Image credit: Ted S. Warren Even though Microsoft ended mainstream support for “Windows 7” in January 2015, the software giant has now decided to put a final halt on the roll-out of free security patches also for the operating system next year. “After January 14, 2020, Microsoft will no longer provide security updates or support […]

Comcast‘s NBCUniversal will launch a streaming media service in early 2020 under a pricing model that seeks to mollify traditional pay TV providers while going after a market dominated by Netflix and Amazon. The advertising-supported service, announced on Monday, will be available at no cost to NBCUniversal’s pay TV subscribers in the United States and […]

Online retailers could take a Rs 35,000-40,000-crore hit on their FY20 revenues to comply with the revised foreign investment policy, according to Crisil. Brick-and-mortar stores, as a result, may see a 150-200-bps spike in sales with an additional Rs 12,000-crore-plus mop-up. “The fact that there will be a level playing field, which will create a […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]