SSE is teaming up with Tigerspike and AWS to deliver smart city services to the masses via its Internet of Things (IoT) platform. Part of the threesome’s strategy is to develop SSE’s Mayflower smart lighting solution, which is comprised of the entire infrastructure for smart lighting in cities, including sensors and devices to light up […]
Archives for January 2019
NBCUniversal to launch video streaming service in 2020
Comcast‘s NBCUniversal will launch a streaming media service in early 2020 under a pricing model that seeks to mollify traditional pay TV providers while going after a market dominated by Netflix and Amazon. The advertising-supported service, announced on Monday, will be available at no cost to NBCUniversal’s pay TV subscribers in the United States and […]
Etail may lose Rs 40,000 crore, retail to get a 3rd of it
Online retailers could take a Rs 35,000-40,000-crore hit on their FY20 revenues to comply with the revised foreign investment policy, according to Crisil. Brick-and-mortar stores, as a result, may see a 150-200-bps spike in sales with an additional Rs 12,000-crore-plus mop-up. “The fact that there will be a level playing field, which will create a […]
SC issues notices to govt on pleas challenging snooping order
The Supreme Court on Monday issued notice to the Indian government seeking its response on multiple petitions challenging the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) order authorising security and intelligence agencies to snoop on all computers. Hearing the petitions filed by advocate M.L. Sharma among others, a bench of Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi, Justices Ashok Bhushan […]
Amazon food biz to log off if new rules remain on menu
Amazon’s food-only retail business will stop selling on Amazon.in if the government’s latest foreign direct investment (FDI) guidelines remain unchanged by next month. This would be a blow for the initiative as Amazon was the only foreign retailer to have committed investment — to the tune of $500 million — in the food retail segment […]
Hotstar to invest Rs 120 Cr to ramp up its original content
Feeling the pressure from rivals such as Netflix and Amazon Prime Video, which are investing heavily into local and original content in India, Hotstar, the video-on-demand service from Star India, has decided to step on the gas with a war chest of Rs 120 crore. Hotstar, which has the highest number of downloads (over 350 […]
India needs to win the software products race
By Lalitesh Katragadda & Sharad Sharma Silicon is starting to think. Every human endeavour is now in the early stages of disruption. Whole industries —whether it is advertising or energy or farming —will be turned inside out in the next 20 years. Software products and platforms are at the heart of this revolution. When we […]
Hack Allows Escape of Play-with-Docker Containers
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Cisco Sees SD-WAN, Other Tech Leading 2019 Networking Transformation
News Cisco Sees SD-WAN, Other Tech Leading 2019 Networking Transformation By David Ramel 01/14/2019 Networking giant Cisco Systems sees software-defined wide-area networking (SD-WAN) among the technologies that will change the networking space in 2019. While the old-guard, proprietary, hardware-centric exemplar may have been slow to jump on the software-centric bandwagon several years ago, it subsequently […]
Spotify signs a global content deal with T-Series
Music streaming service Spotify has signed a global content deal with India’s leading music label T-Series to strengthen its music catalog, ahead of a likely foray into the country. As per the deal, Spotify users across the world will get access to T-Series’ entire music catalog comprising of over 160,000 tracks across various genres like […]