Page 14 - Digital Technology

E-commerce majors leveraging technology to power biggest festival sales

Cutting-edge technology is helping Amazon and Flipkart mount their biggest festival sale events

Saw a 30% bump in internet traffic during pandemic: VP, Tata Communications

Hard to predict if this growth will sustain but don't expect a lot of this increased traffic to decline, says Song Toh, VP, Tata Communications

The art of staying innovative

Book review of Always Day One

BS READS: SAAS success for firms as business jumps on the digital bandwagon

Indian firms selling SAAS products have got a bonanza as companies meet, manage and sell remotely. Yuvraj Malik explains how these companies are planning their next phase of growth

Our algorithmic planet

Book review of Competing in the Age of AI: Strategy and Leadership When Algorithms and Networks Run the World

Adopt high-end tech across all processes: Billionaires' mantra for future

Analysts expect in the coming years, the Indian rich list to be dominated by new age companies as the Corona pandemic has made adoption of latest, cutting age technology inevitable

Experience sights, sounds and shops virtually

Virtual reality is now going mainstream with travel and tech companies offering 3D visits to famous locations

Indians investing in US equities should avoid bubbles, fads: Rob Arnott

"I wish fiscal and monetary "stimulus" weren't called "stimulus". It doesn't stimulate anything; it transfers wealth from future spending to today," says Arnott

Digital tech firm Brillio expands footprint, opens new office in Chennai

Digital technology consulting and solutions company Brillio on Wednesday opened its fifth office here considering the Tamil Nadu capital as a key talent hub.

Configuring India's digital ecosystem

Policies must favour consortiums of local players

Ravi Shankar Prasad to address meeting of G20 Digital ministers today

Union Minister of Information Technology Ravi Shankar Prasad is scheduled to address the G20 Digital Ministers' meeting on Wednesday

How Covid has forced fence-sitting retailers to jump onto digital bandwagon

Right from product demonstration to enabling purchase - everything is being managed these days through "virtual personalisation"

Govt to launch PMKVY-III with focus on digital tech, industry 4.0: Minister

The government launched the PMKVY scheme in 2015 and revamped it in 2016 to impart skills to one crore persons by 2020

Adityanath directs officials to provide registration facility to migrant workers through mobile apps

The UP chief minister made the remark during a presentation on mobile applications 'Aabhaa-Aatmanirbhar Bharat' and 'Seva Mitr'

From router to storage device: 5 things to make work-from-home functional

While a make-do workstation at home can get you moving, there are gadgets that help elevate user experience and improve productivity and work efficiency

Blueprint for a more healthy economy

What we need is a map - an economic blueprint - that will address the need for domestic growth and put in place measures that will make India attractive for foreign investment.

Major shift to digital space demands data security, cyber insurance

The biggest nightmare for an individual in this digital age is to see an unauthorised debit in his bank account and realise he has been a victim of an online fraud

The debate over Silicon Valley's embrace of content moderation

Many in tech cheered when Twitter added labels to President Trump's tweets. But civil libertarians caution that social media companies are moving into uncharted waters.

Bill Gates praises PM Modi's leadership in combating Covid-19 in India

"Grateful to see that you're seeking to balance public health imperatives with the need to ensure adequate social protection for all Indians," officials quoted the Gates Foundation co-chair as saying

The future of 'civic' technologies

Such technological intervention will have lasting benefits. It will ease bottlenecks that prevent access to credit and bring SMEs within a national infrastructure programme