Archives for January 2019

The Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI), Broadband India Forum and the Asia Internet Coalition have opposed suggestions by telecom operators that over the top (OTT) services be licensed and regulated. They argue that these constitute an application layer that rides on the bandwidth provided by the telcos. Times Internet, which owns OTT platform […]

News OpenFlow-Based Faucet Provides High-Speed SDN Controller By David Ramel 01/22/2019 The open source Faucet project — a high-speed controller for software-defined networking (SDN) implementations — is getting some attention this week at the 2019 linux.conf.au event in New Zealand. The project has been in the works for years, and backer Brad Cowie will helm […]

Photo: Elise Amendola Video streaming service Netflix is making it easier for users to share their favourite titles directly to Instagram stories. Starting today, Netflix users can select any title they would like to share and add that title’s custom art to their Instagram story or send to their friends through direct messages. Users who […]

2018 was an incredible time for cloud. Its impact on customer experiences, business processes and models, and workforce innovations was undeniable. We saw more and more use cases where customers started leveraging multiple clouds to enable innovation than ever before. But the landscape continues to change. Here are my thoughts about what’s ahead for cloud […]

Private sector lender Yes Bank has partnered with Government of Maharashtra to onboard PDS shops which are popularly referred to as ration shops onto the electronic PDS initiative through which they can become agents of the bank. Under the partnership, Yes Bank will empower more than 20,000 ration shops which can offer last mile basic […]

European citizens have complained en masse that companies such as Amazon, Apple, YouTube, and Spotify are misusing their data. The claims were brought to light by Austrian privacy group noyb, led by activist Max Schrems, which say that the companies highlighted are not adhering to the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR). Schrems said in the […]

The RSS affiliated SJM has passed a resolution demanding a robust e-commerce policy to protect the interests of small shopkeepers, as big online retailers Flipkart and Amazon are circumventing laws detrimental to interests of the traders. Swadeshi Jagran Manch (SJM) firmly believes that India should have a robust e-commerce policy to protect the interests of […]

By Andy Mukherjee The battle for the Indian consumer was never going to be an all-American affair. Walmart’s splashy acquisition last year of Flipkart, the homegrown e-tailer giving Amazon a solid run for its money, might have given the impression of a two-horse race. But as I argued, billionaire Mukesh Ambani wasn’t going to watch […]

TomTom will remain independent and grow its core digital maps business, its CEO said on Tuesday after the company agreed to sell its fleet management business to Japan’s Bridgestone for 910 million euros ($1 billion). Amsterdam-based TomTom faces a turning point after Google broke into the market to supply maps to carmakers last year, striking […]

OLX, the online classifieds marketplace for auto, real estate and goods and services with 40 million monthly active users will double the headcount of its sales team in 2019. Real estate is among its fastest growing verticals and OLX plans to expand focus in this area. The online marketplace has seen a tenfold increase in […]