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In a bid to foster curiosity, creativity and imagination among young innovators, Niti Aayog on Tuesday signed a two-year statement of intent (SOI) with tech giant Intel India to set up the first 10 Atal Tinkering Labs (ATLs) in the country. Part of the government’s flagship Atal Innovation Mission (AIM), the tie-up will lead to the creation of laboratories at schools aimed at teaching skills such as computational thinking, adaptive learning, physical computing and developing a design mindset among students between 12-18 years of age. Over a period of five...

Server market in India rose by 21.6 per cent year-on-year in Q1 2016, with 40,495 units shipped in Q1 2016 as against 33,292 units in Q1 2015. In terms of revenue, there was a 27.8 per cent year on year growth registered in Q1 2016, reported International Data Corporation (IDC). Continued investments from telecom service providers towards 4G deployments, piece-meal investments from local hosting providers and periodic banking refreshes primarily contributed to the national compute demand in Q1 2016. The onset of digitization drives across multiple verticals and cities further drove server...

Seagate Technology today unveiled a new portfolio of 10TB high capacity drives dubbed the Guardian Series. Purpose-built to help customers better manage and move the huge amounts of digital data they consume and create, the 10TB Seagate BarraCuda Pro desktop drive, Seagate IronWolf for NAS applications and Seagate SkyHawk for surveillance introduce new brand names and imagery and represent the most complete 10TB portfolio in the industry. The Guardian Series features industry leading technology that raises the bar on features, speed and capacity for use across a wide range of...

Mumbai’s iconic dabbawalas are known for their efficient management skills serving more than 2,00,000 customers across the city every day. Their professional business approach has motivated large corporate giants to incorporate their strategies to ensure a seamless customer focus and smooth performance management in all aspects of their business. Taking a cue from these developments, the premier association of IT companies Trade Association of Information Technology (TAIT) organized a knowledge series workshop on effective logistics and supply chain management, built on an analysis of the procedures followed by Mumbai’s iconic...

After witnessing a de-growth for two successive months, the net subscriber base of six major telecom operators grew by 3.5 million, to reach 776.97 million users in June 2016. “Total number of GSM subscribers as of June 2016 reached 776.97 million” and “the GSM subscribers increased by 3.50 million in June 2016,” PTI report published in Economic Times quoted industry body Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) as saying. The COAI shared data of six telecom operators, Vodafone, Idea Cellular, Aircel, Telenor and MTNL, which jointly account for about 70 per cent...

RSA, the security division of EMC, today unveiled its RSA SecurID Suite, which is a comprehensive identity solution that combines the separate disciplines of access, governance, lifecycle and identity assurance, working together in harmony. As a result, organizations can leverage one platform for strong control and visibility, mitigating security and identity risk and enabling business productivity. The RSA SecurID Suite includes RSA SecurID Access, including the traditional RSA SecurID two-factor authenticators, RSA Identity Governance and RSA Identity Lifecycle. It is designed to provide identity governance and management capabilities for regular...

The recent tariff cuts announced by telecom operators will not impact revenues as volume growth in data usage will compensate for it, according to analysts as reported by BusinessLine. “We expect mobile revenues to grow by over 8 per cent for Airtel and 13 per cent for Idea in 2016-17 driven by strong growth in data traffic despite falling yields,” said analysts at UBS. The data realization in terms of rupees per MB will reduce by 13-15 per cent over the next 2-3 years, strong data traffic growth of over 60...

In a bid to keep a check on child pornography and online trolling, the Home Ministry is contemplating to set up a cyber-control hub. The INR 400-crore state-of-the-art centre, Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (IC4), is being set up to tackle all types of cyber crimes, including child pornography and online abuse. The work on IC4 has been going on. Once it is ready, it will deal with cyber crimes like child pornography and online trolling with priority,” PTI report published in Economic Times quoted a Home Ministry official as saying. Key...

Continuing with its efforts to drive mobile internet penetration and adoption across the country, Idea Cellular, has now announced a promotional offer on its 4G, 3G BIG Internet packs, providing more value to heavy internet users who consume data packs of 2GB to 10 GB, as part of a promotional offer. Idea’s BIG data pack of Rs. 990 will now offer 10 GB 4G, 3G data instead of 6.5 GB earlier. As per the promotional offer, the Rs. 449 pack will offer 3 GB data as against the earlier 2...