FILE- This March 20, 2018, file photo shows the Spotify app on an iPad in Baltimore. Music streaming service Spotify is buying podcast companies Gimlet and Anchor as it looks to take on Apple’s popular iTunes’ podcasting platform.Photo/Patrick Semansky, File) After a year long wait, Swedish music streaming major, Spotify finally launched in India, amid […]
Archives for February 2019
Inmarsat and Microsoft team up on network-sharing deal
Inmarsat and Microsoft have announced a joint collaboration that will see the former’s customers transfer data collected via their IoT solutions to the latter’s Azure IoT platform. Businesses in the agriculture, mining, transportation, and logistics sectors will be able to connect the data they’ve collected with cloud-based apps to gain more insight into their customers, […]
Alibaba Cloud debuts new data intelligence tools
Alibaba Cloud has introduced a set of tools it claims will make it easier for businesses to take advantage of data intelligence and gain greater insight into the running of their business. Businesses in the retail, fin-tech, logistics, media and entertainment, digital branding, and marketing sectors are expected to be the primary beneficiaries of the […]
ICANN urges adopting DNSSEC now
Powerful malicious actors continue to be a substantial risk to key parts of the Internet and its Domain Name System security infrastructure, so much so that The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers is calling for an intensified community effort to install stronger DNS security technology. Specifically ICANN is calling for full deployment of […]
2019 Oscars Predictions: Results Are In
The 91st Academy Awards this Sunday, the first without a host in 30 years, proceeded without a hitch and seemed to sit well with the worldwide audience. For the third year in a row, we applied the BigML Machine Learning platform to predict the winners. This year, we got 4 out of 8 right for […]
Verizon, Cisco Announce 5G/SD-WAN Pact
News Verizon, Cisco Announce 5G/SD-WAN Pact By David Ramel 02/25/2019 Two more major networking players have signed an agreement to combine two promising, game-changing technologies: 5G wireless and software-defined wide-area-networking (SD-WAN). Verizon announced its Virtual Network Services will support 5G devices on Cisco’s SD-WAN platform, which features intent-based networking, an offshoot of the software-defined movement. […]
Microsoft unveils HoloLens 2 with a enterprise laser-focus
Microsoft has announced HoloLens 2 at MWC on Sunday, the follow up to its mixed reality headset. The announcement was made by Alex Kipman, a Microsoft Technical Fellow and the creator of the first HoloLens, who said that customers had been consistently asking Microsoft for three things to improve the HoloLens. First, was for more […]
Working Group Two Introduces Cloud-Managed Mobile Network with Cisco Ultra Packet Core on Amazon Web Services
BARCELONA, Spain – February 24, 2019 – Working Group Two (WG2) today announced an industry-leading platform to offer cloud-managed mobile network, running both control and user plane on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Focusing on the demands and opportunities of the 5G era – the WG2 platform allows mobile operators and enterprises to create and monetize […]
Companies shouldn’t be allowed to colonise data: Ravi Shankar Prasad
India is keen on the storage of key personal data within the country to prevent “data imperialism”, Law, Justice and IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said at the Global Business Summit on Saturday. He also said government would seek details of origins of only such messages that promote terrorism and radicalisation on social media platforms […]
Cisco Breaks the Record Books: Powering Rakuten’s First-of- its-Kind Cloud Native Mobile Network
BARCELONA, – Mobile World Congress – February 24, 2019 – Cisco today announced details of its innovation blueprint with Rakuten Mobile Network, Inc. to build the world’s first end-to-end fully virtualized, cloud-native mobile network, ready for 5G. Rakuten Mobile Network (RMN), a wholly owned subsidiary of Rakuten, Inc., a global leader in internet services and soon to be operator of […]