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• India eyes home-grown OS to compete with Android, iOS

  25-01-2022 23:10
  
  The Indian government is hoping to spur the nation's private sector to create a national mobile operating system that can compete with Google’s Android and Apple’s iOS.Rajeev Chandrasekhar, the Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), said this week his agency plans to encourage the tech industry and academic institutions to collaborate on a home-grown Indian mobile OS, according to a report in The Economic Times of India.To read this article in full, pl
  
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• Nvidia may abandon its $40B ARM acquisition

  25-01-2022 18:44
  
  I can’t help but imagine sighs of relief may be heard from Cupertino on the news Nvidia may abandon its attempt to acquire Apple’s strategically important supplier, Arm.Competitive concerns put deal on ice
  Nvidia has reportedly told partners it doesn’t expect the acquisition to go ahead. That said, both Nvidia and SoftBank appear to be pressing forward with the deal for the time being; Nvidia stands to lose $1.25 billion if it fails.If the acquisition does fall through, SoftBa
  
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• Kin and Carta : Meet Mark Ardito, IT executive pivots to consulting - marketscreener.com

  25-01-2022 15:57 via marketscreener.com
  
  Kin and Carta : Meet Mark Ardito, IT executive pivots to consulting  marketscreener.com
  
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• Don’t cheap out on essential hardware

  25-01-2022 13:00
  
  On the Reddit SysAdmin group, I recently read a horror story. A car dealership had been using a 14-year-old desktop for its one and only business server. On it, the company was running two business’ customer-relation management (CRM) programs and their inventory management systems. They also—brace yourself—didn’t have an automatic backup system.The consultant told them that “they should automate backups to a separate system, or use a RAID1 at least. Something!&rdqu
  
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• Will World War III begin in cyberspace?

  25-01-2022 12:00
  
  People die because of cyber wars, even if no bullets are ever fired. Instead, they die in emergency rooms that no longer have power, from broken medical communication networks, and from riots. All of this has happened before. It will happen again. And now, with Russia poised to invade Ukraine and Russian cyberattacks already in motion, we can only hope and pray that what promises to be the first major European war since World War II doesn't spark the next World War.If it does, I fear the proxim
  
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• Prestigious IT Medal for Met Office Chief Executive - Met Office

  25-01-2022 09:00 via news.google.com
  
  Prestigious IT Medal for Met Office Chief Executive  Met Office
  
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