4K UHD gameplay. It features NVIDIA G-SYNC  technology and supports leading virtual-reality (VR) headsets for super-smooth and stutter-free VR gaming. In addition, GX800 features the Mechanical Tactile Advanced Gaming (MechTAG) keyboard with programmable ROG Aura RGB LED effects for individual keys. GX800 builds on the success of GX700 - the world's first liquid-cooled gaming laptop - to claim the crown of the world's most-powerful gaming laptop. ROG GX800's NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 SLI graphics provides super-fast, silky-smooth gameplay and detailed gaming environments. GX800 is paired with an advanc

There are billions of websites on the internet and more come up on a daily basis. However, there are a few that offer unique services. Here's a list of 20 such websites Mailinator.com These days, almost every website you visit asks you to sign-up using an email address. There's no telling if your email ID will get shared with (or sold to) other parties, resulting in you getting bombarded with spam email. Mailinator is a free service that gives you an email address that automatically gets destroyed after a few hours. Sign-up on any website and use this temporary email address to activate your account. You can do this as many times as you need and stop worrying about spam. The good thing is that there is no limit on how many addresses you can create. Note that you can only receive email using Mailinator and not send. PrivNote.com Sometimes, you want to share private information with someone else -could be an ATM Pin, bank password, email password and so on. But you also don'

Transforming culture of a company is "difficult" but the challenge is to transition "without losing values" and "ethos", Infosys chief Vishal Sikka has said. The comments come against the backdrop of a recent public spat between Infosys founders and board members over alleged governance lapses. The founders had raised concerns over Sikka's steep compensation hike and expensive severance packages of former executives Rajiv Bansal (CFO) and David Kennedy (General Counsel). "It is very, very tough. Everybody says it is tough, but when you do it in reality, when you exercise it, you realise that it is much more difficult than it seems," said Sikka when asked about transforming the culture of an organisation to become innovative. He was speaking at a discussion conducted by Wharton School. Acknowledging the role played by co-founder N R Narayana Murthy, Sikka said having a culture of learning always helps. "We had that it comes from our foun

BENGALURU: Internet is an amazing resource which is stapled in many people’s day-to-day lives. It is very much informative but at the same time encircled with many dangers. Listed below are the strategies you can follow to stay safe on the internet as stated by Tech Radar India. Use your discretion on social media Online scams crops up almost everywhere in webpage such as an e-mail, tweet, Facebook post, or many other places. Never click on links that do not look like a real address or pop-ups that claim you have won millions of dollars—all these are scams in which one can easily get trapped. Also don’t fall prey to e-mails which ask you to help someone transfer a large amount of money out of their country delineating their long sad story. Hackers can access data through various innovative ways like sharing links of content that they feel the targeted person is likely to click. Be careful of what you are sharing Limit the content that you share on social media. Facebook

As the govt grapples with issues to take cashless payments to the masses, some are concerned about security and privacy issues. The government’s plan to reach 25 billion digital transactions in the next financial year will be driven by consumption-based payments, said experts, who expect digital education of both consumers and merchants along with security steps and enabling regulations to support the process. While demonetisation was a great push towards increased digital transactions, challenges to keep the momentum going remain as 90% of the Indian economy still uses cash, representatives of financial technology companies, wallet providers, banks and payment platforms said at a panel discussion on building a cashless future at the Global Business Summit on Tuesday. “We need relevant solutions for different demographic as the masses may have different needs, then there’s low awareness levels, and economics … we feel every small merchant should be able to accept any kind of pa

NEW DELHI: Internet giant Google's mission is to get a billion Indians hooked to broadband, and make each use 10GB a month in the next 4-to-5 years, says Gulzar Azad, Country Head (Connectivity) at Google India. In an interaction with ET's Danish Khan, Azad, however, says contributions would need to come from across the internet space, telcos, content players and the government to realise this goal. Edited excerpts. What's Google's ultimate goal in India from a connectivity perspective ? We would want a billion people online, and want them on broadband. And, that's really where India's full potential would be fulfilled. It's clear that `digital' is an economic growth force and that's something India not only needs to move towards, but also track over a period of time in terms of achieving it in a given time-scale. Google's ultimate goal is a billion broadband users, each using 10GB a month. And to do that, contributions have to come from th

