The Indian bureaucrats are creating high level forums, committees and sub committees and losing precious time in discussions in deciding how to allocate 5G spectrum for trial and experimentation. In contrast, countries like China, South Korea, and the Unites States have announced the launch of 5G services.
The government has issued an Ordinance under which it allowed voluntary use of Aadhaar as identity proof for opening bank accounts and procuring mobile phone connections. For this, it amended the Aadhaar Act 2016, Prevention of Money Laundering Act 2005, and Indian Telegraph Act 1885.
Reliance Jio Infocomm has stolen a march over older carriers, reporting an over 15 pc sequential growth in its adjusted gross revenue (AGR) in the Dec 2018 quarter, propelled by strong performances in crucial states. Vodafone Idea and Bharti Airtel, by contrast, suffered 2.8 pc and 1.7 pc on-quarter dips in AGR, respectively.
The European Commission has fined Google €1.49 bn ($1.69 bn) for breaching EU antitrust rules. The Commission found that Google has abused its market dominance by imposing a number of restrictive clauses in contracts with third-party websites which prevented Google's rivals from placing their search adverts on these websites.
A meeting of the Committee for Authorizing the establishment and operation of Indian Satellite System (CAISS) was held on Mar 15, 2019 in which the status of proposals received between Jul 2016 and Nov 2018 were discussed. CAISS said that it had received four new applications.
In its first annual report after General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into practice on May 25, 2018, the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) opened 15 statutory inquiries (investigations) in relation to multinational technology companies' compliance with the GDPR.
Globally, social media are being alleged influencing elections by spreading propaganda like it's been reported in case of US elections and Brexit exercise. To counter these allegations and to have fair & transparent elections, social media platforms have been actively working on their policies specifically for elections.
Data explosion has happened after the launch of 4G services in India. With this comes the need for storage and capacity. TelecomLive spoke to Anjani Kumar, Country Manager, India & SAARC, Raritan on how the data center market has evolved over the years.
On Feb 23, 2019, the government released the draft National e-Commerce Policy proposing setting up of a legal and technological framework for restrictions on cross-border data flow. It also laid out conditions for businesses regarding collection or processing of sensitive data locally and abroad.
Popular Indian plays will now be aired on Zee television on a new dedicated channel for theatre called Spotlight.
The channel from Zee Theatre, the theatre segment of Zee Entertainment, is a video-on-demand channel that will air the best of Indian plays by popular theatre groups was launched on Tuesday. It will be available only on Airtel Digital TV.
With this, Airtel's Digital TV platform will offer Indian theatre a wider market reach as customers watch their favourite plays from the biggest playwrights come alive right in their homes.
Viewers will be able to watch over 100 plays in Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Bengali and English, across a wide variety of genre, ranging from classic, to thriller, to comedy performed by renowned artists such as Varun Badola, Sonali Kulkarni, Ira Dubey and Vikram Gokhale.
Social media chatter around the latest version of the Indian Premier League (IPL) has been the loudest in comparison to all its previous editions. In two weeks, about 345 million people watched the matches on television, while the viewership on digital platforms was at 267 million in three weeks, making this season of the IPL the most-watched. According to the data shared by media agency Wavemaker, the IPL has been trending high on social media platforms such as Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube.
A new artificial intelligence tool can help diagnose post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) by analysing voices, a recent study has claimed.
The details were published in the Journal of Depression and Anxiety.
Department of computer science and engineering in Baba Ghulam Shah Badshah University Rajouri organised a two-day workshop on latest trends in computer science and engineering under the aegis of TEQIP-III program.
The workshop was handled by the resource persons from Zakir Hussain college of engineering and technology of Aligarh Muslim university.
Vice chancellor of the university, Prof. Javed Musarrat congratulated the department of computer science engineering for conducting the workshop and stressed upon the need for conducting such workshops at a regular interval.
Laptops powered by the 9th Gen Intel Core mobile processors would launch from original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) including Acer, ASUS, Dell, HP, Lenovo and MSI, starting April 23, as they introduce the most compelling laptops for gaming and content creation.
"Our new 9th Gen platform is designed to delight gamers, creators and performance users by giving them more of what they want.
We are bringing desktop-caliber performance with up to 5 Ghz and 8 cores in a range of thinner systems and new level of connectivity with Wi-Fi 6 (Gig+) so users can game or create where they want," Fredrik Hamberger, General Manager, Premium and Gaming Laptop Segments, Intel, said in a statement.
Bengaluru: Amazon's fully-owned retailing subsidiary in India is on an expansion spree. Amazon Retail India, which is already present in over 100 cities, plans to increase its presence in approximately 60 tier 2-3 cities, according to an Economic Times report.
For this purpose, Amazon is in the process of setting up several delivery centres for its hub-and-spoke model. This comes almost two years after the government gave a nod for the firm to locally source items.
Earlier this month the retail giant had infused ₹240 crore into Amazon Retail India, according to its regulatory filings, signalling an increased focus on the grocery arm. Amazon Retail India forms the giant's Amazon Pantry and Prime Now services that deliver groceries and other household products.
