The All India Professionals’ Congress, a unit of the Congress party, registered its protests to the government’s proposal to mandate social media companies to trace messages back to the originator and assist law-enforcement or take down content without a judicial order, calling it violative of the fundamental rights to privacy and freedom of expression. The […]
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India is wise to curb big tech’s monopolistic ways
By Vivek Wadhwa PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel openly exposes one of tech industry’s darket secrets: it likes to build monopolies. Competition is for losers, he says, because it limits profits. He posits capitalism and competition as opposites, on the basis that “capitalism is premised on the accumulation of capital, but under perfect competition, all profits […]
Policy should be consistent, else it creates havoc: Binny Bansal
One of the country’s top Internet entrepreneurs, Flipkart cofounder Binny Bansal, denounced the revised framework for foreign investment in the Indian ecommerce sector, saying small startups and early-stage companies were being adversely hit by the new rules. The new regulations come in the way of innovation and company creation, along with being a deterrent for […]
What are Data Manipulation Attacks, and How to Mitigate Against Them
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Lack of collaboration between IT and business hindering digital transformation
A report by BMC Software has revealed that business success is being impacted by a lack of collaboration between IT departments and business decision makers. More than four in ten of businesses hold the IT department accountable if something goes wrong during the digital transformation process, despite two-thirds of businesses claiming they don’t ask for […]
Exclusive: European Microsoft 365 outage sent Department for Education’s IT into “meltdown”
The Department for Education (DfE) endured a 12-hour IT nightmare as a result of last month’s European-wide Microsoft 365 outage. The government department’s IT systems were paralysed on 24 January, with more than 6,000 of its employees locked out of their cloud-based Microsoft and email accounts, according to a DfE source, Cloud Pro has learnt. Crisis meetings […]
Google launches Password Checkup and Cross Account Protection
Google is beefing up its Chrome tools to help users ascertain when their data may be at risk. Password Checkup and Cross Account Protection are the latest efforts from search giant Google to make users feel safe and secure when browsing online. Password Checkup is a Chrome extension that will detect whether the username and […]
Dell EMC updates security software to protect multi-cloud businesses
Dell EMC has unveiled updates to its Data Domain and Integrated Data Protection Appliance (IDPA), enabling multi-cloud businesses to take advantage of enhanced data protection. Targeted at mid-sized companies that have multiple offices or swathes of remote workers, Dell EMC’s updates have made it simpler and more efficient for businesses to run its security appliances. […]
Over 60% cases at Karnataka state women’s commission are about social media harassment
By Tushar Kaushik Over 60% of complaints lodged at the Karnataka State Women’s Commission are about harassment of women via social media, according to the commission’s chairperson Nagalakshmi Bai. This trend may not be confined to Karnataka, she said. Bai made the statement while speaking to textile workers at a factory in Mysuru recently. She […]
BookMyShow’s Movie Mode aims to improve the movie watching experience for customers
Online entertainment ticketing platform BookMyShow has introduced a new feature called Movie Mode that aims to improve the last mile experience for customers who are about to watch a movie. Through this feature, BookMyShow will offer customers easier access to all the information and tasks they typically do before watching a movie in a card-based […]