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In what is a true gigantic deal in the world of technology, Dell Corporation has completed the acquisition of EMC Corporation for a sum of USD 67 billion. After the completion, the new entity is being called Dell Technologies, is to become the world’s largest privately controlled technology company. Headquartered in Round Rock, Texas, the new company will have Dell, Dell EMC, Virtustream, and Vmware under its umbrella, and they already have a current human resource base of 140,000 the world over. Michael Dell, the Chairman & CEO of Dell Technologies...

As Reliance Jio sets off to deliver its services, other telecom giants, Airtel and Vodafone have announced the introduction of new post-paid plans which will give them more value for their money. In a press statement from Airtel, on WhatsApp and other social media apps, they have mentioned, “Airtel is also planning some new plans for its post-paid users. You will be hearing about the new plans very soon.” They also mentioned in detail, their analysis of the Reliance Jio offers, where they made it clear, that Reliance’s claims are...

The fiscal year 2016 has proven to be a year of online extortion through various malicious attacks. The ransomware malware has targeted over 180 enterprises so far in 2016, security solutions company Trend Micro has revealed. Ransomware, also called Business Email Compromise (BEC), globally caused companies a loss of a whopping $3 billion, the report said. However, no figure has been provided for losses in India. BEC schemes are scam tactics which compromise business accounts in order to facilitate an unauthorized fund transfer and is considered one of the most...

Microsoft who was the late entrant to the cloud market will finally be known as the overall leader in the software-as-a-service (SaaS) market setting aside Salesforce, albeit by a small margin. Microsoft had a 15 per cent share of worldwide enterprise SaaS revenues and Salesforce 14 per cent in Q2, according to Synergy Research Group. Strangely, Salesforce doesn’t even rank in all the different aspects of SaaS. It holds the dominant position in customer relationship management (CRM), true. Read Also:Ex-Microsoft MD Karan Bajwa To Join IBM Like a lot of...

In a move that will benefit the music entertainment industry, the government has decided to include Internet broadcasting under the purview of the Copyright Act. Under the earlier provisions, ‘broadcasting organizations’ mainly covered radio and television. Now the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP) has brought Internet broadcasting under the ambit of the copyright law which will benefit audio streaming websites such as Saavn and Gaana.com. “The provisions of section 31D (of the Copyright Act, 1957) are not restricted to radio and television broadcasting organizations only, but cover Internet...

Global wireless and networking brand, Linksys has announced the reappointment of Compuage Infocom Limited as its National Distributor in India. According to company officials, Compuage Infocom Limited will be the exclusive India distributor for the Linksys range of products which include wireless/Wi-Fi and networking solutions for Consumer and SMB segments. Headquartered in Mumbai, Compuage Infocom has a pan-India presence with branches across 45 cities and a strong network of more than 10000 partners. Linksys India hopes to strengthen its India presence and reach out to tier 2 and 3 cities...

The first edition of India’s largest conclave on IoT, the IoT India Congress 2016, kick-started its three day congress today at The Lalit, Bangalore. The IoT India Congress 2016 is India’s first completely integrated IoT platform that aims to bring together the key stakeholders across the value chain and verticals to collaborate, ideate and share a common road map for IoT implementation. J S Deepak, Secretary, Ministry of Telecommunications, Government of India, inaugurated the Congress, which was followed by a message from Ravi Shankar Prasad, Minister, Information Technology and Law...

The government has reportedly appointed retired IAS officer and former DEITY Secretary J Satyanarayana as the Chairperson of the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI).Satyanarayana succeeds former Infosys co-founder Nandan Nilekani who was the first chairman and had stepped down from the post in 2014, ETreports. Satyanarayana, a 1977 batch IAS officer of the Andhra Pradesh cadre, has been appointed as a part-time chairperson of UIDAI. The present CEO of UIDAI, Ajay Bhushan Pandey is a serving IAS officer. The government on Tuesday appointed two private persons as the part-time members...