San Francisco: A lawsuit filed in the US has alleged that Apple violated the country's Securities Exchange Act by hiding a slowdown in the demand for iPhones, especially in China, the media reported.
The City of Roseville employees' retirement fund filed the suit on Tuesday in Northern California US District Court, The Mercury News published from San Jose reported.
The lawsuit claimed that Apple knew in November its iPhone sales were hit, but refrained from revealing it to investors then, leading to economic loss for investors.
BENGALURU: Amid a slowdown in job growth across sectors, IT services major Tata Consultancy ServicesNSE 0.90 % (TCS) and InfosysNSE 0.62 % hired about 42,000 more techies in the recently concluded fiscal 2018-19 than it did in the previous fiscal, registering a growth of over 350 per cent in new hiring, a media report said.
While Mumbai-headquartered TCS hired 29,287 employees in the financial year ending on March 31, Bengaluru-based Infosys added 24,016 software professionals, Fortune reported this week.
India's direct benefit transfer scheme, the largest such programme in the world, can help revive the stressed power sector, said Infosys co-founder and famed tech entrepreneur Nandan Nilekani. This, and others, are among the numerous benefits to the Indian economy being brought about by increasing digitisation and use of Aadhaar — the country's unique ID programme, he said. Nandan Nilekani was also the first chairperson of the Unique Identification Authority of India, the parent organisation of Aadhaar.
Narendra Modi government introduced 'Digital India' in 2015 to push digital adoption, and also launched various initiatives such as Goods and Services Tax (GST) and Aadhaar in order to promote inclusive governance and simplify the lives of people in India.
The Aadhaar has worked as a digital infrastructure backbone helping governments in India to roll out several real-time initiatives and service delivery capabilities for citizens and enterprises alike, said Nandan Nilekani, chief architect of Aadhaar and co-founder and chairman, Infosys.
The Aadhaar, serving as an electronic know-your-customer (KYC) tool, has triggered massive customer additions in the country's financial and telecom sectors and similar explosive growth is expected across other segments as well in the years to come, said Mr. Nilekani at FICCI's National Executive Committee Meeting here on Monday.
WhatsApp is reportedly testing new emojis in the Doodle Picker for Status section. The feature is currently under development and not available for Android beta users as of now, according to a WABetaInfo report. The new official emojis set is included in WhatsApp for Android beta version 2.19.110.
The current emojis in the doodle picker will be replaced by a new set of emojis. The website has also put out screenshots comparing the two emoji sets and the new emojis look similar to the emojis that are currently being used for chats.
NEW DELHI: Sector regulator TRAI Tuesday directed Bharti Telemedia to comply with the provision of the new regulatory framework for broadcasting and cable TV services, as it took serious note of consumer complaints pertaining to the DTH operators' specific offering and grievance redressal helpline.
"The said DTH operator is forcefully offering a bouquet of free-to-air channels with no choice to subscribers, without their consent and with no additional NCF (Network Capacity Fee). This is in addition to the channels opted by the subscribers," TRAI said in its direction available on its website.
Four youth who came from Bihar to Dehradun to prepare for NDA entrance test were arrested by Doiwala Police. These four have been accused of breaking into several mobile phone shops and stealing phones because they wanted to make money through the quickest medium available. Police have recovered 45 stolen mobile phones amounting to about Rs 5,00,000, one Digital Video Recorder (DVR), two bill books and one motor cycle from them.
Mumbai: Banks face disruptions in their Point of Sale (PoS) device business as the UPI-based peer-to-merchant payment technology and emergence of nimble fintech players threaten to diminish the viability of an industry dominated hitherto by traditional lenders.
PoS devices are used by local vendors and retail store operators to process payments through debit and credit cards with swipe and QR code facilities. Currently, there are about 5 million PoS devices operational across the country. About 3.7 million, or more than 70 per cent of these devices have been deployed by banks.
Reserve Bank of India (RBI) data showed that there were 1.3 million operational devices in February 2016, which rose 63 per cent to 2.2 million in February 2017, driven by an uptick in digital transactions after demonetisation. Deployment growth rate has since consistently slowed, to 38 per cent in February 2018, and subsequently 18 per cent in February 2019.
NEW DELHI/MUMBAI: Bharti Airtel has submitted details of its segmented offers, or those given to specific individuals, to the sector regulator but stayed away from offering specific details sought by the sectoral watchdog, a move that could spark another confrontation between the two sides.
India's largest telco Vodafone Idea, on its part, sought a 15-day extension from the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) to submit details – which is likely to be accepted – while Reliance Jio is expected to submit its data on Wednesday.
An Airtel spokesperson confirmed sending the details to Trai last week, but declined to share further details.
Facebook on Monday said it has been blocking or removing nearly one million accounts daily using artificial intelligence and machine learning, ahead of the Lok Sabha election. "For a year and a half, we've been working to bring a comprehensive and strategic approach to our work on the Indian elections," Ajit Mohan, Facebook managing director and vice-president for India, said in a blog post. He added that Facebook was "absolutely committed" in maintaining the integrity of the election and would help to ensure that it is fair and free from interference, both foreign and domestic.