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There has been great buzz in the last few months over Clean India or Swachh Bharat Abhiyan. As vital it is to public health to keep India’s streets and homes clean, it is equally important to have a digitally clean India to keep its technological and government functioning smooth. India’s digital health is crucial to its ambitious Make in India and Digital India plans, that hopes to empower the nation to rise to global prominence. Helping India’s digital health is IT security f

Today, cloud is a way to deliver any technology or business process as a digital service. Very simply, cloud is upending the industry. Last year the news was that cloud was being used primarily by large and middle-level enterprises for their mission-critical workloads. What’s trending now is cloud computing is firmly establishing itself as a reliable enterprise workhorse among a growing number of startups, and what’s most interesting is how it’s driving transformation

Over the last decade, HR function has been inundated with a slew of technologies that could redefine various activities within HR function. Until now, majority of these technology interventions have aided HR function to deliver its services to employees more efficiently by supporting existing processes and tasks. In other words, technology has been viewed as a tool that would enhance HR effectiveness by increasing the speed or reducing the cost of overall delivery.
Applications such as payr

The growing number of connected devices has given an entirely new dimension to the mobile strategy of enterprises. Any device which is plugged onto the internet becomes a mini-computer and has become the new point for end-user computing. The rapid adoption of a mobility strategy has thrown open a huge market opportunity for virtualisation software company Vmware, who enable the running of the applications and securing it on any mobile device. Sanjay Poonen, executive vice-pre

Speed is the most important feature for any Internet product these days according to Chris Cox, the chief product officer of Facebook. This is why Cox says the “understanding of how to make great products for every type of device and network is becoming more important for Facebook” and they are responsible for making “products really fast and good on less than optimum network conditions”. Over 138 million Indians use Facebook on a monthly basis and the expectation is that

According to filings with the Registrar of Companies, Facebook posted a 27 percent hike in its revenues in India. It reported numbers to Rs. 123.5 crore during the year to March 2015 from Rs. 97.6 crore a year earlier.
However, the social media firm earned less than Rs. 9 per user on an average in the country, its second-largest market outside the United States, where it earned Rs. 630 per user.
The revenue from India is negligible for the California-headquartered firm, which clocked USD 12.5 bi

Ironically, 2015 was also the year when the internet, our saviour, was also in dire need of saving.
New year beginnings can be tricky. In the attention deficit, accelerated reality, distributed lives that we live, events are short and memories short-lived. Yet, in order to prepare for the year to come it might be necessary to remember the year that has been. This time last year, we were still waiting for #acchedin — something that seems to be long shrouded in history, eroded by time. It i

Stating that 21st century belongs to India, SoftBank founder and CEO Masayoshi Son said there exist huge opportunities in India. (Source: PTI)
Japan-based SoftBank may scale up its planned investment of $10 billion in the coming years as the telecom and Internet giant sees the “beginning of Big Bang” for the world’s second most populous market.
SoftBank Chairman and Chief Executive Masayoshi Son said Internet and solar are the sectors that excites him, but wants the government

On the connectivity front, it supports 4G along with WiFi, Bluetooth, Gravity Sensor. (Source: website) Intex has launched the cheapest 4G-enabled smartphone – Cloud 4G Smart at Rs 4,999. Available in black, white and champagne colour , Cloud 4G Smart will be available exclusively on Flipkart. Here are 5 things you would want to know about this smartphone:
1.Intex Cloud 4G runs on Android Lollipop 5.0 and is backed by a 2,000mAh battery.
2. On the connectivity front, it supports 4G along

Ironically, 2015 was also the year when the internet, our saviour, was also in dire need of saving.
New year beginnings can be tricky. In the attention deficit, accelerated reality, distributed lives that we live, events are short and memories short-lived. Yet, in order to prepare for the year to come it might be necessary to remember the year that has been. This time last year, we were still waiting for #acchedin — something that seems to be long shrouded in history, eroded by time. It i

Stating that 21st century belongs to India, SoftBank founder and CEO Masayoshi Son said there exist huge opportunities in India. (Source: PTI)
Japan-based SoftBank may scale up its planned investment of $10 billion in the coming years as the telecom and Internet giant sees the “beginning of Big Bang” for the world’s second most populous market.
SoftBank Chairman and Chief Executive Masayoshi Son said Internet and solar are the sectors that excites him, but wants the government

We already have a national air quality monitoring programme for the last several years.
S M Shiva Nagendra,IIT Madras; uwe schlink of Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Leipzig
Air pollution is slowly becoming a huge concern in urban areas in India. People are becoming more aware of it and authorities are taking steps to effectively monitor and contain air pollution. We already have a national air quality monitoring programme for the last several years.
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