Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has partnered with four colleges to offer courses in Big Data as it looks to strengthen the pool of workforce in the digital technology space in India. The four colleges - Swami Vivekananda University (West Bengal), St Xaviers College of Arts and Science (Ahmedabad), Central University of Rajasthan (Rajasthan) and St Joseph’s College (Bengaluru) — will offer MSc programme specializing in Big Data this year starting July 2016. Read Also: NASSCOM Kick Starts 4th Edition Of Big Data & Analytics Summit 2016 “The digital revolution is...

LeEco’s recently launched second generation Superphones Le 2 and Le Max2 are definitive trend-setters in the industry given their distinctive features, many of which are industry firsts. It is hardly surprising that the new Superphones have received such a tremendous response from users securing a record-breaking number of 150,000 registrations for Le 2 and Le Max2, in just 24 hours. It has surpassed the record of 1 lakh registration within 24 hours achieved by the predecessor Le 1s back in January. Given the unmatched value proposition of features and content...

Technology giant Microsoft seems to have entered the battleground of browsers with its newly revamped Edge browser. In its latest blog, the company has launched a video test comparing the battery life of laptops running Edge, with the battery life of laptops running other browsers like Chrome, Firefox, and even Opera.Microsoft has claimed that Edge Browser provides 36-53 percent more battery life than Chrome. To do the test, Microsoft ran the Edge, Chrome, Firefox, and Opera browsers on the Surface Book. The Chrome browser was the first to lose, not lasting...

The much awaited Spectre from HP, which is claimed to be the thinnest laptop in the world, has been launched in India. It has been priced starting at Rs. 1,19,990 in India, and will go on sale from Saturday. The HP Spectre 13 weighs in at 1.11kg, which is heavier than the MacBook at 0.92kg, but lighter than the 13-inch MacBook Air at 1.35kg. Apart from svelte dimensions, the company has decided to go all out with its latest top-end laptop, and the Spectre 13 is the first to sport its new...

Zebra Technologies Corporation today announced the launch of two new two-dimensional (2D) scanners in India. The 3600 Series is Zebra’s new line of 12 ultra-rugged scanners, offering prolonged durability, enhanced scan performance, and unparalleled manageability in demanding industrial environments. The DS4308-XD, purpose built for electronics manufacturing, captures a variety of barcodes and marks emblazoned on circuit boards and other electronic components, delivering advanced scanning technology to track every component on the production line. With 2D imagers, companies can “Get More” in one device. Such scanners boast capabilities of reading the...

NEC India announced today the appointment of Takayuki Inaba as its new Managing Director. He will be responsible for leading and expanding NEC India’s business offerings in the country. He reports directly to Tetsuro Akagi, Chief Executive Officer of NEC Asia Pacific and Senior Vice President of NEC Corporation. Inaba has close to 30 years of sales and marketing experience, having taken on several senior leadership roles since joining NEC in 1988. He first started his career in NEC’s Information Processing Sales Support Division, and later moved to the Communications...

Technology giant Acer has fallen victim to cyber criminals. The company reportedly revealed in a letter to California authorities that its US E Commerce website was breached and the customer data was compromised over the last year. According to the report of Yahoo! Tech, Acer revealed in its report that customer credentials including names, addresses, payment card numbers, expiry dates, and three-digit security codes, were stolen. However, details of the nature of the attack which occurred between May 12, 2015 and April 28, 2016 were not provided.There is no evidence that...

Aiming to connect millions of internet non-users and bring them online, Idea Cellular has announced an “Internet For All” program. This program empowers all the Idea prepaid consumers and retailers to give one month of free Internet access to Internet non-users just by logging on to http://i4all.ideacellular.com from their smartphones. They can gift free 100 MB data for a month by entering the Idea mobile number of non-internet users. Idea further personalizes this service by sending periodic information on how to use free data to the non-data user and providing various ways...

Cloud-first, and even cloud-only, is replacing the defensive no-cloud stance that dominated many large providers in recent years. Today, most provider technology innovation is cloud-centric, with the stated intent of retrofitting the technology to on-premises. By 2020, a corporate “no-cloud” policy will be as rare as a “no-internet” policy is today, predicts research organization Gartner. “Aside from the fact that many organizations with a no-cloud policy actually have some under-the-radar or unavoidable cloud usage, we believe that this position will become increasingly untenable,” said Jeffrey Mann, research vice president at...