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The External Affairs Ministry of the Government of India, recently launched an app that brings websites and various social media handles of over 170 Indian missions on a common platform. The initiative (app) that is aimed at increasing the ministry’s public outreach, has been developed in cooperation with Facebook. The idea is to help people connect with Indian missions abroad and the ministry of external affairs through a range of social media platforms under one roof, instead of accessing multiple websites. “The app is a one stop shop to find...

The Government has allowed handset makers another year to move from an older standard for certifying batteries to a new one. The decision, manufacturers said, will give them enough time to comply with the rule and reduce the time required to take products to the market, ET reports. The Bureau of Indian Standards has informed companies that it will allow concurrent running of two battery certification standards issued in 2012 and 2015 till August 2017, after which only the latter one shall remain. “If manufacturers who have models as per 2012...

India-based L& T Infotech announced the establishment of a strategic partnership with Coupa, to tap into their spend management solutions expertise, and ultimately help enterprises rationalize the spending, look at measurable savings, improve upon management of cash, and keep a control on costs. Coupa is known for solutions such as procure-to-pay, travel and expense management, invoicing, e-sourcing, supplier management and contract management. As part of this partnership, LTI will establish a Coupa Center of Excellence (CoE) to strengthen its Coupa practice. The CoE will develop spend management solutions to help...

Since Service and Maintenance contracts ensure a predictable flow of revenue, it has led most security system aggregators to view Service and Maintenance as a primary profit center. According to a recent research by IHS validates this trend as as service revenue in the Americas accounted for 63 percent of total security systems integration, while in Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) it accounted for 56 percent.Asia Pacific (APAC) region accounts for 43% of the market.The previous year the sector generated 14.5billion dollars and is speculated to increase to 18.8...

ICICI Bank today unveiled Asia’s first payment service using a smartphone keyboard-‘iMobile SmartKeys’. The feature enables ‘iMobile’ users to make quick and secure payments on any mobile application including chat, messenger, email, games or search browser without having to exit their current application in their smartphone. This is in lieu of customers having to switch tabs or applications within their smartphone to access ‘iMobile’. It provides the convenience of completing transactions in lesser steps than earlier, thereby reducing the transaction time. The ‘iMobile SmartKeys’ solution is developed by one of...

Struggling to cope up with the changing market dynamics, the IT hardware vendors seem to be experiencing the toughest phase of their business. Networking major Cisco Systems has joined the list of other struggling technology majors such as, Intel and Dell. Cisco has reportedly announced the plans to layoff over 5000 employees. According to the media reports, Cisco is planning to lay off 5,500 employees, which account for nearly 7 percent of its workforce. The decision is likely to impact Cisco’s India operation, especially employees in its R&D center in...

In an attempt to combat digital terrorism, Twitter has suspended 360,000 accounts linked to terror activities since middle of 2015. The company is its official blog postsaid that it has suspended an additional 235,000 accounts for violating company’s policies related to promotion of terrorism in the six months since February 2016. Twitter said that earlier this year, it has suspended more than 125,000 accounts since mid-2015 for “violating longtime prohibition on violent threats and the promotion of terrorism and shared a number of steps to combat such content. Since then, the...

The consumer internet search platform AskMe has reportedly suspended its operations, laying off nearly 4000 employees. The company said t have taken the decision because of severe cash crunch. According to some media reports, its primary investor, Astro Holdings defaulted on payments to sellers, own employees and other dues. The bills had amounted up to $15 Million from January 2016, and since Astro has 98.5 percent stake in AskMe, the company had to rely on just one source of income, Track.in reported. The Gurugram-based company’s e-commerce website is still live but is...

Intel, the world’s biggest semiconductor maker is reportedly planning to manufacture ARM based smartphone chips. The company has entered into a new licensing agreement with competitor ARM to produce ARM-based chips in Intel factories. The deal was announced at the Intel Developer Forum recently and will let Intel offer third-party semiconductor companies its most advanced 10-nanometer production lines for manufacturing the complex chips usually used in smartphones. Intel, which gets the majority of its revenue from making personal-computer processors, has missed the boat to larger and faster-growing phone market. Now Intel is...