Startups may be down for now but not out .The festive season has kicked in a temporary hiring spree in the startups particularly catering to ecommerce segment. This has kicked in some positive sentiments in the startup segment which has been written off for some time now.   According to Harvard’s Shikhar Ghosh, senior lecturer in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit, 75 per cent startups fail. This figure could be alarming for those looking for a job in the startup domain. Although Indian startup ecosystem is one of the most prospering one, the industry is undergoing a correction phase right now. However, jobs are still aplenty in this industry.  Hiring right candidate for business is top on the agenda of the startups. Since the model of a startup business is unconventional, startups generally don’t like to hire conventional people. Hence, hiring for a startup is much different from hiring for an established venture. And you cannot expect a good placement in a startup unless y

While only a few states provide for commercial bike-taxi licenses, the lack of clarity on regulations is not the only reason for these failures. Bike taxis are popular in Indonesia and Thailand, where they weave through traffic jams to get people around in a fraction of the time a cab takes. But in India, bike taxis are finding it tough. Most of the players in major markets like Bengaluru and Gurugram, that started over the past few years, have shut down. While only a few states provide for commercial bike-taxi licenses, the lack of clarity on regulations is not the only reason for these failures. The poorly funded local players have not been able to match the heavy subsidies to customers and drivers by players like Uber and Ola, which makes them unattractive to both segments. Also, the market itself does not appear to be growing rapidly , probably the reason why Uber and Ola too do not seem to be taking the segment seriously . Haryana provides a commercial bike taxi lice

Jhakaas Technologies that enables local businesses to create a presence online, has raised a capital of 1 crore for its mobile Application called ‘Jhakaas’. The investors include biggies such as Mumbai-based management consultancy firm Stelcore Management Services Pvt. Ltd; Malini Patel, Country Manager, Bloomberg Data Services Pvt. Ltd; CP Sanadhya, Director at Housing Finance Company India Shelter Finance Pvt. Ltd; and Anjani Prasad, Managing Director at Colour and Specialty Chemicals company Archroma India. The app includes more than 35 categories currently with over 30,000 merchants in the three metros, and expects to grow its network to more than 2 lakhs merchants in the next six months. It’s currently available in Mumbai, New Delhi and Bangalore and soon will be launched in other cities by end of next quarter. The application is available on both Android and iOS versions. Presently, the app is operational in two languages i.e English, Hindi and will integrate few r

 couple of noteworthy things have happened in the music streaming world this week. First, streaming giant Spotify came to a new licensing agreement with record label giant Universal. Spotify will notably limit some albums to its paid tier for two weeks at a time, but singles will still have no restrictions, and Universal will reportedly charge less in royalty fees as part of the arrangement. Second, Kanye West's "The Life of Pablo" became the first album to go platinum in the US through streams. It's been streamed more than 3 billion times since its release in February 2016. Spotify and Kanye are two titans in their fields, but the news points to a trend: Streaming is the new normal for how Americans listen to music. If the codependent nature of Spotify and Universal's agreement isn't enough, this chart from Statista should make it clearer: According to the RIAA , streaming brought in more than half of the US music industry's revenue in 2016. This

Uber Uber is refuting a major assertion in a recent New York Times story about how the company manages its drivers. The story mostly focused on how Uber uses social engineering techniques to encourage drivers to stay on the road longer. But it also asserts that the more drivers there are on the road, the more time these drivers spend idling and not making money because there's not enough demand. In a blog post written by Uber's director of policy research Betsy Masiello published Wednesday, Uber says these claims are false and that more drivers on the road actually results in more work for them. Without getting too technical, Masiello says Uber has data that shows as Uber gets better at reducing wait times in a city and improving the overall experience, it attracts more riders to the service. Therefore, there are more fares for drivers in a " virtuous cycle" that benefits everyone. "First, as the number of passengers and drivers using Uber grows,

