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Like India, the US Federal Communications Commission is closely following its Indian counterpart’s step on net neutrality, which guarantees free and unbiased access to the web for all. The US regulatory authority chairman Tom Wheeler’s office wrote letter on 15th of June 2016 to Ram Sewak Sharma, Chairman of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India, apprised the latter of the FCC’s recent win in the net neutrality debate with the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia upholding net neutrality rules passed by the regulator last year. “Chairman...

Diversified businesses in the modern world need an equally diverse and open gamut of solutions for their various business challenges. The need of the hour, or even the minute for that matter, is to connect with the right technology service provider who have the right capabilities and the USPs to solve those problems. In such a scope of work, Ideapoke acts as a platform whereby service providers can showcase their technological capabilities and the consumers (other business entities) can connect for solutions to their Research & Development (R&D) and product...

Expanding its cloud computing platform in India, Amazon Web Services (AWS), today announced the launch of its first India data center in Mumbai. With the launch, it officially becomes the sixth data center to be launched in the Asia-Pacific region, and is joined by the likes of Beijing, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney, and Tokyo. Starting today, global and Indian-based developers, start-ups, enterprises, government organizations, and non-profits can leverage the AWS Cloud to run their technology applications from infrastructure in India, and provide even lower latency to India-based end users. More than...

PC shipments in India totalled nearly 2 million units in the first quarter of 2016, a 7.4 per cent decrease over the first quarter of 2015, according to Gartner. “Consumers accounted for 45 per cent of total PC sales in the first quarter of 2016, down from 48 percent in the first quarter of 2015,” said Vishal Tripathi, research director at Gartner. “There was decline in both the enterprise and consumer segments in buying in the first quarter of 2016. With the first quarter being the end of the financial...

We are very alert in terms of online surfing, however, when it comes to lucrative content about the diet and health, many Indians consider the danger of online search terms. Intel Security today released findings from its new study, “Online Security Diet: You Are What You Click,” which examines the online behaviors and attitudes of Indians ages 21 to 54 toward dieting clickbait. The research reveals that when it comes to the desire for the ideal body, people may be willing to sacrifice their online security and identity if it takes them...

Rachaita Infosoft and Amity Infosoft, two leading channel partners of Gujarat had recently organized a tech festival. The event was aimed bringing all the leading channel partners under one roof and bring awareness of the latest products and services from various vendors. The event was organized at Silvasa, Khanvel Resort, where more than 500 partners across Gujarat had participated. The organizers had arranged buses for partners to reach the venue. Some of the key vendors who participated in the event include ESset, Fortinet, Bitdefender, Thecus, Farstone and Robofulab. These companies...

Spice Digital Limited, has entered into an exclusive partnership with Policybazaar.com for offering personal accident cover to its customer base. This move is expected to benefit more than 5 lakh customers. This benefit would also be extended to the company’s 10,000+ channel partners. The policy will be activated through registration process under loyalty program. Under the tie-up, Policybazaar.com will help craft the coverage along with insurance company as per the requirement, and also manage personal accident coverage of up to Rs.1 lakh to Spice Digital?s loyal customers using various services...

Chinese telecom and electronics giant Huawei is secretly creating its new operating system (OS) for smartphones to reduce its dependency on Google’s Android OS, a new report claims.Amir Efrati from ‘The Information’ reports that Huawei is working on building the alternative mobile operation system secretly. Read Also:Huawei India Announces New Channel Initiatives According to the sources, Huawei has also planned to launch its latest flagship smartphone P9 in the Indian market soon. In response to the question on offline markets, the company officials said that the P9 series will be...

LeEco has announced a strategic alliance with HCL Care Services, a division of HCL Services Ltd., to deliver superior after-sales service experience to its customers. HCL Services is a wholly owned subsidiary of HCL Infosystems Ltd. HCL Care Services will provide one-stop solution for all service requirements to Le Eco customers through existing 265 ‘HCL Touch’ centres in more than 240 cities across the country. Customer Services for LeEco phones have already been activated in the 265 HCL Touch multi-brand centres for walk-in-centre support for customers and Supply Chain Support....

With in-built camera and other internet-enabled features, sales of smart phones in India are set to shoot up to 160 million in FY’ 17 from 100 million in FY’ 16 on the back of prices becoming affordable for a larger number of people, coupled with replacement of ordinary phones with the smart devices at a rapid pace, a study has pointed out. It has also higlighted smartphone segment under INR10,000 is expected to grow 44 per cent in 2016, constituting 70 per cent of the market. Consequent to the smart...