By Ari Altstedter There’s a wrinkle in plans made by Asia’s richest man to take on Amazon and Walmart on his home turf in India: his telecom and retail businesses can’t share data. Billionaire Mukesh Ambani, chairman of Reliance Industries, has outlined how he will marry the might of his group’s 9,900-plus retail stores and […]
Archives for February 2019
Zadara VPSA on AWS Marketplace Gets Improved Features, Flexibility
News Zadara VPSA on AWS Marketplace Gets Improved Features, Flexibility By Wendy A Hernandez 02/28/2019 Today Irvine, California-based Zadara Storage Inc. announced new upgrades to its Virtual Private Storage Array (VPSA), which is available to Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers, as well as companies using VMware Cloud on AWS. “Zadara is an ideal complement to […]
IRCTC launches ‘IRCTC iPay’, its own payment gateway
Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC), which handles catering, tourism and online ticketing operations for the Indian Railways, has launched its own payment aggregator called ‘IRCTC iPay’. In a note shared with the press, IRCTC said that this effort would help have a smoother digital payment experience for railway passengers. With the launch of […]
Zomato gets notice from FSSAI, asked to get food safety licence
Online food delivery service Zomato was given a notice from the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) on Wednesday, and asked to get a food safety licence for their operations. Officials from Dehradun’s Nagar Nigam inspected the Zomato state head office situated at Cantt Road and issued a notice on behalf of FSSAI […]
Rising India-Pak tension turns social media into a virtual battlefield
The intensifying tension between India and Pakistan since Tuesday’s air strike has turned social media into a virtual battlefield and fact-checkers are left grappling with a deluge of misinformation and fake news. Tweets with #BalakotAirStrike, #BringbackAbhinandan, #SayNoToWar, #MiG21, #F16, #PakFakeClaim #PakistanPM had been trending all through Wednesday with unabated exchange of barbs from both sides […]
Spotify looks to test new features in India
After a year long wait, Swedish music streaming major, Spotify finally launched in India, amid a legal tussle with music label Warner Music Group, in a competitive domestic market. India can emerge as a key test market for several of Spotify’s upcoming features which may then be exported to other markets, the company’s India managing […]
Pluribus Pivots to the Distributed Cloud Edge
News Pluribus Pivots to the Distributed Cloud Edge By David Ramel 02/27/2019 Pluribus Networks, firmly ensconced in the next-gen networking camp with software-centric, open networking offerings on bare-metal (or white-box) hardware, has updated those offerings with a distinct focus on the edge of distributed cloud implementations. The company today announced Netvisor ONE 5.0, an open, […]
How Secure Are The Most Popular Mobile Payment Methods?
As technology gets increasingly more advanced, things become smaller and easier to access than ever before — including our shopping and spending habits. The switch from using physical cash first moved to payments through checks before onward to credit cards. Now we process payments entirely online with a series of numbers without ever taking a […]
Facebook Watch to broadcast El Clasico live and free in India
Fans in India will be able to watch Sunday’s El Clasico between Real Madrid and Barcelona live and free on Facebook Watch, the social media giant’s streaming platform, La Liga has said. Spain’s top flight signed a landmark deal with Facebook last August which will allow viewers in the Indian sub-continent to watch every game […]
Ring Doorbell Flaw Opens Door to Spying
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