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Red Hat has announced Jessica McKellar, director of engineering and chief of staff to the vice president of engineering at Dropbox, and Preeti Murthy, a graduate student at Carnegie Mellon University, are the 2016 Women in Open Source Award winners. Both will be recognized during the morning keynote activities at Red Hat Summit, which has been taking place in San Francisco this week. Red Hat launched the Women in Open Source Awards in 2015 to honor women who make important contributions to open source projects and communities, or those making...

Clover Infotech has successfully implemented Oracle Fusion Financials, a financial management solution for the Marcura Group, an IT services provider for the shipping and logistics industry. This was completed within a record time frame of three months. This is also among the first large scale implementations of Oracle Fusion Financials in the global shipping and logistics space. Marcura Group comprises of companies that focus on providing business solutions designed to help their customers in the global maritime industry streamline processes, navigate increasingly complex regulations and mitigate risks. The group comprises...

Telangana Information Technology Association (TITA) team will promote its flagship program ‘Digithon-Digital Village’ initiative in the United States. Digithon delegation headed by TITA president Sundeep Kumar Makthala will be traveling to US in the first week of July to promote Digital Telangana campaign. “It all started on 17th December 2015, with TITA taking up a unique initiative to adopt a village under the digital literacy program designed as per National Digital Literacy Mission (NDLM). This initiative spearheaded by TITA made Basar village in Adilabad district. Basar is the first 100...

PayPal has announced the launch of Seller Protection for Intangibles- an expansion of its existing seller protection program that earlier only covered merchants selling tangible goods such as handicrafts, fashion, art, etc. The Seller Protection Program for Intangibles will cover two types of buyer complaints – ‘Unauthorized Transaction’, when a buyer claims that he or she didn’t authorize the payment and ‘Item Not Received’, when a buyer pays for the service but claims that he or she did not receive the service. The PayPal Resolution Centre will investigate issues and...

Hard disk maker Seagate Technology said it was cutting about 1,600 jobs, or 3 per cent of its workforce, as part of a restructuring plan to reduce costs. The Cupertino, Calif., company is a top producer of drives that store data in personal computers, a market that has declined. It has developed products in newer sectors such as cloud storage, and bought Dot Hill Systems Corp. in October for about $696 million to enhance its cloud offerings according to the wall street journal Read Also: Seagate Enhances Realstor Storage Arrays Seagate...

Apple iPhone has turned nine today. The revolutionary mobility gadget was launched on 29 June, 2007. Nine years on, the Apple iPhone has evolved, and has come a long way. However, there is still more to come forward in iphone’s journey. The first-generation iPhone was launched first in the US only. It was in November 2007, that iPhone went on sale in UK, Germany and France. It was introduced in Ireland and Austria in April 2008. The first iPhone was priced at $499 for 4GB variant and $599 for 8GB...

In a world where the Internet of things (IoT) becomes increasingly popular, identity and data security have become a popularly debated and sought after issues, worldwide. As the world goes further towards mobile-first in approach, the demand for cost-effective, user-friendly and secure solutions are on the rise. Texas-based HID Global has stepped into the lucrative Indian market, by launching its mobile initiative, which includes a set of solutions, investments and strategic alliances with the aim of secure and user-friendly experience for target Indian consumers. Alongside this move, they have introduced...

Nokia And BlackBerry, the two handset legacies of its times are strugeling hard for their survival in the highly contested smartphone market. The hopes of come back of these two technology giants are still alive. The leader of the market once upon a time, both the tech giants needs to understand the market dynamics and changing business equations in the smartphone business to make its grand entry in the industry. In 2009, about 70 percent of smartphones sold globally had operating systems offered by BlackBerry and Nokia and the two...