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Millennials prefer OnePlus over Apple in India: Survey
Chinese smartphone maker OnePlus has pipped Apple to emerge as the first choice among aspirational buyers seeking to purchase premium devices, a new survey said on Friday.
Oakridge International School Students' Creation to Help Tackle Space Issues in Urban Homes
Oakridgers Renee and Tanmay of Grade 4 created an industrial design model, titled BED-SI that can be used as a bed, sofa, and table and can also be easily stowed away overhead, thereby offering an affordable and space saving solution for small space homes in urban cities.Growing urban population and reducing land spaces are leading to our homes getting smaller and smaller each year. According the NSSO (National Sample Survey Office) 33 percent of Indians live in houses of area less than 580 square feet. More than 60 per cent space in the house gets occupied by furniture alone, leaving very limited space for movement.Renee and Tanmay decided to address this growing urban challenge. They were looking at creating a design that could be used for multiple household purposes, light weight and also can be easily stored away. After multiple rounds of brainstorming and observing other models, they came up with BED-SI, a simple cost-effective design with multiple functionalities. The unique ...
WhatsApp, Jio to educate people on safe use of app
WhatsApp in collaboration with Reliance Jio will run an educational campaign to teach people on safe and responsible usage of its messaging platform. "WhatsApp and Jio have started an educational campaign across India with the goal of showing people how to use WhatsApp on JioPhone to connect with friends and family in a simple, secure, and reliable way," WhatsApp said in a statement. The campaign will start from October 9 . "As part of the campaign, there will be events at each city to show people how to use WhatsApp safely and responsibly," the statement said. Facebook-owned WhatsApp has been under fire from the Indian government over fake news and false information being circulated on its messaging platform. Such messages have incited mob fury, triggering multiple cases of lynching across the country.
Babus in Bihar restrained from carrying mobiles at meetings
Officials in Bihar will not be allowed to carry their mobile phones in high-level meetings, a government circular said. According to the circular issued on Thursday, "it has often been noticed that while attending high-level meetings, officials keep talking over mobile phones. This prevents the meetings from proceeding smoothly". In view of this, a decision has been taken that mobile phones will not be allowed in offices or conference halls where high-level meetings (chaired by chief minister, other ministers, chief secretary, development commissioner among others) are held, the circular signed by Principal Secretary Amir Subhani said.
Data centres central to any digital strategy
The fifth edition of Data Centre India 2018 International Conference was organised in New Delhi. The objective of the conference was to understand and formulate strategies to enhance their data centre infrastructure in line with business needs.The inaugural session of the event witnessed a panel discussion on the role of data centres in digital e-inclusion, privacy and e-governance and private cloud for Digital India. Neeta Verma, Director General, National Informatics Centre (NIC), Ministry of Electronics and IT who was the guest of honour for this discussion which kick started the event by sharing that in the last five years there has been transformation in the way data centres are being looked at. She affirmed that data centres are central to any digital strategy and the data centre Industry has a promising future. NIC has witnessed exponential growth in its Meghraj cloud adoption and similar growth in users and well as transactions volumes year-on-year.According to her there are ..
Currency notes, coins, ATMs will soon end: Future Age Solutions
Future Age Solutions (FAS), a Singapore-based disruptive products innovation startup, is about to launch an innovative product called Digital Wallet, a payment device enabling peer-to-peer payments that work without internet, reaching even the remotest areas of the world.The Digital Wallet will eliminate or minimise the need for worldwide printing of currency notes, minting of coins, ATMs, and internet-based phone payment options. In addition, worldwide counterfeit currency business will come to an end, according to Vinod Khillan, Vice President of FAS.On an average, 10 per cent of the world economy is transacted in cash mainly for small payments through physical wallets. The idea of this invention is to replace the physical wallets with Digital Wallet.Digital Wallet, a handheld slim and tiny biometric device that works on fingerprint authentication, makes payments or transactions highly safe and secure in encrypted mode. Moreover, the total isolated private network, encrypted ...
Now add people on Instagram with new 'Nametag' feature
Facebook-owned photo-messaging app Instagram on Friday introduced a new feature "Nametag" to make the process of finding and adding people and accounts easier.
Nokia 7.1 with 'PureDisplay' launched
Finnish company HMD Global that makes Nokia smartphones has launched the Nokia 7.1, a first with "PureDisplay" screen technology at an event in London.
WhatsApp, Jio campaign for responsible app use
Facebook-owned WhatsApp and Reliance Jio on Friday started a campaign to train people about using the mobile messaging platform responsibly on their JioPhones.
Smartphone players focus on affordable (un)flagships for Indian users (Tech Analysis)
The mobile phone industry in India has come a long way in the past half-decade or so, from providing exciting devices at affordable prices to making them available even in the remotest parts of the country.
