There are now billions of IoT devices in businesses across the world, prompting the need for increased security measures to protect them. More about cybersecurity IoT devices are everywhere now, and some estimates say there will be 41.6 billion IoT devices in the field by 2025, with over $1 trillion spent on them by 2023. […]
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Watch the Federal Reserve confirmation hearings for Shelton and Waller live
[The stream is slated to start at 9 am ET. Please refresh the page if you do not see a player above at that time.] President Donald Trump’s two choices to fill Federal Reserve board spots will get their confirmation hearings Thursday before the Senate Banking Committee. Judy Shelton of California and Christopher Waller of […]
Organisers of cancelled mobile conference play down compensation chances
BARCELONA (Reuters) – Companies that have spent money on a major telecoms conference in Barcelona that has been cancelled after mass withdrawals due to the coronavirus outbreak cannot expect compensation under the organisers’ standard insurance, they said on Thursday. The GSMA telecoms body cancelled the Feb. 24-27 event on Wednesday despite assurances from local and […]
Android co-founder Andy Rubin’s startup shuts down
Essential Products, a consumer electronics startup founded by the former Google executive Andy Rubin, said on Wednesday that it was ceasing operations. Once considered one of Silicon Valley’s most promising hardware technology startups, Essential had raised $330 million in outside funding because of the track record of Rubin, who is widely credited with creating Google’s […]
Doesn’t look, feel, smell right when etailer makes Rs 6K cr loss on Rs 5K turnover: Piyush Goyal
Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal on Thursday asked e-commerce players to strictly adhere to FDI norms, saying it “certainly does not look and feel and smell right” when a company makes a loss of Rs 6,000 crore on a turnover of Rs 5,000 crore. Goyal, who had earlier remarked that e-commerce giant Amazon was […]
400M social media users are set to lose their anonymity in India
By Saritha RaiFacebook, YouTube, Twitter and TikTok will have to reveal users’ identities if Indian government agencies ask them to, according to the country’s controversial new rules for social media companies and messaging apps expected to be published later this month. The requirement comes as governments around the world are trying to hold social media […]
SQL Server runs best on Azure. Here’s why.
SQL Server customers migrating their databases to the cloud have multiple choices for their cloud destination. To thoroughly assess which cloud is best for SQL Server workloads, two key factors to consider are: Innovations that the cloud provider can uniquely provide. Independent benchmark results. What innovations can the cloud provider bring to your SQL Server […]
Announcing the preview of Azure Shared Disks for clustered applications
Today, we are announcing the limited preview of Azure Shared Disks, the industry’s first shared cloud block storage. Azure Shared Disks enables the next wave of block storage workloads migrating to the cloud including the most demanding enterprise applications, currently running on-premises on Storage Area Networks (SANs). These include clustered databases, parallel file systems, persistent […]
Now, FabHotels sees a flurry of hotel checkouts
A story eerily similar to Oyo and its hoteliers seems to be playing out at FabHotels, with hotel owners and industry associations accusing the Gurgaon-based hotel aggregator of arbitrary termination of contracts, non-payment of dues and stoppage of minimum guarantee amounts. FabHotels has denied these allegations even as some hotel owners have filed cases against […]
Payment firms seek action against lax lenders, telcos
Illustration: Rahul Awasthi Top payment companies owned by global giants Google, Alibaba and Walmart are seeking regulatory and government intervention against alleged inefficiency at some banks and telcos in helping curb customer frauds. These are UPI based frauds where customer accounts are compromised after the victims are socially manipulated either through a targeted phone call […]