The Supreme Court on Monday issued notice to the Indian government seeking its response on multiple petitions challenging the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) order authorising security and intelligence agencies to snoop on all computers. Hearing the petitions filed by advocate M.L. Sharma among others, a bench of Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi, Justices Ashok Bhushan […]
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Amazon food biz to log off if new rules remain on menu
Amazon’s food-only retail business will stop selling on Amazon.in if the government’s latest foreign direct investment (FDI) guidelines remain unchanged by next month. This would be a blow for the initiative as Amazon was the only foreign retailer to have committed investment — to the tune of $500 million — in the food retail segment […]
Hotstar to invest Rs 120 Cr to ramp up its original content
Feeling the pressure from rivals such as Netflix and Amazon Prime Video, which are investing heavily into local and original content in India, Hotstar, the video-on-demand service from Star India, has decided to step on the gas with a war chest of Rs 120 crore. Hotstar, which has the highest number of downloads (over 350 […]
India needs to win the software products race
By Lalitesh Katragadda & Sharad Sharma Silicon is starting to think. Every human endeavour is now in the early stages of disruption. Whole industries —whether it is advertising or energy or farming —will be turned inside out in the next 20 years. Software products and platforms are at the heart of this revolution. When we […]
Hack Allows Escape of Play-with-Docker Containers
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Cisco Sees SD-WAN, Other Tech Leading 2019 Networking Transformation
News Cisco Sees SD-WAN, Other Tech Leading 2019 Networking Transformation By David Ramel 01/14/2019 Networking giant Cisco Systems sees software-defined wide-area networking (SD-WAN) among the technologies that will change the networking space in 2019. While the old-guard, proprietary, hardware-centric exemplar may have been slow to jump on the software-centric bandwagon several years ago, it subsequently […]
Spotify signs a global content deal with T-Series
Music streaming service Spotify has signed a global content deal with India’s leading music label T-Series to strengthen its music catalog, ahead of a likely foray into the country. As per the deal, Spotify users across the world will get access to T-Series’ entire music catalog comprising of over 160,000 tracks across various genres like […]
Top 10 IoT vulnerabilities
Security questions have dogged the Internet of Things (IoT) since before the name was invented. Everyone from vendors to enterprise users to consumers is concerned that their fancy new IoT devices and systems could be compromised. The problem is actually worse than that, as vulnerable IoT devices can be hacked and harnessed into giant botnets […]
Siemens upgrades Digital Innovation Platform with Slack and Microsoft Teams integration
Siemens PLM Software has added support for Slack and Microsoft Teams to its Digital Innovation Platform through the Teamcenter Cloud Collaboration Hub. The update means Slack and Microsoft Teams users are able to post messages and view their conversation history from their Active Workspace using Teamcenter. Siemens PLM Software explained that it will enable products […]
Twilio appoints Google Hangouts innovator as chief product officer
Twilio has appointed Google Hangouts inventor Chee Chew as chief product officer, helping developers create more immersive experiences for customers. Chew has more than 25 years of experience helping businesses such as Amazon, Hewlett-Packard, Google and Microsoft improve the ways customers engage with their brands. For example, in his latest role as vice president of […]