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 […]
Archives for January 2019
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 […]
In 2019, Flipkart, Ola, e-grocers will all have to do biz differently
The big consumer internet players have refueled with funds raised in 2018 and are expected to outspend each other in increasing marketshare by targeting existing customers and spending more on acquiring new customers. Entering new product categories and geographies is also going to be a key theme for 2019. Forrester sees the following trends in […]
Indians are increasingly renting cars instead of buying. But does it really suit you?
Ahead of Diwali, Pune-based MNC executive Akshay Chillal decided to upgrade to a Maruti Swift AT. “I had three options,” says the 28-year-old. Buy a new car with a down payment and a car loan; dip into savings to buy a second-hand car or sign up for a car subscription. He chose the third and […]
30 men arrested as Swiggy, Hotel Empire workers clash
A hotel was ransacked allegedly by a group of employees of food aggregator Swiggy, hours after one of their colleagues and a staffer of the hotel clashed over a petty issue at Arekere on Bannerghatta Road in Bengaluru on Saturday midnight. Police have arrested 30 employees of Swiggy and Hotel Empire, Arekere. Windowpanes and furniture […]