It's been more than a year since Google blew up its entire corporate structure to form a new parent company: Alphabet. The shake-up was intended to help all of its businesses operate more efficiently, a move CEO Larry Page was working on for years as a secret project he called "Javelin." This move also allowed Page to step back from day-to-day operations to "focus on the bigger picture." Now, Alphabet is a massive corporation - ranking in size behind Apple, Samsung, and Microsoft - that encompasses everything from internet-beaming hot air balloons to self-driving cars to Google Cloud. Here's how all of Alphabet's companies fit under the umbrella. Get the latest Google stock price

A Next Generation Data Center is a storage environment that uses software to virtualize, optimize and simplify data management.  In taking advantage of these tools an agency becomes more agile and its IT tools and enterprise applications are more powerful.  It doesn’t matter what type of storage is being used – cloud-based, spinning disk or an all flash array – the software creates the basis for a Data Fabric making it simple to move data across different environments and put it to work in support of mission-critical activities. The best news for data center managers is that you don’t need any more physical space or real estate to build a NGDC.  In fact, because Next Generation Data Centers are virtualized environments, leveraging the cloud and flash storage, they can help agencies consolidate their data centers’ physical footprint and drive agile operations and efficient acquisition processes. Key Discussion Points How are data centers evolving? How is the next generation of stora

The federal government is doing something it has never done before: It's encouraging people to file H-1B abuse complaints. This week the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and Department of Labor each posted information about how to file a complaint against suspected H-1B abuse. It's a clear signal that government scrutiny of H-1B use will intensify and that the U.S. may challenge employers. But it creates a dilemma aptly summed up by Norm Matloff, a professor of computer science at the University of California at Davis, in a blog post titled, "American Victims of H-1B Get Their Chance -- Will They Take It?" There's good reason to believe that they won't. Many workers have been reluctant to file complaints. This includes H-1B visa holders who have been hurt by the system, but especially U.S. workers who have been displaced by it. This problem was illustrated by the Southern California Edison (SCE) layoffs in 2015. The Labor and Justice departments we

The second flash sale of Xiaomi Redmi 4A smartphone will take place on Amazon India and Mi.com today at 12 PM. The Xiaomi Redmi 4A was launched in India for Rs 5,999 this month and it comes in three colour variants namely Dark Gray, Gold and Rose Gold.  Xiaomi held its first flash sale on 23rd March in which the company claimed to have sold more than 250,000 units of Redmi 4A within 4 minutes of launch.   The Xiaomi Redmi 4A features a 5-inch HD display with 720 x 1280 pixels resolution and is powered by a 1.4GHz Snapdragon 425 processor coupled with Adreno 308 GPU. It comes with 2GB of RAM and 16GB of internal storage, which is expandable up to 128GB via microSD. The Redmi 4A gets its stamina from decent 3,120 mAh battery and runs on Android 6.0 Marshmallow operating system wrapped under MIUI 8. On the camera front, the Redmi 4A sports a 13-megapixel rear camera with PDAF, LED Flash, a f/2.2 aperture on its back, and a 5-megapixel front-facing camera for selfies. Besides the smartpho

IPL 2017  begins on Wednesday, April 5 - the 10th edition of the T20 extravaganza, where the Sunrisers Hyderabad franchise will defend the title it won last year. Unlike previous editions, this time each team will host its own  IPL 2017 opening ceremony  at its home ground. Sony has TV broadcast rights for matches, but you can watch IPL live on your phone as well. With a total of 60 matches to be played between April 6 and May 21, expect a lot of thrilling action, nail-biting finishes, and perhaps a few controversies in this edition of the Indian Premier League. Sony has the global television rights for the tournament, but if you are not near a TV every time a game is being played, you can still catch all the action online by live streaming IPL 2017 matches. Here are the answers to all the questions you may have the IPL 2017 live streaming, opening ceremonies, and match schedules. Where can I watch IPL 2017 online? If you want to watch IPL live online, you can watch the stream