'Technology only input to impact future of railways'
Underling the importance of evolving with technology, Union Railway Minister Piyush Goyal said that technology is the only input which can significantly impact the future of railways.Speaking at the inaugural function of the second edition of International Conference on Technical Advancements in railway and metro projects here, the Union Railway Minister said that the best of technology available across the world have to be brought to India, to bring back the charm of travelling in the railways."Unless we evolve with technology and evolve with time, an organisation cannot survive. To my mind, technology is the only input which can significantly impact the future of railways as I have seen over the last one year," Goyal said.Goyal further hit out at the previous government for the low amount of budget sanctioned to the ministry which halted the evolution of technology.He pointed out that the insufficient budget made the situation worse and caused the railways not to evolve into a ...
Apple, Amazon deny Bloomberg report on Chinese hardware attack
(Reuters) - Apple Inc and Amazon.com Inc denied a Bloomberg Businessweek report on Thursday that said their systems had been infiltrated by malicious computer chips inserted by Chinese intelligence agents.
Apple, Amazon deny Chinese 'spy' chips into their network
Apple and Amazon have strongly denied a media report that claimed a massive "supply chain attack" by Chinese spies planted chips in motherboards in data servers bought by these two giants among 30 tech companies.
Trump administration asks Google to shun China Search project
US Vice President Mike Pence has called on Google to end its censored Chinese Search engine the "Dragonfly" project.
Bihar: State govt bans mobile phones at high-level meetings
The Bihar Government on Thursday issued orders prohibiting officials from carrying cell phones at 'high-level' meetings.In an order issued by Aamir Subhani, principal secretary, general administration department, the official has directed all principal secretaries and police officials to resist from using cell phones while attending meetings.The concerned directive underscored that no official will be allowed to carry their cell phones in the meetings chaired by the Chief Minister, department ministers, chief secretary, development commissioner and other senior officials.The notification asserted that the decision has been taken in the wake of officials often being found busy in their mobile phones during crucial meetings, thus creating hindrance in smooth conduct of the meetings.Earlier, in June this year, Karnataka Chief Minister H. D. Kumaraswamy had directed all officials and government staff to not use mobile phones during his meetings in order to avoid distraction.
China used tiny chips on US computers to steal secrets: report
Tiny chips inserted in US computer equipment manufactured in China were used as part of a vast effort by Beijing to steal US technology secrets, a published report said Thursday. The Bloomberg News report said the chips, the size of a grain of rice, were used on equipment made for Amazon, which first alerted US authorities, and Apple, and possibly for other companies and government agencies. Bloomberg said a three-year secret investigation, which remains open, enabled spies to create a "stealth doorway" into computer equipment, a hardware-based entry that would be more effective and harder to detect than a software hack. Citing unnamed US officials, Bloomberg said a unit of the People's Liberation Army were involved the operation that placed the chips on equipment manufactured in China for US-based Super Micro Computer Inc. Supermicro, according to Bloomberg, also manufactured equipment for Department of Defense data centers, the CIA's drone operations, and onboard networks of Navy ...
EEPC sensitises exporters on cyber crime
With hackers targeting online remittances and cyber crimes across India rising 44 per cent between 2013 and 2017, engineering exporters body, EEPC India has started sensitising and training exporters. To safeguard money transfers, the EEPC in cooperation with cyber experts from the police and forensic institutions, organised a workshop for the first time in Kolkata on Thursday. The event brought face to face the cyber and forensic science experts and exporters. The RBI has registered a total of 12,520 cases of frauds involving credit cards during the quarter ending September 2017. Addressing the meeting, EEPC India chairman Ravi Sehgal said, "We at EEPC India receive cases where exporters' accounts are hacked or we get complaints from exporters for non-receipt of remittances for cross border transactions." Experts from Kolkata Police, Central Forensic Science Laboratory and ICICI Bank participated in the workshop.
EEPC India taking steps to guard exporters against cyber crime
Amid reports of cyber hacks targeting cross-border online remittances, Engineering Export Promotion Council of India (EEPC India) on Thursday said it has started sensitising and training exporters to safeguard their money transfers, in close cooperation with cyber experts from police and forensic institutions.
Xiaomi's LED TV plant inaugurated in AP
A Rs 150 crore Mi LED TV manufacuring plant of Chinese electronics major Xiaomi was inaugurated at nearby Renigunta Thursday by Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu as part of his plans to make the temple town an electronic hub of the country. The plant, operated by Xiaomis technology partner Dixon Technologies (India) Limited, would also manufacture closed-circuit television cameras, digital video recorders, smart phones. Set up at a cost of Rs 150 crore at the Electronic Manufacturing Cluster, the plant is expected to employ 800 people, according to officials. Naidu said his vision was to make Tirupati the electronics manufacturing hub of the country and Special Employment Zone by bringing in more domestic and multi-national software and hardware units. It would also be developed into a lake city as there were several lakes here, he added. Speaking on the occasion, Dixon Executive Chairman Sunil Vachani said the plant has a capacity to produce 8.5 lakh LED
Samsung brings new colour variants for Galaxy 'S9+','Note 9'
Samsung India on Thursday announced the availability of Galaxy "S9+" and "Note 9" in burgundy red and lavender purple variants, respectively.
