IBM is killing off its AI-powered collaboration tool Watson Workspace after it failed to “resonate” with clients, according to a leaked memo. Watson Workspace is IBM’s answer to Slack or Microsoft Teams, but with AI capabilities. It provided a platform for shared workspaces, collaborations and even hosted third-party apps. But, despite having only been released […]
Archives for January 2019
Quantum-embedded chips could secure IoT
Microprocessors that are unique to each Internet of Things (IoT) device is the way forward in the ongoing and tricky quest to secure the IoT, says Crypto Quantique. One idea is that by making each chip one of a kind and unclonable, an application would become almost impossible to hack. The U.K.-based startup says it has […]
Hotels in Sikkim boycott GoIbibo and Make My Trip
The on-going dispute between hotels across the country and Online Travel Aggregators (OTAs) – GoIbibo and Make My Trip (Go-MMT) has further escalated with hotels in Sikkim declaring an immediate boycott of Go-MMT. The Sikkim Hotels & Restaurants Association (SHRA) recently convened a hoteliers’ meeting in Gangtok during which it was unanimously agreed to not […]
Facebook brings stricter ads rules to India ahead of general election
Facebook plans to extend some of its political advertising rules and tools for curbing election interference to India, Nigeria, Ukraine and the European Union before significant votes in the next few months, the social networking giant told Reuters. As the largest social media service in nearly every big country, Facebook has become a means for […]
Box launches UK-specific Box Zone with data centres in London and Cardiff
Box has launched an additional data zone for its Box Zones offering, presenting a new zone for the UK with separate data centres in London and Cardiff. Back in 2016, the cloud content management company first announced Box Zones and said that it would feature eight separate locations where users can store data. Box offers […]
Netflix, Hotstar and others sign a self-censorship code
Online video platforms like Netflix, Hotstar, Jio, Voot, Zee5, Arre, SonyLIV, ALT Balaji and Eros Now have signed a self-censorship code that prohibits these video platforms from showing certain kinds of content and sets up a redressal mechanism for customer complaints. ET was the first to report on the plan on September 4 last year. […]
Netflix, Hotstar and others sign a self-regulatory code of Best Practices
Online Curated Content Providers (OCCPs) including Hotstar, Voot, Zee5, Arre, SonyLIV, ALT Balaji, Netflix and Eros Now have signed a self-regulatory Code of Best Practices. ET first reported that the self-regulation would stop them from showing content that’s banned by Indian courts, disrespects the national emblem and flag, outrages religious sentiments, promotes terrorism or violence […]
PhonePe claim to have crossed 10 lakh merchants
Digital payments major PhonePe said that it has crossed more than 10 lakh offline merchants within a year of betting majorly in the space, mostly by installing payment acceptance across small and mid sized retail stores. PhonePe enables merchants to accept payments across UPI, cards and all forms of wallets. “PhonePe’s QR solution allows merchants […]
Internet Freedom Foundation urges online video platforms to rethink self censorship
Internet Freedom Foundation urged online video platforms to rethink the proposed self-censorship norms for video streaming platforms, saying that TV style self-censorship system would tremendously hurt consumer choice and freedom of speech. In a letter to industry body IAMAI, Internet Freedom Foundation said the self-regulatory mechanism is bad for online streaming platforms, producers, artists and […]
Survey Says Despite Security Concerns, Enterprise Cloud Adoption Still To Grow in 2019
News Survey Says Despite Security Concerns, Enterprise Cloud Adoption Still To Grow in 2019 By Wendy A Hernandez 01/17/2019 Microsoft technology partner NetEnrich Inc., which specializes in the deployment, migration and management of application workloads on Microsoft Azure, announced the results of its 2019 Cloud Adoption survey, which show that cloud adoption is not only […]